Evolution of the private language argument / Keld Stehr Nielsen.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-208) and index.

Between the wars -- The dispute between Carnap and Neurath -- The Vienna circle before 1932 -- The unity of science -- Carnap's private language argument -- Neurath's private language argument -- Private language and the Vienna circles agenda -- Wittgenstein's early concerns about privacy -- The transition to physicalism -- The phenomenological language argument -- Consequences of the phenomenological argument -- The motivation of the early private language arguments -- Wittgenstein in transition the later material -- The 1941 private object argument -- The difference in approach -- Wittgenstein's contemporaries and the privacy issue -- Post-war effects of philosophical investigations -- Reviews and reactions -- The reductio argument -- The solitary language argument -- The external argument -- Pain-expressions as criteria -- Malcolm on use and ordinary language -- The availability of an argument -- Post-war doubts about cartesianism -- The reductio argument and verificationism -- Malcolm's account of criteria -- Sensations and sensation language -- Ordinary sensation language -- Cook on privacy and ordinary language -- The ordinary language methodology -- Reinterpreting Wittgenstein -- Lessons from ordinary language philosophy -- Language within philosophy -- The problem with private ostensive definitions -- Approaching philosophical investigations anew -- The change of focus -- Overcoming verificationism -- The new role of language in philosophy -- The rule-following considerations -- The problem of following a rule -- The Kripkean private language argument -- Making room for the community -- The sceptical paradox and the picture theory -- Revisiting philosophical investigations -- The memory-criteria argument -- Strategic clarifications -- The demand for criteria : language essentials -- The manometer-beetle argument -- Wittgenstein's target -- The notion of use -- Private language arguments, Wittgenstein and contemporary philosophy.