Doubtful Certainties

Language-Games, Forms of Life, Relativism

Jesús Padilla Gálvez, Margit Gaffal (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

226 Seiten

2012
De Gruyter (Verlag)
978-3-11-032160-9 (ISBN)

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Aiming to bridge the gap between analytical and continental philosophy, this peer-reviewed series presents innovative, cutting-edge contributions in contemporary philosophical inquiry, written in English or German. The series is a useful introduction to a variety of topics, aimed at readers interested in the concepts, methods, and historical developments of philosophy.

To what extent can we doubt certainties? How are certainties expressed in words? Which language games convey certainty? To answer these questions we have to recall the method Wittgenstein used in his investigations. When we look at language games and forms of life as inseparable phenomena, do forms of life then provide any certainty? On the other hand, do we automatically relapse into relativism once we doubt certainties? Which formal structures underlie certainty and doubt? The book is intended to answer these questions.

Jesús Padilla Gálvez is a Spanish philosopher. His principal expertise is in philosophy of language. He is known for his exegesis of the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein. Studied Philosophy, History and Mathematics at the University of Cologne (Germany) and was awarded the M.A. in 1983 and a Dr. phil. in Philosophy in 1988. He was Research Assistant at the University of Murcia (Spain) and later held the post of Associate Professor for Logic and Philosophy of Language at the University of León (Spain). From 1994-99 he was Visiting Professor at the Johannes Kepler University in Linz (Austria). Since 1999 he has been Professor at the University of Castilla-La Mancha in Toledo (Spain).

Mag. Margit Gaffal, geb. in Linz (Österreich), studierte Anglistik und Philosophie, Pädagogik und Psychologie an der Paris Lodron Universitát Salzburg (Osterreich). Sie war Lektorin für Deutsch als Fremdsprache an der Cardiff University, School of European Studies in Wales (Großbritannien) und an der Johannes Kepler Universität Linz in Österreich. Sie unterrichtete an einer Handelsakademie sowie an einer Internationalen Schule. Ihre Forschungsinteressen sind: Zweitspracherwerb und mehrsprachiger Wissenserwerb, Fachsprache Recht und Wirtschaft, Probleme der Übersetzbarkeit von Fachtermini, interkulturelle Linguistik und soziale Kompetenz.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	15.12.2012
Reihe/Serie	Aporia ; 7
Verlagsort	Berlin/Boston
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	390 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Logik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie
Schlagworte	Philosophie • Sprachphilosophie • Wittgenstein
ISBN-10	3-11-032160-2 / 3110321602
ISBN-13	978-3-11-032160-9 / 9783110321609
Zustand	Neuware