Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction. Editors' introduction / Oskari Kuusela and Marie McGinn -- Wittgenstein and biography / Brian McGuinness --Logic and the philosophy of mathematics -- Wittgenstein reads Russell / Gregory Landini -- Assertion, saying, and propositional complexity in Wittgenstein's Tractatus / Colin Johnston -- Wittgenstein and Frege / Wolfgang Kienzler -- Wittgenstein and infinity / A. W. Moore -- Wittgenstein on mathematics / Michael Potter -- Wittgenstein on surveyability of proofs / Matthieu Marion -- From logical method to 'messing about': Wittgenstein on 'open problems' in mathematics / Simo Saatela -- Philosophy of language. The proposition's progress / Charles Travis -- Logical atomism in Russell and Wittgenstein / Ian Proops -- The tractatus and the limits of sense / Cora Diamond -- The life of the sign: rule-following, practice, and agreement / Edward Minar -- Meaning and understanding / Barry Stroud -- Wittgenstein and idealism / David R. Cerbone -- Private language / David Stern -- Very general facts of nature / Lars Hertzberg -- Philosophy of mind. Wittgenstein on the first person / William Child -- Private experience and sense data / Paul Snowdon -- Privacy / Joachim Schulte -- Wittgenstein on action and the will / John Hyman -- Wittgenstein on criteria and the problem of other minds / Edward Witherspoon -- Wittgenstein on the experience of meaning and secondary use / Michel ter Hark -- Epistemology. Wittgenstein on scepticism / Duncan Pritchard -- Wittgenstein and Moore / Thomas Baldwin -- Wittgenstein on intuition, rule-following, and certainty: exchanges with Brouwer and Russell / Kim van Gennip -- Method. The development of Wittgenstein's philosophy / Oskari Kuusela -- Wittgenstein's methods / James Conant -- Grammar in the philosophical investigations / Marie McGinn -- Wittgenstein's use of examples / Beth Savickey -- Aspect perception and philosophical difficulty / Avner Baz -- Writing philosophy as poetry: literary form in Wittgenstein / Marjorie Perloff -- Wittgenstein and the moral dimension of philosophical problems / Joel Backstrom -- Religion, aesthetics, ethics -- Wittgenstein on religious belief / Stephen Mulhall -- Wittgenstein on aesthetics / Malcolm Budd -- Wittgenstein and ethics / Anne-Marie S. Christensen.

"Since the middle of the 20th century Ludwig Wittgenstein has been an exceptionally influential and controversial figure wherever philosophy is studied. This is the most comprehensive volume ever published on Wittgenstein: thirty-five leading scholars explore the whole range of his thought, offering critical engagement and original interpretation, and tracing his philosophical development. Topics discussed include logic and mathematics, language and mind, epistemology, philosophical methodology, religion, ethics, and aesthetics. Wittgenstein's relation to other founders of analytic philosophy such as Gottlob Frege, Bertrand Russell, and G. E. Moore is explored. This Handbook is the place to look for a full understanding of Wittgenstein's special importance to modern philosophy."--Publisher's website.