Wittgensteinian Anti-Scepticism and Epistemic Vertigo

Cameron Boult, Duncan Pritchard*

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We offer an overview of what we take to be the main themes in Annalisa Coliva's book, Moore and Wittgenstein: Scepticism, Certainty and Common Sense. In particular, we focus on the 'framework reading' that she offers of Wittgenstein's On Certainty and its anti-sceptical implications. While broadly agreeing with the proposal that Coliva puts forward on this score, we do suggest one important supplementation to the view-viz., that this way of dealing with radical scepticism needs to be augmented with an account of the meta-sceptical problem which this proposal generates, which we call epistemic vertigo.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)27-35
Number of pages9
JournalPhilosophia
Volume41
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Mar 2013

Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)

  • Moore, G. E.
  • Reasons
  • Scepticism
  • Wittgenstein

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