The Significance of Aspect Perception : Bringing the Phenomenal World into View

In this volume, Baz offers a wide-ranging discussion of Wittgensteins remarks on aspect-perception, with special focus on Wittgensteins method. Baz starts out with an interpretation of Wittgensteins remarks on aspects and continues with attempts to characterize and defend Wittgensteins approach to the understanding and dissolution of philosophical difficulties. Baz ends with attempts to articulate--under the inspiration of Merleau-Pontys phenomenology--certain dissatisfactions, both with Wittgensteins remarks on aspect perception, and with his philosophical approach more generally.

On the way, Baz explores connections between Wittgensteins remarks on aspects and Kants aesthetics. He examines ways in which the remarks on aspects may be brought to bear on contemporary philosophical work on perception. He discusses some of the implications of Wittgensteins work on aspect perception for issues in moral philosophy and the philosophy of action.