Certainty in Action

de Danièle Moyal-Sharrock

"In Certainty in Action, Danièle Moyal-Sharrock describes how her encounter with Wittgenstein overturned her previous assumption that the mind is a product of brain activity and that thought, consciousness, the will, feelings, memories, knowledge and language are, accordingly, stored and processed in the brain, by the brain . Moyal-Sharrock shows how Wittgenstein enables us to veer away from this brain-centred view of intelligence and behaviour to a person-centred view, which focuses on ways of acting that are both diversely embedded across innumerable forms of human life and universally embedded in a single human form of life. The book traces the radical importance of action as the cohesive thread weaving through Wittgenstein's philosophy, and shows how certainty intertwines with it to produce new ways of engaging in epistemology and the philosophy of mind and language. This selection of Moyal-Sharrock's essays vividly illustrates some of the ways in which Wittgenstein's pioneering enactivism has already impacted-and can further impact-not only philosophy, but also neighbouring disciplines, including linguistics, psychology, primatology, evolutionary psychology and anthropology. Certainty in Action is essential reading not only for students and researchers of these disciplines, but for anyone interested in getting a grasp of Wittgenstein's lasting genius and influence."--