PART ONE
Wittgenstein and the Concept of Human Knowledge
I: Criteria and Judgment
II: Criteria and Skepticism
III: Austin and Examples
IV: What a Thing Is (Called)
V: Natural and Conventional
PART TWO
Skepticism and the Existence of the World
VI: The Quest of Traditional Epistemology: Opening
VII: Excursus on Wittgenstein's Vision of Language
VIII: The Quest of Traditional Epistemology: Closing
PART THREE
Knowledge and the Concept of Morality
IX: Knowledge and the Basis of Morality
X: An Absence of Morality
XI: Rules and Reasons
XII: The Autonomy of Morals
PART FOUR
Skepticism and the Problem of Others
XIII: Between Acknowledgment and Avoidance
"An altogether remarkable work of American philosophy...that
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unique--and perhaps uniquely American way."--Critical Inquiry
"An intensely personal and uniquely provocative book. Stanley
Cavell is a philosophical original."--Review of Metaphysics
"The Claim of Reason is one of the great adventures of 20th-century
philosophy; not only an incomparable exploration of skepticism and
the knowledge of others, but also an exemplary reading of an
exemplary 20th-century philosopher, and one of the deepest
meditations we have on philosophy and its history. There are
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for our time."--Richard Moran, Harvard University
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philosophizing: how we have satisfied ourselves, or tried to, with
an etiolated, moralized substitute for the real thing. Wittgenstein
said that in the philosophical race the winner is the one who can
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"There are various reasons why a work of philosophy might be
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University of Chicago
"An altogether remarkable work of American philosophy...that
occupies the buffer zone between poetry and philosophy in a
unique--and perhaps uniquely American way."--Critical Inquiry
"An intensely personal and uniquely provocative book. Stanley
Cavell is a philosophical original."--Review of Metaphysics
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