The Significance of Aspect Perception

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Introduction

   • Avner Baz

   Pages 1-11

3. What’s the Point of Seeing Aspects?

   • Avner Baz

   Pages 13-34

4. On Learning from Wittgenstein; or What Does It Take to See the Grammar of Seeing Aspects?

   • Avner Baz

   Pages 35-52

5. Aspect Perception and Philosophical Difficulty

   • Avner Baz

   Pages 53-70

6. The Sound of Bedrock: Lines of Grammar Between Kant, Wittgenstein, and Cavell

   • Avner Baz

   Pages 71-91

7. Aspects of Perception

   • Avner Baz

   Pages 93-122

8. Motivational Indeterminacy

   • Avner Baz

   Pages 123-146

9. Wittgenstein and the Difficulty of What Normally Goes Without Saying

   • Avner Baz

   Pages 147-167

10. Bringing the Phenomenal World into View

    • Avner Baz

    Pages 169-196

11. Back Matter

    Pages 197-201

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In this volume, Baz offers a wide-ranging discussion of Wittgenstein’s remarks on aspect-perception, with special focus on Wittgenstein’s method. Baz starts out with an interpretation of Wittgenstein’s remarks on aspects and continues with attempts to characterize and defend Wittgenstein’s approach to the understanding and dissolution of philosophical difficulties. Baz ends with attempts to articulate—under the inspiration of Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology—certain dissatisfactions, both with Wittgenstein’s remarks on aspect perception, and with his philosophical approach more generally. 

On the way, Baz explores connections between Wittgenstein’s remarks on aspects and Kant’s aesthetics. He examines ways in which the remarks on aspects may be brought to bear on contemporary philosophical work on perception. He discusses some of the implications of Wittgenstein’s work on aspect perception for issues in moral philosophy and the philosophy of action.

• Aspect Perception
• Charles Travis
• John McDowell
• Kant’s Aesthetics
• Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Perception
• Philosophical Methodology
• Stephen Mulhall
• motivational indeterminacy
• Aspect Perception and Philosophical Difficulty
• Kant’s understanding of ‘concept’
• What’s the Point of Seeing Aspects?
• Wittgensteinian critique of Kant
• what Wittgenstein calls ‘grammar’
• Wittgenstein and our perceptual relation
• Fregean thoughts
• Travis’s work on perception

• Tufts University, Medford, USA

  Avner Baz

Avner Baz is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at Tufts University. He is the Author of When Words are Called For: A Defense of Ordinary Language Philosophy (Harvard, 2012), and The Crisis of Method in Contemporary Analytic Philosophy (Oxford, 2017). He has also published papers on Kant’s Ethics and Aesthetics, on Wittgenstein, on J. L. Austin and Ordinary Language Philosophy, on Stanley Cavell, and on Perception. 

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