Doubtful Certainties Language-Games, Forms of Life, Relativism

To what extent can we doubt certainties? How are certainties expressed in words? Which language games convey certainty? To answer these questions we have to recall the method Wittgenstein used in his investigations. When we look at language games and forms of life as inseparable phenomena, do forms...

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Autor principal: Gaffal, Margit (-)
Otros Autores: Gálvez, Jesús Padilla
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin : De Gruyter 2012.
Colección:Aporia.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Doubtful Certainties Language-Games, Forms of Life, Relativism; Taking Language Games Seriously; Is there Certainty in our Form of Life?; Certainty and Forms of Life; 'Hinge Propositions' and Radical Skepticism; Animal Logic and Transcendental Arguments: On Certainty's two Levels of Justification; Über Gewissheit: a Textbook for Psychologists?; Wittgenstein, Pretence and Uncertainty; Was Wittgenstein a Relativist?; Language Meets and Measures Reality; Beyond Relativism: Wittgenstein's Method of Grammatical Enquiry in Philosophical Investigations 198-202.
  • Russian Matters for WittgensteinCommon Sense and Language: Wittgenstein and Gramsci; Demystifying Mysticism: Brouwer and Wittgenstein; Wittgenstein and the Future of the Mathematical Sciences; Abbreviations.