Padilla Gálvez / Gaffal Doubtful Certainties

Language-Games, Forms of Life, Relativism
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-3-11-032192-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 226 Seiten

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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 of life then provide any certainty? On the other hand, do we automatically relapse into relativism once we doubt certainties? Which formal structures underlie certainty and doubt? The book is intended to answer these questions.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Padilla Gálvez, Jesús

Gaffal, Margit

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophische Logik, Argumentationstheorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sprachphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Sprachphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;CONTENTS;5
2;Doubtful Certainties Language-Games, Forms of Life, Relativism;7
3;Taking Language Games Seriously;13
4;Is there Certainty in our Form of Life?;25
5;Certainty and Forms of Life;41
6;‘Hinge Propositions’ and Radical Skepticism;53
7;Animal Logic and Transcendental Arguments: On Certainty’s two Levels of Justification;63
8;Über Gewißheit: a Textbook for Psychologists?;75
9;Wittgenstein, Pretence and Uncertainty;91
10;Was Wittgenstein a Relativist?;109
11;Language Meets and Measures Reality;121
12;Beyond Relativism: Wittgenstein’s Method of Grammatical Enquiry in Philosophical Investigations §§198-202;129
13;Russian Matters for Wittgenstein;149
14;Common Sense and Language: Wittgenstein and Gramsci;181
15;Demystifying Mysticism: Brouwer and Wittgenstein;203
16;Wittgenstein and the Future of the Mathematical Sciences;213
17;Abbreviations;225