Wittgensteinian epistemology and cartesian skepticism

Abstract

In this paper, I present and criticize a number of influential anti-skeptical strategies inspired by Wittgenstein's remarks on 'hinges'. Furthermore, I argue that, following Wittgenstein's analogy between 'hinges' and 'rules of grammar', we should be able to get rid of Cartesian skeptical scenarios as nonsensical, even if apparently intelligible, combinations of signs.