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A Companion to Wittgenstein on EducationDo Your Exercises: Reader Participation in Wittgenstein’s Investigations

A Companion to Wittgenstein on Education: Do Your Exercises: Reader Participation in... [Many theorists have focused on Wittgenstein’sWittgenstein use of examplesExamples, but I argue that examples form only half of his method. Rather than continuing the disjointed style of his Cambridge LecturesCambridge Lectures, Wittgenstein returns to the techniques he employed while teachingTeachingelementary schoolElementary school. Philosophical InvestigationsPhilosophical Investigations (PI) trains the reader as a math class trains a student—‘by means of examplesExamples and by exercises’ (§208). Its numbered passages, carefully arranged, provide a series of demonstrations and practicePractice problems. I guide the reader through one such series, demonstrating how the exercises build upon one another and give us ample opportunity to hone our problem-solving skillsSkill. Through careful practicePractice, we learn to pass the test WittgensteinWittgenstein poses when he claims that something is ‘easy to imagine’ (§19). Whereas other critics have viewed the Investigations as merely a diagnosis of our philosophical delusions, I claim that WittgensteinWittgenstein also writes a prescription for our disease: Do your exercises.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Companion to Wittgenstein on EducationDo Your Exercises: Reader Participation in Wittgenstein’s Investigations

Editors: Peters, Michael A.; Stickney, Jeff
McClure, Emma
Springer Journals — May 4, 2017
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Springer Singapore
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© Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2017
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978-981-10-3134-2
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147 –159
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10.1007/978-981-10-3136-6_10
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[Many theorists have focused on Wittgenstein’sWittgenstein use of examplesExamples, but I argue that examples form only half of his method. Rather than continuing the disjointed style of his Cambridge LecturesCambridge Lectures, Wittgenstein returns to the techniques he employed while teachingTeachingelementary schoolElementary school. Philosophical InvestigationsPhilosophical Investigations (PI) trains the reader as a math class trains a student—‘by means of examplesExamples and by exercises’ (§208). Its numbered passages, carefully arranged, provide a series of demonstrations and practicePractice problems. I guide the reader through one such series, demonstrating how the exercises build upon one another and give us ample opportunity to hone our problem-solving skillsSkill. Through careful practicePractice, we learn to pass the test WittgensteinWittgenstein poses when he claims that something is ‘easy to imagine’ (§19). Whereas other critics have viewed the Investigations as merely a diagnosis of our philosophical delusions, I claim that WittgensteinWittgenstein also writes a prescription for our disease: Do your exercises.]

Published: May 4, 2017

Keywords: Practice; Active participation; Wittgenstein’s method

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