Intro; Preface; Two Terminological Notes; Acknowledgment; Abstract; Contents; Chapter 1: Background; 1.1 The Tragedy of Young Wittgenstein; 1.2 Metaphysics Needs No Defense; 1.3 The Analytic School and Politics; 1.4 Analysis; Paradoxes of Analysis; 1.5 Grammatical Errors; Chapter 2: A History of Anti-metaphysics; 2.1 The Doctrine of Prejudice; 2.2 Radicalism; 2.3 The Poverty of the Analytic Scholarship; 2.4 The Rise of Current Anti-metaphysics; Chapter 3: The Waning of Essentialism; 3.1 The Background to Anti-Metaphysics; 3.2 Anti-essentialism; 3.3 Existential Import; 3.4 On Stilted Language

3.5 Reinterpretation in Logic and in Science3.6 Methodology, Epistemology and Ontology; Chapter 4: Logic and Mathematics; 4.1 Words, Statements and Inferences; 4.2 The Universe of Discourse; 4.3 The Place of Kant in the Story; 4.4 Logic, Mathematics and Meaning; 4.5 Logic and Mathematics; Chapter 5: Logic and Language; 5.1 Proper Form Versus Truth-Value; 5.2 Laws of Thought Versus Laws of Language; 5.3 Between Logic and Psychology; Chapter 6: Frege; 6.1 Anti-Essentialism Again; 6.2 What Is a Calculus?; 6.3 The Demise of Transcendental Logic; 6.4 Mathematical Logic; Chapter 7: Russell

7.1 The Deduction Theorem7.2 On Denoting; 7.3 The Puzzle; 7.4 Russell and Young Wittgenstein; Chapter 8: Young Wittgenstein; 8.1 Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus; 8.2 Russellian Background; 8.3 Logical Atomism; 8.4 The Significant Meaningless; 8.5 The Dawn of a New Era; Chapter 9: Interim Period: Carnap Versus Popper; 9.1 Background Again; 9.2 The Interim Period; 9.3 Engelmann; 9.4 Ideal Language; 9.5 Wittgenstein and Carnap; 9.6 Criticism; Chapter 10: Ordinary Language Analysis; 10.1 Philosophical Investigations: Background; 10.2 Young and Mature Wittgenstein

10.3 Signposts in Philosophical Investigations10.4 The Aftermath; Chapter 11: The Message of Philosophical Investigations; 11.1 Analysis Versus Metaphysics; 11.2 Analysis sans Anti-Metaphysics; 11.3 Anti-Essentialism Again; 11.4 Wittgensteinś Heritage; Appendix to Chapter 11; Chapter 12: Analysis of Analysis; 12.1 Meaning as Use; 12.2 Analysis Defended; 12.3 The Limits of Language; 12.4 Wittgensteinś Analytic Approach; 12.5 The Limits of Language and of Thought; Chapter 13: Conclusion: The Place of Wittgenstein; 13.1 Things to Avoid; 13.2 Wittgensteinś Self-Appraisal

13.3 Wittgenstein as a Moralist13.4 The Task of Philosophers; 13.5 The Public Impact of Wittgensteinś Investigations; 13.6 Conclusion; References; Index