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The teaching of an introductory course in American Government can be a difficult and frustrating endeavor under even the best of circumstances. Given the general level of cynicism and/or lack of interest by large numbers of Americans regarding politics and politicians, the task of generating student enthusiasm, or even mild interest, toward the subject matter can indeed be an arduous one. When the teaching of such a course takes place in a business college, and when the student audience is "captive" to a college requirement that all students must take the course, the task can be rendered considerably more formidable.For the past six years I have been teaching such courses at business colleges — one year at Bryant College in Rhode Island, and the following five years at Bentley College in Massachusetts.

Intro -- Series Editor's Foreword -- Preface -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Tables -- 1 Introduction: Waismann's Rocky Strata -- 1 Waismann and the Analytic Tradition -- 2 Language Tectonics and Waismann's Projections -- 3 Wittgenstein and the Vienna Circle -- 4 Philosophy and Language -- 5 Law, Action, Fiction -- References -- Part I Wittgenstein and the Vienna Circle -- 2 Waismann in the Vienna Circle -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Waismann and the Beginning of the Circle -- 3 Waismann and the Reception of the Tractatus -- 4 Divergences -- Bibliography -- 3 Producing a Justification: Waismann on Ethics and Science -- 1 Prologue -- 2 Science and Ethics -- 3 Norms and Rules -- 4 Evidence and Intuition -- Epilogue -- References -- 4 Friedrich Waismann's Philosophy of Mathematics -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Parallels: Existence in Mathematics, the Meaning of Mathematical Concepts, Equations and Tautologies, and Infinity -- 3 Divergences: Conventionalism and Mathematical Conjectures -- 4 Conclusion -- References -- 5 Waismann on Belief and Knowledge -- 1 Belief -- 2 Knowing -- 2.1 Knowing in "Belief and Knowledge" -- 2.2 Knowing in "Two Accounts of Knowing" -- 3 Waismann and Wittgenstein: A Comparison -- 4 Conclusion -- References -- 6 "How I See Philosophy": An Apple of Discord Among Wittgenstein Scholars -- 1 'A Vision of Philosophy' -- 2 Baker's Reading of Waismann: Objections and Replies -- 3 Baker's Reading of the Later Wittgenstein: Objections and Replies -- 4 What Is Really at Issue? -- 5 Concluding Remarks -- References -- Part II Philosophy and Language -- 7 Waismann: From Wittgenstein's Tafelrunde to His Writings on Analyticity -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Timeline and Waismann Later Works -- 3 The Series on Analyticity -- 4 Quine and Waismann on Analyticity -- 5 Carnap and Waismann on Analyticity -- 6 Conclusion -- References.