Andy Hamilton

Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Wittgenstein and On Certainty

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Produktbeschreibung

This Guidebook introduces and assesses Wittgenstein's On Certainty, explaining its central theme concerning the refutation of sceptisim and the nature of the theory of knowledge.

Produktdetails

• Routledge Philosophy GuideBooks
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 130mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 422g
• ISBN-13: 9780415450768
• ISBN-10: 0415450764
• Artikelnr.: 25684930

Autorenporträt

Andy Hamilton teaches Philosophy at Durham University, UK. His books 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 history of jazz at Durham, and contributes to The Wire magazine.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Wittgenstein's philosophical development 2. Enduring Wittgensteinian
motifs in On Certainty 3. Reading On Certainty: text and work 4. Synopsis
of On Certainty 5. Moorean common sense 6. Wittgenstein's account of
Moorean propositions 7. Wittgenstein's idea of a "world-picture" 8. On
Certainty in the context of 20th century epistemology 9. Moore's "proof of
an external world" 10. Responses to scepticism: arguments against moore 11.
Responses to scepticism: arguments against the sceptic 12. Interpreting On
Certainty 13. Wittgensteinian Kantianism versus Wittgensteinan naturalism
14. Influence and implications. Index