Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 7-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

Recognizing Targets: Wittgenstein's Exploration of a New Kind of Foundationalism in On Certainty

Recognizing Targets: Wittgenstein's Exploration of a New Kind of Foundationalism in On Certainty Bringing the views of Grayling, Moyal‐Sharrock and Stroll together, I argue that in On Certainty, Wittgenstein explores the possibility of a new kind of foundationalism. Distinguishing propositional language‐games from non‐propositional, actional certainty, Wittgenstein investigates a foundationalism sui generis. Although he does not forthrightly state, defend, or endorse what I am characterizing as a “new kind of foundationalism,” we must bear in mind that On Certainty was a collection of first draft notes written at the end of Wittgenstein's life. The work was unprogrammatic, sometimes cryptic. Yet, his exploration into areas of knowledge, certitude and doubt suggest an identifiable direction to his thoughts. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Philosophical Investigations Wiley

Recognizing Targets: Wittgenstein's Exploration of a New Kind of Foundationalism in On Certainty

Brice, Robert Greenleaf
Philosophical Investigations , Volume 32 (1) – Jan 1, 2009
Download PDF
22 pages

Loading next page...
 
/lp/wiley/recognizing-targets-wittgenstein-s-exploration-of-a-new-kind-of-96NxvZAplW

References (4)

Publisher
Wiley
Copyright
© 2009 The Author. Journal compilation © 2009 Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
ISSN
0190-0536
eISSN
1467-9205
DOI
10.1111/j.1467-9205.2008.01359.x
Publisher site
See Article on Publisher Site

Abstract

Bringing the views of Grayling, Moyal‐Sharrock and Stroll together, I argue that in On Certainty, Wittgenstein explores the possibility of a new kind of foundationalism. Distinguishing propositional language‐games from non‐propositional, actional certainty, Wittgenstein investigates a foundationalism sui generis. Although he does not forthrightly state, defend, or endorse what I am characterizing as a “new kind of foundationalism,” we must bear in mind that On Certainty was a collection of first draft notes written at the end of Wittgenstein's life. The work was unprogrammatic, sometimes cryptic. Yet, his exploration into areas of knowledge, certitude and doubt suggest an identifiable direction to his thoughts.

Journal

Philosophical Investigations – Wiley

Published: Jan 1, 2009

There are no references for this article.