Ebook: Certainty in Action: Wittgenstein on Language, Mind and Epistemology

Meaning, believing, thinking, understanding, reasoning, calculating, learning, remembering, intending, expecting, loving, longing: these experiences are, according to Wittgenstein, embodied actions.
In Wittgenstein in Action, DanièleMoyal-Sharrock argues that there is hardly anything traditionally thought to be a mental process or state, that, in fact, Ludwig Wittgenstein has not shown to be primarily embodied or enacted. The book traces the radical, diverse and recurrent importance of action and ‘ways of acting’ as the original and cohesive thread weaving through all of Wittgenstein’s philosophy, especially language and memory. Moyal-Sharrock highlights throughout Wittgenstein’s clarification of ‘the inner’ and his belief in the certainty of action.
With Wittgenstein’s philosophy increasingly influencing multiple branches of psychology, particularly those concerned with child development, language acquisition and memory, Wittgenstein in Action is essential reading for students and researchers interested in the philosophy underpinning these areas. It will also prove indispensable for Wittgenstein specialists.