Wittgenstein and Moyal-Sharrock on Hinge Certainties.
Wittgenstein claimed that the things that we cannot talk about were actually more important than the things we can say. In fact Wittgenstein once said, “My work consists of two parts; the one presented here plus all that I have not written. And it is precisely this second part that is the more important one”.
Ludwig Wittgenstein's On Certainty was finished just before his death in 1951 and is a running commentary on three of G.E. Moore's greatest epistemological papers. In the early 1930s, Moore had written a lengthy commentary on Wittgenstein, anticipating some of the issues Wittgenstein would discuss in On Certainty. The philosophical relationship.
Philosophy Faculty Reading List and Course Outline 2019-2020. Part II Paper 09: Wittgenstein. Syllabus. Tractatus. Philosophical Investigations. On Certainty. Study of the following topics is also included: the development throughout Wittgenstein's work of his views on solipsism and the self, and the nature of philosophy. Course Outline.
Wittgenstein Tractatus Analysis. Why does Wittgenstein think that sentences can be analysed into simple signs and the world into simple objects? How are the linguistic and ontological aspects of his thinking about this topic interlinked? 2.0201, 3.2ff. especially 3.24-3.261 (the analysis of language). 1, 2, 2.02-2.0203 (the analysis of the world).
On the surface, Wittgenstein deals with matters concerning the incorrect use of philosophical language and Kierkegaard focuses almost exclusively on answering the question 'how to become a Christian'. But this account belies deeper structural similarities between these men's important works.
Wittgenstein's conceptions of doubt, certainty and knowledge, his persistent conflation throughout OC of contingent propositions with those he identifies as 'grammatical' propositions, and his revealing conflation of scepticism with idealism, are central to understanding the themes of OC, and I discuss them in their due places, concluding with an overall evaluation.
A suggested list of literary criticism on Ludwig Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations. The listed critical essays and books will be invaluable for writing essays and papers on Philosophical Investigations.