Written over the last 18 months of his life and inspired by his interest in G. E. Moore’s defence of common sense, this much discussed volume collects Wittgenstein’s reflections on knowledge and certainty, on what it is to know a proposition for sure.
Table of Contents:
Notes on the Contributors ix List of Abbreviations of Works by Wittgenstein xii
Introduction 1
1 Wittgenstein’s On Certainty: The Case of the Missing Propositions 16
D.Z. Phillips
Part I The Framework Reading 31
2 Why On Certainty Matters 33
Avrum Stroll
3 Why Wittgenstein Isn’t a Foundationalist 47
Michael Williams
4 Within a System 59
Joachim Schulte
5 Unravelling Certainty 76
Danièle Moyal-Sharrock
Part II The Transcendental Reading 101
6 Wittgenstein and Classical Realism 103
H.O. Mounce
7 Wittgenstein’s ‘Kantian Solution’ 122
William H. Brenner
8 Wittgenstein, Global Scepticism and the Primacy of Practice 142
Anthony Rudd
Part III The Epistemic Reading 163
9 The Contexts of Knowing 165
Thomas Morawetz
10 Wittgenstein’s On Certainty and Contemporary Anti-scepticism 189
Duncan Pritchard
11 ‘In the Beginning was the Deed’: Wittgenstein on Knowledge and Religion 225
Michael Kober
Part IV The Therapeutic Reading 251
12 On Wittgenstein’s Response to Scepticism: The Opening of On Certainty 253
Edward Minar
13 Wittgenstein and Ethics: A Discussion with Reference to On Certainty 275
Alice Crary
14 ‘The First Shall be Last and the Last Shall be First …’: A New Reading of On Certainty 501 302
Rupert Read
References 322
Index 329
