On Certainty
On Certainty

Author: Ludwig Wittgenstein

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Published: 1969-01

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 9780631120001

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The volume is full of thought-provoking insight which will prove a stimulus both to further study and to scholarly disagreement.

Understanding Wittgenstein's On Certainty
Understanding Wittgenstein's On Certainty

Author: D. Moyal-Sharrock

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2004-04-19

Total Pages: 263

ISBN-13: 0230504469

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This book sheds unprecedented light on Wittgenstein's third masterpiece, On Certainty , clarifying his thoughts on basic beliefs and rebuttal of scepticism. As an introduction and commentary on Wittgenstein's final major philosophical work, Moyal-Sharrock's book will prove an indispensable guide to the student, scholar and general reader.

Idealism and Praxis
Idealism and Praxis

Author: Michele Marsonet

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2013-05-02

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 3110329115

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This work manages to present a complete and informative overview of Nicholas Rescher’s philosphy. A prominent representative of contemporary pragmatism and of 20th century’s thought at large, Rescher wrote an impressive amount of volumes and essays on a wide variety of philosophical topics. The present book purports to make his theses and theories accessible in one single volume. Moreover, it provides an apparatus of references to the relevant literature produced by Rescher’s critics, and positions his work in the wider setting of its links with various contemporary American and European philosophers. The mixture of pragmatism and idealism, typical of Rescher’s stance, is carefully taken into account, along with his contributions to logic, philosophy of science, metaphysics, theory of knowledge, ethics, social and political philosophy.

Exploring Certainty
Exploring Certainty

Author: Robert Greenleaf Brice

Publisher: Lexington Books

Published: 2014-03-06

Total Pages: 133

ISBN-13: 073917567X

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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 Bricesurveys 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.