Exploring certainty : Wittgenstein and wide fields of thought / / Robert Greenleaf Brice

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910816349603321
• Autore: Brice Robert Greenleaf
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , 2014; ©2014
• ISBN: 0-7391-7567-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (133 p.)
• Disciplina: 121/.63
• Soggetti: Certainty
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Common Sense Propositions; 2 Recognizing Targets; 3 Mistakes and Mental Disturbances; 4 "Aesthetic Scaffolding"; 5 "Hinge Propositions"; 6 "The Whole Hurly-Burly"; 7 The Peculiar Inexorability of Mathematics; 8 Exceeding a Different Scope; 9 "A Sketch of the Landscape"; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Exploring Certainty: Wittgenstein and Wide Fields of Thought considers how, where, and to what extent the thoughts and ideas found in Wittgenstein's On Certainty can be applied to other areas of thought, including: ethics, aesthetics, religious belief, mathematics, cognitive science, and political theory. Robert Greenleaf Brice opens new avenues of thought for scholars and students of the Wittgensteinian tradition, while introducing original philosophies about human knowledge and cognit