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This radical reading of Wittgenstein's third and last masterpiece,
"On Certainty," has major implications for philosophy. It
elucidates Wittgenstein's ultimate thoughts on the nature of our
basic beliefs and his demystification of skepticism. Our basic
certainties are shown to be nonepistemic, nonpropositional
attitudes that, as such, have no verbal occurrence but manifest
themselves exclusively in our actions. This fundamental certainty
is a belief-"in," a primitive confidence or" ur-trust" whose
practical nature bridges the hitherto unresolved catagorial gap
between belief and action.
This anthology focuses on the extraordinary contributions
Wittgenstein made to several areas in the philosophy of psychology
- contributions that extend to psychology, psychiatry, sociology
and anthropology. To bring them a richly-deserved attention from
across the language barrier, Daniele Moyal-Sharrock has translated
papers by eminent French Wittgensteinians. They here join ranks
with more familiar renowned specialists on Wittgenstein's
philosophical psychology. While revealing differences in approach
and interests, this coming together of some of the best minds on
the subject discloses a surprising degree of consensus, and gives
us the clearest picture yet of Wittgenstein as a philosopher of
psychology.
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.
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.
This radical reading of Wittgenstein's third and last masterpiece,
On Certainty, has major implications for philosophy. It elucidates
Wittgenstein's ultimate thoughts on the nature of our basic beliefs
and his demystification of skepticism. Our basic certainties are
shown to be nonepistemic, nonpropositional attitudes that, as such,
have no verbal occurrence but manifest themselves exclusively in
our actions. This fundamental certainty is a belief-in, a primitive
confidence or ur-trust whose practical nature bridges the hitherto
unresolved catagorial gap between belief and action.
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