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Metaphilosophy; Analytic philosophy; continental philosophy

One important strand in the contemporary debate over epistemological relativism focuses on the question whether, and to what extent, Wittgenstein in "On Certainty" (1969) leaned towards this position. This paper is a contribution to this strand. My discussion has four parts. I shall begin by out lining my interpretation of Wittgensteinian certainties. Subsequently I shall briefly introduce some central arguments for and against attributing epistemic relativism to "On Certainty". This will be followed by a sketch of the cluster of ideas that–on my analysis–define important versions of the doctrine in question. And finally I shall give my own interpretation of "On Certainty" in relation to epistemic relativism.

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Can You Have My Pain? -- Wittgenstein's On Certainty and Relativism -- Wittgenstein and Free Will -- Wittgenstein's Last Writings -- Analytic and Continental Philosophy: From Duality Through Plurality to (Some Kind of) Unity -- For Analytic Phenomenology -- Towards a New Foundationalist Turn in Philosophy: Transcending the Analytic-Continental Divide -- Two Phenomenological Accounts of Intuition -- Imagination and 4E Cognition: An Analytic-Continental Exchange -- Intuition und Argumentation – zum Verhältnis von intuitiver und diskursiver Vernunft -- Truth against Reason, and Reason against Truth -- Don't beep me, bro'! – A Worry About Introspection -- Metaphysical and Phenomenological Perspectives on Habituality and the Naturalization of the Mind -- Embodied Knowledge – Embodied Memory -- Panpsychism in the First Person -- What Is It Like to Be an Angel? -- Do Group Persons have Emotions – or Should They? -- Collective Intentionality and the Collective Person in Max Scheler -- Being Well Together – Aristotle on Joint Activity and Common Sense -- Pretence and the Inner. Reflections on Expressiveness and the Experience of Self and Other -- Socialization, Reflection, and Personhood -- 'Vaulting Ambition' – Machiavelli's Emtpy and Impure Concepts -- The Distinction between Objective and Subjective Standards in the Criminal Law -- Gibt es einen kantianischen Intuitionismus in der Ethik? -- Sensibility and Values Toward a Phenomenological Theory of the Emotional Life -- Stolz und Vorurteil. Über einige Schwierigkeiten der ethischen Selbstbewertung -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects

Edmund Husserl, generally regarded as the founding figure of phenomenology, exerted an enormous influence on the course of twentieth and twenty-first century philosophy. This volume collects and translates essays written by important German-speaking commentators on Husserl, ranging from his contemporaries to scholars of today, to make available in English some of the best commentary on Husserl and the phenomenological project. The essays focus on three problematics within phenomenology: the nature and method of phenomenology; intentionality, with its attendant issues of temporality and subjectivity; and intersubjectivity and culture. Several essays also deal with Martin Heidegger's phenomenology, although in a manner that reveals not only Heidegger's differences with Husserl but also his reliance on and indebtedness to Husserl's phenomenology.Taken together, the book shows the continuing influence of Husserl's thought, demonstrating how such subsequent developments as existentialism, hermeneutics, and deconstruction were defined in part by how they assimilated and departed from Husserlian insights. The course of what has come to be called continental philosophy cannot be described without reference to this assimilation and departure, and among the many successor approaches phenomenology remains a viable avenue for contemporary thought. In addition, problems addressed by Husserl—most notably, intentionality, consciousness, the emotions, and ethics—are of central concern in contemporary non-phenomenological philosophy, and many contemporary thinkers have turned to Husserl for guidance. The essays demonstrate how significant Husserl remains to contemporary philosophy across several traditions and several generations.Includes essays by Rudolf Bernet, Klaus Held, Ludwig Landgrebe, Dieter Lohmar, Verena Mayer and Christopher Erhard, Ullrich Melle, Karl Mertens, Ernst Wolfgang Orth, Jan Patočka, Sonja Rinofner-Kreidl, Karl Schuhmann, and Elisabeth Ströker