Wittgenstein on Other Minds

Strangers in a Strange Land

This book brings together Constantine Sandiss essays on Wittgensteins approach to understanding others.

Collects Constantine Sandiss best works on Wittgensteins approach to understanding others, offering a fresh exegesis of Wittgensteins writing while showing his relevance beyond the academy.

Constantine Sandis has been working on Wittgensteins approach to other minds for over a decade. This volume collects his best writings on the topic. It sketches a picture of Wittgensteins approach to understanding others which explains how his anti-scepticism with regard to the philosophical problem of other minds is not only compatible with but also supported by his scepticism concerning the real-life difficulty of understanding others (and vice versa).

While each individual essay focuses on particular issues in Wittgenstein (including philosophical anthropology, interpersonal psyc