Overview
Develops a theory of the act of thinking through readings of Kant and early Wittgenstein
Reveals that both Kant and Wittgenstein invite (even require) a core understanding of the performativity of thought
Relates Kant’s views on the connection of intuitions and concepts to Wittgenstein’s idea of general propositional form as sharing a form with the world
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Part II
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book explores the idea that there is a certain performativity of thought connecting Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason and Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. On this view, we make judgments and use propositions because we presuppose that our thinking is about something, and that our propositions have sense. Kant’s requirement of an a priori connection between intuitions and concepts is akin to Wittgenstein’s idea of the general propositional form as sharing a form with the world.
Aloisia Moser argues that Kant speaks about acts of the mind, not about static categories. Furthermore, she elucidates the Tractatus’ logical form as a projection method that turns into a so-called ‘zero method’, whereby propositions are merely the scaffolding of the world. In so doing, Moser connects Kantian reflective judgment to Wittgensteinian rule-following. She thereby presents an account of performativity centering neither on theories nor methods, but on the application enacting them in the first place.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Aloisia Moser is Assistant Professor in the Department of the History of Philosophy at the Catholic Private University in Linz, Austria
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Kant, Wittgenstein, and the Performativity of Thought
Authors: Aloisia Moser
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77550-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-77549-0Published: 19 August 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-77552-0Published: 20 August 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-77550-6Published: 18 August 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 158
Topics: Philosophy of Mind, History of Philosophy, Intellectual Studies