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Ludwig Wittgenstein's On Certainty explores myriad new and
important ideas regarding our notions of belief, knowledge,
skepticism, and certainty. During the course of his exploration,
Wittgenstein makes a fascinating new discovery about certitude,
namely, that it is categorically distinct from knowledge. As his
investigation advances, he recognizes that certainty must be
non-propositional and non-ratiocinated; borne out not in the things
we say, but in our actions, our deeds. Many philosophers working
outside of epistemology recognized Wittgenstein's insights and
determined that his work's abrupt end might serve as an excellent
launching point for still further philosophical expeditions.
Exploring Certainty: Wittgenstein and Wide Fields of Thought
surveys some of this rich topography. Author Robert Greenleaf Brice
uses Wittgenstein's writings as a point of departure for exploring
Brice's own ideas about certainty. He shows how Wittgenstein's
rough and unpolished notion of certitude might be smoothed out and
refined in a way to benefit studies of morality, aesthetics,
cognitive science, philosophy of mathematics.Brice's work opens new
avenues of thought for scholars and students of the Wittgensteinian
tradition, while introducing original philosophies concerning
issues central to human knowledge and cognition.
Ludwig Wittgenstein's On Certainty explores a myriad of new and
important ideas regarding our notions of belief, knowledge,
skepticism, and certainty. During the course of his exploration,
Wittgenstein makes a fascinating new discovery about certitude,
namely, that it is categorically distinct from knowledge. As his
investigation advances, he recognizes that certainty must be
non-propositional and non-ratiocinated; borne out not in the things
we say, but in our actions, our deeds. Many philosophers working
outside of epistemology recognized Wittgenstein's insights and
determined that his work's abrupt end might serve as an excellent
launching point for still further philosophical expeditions. In
Exploring Certainty: Wittgenstein and Wide Fields of Thought,
Robert Greenleaf Brice surveys some of this rich topography.
Wittgenstein's writings serve as a point of departure for Brice's
own ideas about certainty. He shows how Wittgenstein's rough and
unpolished notion of certitude might be smoothed out and refined in
a way to benefit studies of morality, aesthetics, cognitive
science, philosophy of mathematics. Brice's work opens new avenues
of thought for scholars and students of the Wittgensteinian
tradition, while introducing original philosophies concerning
issues central to human knowledge and cognition.
This book considers the important twentieth century Austrian
philosopher, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and his conception of certainty.
In his work entitled On Certainty, Wittgenstein provides not only a
brilliant solution to a previously intractable philosophical
problem, but also the elements of an entirely new way of
approaching this and similar longstanding, apparently unresolvable,
problems. In On Certainty, he re-conceives the problem of radical
skepticism-the claim that we can never really be certain of
anything except the contents of our own minds-as a kind of
philosophical "disease" of thought. His approach to the problem,
which is emphasized in the book, is similar to the treatment of
disease, has two main goals: (1) bring about an awareness in the
philosopher that this kind of extreme skepticism is not a
methodological approach to be taken seriously, and, with this
awareness, (2) an attempt to replace this radical skepticism with a
practical, Common Sense framework. Implicit in Wittgenstein's
approach are a number of strategies found in a contemporary
approach to psychotherapy known as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
(CBT). These strategies, along with philosophical methods and
scientific practices rooted in the Scottish School of Common Sense,
seek to diagnose and treat irrational thoughts and beliefs that
often emerge (and re-emerge) in the discipline of philosophy. The
aim of this book, then, is to provide students of philosophy with
the tools necessary to adjust and reshape these irrational,
self-defeating thoughts and beliefs into something new, something
healthy.
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