Readings of Wittgensteins On Certainty [Hardcover]

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.Notes on the Contributors Introduction PART I: THE FRAMEWORK READING Wittgenstein's On Certainty : The Case of the Missing Propositions; D.Z.Phillips Why On Certainty Matters; A.Stroll Why Wittgenstein Isn't a Foundationalist; M.Williams Within a System; J.Schulte Unravelling Certainty; D.Moyal-Sharrock PART II: THE TRANSCENDENTAL READING Wittgenstein and Classical Realism; H.O.Mounce Wittgenstein's 'Kantian Solution'; W.H.Brenner Wittgenstein, Global Skepticism, and the Primacy of Practice; A.Rudd PART III: THE EPISTEMIC READING The Contexts of Knowing; T.Morawetz Wittgenstein's On Certainty and Contemporary Anti-Scepticism; D.H.Pritchard 'In the beginning was the deed': Wittgenstein on Knowledge and Religion; M.Kober PART IV: THE THERAPEUTIC READING On Wittgenstein's Response to Skepticism: The Opening of On Certainty ; E.Minar Wittgenstein and Ethics: A Discussion with Reference to On Certainty ; A.Crary 'The First Shall Be Last and the Last Shall Be First...': A New Reading of On Certainty ; R.Read Bibliography Index

'...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

ALICE CRARY Assistant Professor of Philosophy, New School University, New York, USAMICHAEL KOBER Visiting Professor, Humboldt-Studienzentrum, University of Ulm, GERMANYEDWARD MINAR Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Arkansas, USATHOMAS MORAWElsà