Moore and Wittgenstein on Certainty - Rilegato

Stroll, Avrum

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ISBN 10: 0195084888 ISBN 13: 9780195084887

Casa editrice: OUP USA, 1994

Riassunto

Ludwig Wittgenstein's On Certainty was finished just before his death in 1951 and is a running commentary on three of G.E. Moore's greatest epistemological papers. In the early 1930s, Moore had written a lengthy commentary on Wittgenstein, anticipating some of the issues Wittgenstein would discuss in On Certainty. The philosophical relationship between these two great philosophers and their overlapping, but nevertheless differing, views is the subject of this book. Both defended the existence of certainty and thus opposed any form of scepticism. However, their defences and conceptions of certainty differed widely, as did their understanding of the nature of scepticism and how best to combat it. Stroll's book contains a careful and critical analysis of their differing approaches to a set of fundamental epistemological problems.

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Recensione:

very useful study... unique in treating Moore and Wittgenstein with equal respect./ Juliet Floyd, Boston University, The Philosophical Quarterly, April 1999.

L'autore:

Avrum Stroll is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, San Diego.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: OUP USA
• Data di pubblicazione: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0195084888
• ISBN 13: 9780195084887
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 206