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    Product details:

    • Publisher Cambridge University Press
    • Date of Publication 14 May 2026

    • ISBN 9781009554565
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages88 pages
    • Weight 142 g
    • Language English
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    Short description:

    This book situates Wittgenstein's philosophy in the relationship between psychology and logic, over epistemology, and cultural relativism.

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    Long description:

    When scholars discuss the question whether Wittgenstein was a relativist, they invariably draw their criteria from recent definitions of relativism. This study tries a different route: it identifies conceptions of relativism that were influential in the early twentieth century, and uses them as foils for interpreting Wittgenstein's philosophy. Section 1 investigates what Wittgenstein meant in speaking of his 'ethnological perspective,' and how this perspective relates to 'cultural relativism' in anthropology around 1900. Section 2 focuses on Wittgenstein's reflections on logic and mathematics as 'ethnological phenomena.' In this context, the ethnological perspective brought Wittgenstein close to positions that many of his contemporaries denounced as 'psychologism' and 'sociologism.' Section 3 highlights the role of the ethnological perspective in Wittgenstein's remarks on 'certainties.' Many of these remarks would have been counted as relativistic by leading members of the 'Vienna Circle.'

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    Table of Contents:

    Introduction; Section 1. Cultural Relativism, Historicism, and the Ethnological Approach; Section 2. Psychologism, Sociologism, Ethnology; Section 3. Relativism, Pseudorationalism, and the Ethnological Approach to Certainty; Conclusion; References.

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