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In Certainty in Action, Daniele Moyal-Sharrock describes how her
encounter with Wittgenstein overturned her previous assumptions
that the mind is a product of brain activity and that thought,
consciousness, the will, feelings, memories, knowledge and language
are stored and processed in the brain, by the brain. She shows how
Wittgenstein enables us to veer away from this brain-centred view
of intelligence and behaviour to a person-centred view focusing on
ways of acting that are both diversely embedded across forms of
human life and universally embedded in a single human form of life.
The book traces the radical importance of action as the cohesive
thread weaving through Wittgenstein's philosophy, and shows how
certainty intertwines with it to produce new ways of engaging in
epistemology, the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of
language. This selection of Moyal-Sharrock's essays vividly
illustrates some of the ways in which Wittgenstein's pioneering
enactivism has impacted - and can further impact - not only
philosophy, but also neighbouring disciplines such as linguistics,
psychology, primatology, evolutionary psychology and anthropology.
Certainty in Action is essential reading for students and
researchers of these disciplines, and for anyone interested in
getting a grasp of Wittgenstein's lasting genius and influence.
The volume takes on the much-needed task of describing and
explaining the nature of the relations and interactions between
mind, language and action in defining mentality. Papers by renowned
philosophers unravel what is increasingly acknowledged to be the
enacted nature of the mind, memory and language-acquisition, whilst
also calling attention to Wittgenstein's contribution. The volume
offers unprecedented insight, clarity, scope, and currency.
This anthology establishes the existence of a distinct and
important post-Investigations Wittgenstein, uncovering the
overlooked treasures of the final corpus and crystallising key
perceptions of what his last thought was achieving. Speaking of a
'third Wittgenstein', this book seeks to correct the traditional
bipartite conception of Wittgenstein's thought into his Tractatus
and Philosophical Investigations by focusing on his neglected last
masterpiece, On Certainty, and works contemporaneous with it:
Remarks on Colour, Last Writings in the Philosophy of Psychology,
and Remarks on the Philosophy of Psychology. A Leading
international Wittgenstein scholars reveal why On Certainty should
be recognised as one of Wittgenstein's three great works. This
sustained examination shows that the third Wittgenstein breaks new
ground with insights unprecedented in both his own work and
philosophy more broadly, giving us keys to the solution and
dissolution of problems that have plagued philosophy since
Descartes, such as philosophical scepticism and the mind-body
problem. Wittgenstein's ultimate and revised positions with regard
to epistemology, foundationalism, 'grammar', naturalism, the
psychology of language, and psychological indeterminacy are clearly
delineated. This book also provides new and illuminating accounts
of difficult concepts, such as patterns of life, experiencing
meaning, meaning blindness, lying and pretence.
This anthology establishes the existence of a distinct and
important post-Investigations Wittgenstein, uncovering the
overlooked treasures of the final corpus and crystallising key
perceptions of what his last thought was achieving. Speaking of a
'third Wittgenstein', this book seeks to correct the traditional
bipartite conception of Wittgenstein's thought into his Tractatus
and Philosophical Investigations by focusing on his neglected last
masterpiece, On Certainty, and works contemporaneous with it:
Remarks on Colour, Last Writings in the Philosophy of Psychology,
and Remarks on the Philosophy of Psychology. A Leading
international Wittgenstein scholars reveal why On Certainty should
be recognised as one of Wittgenstein's three great works. This
sustained examination shows that the third Wittgenstein breaks new
ground with insights unprecedented in both his own work and
philosophy more broadly, giving us keys to the solution and
dissolution of problems that have plagued philosophy since
Descartes, such as philosophical scepticism and the mind-body
problem. Wittgenstein's ultimate and revised positions with regard
to epistemology, foundationalism, 'grammar', naturalism, the
psychology of language, and psychological indeterminacy are clearly
delineated. This book also provides new and illuminating accounts
of difficult concepts, such as patterns of life, experiencing
meaning, meaning blindness, lying and pretence.
In Certainty in Action, Daniele Moyal-Sharrock describes how her
encounter with Wittgenstein overturned her previous assumptions
that the mind is a product of brain activity and that thought,
consciousness, the will, feelings, memories, knowledge and language
are stored and processed in the brain, by the brain. She shows how
Wittgenstein enables us to veer away from this brain-centred view
of intelligence and behaviour to a person-centred view focusing on
ways of acting that are both diversely embedded across forms of
human life and universally embedded in a single human form of life.
The book traces the radical importance of action as the cohesive
thread weaving through Wittgenstein's philosophy, and shows how
certainty intertwines with it to produce new ways of engaging in
epistemology, the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of
language. This selection of Moyal-Sharrock's essays vividly
illustrates some of the ways in which Wittgenstein's pioneering
enactivism has impacted - and can further impact - not only
philosophy, but also neighbouring disciplines such as linguistics,
psychology, primatology, evolutionary psychology and anthropology.
Certainty in Action is essential reading for students and
researchers of these disciplines, and for anyone interested in
getting a grasp of Wittgenstein's lasting genius and influence.
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