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Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Wittgenstein and On Certainty LudwigWittgensteinisarguablythemostimportantphilosopherofthetwentiethcen- tury.InOnCertaintyhediscussescentralissuesinepistemology,includingthenature of knowledge and scepticism. The Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Wittgenstein andOnCertaintyintroducesandassesses: (cid:1) Wittgenstein’scareerandthebackgroundtohislaterphilosophy (cid:1) thecentralideasandtextofOnCertainty,includingitsresponsestoG.E.Moore anddiscussionoffundamentalissuesinthetheoryofknowledge (cid:1) Wittgenstein’scontinuingimportanceincontemporaryphilosophy. This Guidebook is essential reading for all students of Wittgenstein, and for those studying epistemology and philosophy of language. On Certainty, Wittgenstein’s finalwork,addressesacategoryof“world-picture”propositionsdiscoveredbyG.E. Moore. These challenge Wittgenstein's enduring commitment to a well-defined category of empirical propositions, and help to generate a critique of scepticism. Developing Wittgenstein’s view that scepticism is self-undermining, the Guidebook offersacombativeyettherapeutic interpretationthatlocatesOnCertaintybetween thestandpointsofKantandHume. AndyHamiltonteachesphilosophyattheUniversityofDurham,UK.Hismonographs include Aesthetics and Music (2007), Lee Konitz (2007) and The Self in Question: Memory, the Body and Self-Consciousness (2013). He also teaches aesthetics and historyofjazzatDurham,andcontributestoTheWiremagazine. 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Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthisbookmaybereprintedorreproducedorutilised inanyformorbyanyelectronic,mechanical,orothermeans,nowknownor hereafterinvented,includingphotocopyingandrecording,orinanyinformation storageorretrievalsystem,withoutpermissioninwritingfromthepublishers. Trademarknotice:Productorcorporatenamesmaybetrademarksorregistered trademarks,andareusedonlyforidentificationandexplanationwithoutintentto infringe. BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationData AcataloguerecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary LibraryofCongressCataloginginPublicationData Hamilton,Andy,1957– RoutledgephilosophyguidebooktoWittgensteinandoncertainty/ AndyHamilton.–1[edition]. pagescm.–(Routledgephilosophyguidebooks) Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. 1.Wittgenstein,Ludwig,1889-1951.ÜberGewissheit.2.Certainty.3.Moore,G.E. (GeorgeEdward),1873–1958.I.Title. B3376.W563U3282014 192–dc23 2014011186 ISBN:978-0-415-45075-1(hbk) ISBN:978-0-415-45076-8(pbk) ISBN:978-1-315-77176-2(ebk) TypesetinGaramond byTaylor&FrancisBooks – – To E.J. Lowe (1950 2014) mentor, friend, metaphysician and secret admirer of Wittgenstein This page intentionally left blank C ONTENTS Preface xiv List of abbreviations xx 1 Wittgenstein’s philosophical development and method 1 1.1 The themes of On Certainty 1 1.2 Wittgenstein’s philosophical development 8 1.3 Wittgenstein’s rejection of metaphysics: the clarificatory or therapeutic method 9 1.4 Wittgenstein’s originality, and the question of a distinct final period 17 2 Enduring Wittgensteinian motifs in On Certainty 23 2.1 “It is only in use that the proposition has its sense” 24 2.2 Language-games and forms of life 27 2.3 Agreement in judgments (1): expanded notion of logic 30
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