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This book sheds unprecedented light on Wittgenstein's third masterpiece, On Certainty , clarifying his thoughts on basic beliefs and rebuttal of scepticism. As an introduction and commentary on Wittgenstein's final major philosophical work, Moyal-Sharrock's book will prove an indispensable guide to the student, scholar and general reader.
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Danièle Moyal-Sharrock’s Understanding Wittgenstein’s On Certainty was the first book to offer a serious systematic treatment of Wittgenstein’s posthumously published final notes On Certainty.
As well as giving rise to the notion of a ‘Third Wittgenstein’, whose thoughts have moved beyond both his first book (Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus) and his second work (Philosophical Investigations), Moyal-Sharrock’s groundbreaking work paved the way for Hinge Epistemology.
Based on Wittgenstein’s metaphor of a hinge for those ungrounded underpinnings of knowledge (without which we could not even have any true or false beliefs), this school of thought has brought Wittgenstein back…
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