Bibliography
of Books on or about or relevant to Wittgenstein
on Rules and Private Language
- Ayer, A. J., Wittgenstein
(New York: Random House, 1985). See Chapter 6 for a typically Ayeresque
critique of Kripke's book.
- Baker, G.P.and Hacker, P.M.S., Scepticism, Rules and Language
(Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1984).
- ---- Wittgenstein:
Rules, Grammar and Necessity (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1985).
- Bilgrami, Akeel, Belief
and Meaning: The Unity and Locality of Mental Content (Oxford: Basil
Blackwell, 1992).
- Bloor, David, Wittgenstein,
Rules and Institutions (London: Routledge, 1997).
- Canfield, John, (ed.), The
Philosophy of Wittgenstein, Vol. 9 (New York: Garland Publishing, Inc.. 1986).
- Canfield, John, (ed.), The
Philosophy of Wittgenstein, Vol. 10 (New York: Garland Publishing, Inc.. 1986).
- Chomsky, Noam, Knowledge of
Language: Its Nature, Origin, and Use (New York: Praeger Publishers,
1986). Chapter 4 is arguably the most powerful critique of Kripke's book
available in print.
- Cook, John, Wittgenstein's
Metaphysics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995). See Chapter
18, "Following a Rule".
- Diamond, Cora, Realism
and the Realistic Spirit (Cambridge, MA.: The
M.I.T. Press, 1991). Chapter 1, "Realism and the Realistic
Spirit", is a "reply of sorts" to Kripke.
- Ebbs, Gary, Rule-Following
and Realism (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997).
- French, P., et.
al. (eds.), Midwest
Studies in Philosophy, Vol. XVII, The
Wittgenstein Legacy (Notre Dame: Notre Dame Press, 1992).
- George, Alexander, (ed.), Reflections
on Chomsky (Oxford: Blackwell, 1989).
- Goodman, Nelson, Fact,
Fiction, and Forecast (Cambridge, MA.:
Harvard, 1955).
- Grayling, A.C., Wittgenstein (Past Masters Series) (Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 1988). Chapter 3, sections 3 and 4, give a very Kripkesque view of
Wittgenstein's views on rule-following in PI.
- Hacker, Peter, Insight
and Illusion, Revised Edition (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986).
- Hale, Bob and Wright, Crispin, (eds.), A Companion to the Philosophy of
Language (Oxford: Blackwell, 1997).
- Hintikka, Merrill and Jaakko, Investigating Wittgenstein (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1986).
- Holtzman, Steven, and Leich,
Christopher, Wittgenstein: To Follow
A Rule (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1981). A treasure trove of
early work on rule-following.
- Hume, David, An Enquiry
Concerning Human Understanding (Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Co.,
1977).
- Katz, Jerrold J., The
Metaphysics of Meaning (Cambridge, MA.: The
M.I.T. Press, 1990). See chapters 3 and 4 especially.
- Malcolm, Norman, Nothing
is Hidden (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1986). Chapter
9 of this book contains a very significant discussion of Kripke's account
of Wittgenstein. Malcolm, unlike many, finds Kripke's account to have
merit.
- Martinich, A.P. (ed.)., The Philosophy of Language, 3rd
edition (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996). See Section VIII.
- McGinn, Colin, Wittgenstein
on Meaning (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1984).
- Miller, Alexander, and Wright, Crispin, Rule-Following and Meaning (U.K.,
Acumen Publishing, 2002).
- Pears, David, The False
Prison, Vol. 1 and 2 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986).
- Pitcher, George, (ed.), Wittgenstein:
The Philosophical Investigations", (Notre Dame: University of
Notre Dame Press, 1968).
- Puhl, Klaus, (ed.), Meaning Scepticism (Berlin: de Gruyter, 1991).
- Quine, W.V., Word & Object (Cambridge, MA.: The M.I.T. Press, 1960).
- Schiffer, Stephan, Remnants
of Meaning (Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 1987). Section 6.6 is
titled, "Kripkenstein Meets the Remnants of Meaning".
- Shanker, S.G., Wittgenstein and the Turning-Point in the Philosophy of
Mathematics (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1987). See
chapter 1, section 2.
- Stern, David, Wittgenstein
on Mind and Language (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995). See
especially 6.3.
- Suter, Ronald, Interpreting
Wittgenstein: A Cloud of Philosophy, a Drop of Grammar (Philadelphia:
Temple University Press, 1992). Chapter 12 is devoted to refuting Kripke's
main points.
- Werhane, Patricia, Skepticism,
Rules and Private Languages (Atlantic Highlands, N.J.:
Humanities Press International Inc., 1992).
- Wright, Crispin, Wittgenstein
on the Foundations of Mathematics (Cambridge: Harvard University
Press, 1980).
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