On Certainty 1st Edition by Ludwig Wittgenstein, ISBN-13: 978-0631169406
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- Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell; 1st edition (January 8, 1991)
- Language: English
- 208 pages
- ISBN-10: 0631169407
- ISBN-13: 978-0631169406
Written over the last 18 months of his life and inspired by his interest in G. E. Moore’s defence of common sense, this much discussed volume collects Wittgenstein’s reflections on knowledge and certainty, on what it is to know a proposition for sure.
“The seventh volume of the Wittgenstein corpus, which contains notes written at the end of his life…. Provides a straightforward guide to the thought of this most complex of philosophers.” — “Bookseller””The volume is full of thought-provoking insights which will prove a stimulus both to further study and to scholarly disagreement.” — Alan R. White, “Philosophical Books””All students of philosophy will want to read it. What it contains is his notes on knowledge and doubt, written in the last year and a half of his life, mainly in answer to G. E. Moore’s articles on these subjects.” — “British Book News”
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) was born in Austria and studied at Cambridge under Bertrand Russell. He volunteered to serve in the Austrian army at the outbreak of World War I, and in 1918 was captured and sent to a prison camp in Italy, where he finished his masterpiece, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, one of the most important philosophical works of all time. After the war Wittgenstein eventually returned to Cambridge to teach.
G. E. M. Anscombe – 1919-2001 – read classics and philosophy at St. Hugh’s College, Oxford from 1937 to 1941 in which year she married the philosopher Peter Geach. She subsequently researched in philosophy at Newnham College, Cambridge where she became a student and friend of Ludwig Wittgenstein. She’s considered one of analytical philosophy’s most prominent figures and a leader in the field of virtue ethics.
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