Readings of Wittgenstein’s On Certainty - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1403944490 ISBN 13: 9781403944498

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005

Synopsis

This collection offers new essays by eminent scholars on Wittgenstein's third masterpiece, On Certainty. Although Wittgenstein's language, and the problems he deals with--the nature of basic beliefs, epistemic foundationalism, knowledge, certainty, skepticism--are here much closer to traditional philosophy, the exploratory and nonlinear character of On Certainty make it a difficult work to penetrate. These essays probe deep into the work from four different approaches: the framework reading; the transcendental reading; the therapeutic reading; and the epistemic reading. This is the first collection ever devoted to On Certainty, and will prove an invaluable tool to scholars and students of Wittgenstein who have thus far only fleetingly ventured beyond Philosophical Investigations.

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Review:

'...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

About the Author:

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).

About this edition

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1403944490
• ISBN 13: 9781403944498
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 347
• Editor: Moyal-Sharrock D., Brenner W.