Readings of Wittgenstein's On Certainty

by Moyal-Sharrock, Danièle; Brenner, William

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• Copyright: 2007-11-15
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Summary

This is the first collection of papers devoted to Wittgenstein's cryptic but brilliant On Certainty.

Author Biography

DANIÈLE MOYAL-SHARROCK is Lecturer in Philosophy at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. She has significantly contributed to highlighting the importance of Wittgenstein's later corpus. She is the author of Understanding Wittgenstein's On Certainty (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004), and the editor of The Third Wittgenstein: The Post-Investigations Works (Ashgate, 2004).

WILLIAM BRENNER is Professor of Philosophy at the Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, USA. His publications include Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations (SUNY, 1999), Elements of Modern Philosophy (Prentice-Hall, 1989) and Logic and Philosophy: An Integrated Introduction (Notre Dame, 1993).

Table of Contents

Notes on the Contributors	p. ix
List of Abbreviations of Works by Wittgenstein	p. xii
Introduction	p. 1
Wittgenstein's On Certainty: The Case of the Missing Propositions	p. 16
The Framework Reading	p. 31
Why On Certainty Matters	p. 33
Why Wittgenstein Isn't a Foundationalist	p. 47
Within a System	p. 59
Unravelling Certainty	p. 76
The Transcendental Reading	p. 101
Wittgenstein and Classical Realism	p. 103
Wittgenstein's 'Kantian Solution'	p. 122
Wittgenstein, Global Scepticism and the Primacy of Practice	p. 142
The Epistemic Reading	p. 163
The Contexts of Knowing	p. 165
Wittgenstein's On Certainty and Contemporary Anti-scepticism	p. 189
'In the Beginning was the Deed': Wittgenstein on Knowledge and Religion	p. 225
The Therapeutic Reading	p. 251
On Wittgenstein's Response to Scepticism: The Opening of On Certainty	p. 253
Wittgenstein and Ethics: A Discussion with Reference to On Certainty	p. 275
'The First Shall be Last and the Last Shall be First...': A New Reading of On Certainty 501	p. 302
References	p. 322
Index	p. 329
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