Wittgenstein and Pragmatism On Certainty in the Light of Peirce and James [Hardcover]

This book investigates the conflicts concerning pragmatism in

Wittgensteins 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 Wittgensteins first encounters with

pragmatism in the 1930s and shows the relevance of Frank Ramsey in the

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,

perspectives on Wittgensteins philosophy.

Foreword

Acknowledgments

 

 

 

1.1 Preliminary remarks

1.4 Wittgenstein reader of James

1.6 Other references to pragmatism before On Certl“‰