(Ebook) Readings of Wittgenstein's On Certainty by Danièle Moyal-Sharrock, William Brenner (Editors) ISBN 9781403944498, 1403944490

(Ebook) Readings of Wittgenstein's On Certainty by Danièle Moyal-Sharrock, William Brenner (Editors) ISBN 9781403944498, 1403944490

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.