Certainty in Action: Wittgenstein on Language, Mind and Epistemology

by Danièle Moyal-Sharrock

Book Overview

In Certainty in Action, Dani le Moyal-Sharrock describes how her encounter with Wittgenstein overturned her previous assumptions that the mind is a product of brain activity and that thought, consciousness, the will, feelings, memories, knowledge and language are stored and processed in the brain, by the brain. She shows how Wittgenstein enables us to veer away from this brain-centred view of intelligence and behaviour to a person-centred...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350228893
• ISBN13: 9781350228894
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"