{"product_id":"wittgensteins-on-certainty-isbn-9781405134248","title":"Wittgenstein's On Certainty","description":"Rush Rhees, a close friend of Wittgenstein and a major interpreter of his work, shows how Wittgenstein's \u003ci\u003eOn Certainty\u003c\/i\u003e concerns logic, language, and reality – topics that occupied Wittgenstein since early in his career.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli style=\"list-style: none\"\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eAuthoritative interpretation of Wittgenstein's last great work, \u003ci\u003eOn Certainty\u003c\/i\u003e, by one of his closest friends.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eDebunks misconceptions about Wittgenstein's \u003ci\u003eOn Certainty\u003c\/i\u003e and shows that it is an essay on logic.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eExposes the continuity in Wittgenstein's thought, and the radical character of his conclusions.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eContains a substantial and illuminating afterword discussing current scholarship surrounding \u003ci\u003eOn Certainty\u003c\/i\u003e, and its relationship to Rhees's work on this subject.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e  \u003cp\u003ePreface vii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART I THE PHILOSOPHICAL BACKGROUND TO ON CERTAINTY 1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 On Certainty: A New Topic? 3\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Saying and Describing 6\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Concept-Formation 11\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 ‘Seeing’ and ‘Thinking’ 16\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Thought and Language 27\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Picturing Reality 34\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 What Makes Language Language? 40\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 The Logical and the Empirical 44\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 On Certainty: A Work in Logic 48\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART II DISCUSSIONS OF ON CERTAINTY 53\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Two Conversations with Wittgenstein on Moore 55\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Preface to On Certainty 61\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 On Certainty’s Main Theme 67\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 Induction 73\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 Wittgenstein’s Propositions and Foundations 78\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 Language as Emerging from Instinctive Behaviour 93\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 Words and Things 106\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 Not Worth Mentioning? 111\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 Certainty and Madness 118\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePREFACE\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendix 1: Comparisons Between On Certainty and Wittgenstein’s Earlier Work 125\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendix 2: Some Passages Relating to Doubt and Certainty in On Certainty 131\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAfterword: Rhees on Reading On Certainty 133\u003cbr\u003e D. Z. Phillips\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes 183\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 192\u003c\/p\u003e  \"This book contains illuminating remarks and a novel perspective on an important and widely discussed classic. And it has a special authority, being the work of one of the author’s best students and closest friends.\" \u003ci\u003eWilliam Brenner, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c!--end--\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This book contains two remarkable and original contributions by Rush Rhees and D. Z. Phillips to the burgeoning scholarship on Wittgenstein’s On Certainty. I recommend it strongly.\" \u003ci\u003eAvrum Stroll, University of California, San Diego\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cb\u003eRush Rhees\u003c\/b\u003e (1905–89) was one of Wittgenstein’s closest friends and his literary executor. He taught at Swansea from 1940 to 1966. Amongst Wittgenstein’s posthumous works edited by Rhees are \u003ci\u003eRemarks on the Foundations of Mathematics\u003c\/i\u003e (1956), \u003ci\u003eBlue and Brown Books\u003c\/i\u003e (1958), \u003ci\u003ePhilosophical Remarks\u003c\/i\u003e (1964), \u003ci\u003eLecture On Ethics\u003c\/i\u003e (1965) and \u003ci\u003ePhilosophical Grammar\u003c\/i\u003e (1969). Rhees is also the author of Discussions of Wittgenstein (1970, 1996) and Wittgenstein and the Possibility of Discourse (1998).\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eD. Z. Phillips\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Philosophy Emeritus and Rush Rhees Professor Emeritus at the University of Wales, Swansea, and Danworth Professor of the Philosophy of Religion at Claremont Graduate School, California. He has published widely in the philosophy of religion and ethics; some of his more recent books include \u003ci\u003eInterventions in Ethics\u003c\/i\u003e (1992), \u003ci\u003eWittgenstein and Religion\u003c\/i\u003e (1993) and Religion and the Hermeneutics of Contemplation (2001). He is also editor of the Blackwell journal \u003ci\u003ePhilosophical Investigations\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e  Even Wittgenstein’s admirers have been puzzled by his last work, \u003ci\u003eOn Certainty\u003c\/i\u003e. Some even regard it as a lapse at the end of a distinguished career, or as a late epistemological interest that remained undeveloped. Rush Rhees, a close friend of Wittgenstein and a major interpreter of his work, shows how Wittgenstein’s \u003ci\u003eOn Certainty\u003c\/i\u003e concerns logic, language and reality – topics that occupied Wittgenstein from early in his career. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e From his earliest work on the nature of propositions, to his interest in \u003ci\u003eOn Certainty\u003c\/i\u003e with the ‘sureness’ in our language-games, Wittgenstein questions ‘what it means to say something’. He emphasizes the importance not of that which cannot be questioned, but of what we do not question in our thought and action. In this book, Rhees brings out the continuity in Wittgenstein’s thought, and the radical character of his conclusions. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In explicating this text, and demonstrating its continuity with Wittgenstein’s earlier work, Rhees has done a great service that will be of profound interest to students and scholars of Wittgenstein for generations to come. Rhees’s comments are introduced by D. Z. Phillips, who writes a substantial and illuminating afterword that discusses current scholarship surrounding \u003ci\u003eOn Certainty\u003c\/i\u003e, and its relationship to Rhees’s work on this subject.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47990499803365,"sku":"NP9781405134248","price":53.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781405134248.jpg?v=1761788074","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/wittgensteins-on-certainty-isbn-9781405134248","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}