Danièle Moyal-Sharrock

Bio: Danièle Moyal-Sharrock is an academic researcher from University of Hertfordshire. The author has contributed to research in topics: Certainty & Skepticism. The author has an hindex of 11, co-authored 42 publications receiving 660 citations. Previous affiliations of Danièle Moyal-Sharrock include University of Edinburgh & University of Geneva.

Understanding Wittgenstein's On Certainty

Abstract: Introduction Objective Certainty vs. Knowledge The Nonpropositionality of Some 'Propositions' Objective Certainty and Objective Certainties The Features of Hinges Types and Origins of Hinges Linguistic and Personal Hinges Local and Universal Hinges Objective Certainty vs. Scepticism Certainty as Trust: Belief as a Nonpropositional Attitude Conclusion: No Gap to Mind Endnotes Bibliography

Readings of Wittgenstein's On certainty

Abstract: Notes on the Contributors Introduction PART I: THE FRAMEWORK READING Wittgenstein's On Certainty : The Case of the Missing Propositions D.Z.Phillips Why On Certainty Matters A.Stroll Why Wittgenstein Isn't a Foundationalist M.Williams Within a System J.Schulte Unravelling Certainty D.Moyal-Sharrock PART II: THE TRANSCENDENTAL READING Wittgenstein and Classical Realism H.O.Mounce Wittgenstein's 'Kantian Solution' W.H.Brenner Wittgenstein, Global Skepticism, and the Primacy of Practice A.Rudd PART III: THE EPISTEMIC READING The Contexts of Knowing T.Morawetz Wittgenstein's On Certainty and Contemporary Anti-Scepticism D.H.Pritchard 'In the beginning was the deed': Wittgenstein on Knowledge and Religion M.Kober PART IV: THE THERAPEUTIC READING On Wittgenstein's Response to Skepticism: The Opening of On Certainty E.Minar Wittgenstein and Ethics: A Discussion with Reference to On Certainty A.Crary 'The First Shall Be Last and the Last Shall Be First...': A New Reading of On Certainty R.Read Bibliography Index

Logic in Action: Wittgenstein's Logical Pragmatism and the Impotence of Scepticism

Abstract: So I am trying to say something that sounds like pragmatism. (OC 422) In his struggle to uncover the nature of our basic beliefs, Wittgenstein depicts them variously in On Certainty: he thinks of them in propositional terms, in pictorial terms and in terms of acting. As propositions, they would be of a peculiar sort – a hybrid between a logical and an empirical proposition (OC 136, 309). These are the so-called 'hinge propositions' of On Certainty (OC 341). Wittgenstein also thinks of these beliefs as forming a picture, a World-picture – or Weltbild (OC 167). This is a step in the right (nonpropositional) direction, but not the ultimate step. Wittgenstein's ultimate and crucial depiction of our basic beliefs is in terms of a know-how, an attitude, a way of acting (OC 204). Here, he treads on pragmatist ground. But can Wittgenstein be labelled a pragmatist, having himself rejected the affiliation because of its utility implication? But you aren't a pragmatist? No. For I am not saying that a proposition is true if it is useful. (RPP I, 266) Wittgenstein resists affiliation with pragmatism because he does not want his use of use to be confused with the utility use of use. For him, it is not that a proposition is true if it is useful, but that use gives the proposition its sense. In fact, Wittgenstein's use has no internal connection to truth at all; it is meaning, not truth, that is internally linked to use. As to foundational beliefs, truth does not even apply to them (OC 205), but nor does Wittgenstein want to end up saying that a proposition is certain if it is useful. To see our foundational beliefs – our objective certainty, as he refers to it (OC 194) – on grounds of utility and success, would be to miss their logical nature. In a recent lecture, Robert Brandom drew a distinction between a broad and a narrow conception of pragmatism 1. Broadly conceived, pragmatism is simply a movement centred on the primacy of the practical; only in its narrow conception does it focus on the relation of belief to utility and success 2. This dichotomy allows me to affiliate Wittgenstein to that family of philosophers who have stressed the primacy of acting, without unduly attaching him to strains in pragmatism from which he is estranged. The later Wittgenstein is a pragmatist in the broad …

The Animal in Epistemology : Wittgenstein's Enactivist Solution to the Problem of Regress

Abstract: This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in International Journal for the Study of Skepticism following peer review. Subject to embargo, embargo end date: 23 May 2017. The version of record [ (October 2016) 6 (2-3): 97-119. First published online October, 2016] is available online at doi: 10.1163/22105700-00603003

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Abstract: Evolutionary psychology is one of many biologically informed approaches to the study of human behavior. Along with cognitive psychologists, evolutionary psychologists propose that much, if not all, of our behavior can be explained by appeal to internal psychological mechanisms. What distinguishes evolutionary psychologists from many cognitive psychologists is the proposal that the relevant internal mechanisms are adaptations—products of natural selection—that helped our ancestors get around the world, survive and reproduce. To understand the central claims of evolutionary psychology we require an understanding of some key concepts in evolutionary biology, cognitive psychology, philosophy of science and philosophy of mind. Philosophers are interested in evolutionary psychology for a number of reasons. For philosophers of science —mostly philosophers of biology—evolutionary psychology provides a critical target. There is a broad consensus among philosophers of science that evolutionary psychology is a deeply flawed enterprise. For philosophers of mind and cognitive science evolutionary psychology has been a source of empirical hypotheses about cognitive architecture and specific components of that architecture. Philosophers of mind are also critical of evolutionary psychology but their criticisms are not as all-encompassing as those presented by philosophers of biology. Evolutionary psychology is also invoked by philosophers interested in moral psychology both as a source of empirical hypotheses and as a critical target.

The concept of mind

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Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics. By L. Wittgenstein. Edited by G. H. Von Wright, R. Rhees and G. E. M. Anscombe. Translated by G. E. M. Anscombe. Pp. 400. 37s. 6d. 1956. (Basil Blackwell, Oxford)

Abstract: Wittgenstein's work remains, undeniably, now, that off one of those few philosophers who will be read by all future generations.

KARL BUHLER: THEORY OF LANGUAGE: The representational function of language

Abstract: Karl Buhler (1879-1963) was one of the leading theoreticians of language of this century. His masterwork Sprachtheorie (1934) has been praised widely and gained considerable recognition in the fields of linguistics, semiotics, the philosophy of language and the psychology of language. The work has, however, resisted translation into English partly because of its spirited and vivid style, partly because of the depth and range of analysis, partly because of the great erudition of the author, who displays a thorough command of both the linguistic and the philosophical traditions. With this translation, Buhler's ideas on many problems that are still controversial and others only recently rediscovered, are now accessible to the English-speaking world.Contents: The work is divided into four parts. Part I discusses the four “axioms” or principles of language research, the most famous of which is the first, the “organon model”, the base of Buhler's instrumental view of language. Part II treats the role of indexicality in language and discusses deixis as one determinant of speech. Part III examines the symbolic field, dealing with context, onomatopoeia and the function of case. Part IV deals with the elements of language and their organization (syllabification, the definition of the word, metaphor, anaphora, etc).The text is accompanied by: Translator's preface; Introduction (by Achim Eschbach); Glossary of terms and Bibliography of cited works (both compiled by the translator); Index of names, Index of topics.