Wittgenstein’s “Inner and Outer”: Overcoming Epistemic Asymmetry

Wittgenstein’s “Inner and Outer”: Overcoming Epistemic Asymmetry

I offer a reading of those Wittgenstein’s late writings on psychology which, using his terminology, concern the theme of “inner and outer”. I identify three forms of epistemic asymmetry between a subject’s own mind and other minds, discussing Wittgenstein’s treatment of each of these in turn. I inte...

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Main Author: Tero Tapio Vaaja
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nordic Wittgenstein Society 2013-03-01
Series:Nordic Wittgenstein Review
Online Access:http://www.nordicwittgensteinreview.com/article/view/1012
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spelling doaj-a8154be5732b4b9a9ad74152b6ad9c9a2020-11-24T21:44:56ZengNordic Wittgenstein SocietyNordic Wittgenstein Review2194-68252242-248X2013-03-011012Wittgenstein’s “Inner and Outer”: Overcoming Epistemic AsymmetryTero Tapio Vaaja0University of JyväskyläI offer a reading of those Wittgenstein’s late writings on psychology which, using his terminology, concern the theme of “inner and outer”. I identify three forms of epistemic asymmetry between a subject’s own mind and other minds, discussing Wittgenstein’s treatment of each of these in turn. I intend to show that Wittgenstein is not identifying or solving any single epistemic or conceptual problem of other minds, but criticizing the very general assumption that there is a unique first-personal access to one’s own mind that makes third-personal knowledge epistemically inferior. I conclude by a brief discussion of how my reading enables to understand better Wittgenstein’s relation to behaviorism.http://www.nordicwittgensteinreview.com/article/view/1012
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