Author : A. Coliva
Publisher : Springer
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 39,39 MB
Release : 2010-09-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 023028969X
Does scepticism threaten our common sense picture of the world? Does it really undermine our deep-rooted certainties? Answers to these questions are offered through a comparative study of the epistemological work of two key figures in the history of analytic philosophy, G. E. Moore and Ludwig Wittgenstein.
Author : Avrum Stroll
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 49,3 MB
Release : 1994-02-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0195359135
Ludwig Wittgenstein's On Certainty was finished just before his death in 1951 and is a running commentary on three of G.E. Moore's greatest epistemological papers. In the early 1930s, Moore had written a lengthy commentary on Wittgenstein, anticipating some of the issues Wittgenstein would discuss in On Certainty. The philosophical relationship between these two great philosophers and their overlapping, but nevertheless differing, views is the subject of this book. Both defended the existence of certainty and thus opposed any form of skepticism. However, their defenses and conceptions of certainty differed widely, as did their understanding of the nature of skepticism and how best to combat it. Stroll's book contains a careful and critical analysis of their differing approaches to a set of fundamental epistemological problems.
Author : A. W. Moore
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 691 pages
File Size : 12,18 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521616557
This book charts the evolution of metaphysics since Descartes and provides a compelling case for why metaphysics matters.
Author : G.E. Moore
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 29,63 MB
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1134681739
G.E. Moore, more than either Bertrand Russell or Ludwig Wittgenstein, was chiefly responsible for the rise of the analytic method in twentieth-century philosophy. This selection of his writings shows Moore at his very best. The classic essays are crucial to major philosophical debates that still resonate today. Amongst those included are: * A Defense of Common Sense * Certainty * Sense-Data * External and Internal Relations * Hume's Theory Explained * Is Existence a Predicate? * Proof of an External World In addition, this collection also contains the key early papers in which Moore signals his break with idealism, and three important previously unpublished papers from his later work which illustrate his relationship with Wittgenstein.
Author : Ludwig Wittgenstein
Publisher :
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 13,62 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Author : Andy Hamilton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 15,62 MB
Release : 2014-10-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1317676378
Ludwig Wittgenstein is arguably the most important philosopher of the twentieth century. In On Certainty he discusses central issues in epistemology, including the nature of knowledge and scepticism. The Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Wittgenstein and On Certainty introduces and assesses: Wittgenstein's career and the background to his later philosophy the central ideas and text of On Certainty, including its responses to G.E. Moore and discussion of fundamental issues in the theory of knowledge Wittgenstein's continuing importance in contemporary philosophy. This GuideBook is essential reading for all students of Wittgenstein, and for those studying epistemology and philosophy of language. On Certainty, Wittgenstein's final work, addresses a category of "world-picture" propositions discovered by G.E. Moore. These challenge Wittgenstein's enduring commitment to a well-defined category of empirical propositions, and help to generate a critique of scepticism. Developing Wittgenstein's view that scepticism is self-undermining, the Guidebook offers a combative yet therapeutic interpretation that locates On Certainty between the standpoints of Kant and Hume.
Author : Ludwig Wittgenstein
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 47,29 MB
Release : 1969-01
Category : Certainty
ISBN : 9780631120001
The volume is full of thought-provoking insight which will prove a stimulus both to further study and to scholarly disagreement.
Author : Hanne Appelqvist
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 48,13 MB
Release : 2019-11-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1351202650
The limit of language is one of the most pervasive notions found in Wittgenstein’s work, both in his early Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus and his later writings. Moreover, the idea of a limit of language is intimately related to important scholarly debates on Wittgenstein’s philosophy, such as the debate between the so-called traditional and resolute interpretations, Wittgenstein’s stance on transcendental idealism, and the philosophical import of Wittgenstein’s latest work On Certainty. This collection includes thirteen original essays that provide a comprehensive overview of the various ways in which Wittgenstein appeals to the limit of language at different stages of his philosophical development. The essays connect the idea of a limit of language to the most important themes discussed by Wittgenstein—his conception of logic and grammar, the method of philosophy, the nature of the subject, and the foundations of knowledge—as well as his views on ethics, aesthetics, and religion. The essays also relate Wittgenstein’s thought to his contemporaries, including Carnap, Frege, Heidegger, Levinas, and Moore.
Author : Terry Horgan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 37,54 MB
Release : 2006-01-26
Category : History
ISBN : 0199269904
Metaethics is concerned to answer second-order non-moral questions about the semantics, metaphysics, and epistemology of moral thought and discourse and is often traced to G.E. Moore work. These essays represent the most up to date work in the field, after and in some cases directly inspired by Moore.
Author : Mitchell S. Green
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 38,58 MB
Release : 2007-01-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0191515728
G. E. Moore famously observed that to assert, 'I went to the pictures last Tuesday but I don't believe that I did' would be 'absurd'. Moore calls it a 'paradox' that this absurdity persists despite the fact that what I say about myself might be true. Over half a century later, such sayings continue to perplex philosophers and other students of language, logic, and cognition. Ludwig Wittgenstein was fascinated by Moore's example, and the absurdity of Moore's saying was intensively discussed in the mid-20th century. Yet the source of the absurdity has remained elusive, and its recalcitrance has led researchers in recent decades to address it with greater care. In this definitive treatment of the problem of Moorean absurdity Green and Williams survey the history and relevance of the paradox and leading approaches to resolving it, and present new essays by leading thinkers in the area. Contributors Jonathan Adler, Bradley Armour-Garb, Jay D. Atlas, Thomas Baldwin, Claudio de Almeida, André Gallois, Robert Gordon, Mitchell Green, Alan Hájek, Roy Sorensen, John Williams
