Includes bibliographical references (p. 389-394) and index.

Excursus on Wittgenstein's vision of language / Stanley Cavell -- Non-cognitivism and rule-following / John McDowell -- Wittgenstein on rules and platonism / David H. Finkelstein -- What 'There can be no such thing as meaning anything by any word' could possibly mean / Rupert Read -- Wittgenstein on deconstruction / Martin Stone -- Wittgenstein's philosophy in relation to political thought / Alice Crary -- Ethics, imagination and the method of Wittgenstein's Tractatus / Cora Diamond -- Elucidation and nonsense in Frege and early Wittgenstein / James Conant -- Rethinking mathematical necessity / Hilary Putnam -- Wittgenstein, mathematics and philosophy / Juliet Floyd -- Does Bismarck have a beetle in his box? The private language argument in the Tractatus / Cora Diamond -- How to do things with wood : Wittgenstein, Frege and the problem of illogical thought / David R. Cerbone -- Conceptions of nonsense in Carnap and Wittgenstein / Edward Witherspoon -- Was he trying to whistle it? / P.M.S. Hacker