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- Book Title
- Wittgenstein's On Certainty
- ISBN
- 9781405134248
- Subject Area
- Philosophy
- Publication Name
- Wittgenstein's on Certainty : There-Like Our Life
- Publisher
- Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John
- Item Length
- 9.1 in
- Subject
- Individual Philosophers, History & Surveys / Modern
- Publication Year
- 2005
- Type
- Textbook
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- Perfect
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.6 in
- Item Weight
- 10.9 Oz
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- Number of Pages
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Even Wittgenstein 's admirers have been puzzled by his last work, On Certainty. Some even regard it as a lapse at the end of a distinguished career, or as a late epistemological interest that remained undeveloped. Rush Rhees, a close friend of Wittgenstein and a major interpreter of his work, shows how Wittgenstein 's On Certainty concerns logic, language and reality - topics that occupied Wittgenstein from early in his career.From his earliest work on the nature of propositions, to his interest in On Certainty with the 'sureness' in our language-games, Wittgenstein questions 'what it means to say something '. He emphasizes the importance not of that which cannot be questioned, but of what we do not question in our thought and action. In this book, Rhees brings out the continuity in Wittgenstein 's thought, and the radical character of his conclusions.In explicating this text, and demonstrating its continuity with Wittgenstein 's earlier work, Rhees has done a great service that will be of profound interest to students and scholars of Wittgenstein for generations to come. Rhees 's comments are introduced by D. Z. Phillips, who writes a substantial and illuminating afterword that discusses current scholarship surrounding On Certainty, and its relationship to Rhees 's work on this subject.
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Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John
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1405134240
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9781405134248
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Number of Pages
208 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Wittgenstein's on Certainty : There-Like Our Life
Publication Year
2005
Subject
Individual Philosophers, History & Surveys / Modern
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Philosophy
Format
Perfect
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Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
10.9 Oz
Item Length
9.1 in
Item Width
6 in
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21
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"This book contains illuminating remarks and a novel perspective on an important and widely discussed classic. And it has a special authority, being the work of one of the author's best students and closest friends." William Brenner, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia "This book contains two remarkable and original contributions by Rush Rhees and D. Z. Phillips to the burgeoning scholarship on Wittgenstein's On Certainty. I recommend it strongly." Avrum Stroll, University of California, San Diego, "This book contains illuminating remarks and a novel perspective on an important and widely discussed classic. And it has a special authority, being the work of one of the authors best students and closest friends." William Brenner, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia"This book contains two remarkable and original contributions by Rush Rhees and D. Z. Phillips to the burgeoning scholarship on Wittgensteins On Certainty. I recommend it strongly." Avrum Stroll, University of California, San Diego
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121/.63
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Table of Content
Preface vii PART I THE PHILOSOPHICAL BACKGROUND TO ON CERTAINTY 1 1 On Certainty: A New Topic? 3 2 Saying and Describing 6 3 Concept-Formation 11 4 'Seeing' and 'Thinking' 16 5 Thought and Language 27 6 Picturing Reality 34 7 What Makes Language Language? 40 8 The Logical and the Empirical 44 9 On Certainty: A Work in Logic 48 PART II DISCUSSIONS OF ON CERTAINTY 53 10 Two Conversations with Wittgenstein on Moore 55 11 Preface to On Certainty 61 12 On Certainty's Main Theme 67 13 Induction 73 14 Wittgenstein's Propositions and Foundations 78 15 Language as Emerging from Instinctive Behaviour 93 16 Words and Things 106 17 Not Worth Mentioning? 111 18 Certainty and Madness 118 PREFACE Appendix 1: Comparisons Between On Certainty and Wittgenstein's Earlier Work 125 Appendix 2: Some Passages Relating to Doubt and Certainty in On Certainty 131 Afterword: Rhees on Reading On Certainty 133 D. Z. Phillips Notes 183 Index 192
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2005
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