The Threat of Solipsism : : Wittgenstein and Cavell on Meaning, Skepticism, and Finitude / / Jônadas Techio.

Much attention has been paid to Wittgenstein’s treatment of solipsism and to Cavell’s treatment of skepticism. But comparatively little has been made of the striking connections between the early Wittgenstein’s view on the truth of solipsism and Cavell’s view on the truth of skepticism, and how that...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2021
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2020]
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Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Berlin Studies in Knowledge Research , 16
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Physical Description:1 online resource (XIV, 210 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • 1. Solipsism and the limits of sense in the Tractatus Logico- Philosophicus
  • 2. Solipsism and method in the Philosophical Remarks
  • 3. Solipsism, privacy, and the grammar of the first person in The Blue Book
  • 4. The threat of privacy in the Philosophical Investigations: Cavell and Kripke on skepticism about meaning
  • 5. Seeing souls: Wittgenstein and Cavell on skepticism about other minds
  • 6. Taking skepticism seriously: Stroud and Cavell
  • 7. Skepticism, perfectionism, and the limits of morality
  • References
  • Index of subjects
  • Index of names