P. M. S. Hacker

Contemporary (b. 1939) · Analytic Philosophy, Wittgenstein Exegesis

Peter Michael Stephan Hacker (born 1939) is a British philosopher and leading Wittgenstein scholar. He is known for his decades-long collaboration with G.P. Baker on analytical commentary on Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations and for his staunch defense of a particular, therapeutic reading of Wittgenstein's later work. He is an Emeritus Research Fellow at St John's College, Oxford.

Notable Works

• Wittgenstein: Understanding and Meaning (Volume 1 of an Analytical Commentary on the Philosophical Investigations, with G.P. Baker)
• Wittgenstein: Rules, Grammar and Necessity (Volume 2, with G.P. Baker)
• Wittgenstein: Mind and Will (Volume 4)
• Insight and Illusion: Themes in the Philosophy of Wittgenstein
• Wittgenstein's Place in Twentieth-Century Analytic Philosophy
• Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience (with M.R. Bennett)
• History of Cognitive Neuroscience (with M.R. Bennett)
• The Intellectual Powers: A Study of Human Nature
• The Passions: A Study of Human Nature

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