Wittgenstein and Pragmatism

Foreword

AcknowledgmentsList of Abbreviations



Introduction. 'A kind of Weltanschauung'



Part I - Before On Certainty



Chapter 1. Pragmatism in Wittgenstein before On Certainty



1.1 Preliminary remarks1.2 'Die pragmatistiche Auffassung von Wahr und Falsch'

1.3 Wittgenstein and Ramsey



1.4 Wittgenstein reader of James1.5 Wittgenstein reader of Peirce?



1.6 Other references to pragmatism before On Certainty1.7 Concluding remarks



Part II - On Certainty



Chapter 2. Reasonable doubts and unshakable certainties



2.1 Preliminary remarks2.2 Doubt



2.3 Skepticism and fallibilism

2.4 Wittgenstein's 'hinges'

2.5 Peirce's 'indubitables' and 'regulative assumptions'

2.6 Concluding remarks



Chapter 3. Common sense and Weltbild

3.1 Preliminary remarks

3.2 Peirce's critical common sensism and James' 'mother-tongue of thought'

3.3 Wittgenstein's Weltbild

3.4 Outlines for a comparison

3.5 Concluding remarks



Chapter 4. Action and the pragmatic maxim

4.1 Preliminary remarks

4.2 The pragmatic maxim

4.3 Perception and conduct, truth and belief

4.4 Meaning and consequences: the 'Pragmatist Week'

4.5 Meaning and understanding

4.6 'Im Anfang war die Tat'

4.7 Action and its surroundings 4.8 Concluding remarks



Part III - Broadening the Perspective



Chapter 5. From ground to background



5.1 Preliminary remarks5.2 Forms of life in Wittgenstein's writings



5.3 Secondary literature: relativism and other issues5.4 A human objectivity



5.5 Background and foreground5.6 Concluding remarks



Chapter 6. Between method and Weltanschauung



6.1 Preliminary remarks6.2 'The good in pragmatism'



6.3 Beyond method

6.4 Synoptic presentation and Weltanschauung

6.5 The river and the river-bed

6.6. Science and philosophy

6.7 Concluding remarks



Conclusion. 'I'll teach you differences'

Bibliography

Index

Anna Boncompagni (University of California, Irvine) works mainly on Wittgenstein's later philosophy and on pragmatism, and is also interested in phenomenology, the history of analytic philosophy, and the philosophy of psychiatry. Her previous publications include "Elucidating Forms of Life: The Evolution of a Philosophical Tool", Nordic Wittgenstein Review (2015) and Wittgenstein: Lo Sguardo e il Limite (2012).