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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 January 2010
In the first and shorter part of this essay I comment on Wittgenstein's general influence on the practice of philosophy since his time. In the second and much longer part I discuss aspects of his work which have had a more particular influence, chiefly on debates about meaning and mind. The aspects in question are Wittgenstein's views about rule-following and private language. This second part is more technical than the first.
1 The fuller picture demands a treatment of points raised by Kripke, McDowell, McGinn, Wright, Pears and others; see e.g. Kripke, 1982; McDowell, 1984, McGinn, 1984; Wright, 1986b; and Pears, 1989.
2 Wright's phrase. Pears calls it the ‘Anti-Platonist chapter’.