Ludwig Wittgenstein - 1889 - 1951 - was an Austrian-British philosopher who taught at the University of Cambridge and is known as one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century. He worked in the areas of logic and the philosophy of mathematics, the mind and language. The majority of his writing was published after his death.

G. E. M. Anscombe - 1919-2001 - read classics and philosophy at St. Hugh's College, Oxford from 1937 to 1941 in which year she married the philosopher Peter Geach. She subsequently researched in philosophy at Newnham College, Cambridge where she became a student and friend of Ludwig Wittgenstein. She's considered one of analytical philosophy's most prominent figures and a leader in the field of virtue ethics.

List of Abbreviations of Works by Wittgenstein xii

Introduction 1

1 Wittgenstein's On Certainty: The Case of the Missing Propositions 16
D.Z. Phillips

Part I The Framework Reading 31

2 Why On Certainty Matters 33
Avrum Stroll

3 Why Wittgenstein Isn't a Foundationalist 47
Michael Williams

4 Within a System 59
Joachim Schulte

5 Unravelling Certainty 76
Danièle Moyal-Sharrock

Part II The Transcendental Reading 101

6 Wittgenstein and Classical Realism 103
H.O. Mounce

7 Wittgenstein's 'Kantian Solution' 122
William H. Brenner

8 Wittgenstein, Global Scepticism and the Primacy of Practice 142
Anthony Rudd

Part III The Epistemic Reading 163

9 The Contexts of Knowing 165
Thomas Morawetz

10 Wittgenstein's On Certainty and Contemporary Anti-scepticism 189
Duncan Pritchard

11 'In the Beginning was the Deed': Wittgenstein on Knowledge and Religion 225
Michael Kober

Part IV The Therapeutic Reading 251

12 On Wittgenstein's Response to Scepticism: The Opening of On Certainty 253
Edward Minar

13 Wittgenstein and Ethics: A Discussion with Reference to On Certainty 275
Alice Crary

14 'The First Shall be Last and the Last Shall be First ...': A New Reading of On Certainty 501 302
Rupert Read

References 322

Index 329