Rhees / Phillips Wittgenstein's On Certainty

There - Like Our Life
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-470-77706-0
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 208 Seiten, E-Book

Rush Rhees, a close friend of Wittgenstein and a major interpreterof his work, shows how Wittgenstein's On Certainty concernslogic, language, and reality - topics that occupiedWittgenstein since early in his career.
* * Authoritative interpretation of Wittgenstein's last great work,On Certainty, by one of his closest friends.
* Debunks misconceptions about Wittgenstein's On Certaintyand shows that it is an essay on logic.
* Exposes the continuity in Wittgenstein's thought, and theradical character of his conclusions.
* Contains a substantial and illuminating afterword discussingcurrent scholarship surrounding On Certainty, and itsrelationship to Rhees's work on this subject.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rhees, Rush

Phillips, D. Z.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface vii
PART I THE PHILOSOPHICAL BACKGROUND TO ON CERTAINTY 1
1 On Certainty: A New Topic? 3
2 Saying and Describing 6
3 Concept-Formation 11
4 'Seeing' and 'Thinking' 16
5 Thought and Language 27
6 Picturing Reality 34
7 What Makes Language Language? 40
8 The Logical and the Empirical 44
9 On Certainty: A Work in Logic 48
PART II DISCUSSIONS OF ON CERTAINTY 53
10 Two Conversations with Wittgenstein on Moore 55
11 Preface to On Certainty 61
12 On Certainty's Main Theme 67
13 Induction 73
14 Wittgenstein's Propositions and Foundations 78
15 Language as Emerging from Instinctive Behaviour 93
16 Words and Things 106
17 Not Worth Mentioning? 111
18 Certainty and Madness 118
PREFACE
Appendix 1: Comparisons Between On Certainty andWittgenstein's Earlier Work 125
Appendix 2: Some Passages Relating to Doubt and Certainty in OnCertainty 131
Afterword: Rhees on Reading On Certainty 133
D. Z. Phillips
Notes 183
Index 192

Über Autor(innen)

Rush Rhees (1905-89) was one of Wittgenstein'sclosest friends and his literary executor. He taught at Swanseafrom 1940 to 1966. Amongst Wittgenstein's posthumous worksedited by Rhees are Remarks on the Foundations ofMathematics (1956), Blue and Brown Books (1958),Philosophical Remarks (1964), Lecture On Ethics(1965) and Philosophical Grammar (1969). Rhees is also theauthor of Discussions of Wittgenstein (1970, 1996) and Wittgensteinand the Possibility of Discourse (1998).
D. Z. Phillips is Professor of Philosophy Emeritus andRush Rhees Professor Emeritus at the University of Wales, Swansea,and Danworth Professor of the Philosophy of Religion at ClaremontGraduate School, California. He has published widely in thephilosophy of religion and ethics; some of his more recent booksinclude Interventions in Ethics (1992), Wittgenstein andReligion (1993) and Religion and the Hermeneutics ofContemplation (2001). He is also editor of the Blackwell journalPhilosophical Investigations.