Moore and Wittgenstein on Certainty
Ludwig Wittgenstein's On Certainty was finished just before his death in 1951 and is a running commentary on three of G.E. Moore's greatest epistemological papers. In the early 1930s, Moore had written a lengthy commentary on Wittgenstein, anticipating some of the issues Wittgenstein would discuss in On Certainty. The philosophical relationship between these two great philosophers and their overlapping, but nevertheless differing, views is the subject of this book. Both defended the existence of certainty and thus opposed any form of skepticism. However, their defenses and conceptions of certainty differed widely, as did their understanding of the nature of skepticism and how best to combat it. Stroll's book contains a careful and critical analysis of their differing approaches to a set of fundamental epistemological problems.
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Moore and Wittgenstein on Certainty
Ludwig Wittgenstein's On Certainty was finished just before his death in 1951 and is a running commentary on three of G.E. Moore's greatest epistemological papers. In the early 1930s, Moore had written a lengthy commentary on Wittgenstein, anticipating some of the issues Wittgenstein would discuss in On Certainty. The philosophical relationship between these two great philosophers and their overlapping, but nevertheless differing, views is the subject of this book. Both defended the existence of certainty and thus opposed any form of skepticism. However, their defenses and conceptions of certainty differed widely, as did their understanding of the nature of skepticism and how best to combat it. Stroll's book contains a careful and critical analysis of their differing approaches to a set of fundamental epistemological problems.
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Moore and Wittgenstein on Certainty

Moore and Wittgenstein on Certainty

by Avrum Stroll
Moore and Wittgenstein on Certainty

Moore and Wittgenstein on Certainty

by Avrum Stroll

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Ludwig Wittgenstein's On Certainty was finished just before his death in 1951 and is a running commentary on three of G.E. Moore's greatest epistemological papers. In the early 1930s, Moore had written a lengthy commentary on Wittgenstein, anticipating some of the issues Wittgenstein would discuss in On Certainty. The philosophical relationship between these two great philosophers and their overlapping, but nevertheless differing, views is the subject of this book. Both defended the existence of certainty and thus opposed any form of skepticism. However, their defenses and conceptions of certainty differed widely, as did their understanding of the nature of skepticism and how best to combat it. Stroll's book contains a careful and critical analysis of their differing approaches to a set of fundamental epistemological problems.

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ISBN-13: 9780195359138
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 02/03/1994
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 364 KB

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University of California, San Diego

Table of Contents

1.Why Moore and Wittgenstein?3
2.Is There Such a Thing as Certainty?20
3.Moore28
4.Moore's Strategy40
5.Moore's Proof of an External World55
6.Finding the Beginning79
7.The Oddity of Moore's Proof97
8.Dreaming, Knowing, Doubting119
9.Wittgenstein's Foundationalism138
10.Folk Theory, Standing Fast, and Scepticism160
Bibliography183
Index187
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