Conceptual Analysis In Wittgenstein's Later Philosophy Of Psychology

Wittgenstein's main philosophy is a subversive philosophy. He overturned the basic concepts of Western philosophy, and criticized the Western philosophy since Aristotle. Wittgenstein claimed that philosophy was not a pure theory and doctrine but a kind of language activity, which was mainly reflected in logic analysis activities for clarifying the meaning of propositional in his early thought and the language games activities in his later thought. Wittgenstein believed that it had practical significance only existing in the daily use and context for language. Wittgenstein mainly studied how using the language for people in their daily lives, and focused on analyzing the use of psychology glossary in different scenarios in his later philosophy.Wittgenstein didn't clearly define philosophy of psychology. He thought it exists of conceptual confusion in philosophy of psychology, the disorder of psychological concept was admitting the existence of external things and internal mental process when they didn't exist, and then seeking an interpretation for these imaginary objects and processes. Wittgenstein believed the words describing the psychological processes had a "family resemblance", and we could not grasp and define their true meanings in the daily use. When psychologists conceive of their question that what is the process of thinking and according to it propose the theory on the psychological processes, they actually have fallen into the abyss of concept chaos. Wittgenstein thought that psychology could help people understand the behaviors and not scientifically explain them. We should go to life forms people living in for understanding and explaining some things'behavior in the world outside. So it would undoubtedly become the research tasks of philosophy of psychology analyzing the concepts of "sensation, emotion, wollen, will, understanding, knowing" by means of describing daily language.This study deeply analyzes use in practice of psychology vocabulary using in everyday in Wittgenstein's later books "Comments on the Philosophy of Psychology " and " Last writings on the Philosophy of Psychology " to grasp the specific contents and main points in Wittgenstein's later philosophy of psychology. Generally speaking, this research includes three parts:the first part mainly analyzes the concept of sensation and emotion. The sensation problem is always fundamental issue concerned by philosophy and psychology to epistemology as the keynote in modern Western. And emotion is an important psychological concept having close contact with sense. Therefore, this section not only discuss Wittgenstein's thought about the existence, strength, classification, uncertainties of sensation and the daily language usage on the emotional characteristics, but also discuss and explain the difference between sensation and emotion. The second part analyzes the concept of wollen and will. In this section, firstly, it analyzes and compares wollen, versuchen and desire in order to more clearly understand the concept of wollen; secondly, it compares Locke's, Hobbes's and Schopenhauer's and others'understanding about the concept of will, and emphases Wittgenstein's views about the will; thirdly, it discusses the relationship between the wollen and will, will and freedom of the will as well as the difference of conscious activities and non-conscious activities. The third part mainly analyzes the concept of understanding, thinking, knowing and explanation. This section mainly analyzes the recordings of Wittgenstein's daily language about understanding, thinking, knowing in order to eliminate ambiguity when people using these words in everyday life.