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The book brings together Constantine Sandis’s essays on Wittgenstein’s approach to understanding others. Sandis sketches a picture of how his anti-scepticism with regard to the philosophical problem of ‘other minds’ is not only compatible with but also supported by his scepticism concerning the real-life difficulty of understanding others (and being understood by them). While each individual essay focuses on particular issues in Wittgenstein (including philosophical anthropology, interpersonal psychology, and animal concepts), they collectively paint a picture of what he takes the real problem of other minds to be, how to overcome it, and the limitations of our understanding. Sandis not only offers a fresh exegesis of Wittgenstein’s public and private writings on these matters, but proceeds to show the relevance of Wittgenstein beyond the academy.
Constantine Sandis is Visiting Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hertfordshire and a founding director of Lex Academic.
Preface ; Acknowledgments ; Abbreviations of Wittgenstein’s Works ; Introduction: The Mental Lives of Others ; 1 ‘If Some People Looked Like Elephants and Others Like Cats’: Wittgenstein on Understanding Others and Forms of Life ; 2 Making Ourselves Understood: Wittgenstein and Moral Epistemology ; 3 Who Are ‘We’ for Wittgenstein? ; 4 Understanding the Lion for Real ; 5 On Safari with Glock ; 6 Understanding Other Cultures (Without Mind-Reading) ; 7 Period and Place: Wittgenstein and Collingwood on Understanding Others ; 8 One Fell Swoop: Small Red Book Historicism Before and After Davidson ; 9 If an Artwork Could Speak: Aesthetic Understanding After Wittgenstein ; 10 Wittgenstein and Communication Technology: In Conversation with Richard Harper ; References ; Index