Certainty in Action

In <i>Certainty in Action </i> Danièle 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 <i>in the brain by the brain</i>. She shows how Wittgenstein enables us to veer away from this brain-centred view of intelligence and behaviour to a person-centred view focusing on ways of acting that are both <i>diversely</i>embedded across forms of human life and<i> universally</i> embedded in a single human form of life. The book traces the radical importance of <i>action</i> as the cohesive thread weaving through Wittgenstein's philosophy and shows how <i>certainty</i> intertwines with it to produce new ways of engaging in epistemology the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of language.<br/> <br/> This selection of Moyal-Sharrock's essays vividly illustrates some of the ways in which Wittgenstein's pioneering enactivism has impacted - and can further impact - not only philosophy but also neighbouring disciplines such as linguistics psychology primatology evolutionary psychology and anthropology. <i>Certainty in Action</i>is essential reading for students and researchers of these disciplines and for anyone interested in getting a grasp of Wittgenstein's lasting genius and influence.