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Moore and Wittgenstein on certainty by Avrum Stroll is a philosophy book available to read on EtoBox.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein's <em>On Certainty</em> 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 <em>On Certainty</em>. The philosophical relationship between these two great philosophers and their overlapping, but nevertheless differing, views is the subject of this book. Both defended the existence of certainty and thus opposed any form of skepticism. However, their defenses and conceptions of certainty differed widely, as did their understanding of the nature of skepticism and how best to combat it. Stroll's book contains a careful and critical analysis of their differing approaches to a set of fundamental epistemological problems.

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Author

Avrum Stroll

Publisher

IRL Press at Oxford University Press

Published

1994

Language

EN

ISBN

9786610527007

Category

philosophy

Subjects

Philosophy, Anthropology, Humanities

Rating

3.88 / 5 (8 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14