Moore and Wittgenstein

Abstract

Wittgenstein's "On Certainty" written in the eighteen months before his death in 1951 is a running commentary on papers written by Moore between 1925 and 1941. Both philosophers defended the existence of certainty but in strikingly different ways. Their analyses and rejections of scepticism thus also differ. In this book Avrum Stroll discusses their differing approaches to a set of fundamental epistemological problems and extends their accounts to current issues in cognitive science and the philosophy of mind.