Wittgenstein's on Certainty: Insight and Method

By Robert Greenleaf Brice

1 On Certainty: Scholarship, Development, and Placement............................

1.1 Can We Know Anything With Certainty?..................................................

1.2 The 3 Phases of On Certainty Scholarship......................................

1.3 How On Certainty Came to be Written..........................................

1.4 Where On Certainty Fits in the Canon...........................................

1.5 Resisting Our "Natural Biases"...................................................

1.6 Wittgenstein's Therapeutic Approach & Scholarship..........................

References.......................................................................................

2 Philosophical Therapy....................................................

2.1 What is Philosophical Therapy?..................................................................

2.2 Tracing the Roots of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)..................

2.3 Possible Criticisms & Replies.....................................................

2.4 Challenges of the Method.........................................................

References.......................................................................................

3 Background to On Certainty................................................................

3.1 Descartes, Moore, and Wittgenstein..............................................

3.2 Descartes and the Problem of Skepticism........................................

3.3 Moore's Common Sense Reply to Cartesian Skepticism......................

3.4 Problems in Moore's "Proof Of An External World"...........................

3.5 Wittgenstein's Therapeutic Conception of Philosophy.........................

References.......................................................................................

4 Philosophical Therapy: A Cure for Our "Philosophical Disease"..................

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 303090783X
• ISBN13: 9783030907839
• Release Date: February 2022
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"