Structure and content of the philosophical investigations
Wittgenstein's metaphilosophy
The method of description
Wittgenstein's distinctive arguments : from mistake to paradox
Two domains : linguistic mastery vs. initiate learning
The structure of the book
The Fregean picture of language
Wittgenstein's rejection of Frege's idea
Builders game : language or signaling?
Dummett's challenge : sense vs. force
The domestication of reference
The problem of normative similarity 1 : ostension
Rejection of Quine's picture of language
Ostensive teaching and social practices
Logical form and the paradox of thought
Frege's idea and the paradox of thought
Davidson's challenge : meaning and logical form
The limits of systematicity
Meaning and the paradox of interpretation
The problem of normative similarity 2 : rules
Two pleas for interpretation
The community view and reductionism
The individualist view and mystification normativity and the threat of regularism
The public basis of normativity
The social basis of normativity : the negative argument
The social basis of normativity : the positive argument
Necessity and the threat of psychologism
Stage-setting : conventions without decisions
Background technique : necessity without metaphysics
Normativity and "psychologized" necessity
Learning, trust, and certainty
The paradoxes of consciousness
The problem of normative similarity 3 : consciousness
The epistemology of subjectivity : paradox of self-knowledge
The ontology of subjectivity : paradox of sensation
Cartesian thought experiments and the expressivist view
Criteria, deception, and the new problem of other minds.
