Wittgenstein and Scepticism by McManus, Denis -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Page Title Page Copyright Page Contributors Introduction

I II III IV Notes

1: Wittgensteinian Certainties

1 Moore's ‘Proof’ and scepticism 2 Norms of enquiry 3 Other ‘hinges’ 4 Scepticism unhinged? 5 Towards an entitlement Notes

2: Scepticism and Pragmatism

I II III Notes

3: Wittgenstein’s Refutation of Idealism

1 Wittgenstein’s argument: the problem phase 2 The diagnostic phase 3 The therapeutic phase 4 The diagnosis completed Notes

4: Varieties of Scepticism

5: Solipsism and Scepticism in the Tractatus

1 Some textual clues 2 Knowledge, intelligibility and con-formity 3 Wittgenstein on signs, symbols and intelligibility as con-formity 4 Doesn't the subject bind language to the world? 5 Learning symbols 6 Is solipsism a solution to the puzzle? 7 Internal relations and the ladder to be thrown away 8 Illusions of possible explanation and an internal relatedness of names and objects 9 Solipsism, internal relations and the sign/symbol hybrid 10 A therapeutic response to scepticism 11 Concluding remarks Notes

6: Wittgenstein and the Question of Linguistic Idealism

1 What is linguistic idealism? 2 Realism and nominalism as forms of linguistic realism and idealism 3 Wittgenstein and Kant on the limits of empiricism 4 Language and the human world 5 Summing up Notes

7 What are Psychological Concepts For?

1 Introduction 2 Rationality, prediction and eliminativism 3 An avenue of escape? 4 Another argument for eliminativism 5 A two-element conception of rationality 6 Prediction, discussion and excuse 7 Eliminativism again Notes

1 Philosophy as theory 2 Therapy as the dissolution of sceptical doubt 3 Therapy as a paradoxical reinterpretation of sceptical doubt 4 The reason for scepticism 5 Philosophy and scepticism Notes

9: Living With the Problem of the Other: Wittgenstein, Cavell and other minds scepticism

1 Cavellian themes 2 The contours of other minds scepticism 3 The failure of scepticism: the ‘gap argument’ 4 The failure of other minds scepticism: the failure to find a best case 5 The truth in scepticism again: attitudes and acknowledgement 6 Living our scepticism: the question of motivation 7 Scepticism and tragedy Notes

10: The Everyday Alternative to Scepticism: Cavell and Wittgenstein on other minds

I II III IV V VI VII VIII IX Notes

11: Scepticism and Tragedy: Crossing Shakespeare with Descartes

1 Introduction 2 Locke's Essay and readings of Shakespeare 3 Montaigne's Pyrrhonian scepticism 4 Wittgenstein and scepticism Notes

12: Reply to Four Chapters

Notes

Bibliography

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