Bøger af Newton Garver

A group of scholars met at the State University of New York at Buffalo to share their thoughts on the nature of humans as rational animals. Drawing from the meeting, these essays discuss about the nature and extent of rationality - its content, focus, and the intrinsic guidelines for using the term "rational" when describing persons or actions.

Wittgenstein has often been treated as a thinker whose ideas can be discussed independently of any intellectual tradition. These essays, by an American authority on Wittgenstein's thought, insist on the mutual relevance of Wittgenstein's work and the tradition of Western philosophy.