Wittgenstein ‘ s Methods
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This paper comes in three parts. In the first part, I explore the question of the relation between the philosophies of the early and the later Wittgenstein as they are standardly distinguished, with the aim of raising some questions about whether that standard distinction might not obstruct our view of certain significant aspects of the development of Wittgenstein‘s thought. In the second part, drawing on the work of Marie McGinn and Warren Goldfarb, I distinguish two senses in which these two commentators have been moved to call upon the expression ̳piecemeal‘ in their respective attempts to characterize an important feature of Wittgenstein‘s conception of philosophical method. In the third part, I draw upon this distinction to help bring into focus a significant shift in Wittgenstein‘s conception of philosophical method which occurs fully within the so-called ―later‖ period—a shift which has in no small part remained invisible due to the manner in which the opposition between an early and a later Wittgenstein has hitherto been conceived.
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