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Can Wittgenstein’s Philosophy account for Uncertainty in Introspection?

  • Pablo Hubacher Haerle
Veröffentlicht/Copyright: 3. Februar 2021
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Abstract

What happens when we are uncertain about what we want, feel or whish for? How should we understand uncertainty in introspection? This paper reconstructs and critically assess two answers to this question frequently found in the secondary literature on Wittgenstein: indecision and self-deception (Hacker 1990, 2012; Glock 1995, 1996). Such approaches seek to explain uncertainty in introspection in a way which is completely distinct from uncertainty about the ‘outer world’. I argue that in doing so these readings fail to account for the substantial role the intellect seems to play in the process of resolving such uncertainties. I then attempt to show that Wittgenstein’s remarks connecting psychological vocabulary, behaviour and public criteria (e. g. PI 2009: 580) provide alternative ways for thinking about uncertainty in introspection which allow for a substantial role of the intellect.

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Online erschienen: 2021-02-03

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Artikel in diesem Heft

  1. Front matter
  2. Titelseiten
  3. Hinweis für Leser / Note for Readers
  4. Inhalt / Table of Contents
  5. Articles
  6. Philosophische Superlative und die Maschine als Symbol
  7. The Linguistic Idealism Question: Wittgenstein’s Method and his Rejection of Realism
  8. Bilder, Klänge und Gedanken als Orientierungsfaktoren: Anhaltspunkte bei Nietzsche und Wittgenstein
  9. The Unutterable as a Mode of Utterance: Wittgenstein’s Two Remarks on “Count Eberhard’s Hawthorn” by Ludwig Uhland
  10. David Hume & Ludwig Wittgenstein: A Common Approach to Common Sense?
  11. What he could have said (but did not say) about Gödel’s second theorem: A note on Floyd-Putnam’s Wittgenstein
  12. The Interpretation of Probability in the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
  13. Can Wittgenstein’s Philosophy account for Uncertainty in Introspection?
  14. Wittgenstein and Dilthey on Scientism and Method
  15. Logischer Holismus und Wittgensteins „praktische Wende“
  16. Lectures on Religious Belief and the epistemology of disagreements
  17. Buchbesprechungen / Book Reviews
  18. Buchbesprechungen / Book Reviews
  19. John G. Gunnell: Conventional Realism and Political Inquiry. Channeling Wittgenstein. Chicago IL: University of Chicago Press 2019. 208 pages, $40.00 (Hardback), ISBN 978-0-226-66127-8
  20. Veena Das: Textures of the Ordinary. Doing Anthropology After Wittgenstein. New York, NY: Fordham University Press 2020. 432 pages, $35.00 (Paperback), ISBN 978-0-8232-8769-7
  21. Ilse Somavilla, Carl Humphries, Bożena Sieradzka-Baziur (Hrsg.): Wittgensteins Denkbewegungen (Tagebücher 1930 – 1932/1936 – 1937) aus interdisziplinärer Sicht. Innsbruck: Studienverlag 2019, 264 Seiten, 34,90 € (kartoniert), ISBN 978-3-7065-5591-3
  22. Articles
  23. Die Autorinnen und Autoren des Bandes / Authors of this Volume
  24. Bisher erschienene Bände / Previously published Volumes
https://doi.org/10.1515/witt-2021-0009

Artikel in diesem Heft

  1. Front matter
  2. Titelseiten
  3. Hinweis für Leser / Note for Readers
  4. Inhalt / Table of Contents
  5. Articles
  6. Philosophische Superlative und die Maschine als Symbol
  7. The Linguistic Idealism Question: Wittgenstein’s Method and his Rejection of Realism
  8. Bilder, Klänge und Gedanken als Orientierungsfaktoren: Anhaltspunkte bei Nietzsche und Wittgenstein
  9. The Unutterable as a Mode of Utterance: Wittgenstein’s Two Remarks on “Count Eberhard’s Hawthorn” by Ludwig Uhland
  10. David Hume & Ludwig Wittgenstein: A Common Approach to Common Sense?
  11. What he could have said (but did not say) about Gödel’s second theorem: A note on Floyd-Putnam’s Wittgenstein
  12. The Interpretation of Probability in the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
  13. Can Wittgenstein’s Philosophy account for Uncertainty in Introspection?
  14. Wittgenstein and Dilthey on Scientism and Method
  15. Logischer Holismus und Wittgensteins „praktische Wende“
  16. Lectures on Religious Belief and the epistemology of disagreements
  17. Buchbesprechungen / Book Reviews
  18. Buchbesprechungen / Book Reviews
  19. John G. Gunnell: Conventional Realism and Political Inquiry. Channeling Wittgenstein. Chicago IL: University of Chicago Press 2019. 208 pages, $40.00 (Hardback), ISBN 978-0-226-66127-8
  20. Veena Das: Textures of the Ordinary. Doing Anthropology After Wittgenstein. New York, NY: Fordham University Press 2020. 432 pages, $35.00 (Paperback), ISBN 978-0-8232-8769-7
  21. Ilse Somavilla, Carl Humphries, Bożena Sieradzka-Baziur (Hrsg.): Wittgensteins Denkbewegungen (Tagebücher 1930 – 1932/1936 – 1937) aus interdisziplinärer Sicht. Innsbruck: Studienverlag 2019, 264 Seiten, 34,90 € (kartoniert), ISBN 978-3-7065-5591-3
  22. Articles
  23. Die Autorinnen und Autoren des Bandes / Authors of this Volume
  24. Bisher erschienene Bände / Previously published Volumes
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