Doubtful Certainties: Language-Games, Forms of Life, Relativism

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Doubtful Certainties

Language-Games, Forms of Life, Relativism

Edited by: Jesús Padilla Gálvez and Margit Gaffal

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2012

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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.

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CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Doubtful Certainties Language-Games, Forms of Life, Relativism Jesús PADILLA GÁLVEZ and Margit GAFFAL Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	7
Taking Language Games Seriously André MAURY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	13
Is there Certainty in our Form of Life? Jesús PADILLA GÁLVEZ Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	25
Certainty and Forms of Life Inês SALGUEIRO Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	41
‘Hinge Propositions’ and Radical Skepticism Nicola CLAUDIO SALVATORE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	53
Animal Logic and Transcendental Arguments: On Certainty’s two Levels of Justification Modesto M. GÓMEZ ALONSO Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	63
Über Gewißheit: a Textbook for Psychologists? Michel LE DU Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	75
Wittgenstein, Pretence and Uncertainty Livia ANDREIA JURESCHI Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	91
Was Wittgenstein a Relativist? Margit GAFFAL Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	109
Language Meets and Measures Reality Jakub MÁCHA Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	121
Beyond Relativism: Wittgenstein’s Method of Grammatical Enquiry in Philosophical Investigations §§198-202 Sebastian GRÈVE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	129
Russian Matters for Wittgenstein Niamh O’MAHONY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	149
Common Sense and Language: Wittgenstein and Gramsci Norberto ABREU E SILVA NETO Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	181
Demystifying Mysticism: Brouwer and Wittgenstein Nuno VENTURINHA Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	203
Wittgenstein and the Future of the Mathematical Sciences Arthur GIBSON Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	213
Abbreviations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	225

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May 2, 2013

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December 15, 2012

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226

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110321920

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Philosophie; Sprachphilosophie; Wittgenstein

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