Wittgenstein on Realism and Idealism

Author:   David R. Cerbone (West Virginia University)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
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9781009475631


Pages:   80
Publication Date:   01 February 2024
Format:   Hardback
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This Element concerns Wittgenstein's evolving attitude toward the opposition between realism and idealism in philosophy. Despite the marked – and sometimes radical – changes Wittgenstein's thinking undergoes from the early to the middle to the later period, there is an underlying continuity in terms of his unwillingness at any point to endorse either position in a straightforward manner. Instead, Wittgenstein can be understood as rejecting both positions, while nonetheless seeing insights in each position worth retaining. The author traces these “neither-nor” and “both-and” strands of Wittgenstein's attitude toward realism and idealism to his – again, evolving – insistence on seeing language and thought as worldly phenomena. That thought and language are about the world and happen amidst the world they are about undermines the attempt to formulate any kind of general thesis concerning their interrelation.

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Author:   David R. Cerbone (West Virginia University)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Weight:   0.252kg
ISBN:  

9781009475631


ISBN 10:   1009475630
Pages:   80
Publication Date:   01 February 2024
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction; 2. The early Wittgenstein; 3. The middle Wittgenstein; 4. The later Wittgenstein; 5. Coda: On certainty; References.

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