Readings of Wittgenstein’s On Certainty

ALICE CRARY Assistant Professor of Philosophy, New School University, New York, USAMICHAEL KOBER Visiting Professor, Humboldt-Studienzentrum, University of Ulm, GERMANYEDWARD MINAR Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Arkansas, USATHOMAS MORAWETZ Tapping Reeve Professor of Law and Ethics, University of Connecticut School of Law, USAHOWARD O. MOUNCE Honorary Fellow, University of Wales, Swansea, UKD. Z. PHILLIPS formerly Danforth Professor of Philosophy of Religion, Claremont Graduate University, USADUNCAN PRITCHARD Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Stirling, UKRUPERT READ Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UKANTHONY RUDD Professor of Philosophy, St Olaf College, Minnesota, USAJOACHIM SCHULTE Lecturer, University of Bielefeld, GERMANYAVRUM STROLL Research Professor, University of California, San Diego, USAMICHAEL WILLIAMS Krieger-Eisenhower Professor, John Hopkins University, USA

• Notes on the Contributors Introduction PART I: THE FRAMEWORK READING Wittgenstein's On Certainty : The Case of the Missing Propositions; D.Z.Phillips Why On Certainty Matters; A.Stroll Why Wittgenstein Isn't a Foundationalist; M.Williams Within a System; J.Schulte Unravelling Certainty; D.Moyal-Sharrock PART II: THE TRANSCENDENTAL READING Wittgenstein and Classical Realism; H.O.Mounce Wittgenstein's 'Kantian Solution'; W.H.Brenner Wittgenstein, Global Skepticism, and the Primacy of Practice; A.Rudd PART III: THE EPISTEMIC READING The Contexts of Knowing; T.Morawetz Wittgenstein's On Certainty and Contemporary Anti-Scepticism; D.H.Pritchard 'In the beginning was the deed': Wittgenstein on Knowledge and Religion; M.Kober PART IV: THE THERAPEUTIC READING On Wittgenstein's Response to Skepticism: The Opening of On Certainty ; E.Minar Wittgenstein and Ethics: A Discussion with Reference to On Certainty ; A.Crary 'The First Shall Be Last and the Last Shall Be First...': A New Reading of On Certainty ; R.Read Bibliography Index

'...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