Exploring Certainty - Wittgenstein and Wide Fields of Thought

Exploring Certainty: Wittgenstein and Wide Fields of Thought considers how, where, and to what extent the thoughts and ideas found in Wittgenstein's On Certainty can be applied to other areas of thought, including: ethics, aesthetics, religious belief, mathematics, cognitive science, and political theory. Robert Greenleaf Brice opens new avenues of thought for scholars and students of the Wittgensteinian tradition, while introducing original philosophies about human knowledge and cognition.

List of contents

Introduction: "Wide Fields of Thought"
Chapter 1: Common Sense Propositions: Moore and Wittgenstein
Chapter 2: Recognizing Targets
Chapter 3: Mistakes and Mental Disturbances: Pleasants, Wittgenstein, and Basic Moral Certainty
Chapter 4: "Aesthetic Scaffolding": Hagberg and Wittgensteinian Certitude
Chapter 5: "Hinge Propositions," Actional Certainty, and Religious Belief
Chapter 6: "The Whole Hurly-Burly": Wittgenstein, Language, and Embodied Cognition
Chapter 7: The Peculiar Inexorability of Mathematics: Wittgenstein and Mathematical Certainty
Chapter 8: Exceeding A Different Scope: Wittgenstein's Political Views
Chapter 9: "A Sketch of the Landscape"

About the author

By Robert Greenleaf Brice

Product details

• Authors: Robert Greenleaf Brice, Robert Greenleaf Brice
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2017
• EAN: 9781498556491
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-5649-1
• No. of pages: 132
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Philosophy of Language, PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Logic, PHILOSOPHY / Language, Philosophy of Mind, PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, Ethics & moral philosophy, Philosophy: aesthetics, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Philosophy: logic