Download or read book Wittgenstein on Language and Thought written by Tim Thornton and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-08 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book defends and outlines the key issues surrounding the philosophy of content as demonstrated in Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations. The text shows how Wittgenstein's critical arguments concerning mind and meaning are destructive of much recent work in the philosophy of thought and language, including the representationalist orthodoxy. These issues are related to the work of Davidson, Rorty and McDowell among others.