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.

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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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

Reviews

'...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

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ISBN 9780230535527
Author D. Moyal-Sharrock
Format Paperback
Page Count 334
Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan