Moore and Wittgenstein Scepticism, Certainty and Common Sense
by Coliva, AnnalisaFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2010-10-15
Publisher(s): Palgrave Macmillan
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Summary
Does scepticism threaten our common sense picture of the world? Does it really undermine our deep-rooted certainties? Answers to these questions are offered through a comparative study of the epistemological work of two key figures in the history of analytic philosophy, G. E. Moore and Ludwig Wittgenstein.
Author Biography
Annalisa Coliva is lecturer in philosophy at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy, and Associate Director of the Research Centre in Philosophy COGITO, Italy. Fulbright and Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, her publications include several monographs and papers in Italian and English. Her forthcoming books are Mind, Meaning and Knowledge: Themes from the Philosophy of Crispin Wright and The Self and Self-Knowledge.
Table of Contents
| Preface to the English Edition | p. vii |
| Series Editor's Foreword | p. viii |
| Acknowledgements | p. xi |
| Abbreviations of cited works | p. xiii |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| G. E. Moore: Scepticism, Certainty and Common sense | p. 13 |
| 'A defence of common sense' | p. 14 |
| 'Proof of an external world' | p. 25 |
| Malcolm: 'common sense' and 'ordinary language' | p. 28 |
| Clarke and Stroud: At the origins of contextualism | p. 37 |
| Moore and Humean scepticism: Wright's interpretation of the proof | p. 42 |
| Moore's comeback: Pryor's dogmatist interpretation | p. 44 |
| Having knowledge and being able to prove that one does | p. 47 |
| Wittgenstein: Belief, Knowledge and Certainty | p. 55 |
| The philosophical use of 'to know'. On the misleading assimilation of 'to know' and 'to believe' | p. 57 |
| The language game with 'to know' and 'I know'. A perspicuous description | p. 60 |
| The grammatical use of 'I know' | p. 74 |
| Wittgenstein and the 'assertion fallacy' | p. 90 |
| Coda. Wittgenstem and semantic contextualism | p. 100 |
| Wittgenstein: Doubts and the Nonsense of Scepticism | p. 103 |
| The language game with 'to doubt': A perspicuous description | p. 104 |
| Some philosophical consequences: Why idealism and scepticism in general are nonsensical | p. 111 |
| Two classical sceptical arguments and Wittgenstein's replies | p. 118 |
| Wittgenstein: Hinges, Certainty, World-Picture and Mythology | p. 149 |
| Only apparently empirical propositions: Examples and preliminary considerations | p. 152 |
| Propositions that characterize a method. The hinges around which all other propositions rotate | p. 161 |
| On the groundlessness of the foundations | p. 166 |
| World-picture | p. 179 |
| Different world-pictures and epistemic relativism? | p. 188 |
| Propositions that might be part of a kind of mythology | p. 203 |
| Conclusion: Moore and Wittgenstein on Epistemology and Language. A Synopsis | p. 208 |
| Truisms, hinges, common sense, world-picture and knowledge | p. 208 |
| Meaning, use and philosophical contexts | p. 209 |
| Scepticism | p. 209 |
| Certainty | p. 210 |
| Epistemic foundationalism and epistemic relativism | p. 210 |
| Notes | p. 211 |
| Bibliography | p. 234 |
| Index | p. 241 |
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