Author : Ludwig Wittgenstein
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 35,98 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 : Joachim Schulte
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 12,2 MB
Release : 2018-06
Category :
ISBN : 9781844658282
Wittgenstein's last work, On Certainty, is widely regarded as his third masterpiece of philosophy and one of his most enigmatic writings. On Certainty explores the ways in which claims of indisputable knowledge are expressed, and how language forms the basis of such claims. On Certainty has largely been read as representing a break with Wittgenstein's previous thinking, but this study places these ideas firmly in the development of his thought since the 1930s. Wittgenstein on Certainty and Doubt illuminates Wittgenstein's examination of the logical features of epistemic terms--such as 'know', 'believe' and 'doubt'--and his interrogation of the foundations of human knowledge, the extent to which our knowledge is immune from doubt, and the conflicts between different articulations of knowledge.
Author : A. Coliva
Publisher : Springer
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 39,33 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 : Genia Schönbaumsfeld
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 50,19 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0198783949
The Illusion of Doubt confronts one of the most important questions in philosophy: what can we know? The radical sceptic's answer is 'not very much' if we cannot prove that we are not subject to (permanent) deception. This book shows that the radical sceptical problem is an illusion created by a mistaken picture of our evidential situation.
Author : Luigi Perissinotto
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 28,79 MB
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 3110321882
This book explores Wittgenstein's conception of ethics, religion and philosophy. It aims at providing us with the tools necessary for assessing to what extent the Austrian philosopher can be considered an anti-Enlightenment thinker. The articles collected in this volume explore the relationship between Wittgenstein's thought and that of several authors who were, in various ways, key to the counter-enlightenement, authors such as Hume, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Tolstoy, James and Pierce. One of the central issues examined here is Wittgenstein's opposition to the Cartesian method of doubt – a cornerstone of the enlightened movement against prejudice and superstition.
Author : D. Moyal-Sharrock
Publisher : Springer
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 47,95 MB
Release : 2005-05-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0230505341
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.
Author : Anna Boncompagni
Publisher : Springer
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 50,54 MB
Release : 2016-12-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1137588470
This book investigates the conflicts concerning pragmatism in Wittgenstein’s work On Certainty, through a comparison with the pragmatist tradition as expressed by its founding fathers Charles S. Peirce and William James. It also describes Wittgenstein’s first encounters with pragmatism in the 1930s and shows the relevance of Frank Ramsey in the development of his thought. Offering a balanced, critical and theoretical examination the author discusses issues such as doubt, certainty, common sense, forms of life, action and the pragmatic maxim. While highlighting the objective convergences and divergences between the two approaches, the volume makes links to ongoing debates on relativism, foundationalism, scepticism and objectivity. It will be of interest to anyone searching for new perspectives on Wittgenstein’s philosophy.
Author : Avrum Stroll
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 32,44 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 : J. Hermann
Publisher : Springer
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 47,91 MB
Release : 2015-06-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1137447184
Taking inspiration from the later Wittgenstein, On Moral Certainty, Justification and Practice explores the practical basis of human morality. It offers an account of moral certainty, which it links with a view of moral competence. Drawing on everyday examples, it is shown how morality is grounded in action, not in reasoning.
Author : Thiselton, Anthony C.
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 39,32 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0802873537
Doubt, faith, certainty. In this book celebrated theologian Anthony Thiselton provides clarity on these complicated, long-misunderstood theological concepts and the practical pastoral problems they raise for Christians. He reminds us that doubt is not always bad, faith can have different meanings in different circumstances, and certainty is fragile. Drawing on his expertise in the fields of exegesis and hermeneutics, biblical studies, and the history of Christian thought, Thiselton works his way through the labyrinth of past definitions while offering better, more nuanced theological understandings of these three interrelated concepts. The result is a book that speaks profoundly to some of our deepest existential concerns.
