Machine generated contents note: 11. Beyond Hacker's Wittgenstein. 1. Wittgenstein's Grammar: Through Thick and Thin -- 2. Universal Grammar: Wittgenstein versus Chomsky -- 3. Words as Deeds': Wittgenstein's `Spontaneous Utterances' and the Dissolution of the Explanatory Gap -- 4. Literature as the Measure of our Lives -- pt. 2 Mind -- 5. From Deed to Word: Gapless and Kink-Free Enactivism -- 6. Wittgenstein and the Memory Debate -- 7. Wittgenstein on Psychological Certainty -- pt. 3 Epistemology -- 8. Wittgenstein on Knowledge and Certainty -- 9. Too Cavellian a Wittgenstein: Wittgenstein's Certainty, Cavell's Scepticism -- 10. Fighting Relativism: Wittgenstein and Kuhn -- 11. Beyond Hacker's Wittgenstein.
Summary:
"Meaning, believing, thinking, understanding, reasoning, calculating, learning, remembering, intending, expecting, loving, longing: these experiences are, according to Wittgenstein, embodied actions. In Certainty in Action, Daniele Moyal-Sharrock argues that there is hardly anything traditionally thought to be a mental process or state, that, in fact, Ludwig Wittgenstein has not shown to be primarily embodied or enacted. The book traces the radical, diverse and recurrent importance of action and 'ways of acting' as the original and cohesive thread weaving through all of Wittgenstein's philosophy, especially language and memory. Moyal-Sharrock highlights throughout Wittgenstein's clarification of 'the inner' and his belief in the certainty of action. With Wittgenstein's philosophy increasingly influencing multiple branches of psychology, particularly those concerned with child development, language acquisition and memory, Certainty in Action is essential reading for students and researchers interested in the philosophy underpinning these areas, as well as Wittgenstein specialists"-- Provided by publisher.
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