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.

Skipped: Ch. 2 by Thomas Ricketts
Read: Ch. 3 by Kevin Cahill
I intend to read Ch. 4 on the “Middle Wittgenstein” by David G. Stern.

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.