Readings of Wittgenstein's On Certainty

by D. Moyal-Sharrock (Editor), W. Brenner (Editor)

Overview

This is the first collection of papers devoted to Ludwig Wittgenstein's cryptic but brilliant, On Certainty . This work, Wittgenstein's last, extends the thinking of his earlier, better known writings, and in so doing, makes the most important contribution to epistemology since Kant's Critique of Pure Reason - a claim the essays in this volume help to demonstrate. The essays have been grouped under four headings, reflecting current approaches to the work: the Framework, Transcendental, Epistemic, and Therapeutic readings.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230535527
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	05/18/2005
Edition description:	2005
Pages:	334
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.03(d)

About the Author

ALICE CRARY Assistant Professor of Philosophy, New School University, New York, USA MICHAEL KOBER Visiting Professor, Humboldt-Studienzentrum, University of Ulm, GERMANY EDWARD MINAR Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Arkansas, USA THOMAS MORAWETZ Tapping Reeve Professor of Law and Ethics, University of Connecticut School of Law, USA HOWARD O. MOUNCE Honorary Fellow, University of Wales, Swansea, UK D. Z. PHILLIPS formerly Danforth Professor of Philosophy of Religion, Claremont Graduate University, USA DUNCAN PRITCHARD Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Stirling, UK RUPERT READ Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK ANTHONY RUDD Professor of Philosophy, St Olaf College, Minnesota, USA JOACHIM SCHULTE Lecturer, University of Bielefeld, GERMANY AVRUM STROLL Research Professor, University of California, San Diego, USA MICHAEL WILLIAMS Krieger-Eisenhower Professor, John Hopkins University, USA

Table of Contents

Notes on the Contributors Introduction PART I: THE FRAMEWORK READING Wittgenstein's On Certainty : The Case of the Missing Propositions; D.Z.Phillips Why On Certainty Matters; A.Stroll Why Wittgenstein Isn't a Foundationalist; M.Williams Within a System; J.Schulte Unravelling Certainty; D.Moyal-Sharrock PART II: THE TRANSCENDENTAL READING Wittgenstein and Classical Realism; H.O.Mounce Wittgenstein's 'Kantian Solution'; W.H.Brenner Wittgenstein, Global Skepticism, and the Primacy of Practice; A.Rudd PART III: THE EPISTEMIC READING The Contexts of Knowing; T.Morawetz Wittgenstein's On Certainty and Contemporary Anti-Scepticism; D.H.Pritchard 'In the beginning was the deed': Wittgenstein on Knowledge and Religion; M.Kober PART IV: THE THERAPEUTIC READING On Wittgenstein's Response to Skepticism: The Opening of On Certainty ; E.Minar Wittgenstein and Ethics: A Discussion with Reference to On Certainty ; A.Crary 'The First Shall Be Last and the Last Shall Be First...': A New Reading of On Certainty ; R.Read Bibliography Index

Editorial Reviews

'...a valuable contribution to the on-going study of what is, perhaps, one of the less acknowledged of Eittgenstein's achievement - R.B. The Heythrop Journal 49:1

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