Wittgenstein's On Certainty : Springer : 9783030907839 : 303090783X : 02 Feb 2022 : This book considers the important twentieth century Austrian philosopher, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and his conception of certainty.  In his work entitled On Certainty, Wittgenstein provides not only a brilliant solution to a previously intractable philosophical problem, but also the elements of an entirely new way of approaching this and similar longstanding, apparently unresolvable, problems. In On Certainty, he re-conceives the problem of radical skepticism?the claim that we can never really be certain of anything except the contents of our own minds?as a kind of philosophical ?disease? of thought. His approach to the problem, which is emphasized in the book, is similar to the treatment of disease, has two main goals: (1) bring about an awareness in the philosopher that this kind of extreme skepticism is not a methodological approach to be taken seriously, and, with this awareness, (2) an attempt to repla