Wittgenstein's On certainty : insight and method / Robert Greenleaf Brice.
Brice, Robert Greenleaf, author.
2022
B3376.W564 B75 2022
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Title Wittgenstein's On certainty : insight and method / Robert Greenleaf Brice.
Author Brice, Robert Greenleaf, author.
ISBN 9783030907815 (electronic bk.)
3030907813 (electronic bk.)
9783030907839
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-90781-5
Published Cham : Springer, [2022]
Copyright ©2022
Language English
Description 1 online resource.
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-030-90781-5 doi
Call Number B3376.W564 B75 2022
Dewey Decimal Classification 192
Summary This book considers the important twentieth century Austrian philosopher, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and his conception of certainty. In his work entitled On Certainty, Wittgenstein provides not only a brilliant solution to a previously intractable philosophical problem, but also the elements of an entirely new way of approaching this and similar longstanding, apparently unresolvable, problems. In On Certainty, he re-conceives the problem of radical skepticismthe claim that we can never really be certain of anything except the contents of our own mindsas a kind of philosophical "disease" of thought. His approach to the problem, which is emphasized in the book, is similar to the treatment of disease, has two main goals: (1) bring about an awareness in the philosopher that this kind of extreme skepticism is not a methodological approach to be taken seriously, and, with this awareness, (2) an attempt to replace this radical skepticism with a practical, Common Sense framework. Implicit in Wittgensteins approach are a number of strategies found in a contemporary approach to psychotherapy known as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). These strategies, along with philosophical methods and scientific practices rooted in the Scottish School of Common Sense, seek to diagnose and treat irrational thoughts and beliefs that often emerge (and re-emerge) in the discipline of philosophy. The aim of this book, then, is to provide students of philosophy with the tools necessary to adjust and reshape these irrational, self-defeating thoughts and beliefs into something new, something healthy.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Series SpringerBriefs in philosophy. 2211-4556
Available in Other Form Wittgenstein's on Certainty: Insight and Method
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On Certainty: Scholarship, Development, and Placement
Philosophical Therapy
Background to On Certainty
Philosophical Therapy: A Cure for Our "Philosophical Disease"
Knowledge and Belief
Language-Game of Knowledge, Hinge-Propositions, & Actional Certitude
Therapeutic Philosophy: "A Quite Different Method"
Appendix
Index.

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