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Conversion in Philosophy: Wittgenstein's “Saving Word”

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Antonia Soulez
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Wittgenstein raises the notion of “conversion” in philosophy through his claims that philosophical understanding is a matter of the will rather than the intellect. Soulez examines this notion in Wittgenstein's philosophy through a series of reflections on the aims and methodology of his philosophical “grammar,” in relation to comparable models among Wittgenstein's contemporaries (Freud, fames) and from the history of philosophy (Saint Augustine, Descartes).

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Hypatia , Volume 15 , Issue 4: Special Issue: Contemporary French Women Philosophers , Fall 2000 , pp. 127 - 150
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