On Certainty

Ludwig Wittgenstein - 1889 - 1951 - was an Austrian-British philosopher who taught at the University of Cambridge and is known as one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century. He worked in the areas of logic and the philosophy of mathematics, the mind and language. The majority of his writing was published after his death. G. E. M. Anscombe - 1919-2001 - read classics and philosophy at St. Hugh's College, Oxford from 1937 to 1941 in which year she married the philosopher Peter Geach. She subsequently researched in philosophy at Newnham College, Cambridge where she became a student and friend of Ludwig Wittgenstein. She's considered one of analytical philosophy's most prominent figures and a leader in the field of virtue ethics.

• Notes on the Contributors ix List of Abbreviations of Works by Wittgenstein xiiIntroduction 11 Wittgenstein’s On Certainty: The Case of the Missing Propositions 16 D.Z. PhillipsPart I The Framework Reading 312 Why On Certainty Matters 33Avrum Stroll3 Why Wittgenstein Isn’t a Foundationalist 47Michael Williams4 Within a System 59 Joachim Schulte5 Unravelling Certainty 76Danièle Moyal-SharrockPart II The Transcendental Reading 1016 Wittgenstein and Classical Realism 103 H.O. Mounce7 Wittgenstein’s ‘Kantian Solution’ 122William H. Brenner 8 Wittgenstein, Global Scepticism and the Primacy of Practice 142Anthony RuddPart III The Epistemic Reading 1639 The Contexts of Knowing 165Thomas Morawetz10 Wittgenstein’s On Certainty and Contemporary Anti-scepticism 189Duncan Pritchard11 ‘In the Beginning was the Deed’: Wittgenstein on Knowledge and Religion 225Michael KoberPart IV The Therapeutic Reading 25112 On Wittgenstein’s Response to Scepticism: The Opening of On Certainty 253Edward Minar13 Wittgenstein and Ethics: A Discussion with Reference to On Certainty 275Alice Crary14 ‘The First Shall be Last and the Last Shall be First …’: A New Reading of On Certainty 501 302 Rupert ReadReferences 322Index 329