Readings of Wittgenstein’s On Certainty

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Danièle Moyal-Sharrock, William H. Brenner

      Pages 1-15

3. Wittgenstein’s On Certainty: The Case of the Missing Propositions

   1. Wittgenstein’s On Certainty: The Case of the Missing Propositions

      • D. Z. Phillips

      Pages 16-29

4. The Framework Reading

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 31-31

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   2. Why On Certainty Matters

      • Avrum Stroll

      Pages 33-46

   3. Why Wittgenstein Isn’t a Foundationalist

      • Michael Williams

      Pages 47-58

   4. Within a System

      • Joachim Schulte

      Pages 59-75

   5. Unravelling Certainty

      • Danièle Moyal-Sharrock

      Pages 76-99

5. The Transcendental Reading

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 101-101

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   2. Wittgenstein and Classical Realism

      • H. O. Mounce

      Pages 103-121

   3. Wittgenstein’s ‘Kantian Solution’

      • William H. Brenner

      Pages 122-141

   4. Wittgenstein, Global Scepticism and the Primacy of Practice

      • Anthony Rudd

      Pages 142-161

6. The Epistemic Reading

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 163-163

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   2. The Contexts of Knowing

      • Thomas Morawetz

      Pages 165-188

   3. Wittgenstein’s On Certainty and Contemporary Anti-scepticism

      • Duncan Pritchard

      Pages 189-224

   4. ‘In the Beginning was the Deed’: Wittgenstein on Knowledge and Religion

      • Michael Kober

      Pages 225-250

7. The Therapeutic Reading

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 251-251

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   2. On Wittgenstein’s Response to Scepticism: The Opening of On Certainty

      • Edward Minar

      Pages 253-274

   3. Wittgenstein and Ethics: A Discussion with Reference to On Certainty

      • Alice Crary

      Pages 275-301

   4. ‘The First Shall be Last and the Last Shall be First …’: A New Reading of On Certainty 501

      • Rupert Read

      Pages 302-321

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.

• epistemology
• Immanuel Kant
• knowledge
• Ludwig Wittgenstein
• reason
• scepticism

'...a valuable contribution to the on-going study of what is, perhaps, one of the less acknowledged of Eittgenstein's achievement - R.B. The Heythrop Journal 49:1

• Birkbeck College, University of London, UK

  Danièle Moyal-Sharrock

• Old Dominion University, Norfolk, USA

  William H. Brenner

ALICE CRARY Assistant Professor of Philosophy, New School University, New York, USA MICHAEL KOBER Visiting Professor, Humboldt-Studienzentrum, University of Ulm, GERMANY EDWARD MINAR Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Arkansas, USA THOMAS MORAWETZ Tapping Reeve Professor of Law and Ethics, University of Connecticut School of Law, USA HOWARD O. MOUNCE Honorary Fellow, University of Wales, Swansea, UK D. Z. PHILLIPS formerly Danforth Professor of Philosophy of Religion, Claremont Graduate University, USA DUNCAN PRITCHARD Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Stirling, UK RUPERT READ Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK ANTHONY RUDD Professor of Philosophy, St Olaf College, Minnesota, USA JOACHIM SCHULTE Lecturer, University of Bielefeld, GERMANY AVRUM STROLL Research Professor, University of California, San Diego, USA MICHAEL WILLIAMS Krieger-Eisenhower Professor, John Hopkins University, USA

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