On Certainty

Notes on the Contributors ix List of Abbreviations of Works by Wittgenstein xii Introduction 1 1 Wittgenstein’s On Certainty: The Case of the Missing Propositions 16 D.Z. Phillips Part I The Framework Reading 31 2 Why On Certainty Matters 33 Avrum Stroll 3 Why Wittgenstein Isn’t a Foundationalist 47 Michael Williams 4 Within a System 59 Joachim Schulte 5 Unravelling Certainty 76 Danièle Moyal-Sharrock Part II The Transcendental Reading 101 6 Wittgenstein and Classical Realism 103 H.O. Mounce 7 Wittgenstein’s ‘Kantian Solution’ 122 William H. Brenner 8 Wittgenstein, Global Scepticism and the Primacy of Practice 142 Anthony Rudd Part III The Epistemic Reading 163 9 The Contexts of Knowing 165 Thomas Morawetz 10 Wittgenstein’s On Certainty and Contemporary Anti-scepticism 189 Duncan Pritchard 11 ‘In the Beginning was the Deed’: Wittgenstein on Knowledge and Religion 225 Michael Kober Part IV The Therapeutic Reading 251 12 On Wittgenstein’s Response to Scepticism: The Opening of On Certainty 253 Edward Minar 13 Wittgenstein and Ethics: A Discussion with Reference to On Certainty 275 Alice Crary 14 ‘The First Shall be Last and the Last Shall be First …’: A New Reading of On Certainty 501 302 Rupert Read References 322 Index 329