Doubt, Ethics and Religion

This book explores Wittgenstein's conception of ethics, religion and philosophy. It aims at providing us with the tools necessary for assessing to what extent the Austrian philosopher can be considered an anti-Enlightenment thinker. The articles collected in this volume explore the relationship between Wittgenstein's thought and that of several authors who were, in various ways, key to the counter-enlightenement, authors such as Hume, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Tolstoy, James and Pierce. One of the central issues examined here is Wittgenstein's opposition to the Cartesian method of doubt a cornerstone of the enlightened movement against prejudice and superstition.

Auteur

Luigi Perissinotto is professor of Philosophy of Language at the University Ca' Foscari of Venice (Italy). His main philosophical interests are in philosophy of language and epistemology. He has published italian versions of the Letters to C. K. Odgen and of the Notes for Lectures on "Private Experience" and "Sense Data" by Ludwig Wittgenstein. Vicente Sanfélix Vidarte is professor of Philosophy at the University of Valencia (Spain). His main philosophical interests are in epistemology, philosophy of mind and modern and contemporary philosophy. He has published Spanish versions of the Inquiry into Human Understanding by David Hume and of the Notebooks 1914-1916 by Ludwig Wittgenstein.