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Readings of Wittgenstein's On Certainty

By Daniele Moyal-Sharrock , William Brenner (Editors)

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2005
ISBN
1403944490, 9781403944498
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1170577 bytes)
Edition
1st
Pages
320\349
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-04-18 11:31:18

Description

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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