Kadin Nguyen’s Reviews > The Cambridge Companion to Wittgenstein > Status Update

Decided to skip Ch. 7 by Cora Diamond as well, but I will definitely be returning to her work in the future. I will most likely read Ch. 8 by Stanley Cavell.

Skipped: Ch. 5 by Steven Gerrard and Ch. 6 by Hans-Johann Glock. Neither caught my fancy. Going to try out Ch. 7 by Cora Diamond.

Read Ch. 4 by David G. Stern—basically a meta-commentary on how the “middle period” of Wittgenstein should be interpreted. He presents the case of Robert Fogelin using something W said in the Nachlass during this middle period to work at the problem of intentionality in rule-following in the later PI, and whether this is an accepted move or not.

Read the first essay by Robert Fogelin that talks about certain problems in the PI related to names, rules, and language-games. There’s nothing over-arching in nature to really give me much satisfaction to have read it. Fogelin’s main goal is to show that Wittgenstein was thoroughly anti-referentialist which leads to the problems of language prodded at through language-games.

Introduction is very good. Didn’t contain much that I didn’t already know but Sluga puts heavy emphasis on historicism as it relates to a reason go Wittgenstein without spouting his own doctrine. Looking forward to reading his essay later on in the Companion.