Overview
- An accessible guidebook to the themes and arguments presented in On Certainty
- Takes into account the historical context and the philosophical topics explored by Wittgenstein
- Provides close and careful scrutiny of individual parts, sections, and statements of this important philosophical work
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Philosophy (BRIEFSPHILOSOPH)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
In his work entitled On Certainty, Wittgenstein provides not only a brilliant solution to a previously intractable philosophical problem, but also the elements of an entirely new way of approaching this and similar longstanding, apparently unresolvable, problems. In On Certainty, he re-conceives the problem of radical skepticism–the claim that we can never really be certain of anything except the contents of our own minds–as a kind of philosophical “disease” of thought. His approach to the problem, which is emphasized in the book, is similar to the treatment of disease, has two main goals: (1) bring about an awareness in the philosopher that this kind of extreme skepticism is not a methodological approach to be taken seriously, and, with this awareness, (2) an attempt to replace this radical skepticism with a practical, Common Sense framework. Implicit in Wittgenstein’s approach are a number of strategies found in a contemporary approach to psychotherapy known as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). These strategies, along with philosophical methods and scientific practices rooted in the Scottish School of Common Sense, seek to diagnose and treat irrational thoughts and beliefs that often emerge (and re-emerge) in the discipline of philosophy.
The aim of this book, then, is to provide students of philosophy with the tools necessary to adjust and reshape these irrational, self-defeating thoughts and beliefs into something new, something healthy.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Robert Greenleaf Brice is a Full-Time Lecturer in the Philosophy Program at Northern Kentucky University. He studied philosophy as an undergraduate at the University of Houston and received his Ph.D. in philosophy from Michigan State University. He has published a number of articles on Wittgenstein’s application of certainty. He is also the author of Exploring Certainty: Wittgenstein and Wide Fields of Thought.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Wittgenstein's On Certainty: Insight and Method
Authors: Robert Greenleaf Brice
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Philosophy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-90781-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-90783-9Published: 02 February 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-90781-5Published: 01 February 2022
Series ISSN: 2211-4548
Series E-ISSN: 2211-4556
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 104
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Epistemology, Language History, Mathematical Logic and Foundations, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Language