Can Wittgenstein be called a pragmatist?

Titolo Rivista PARADIGMI
Autori/Curatori Danièle Moyal-Sharrock
Anno di pubblicazione 2017 Fascicolo 2016/3
Lingua Inglese Numero pagine 19 P. 67-85 Dimensione file 218 KB
DOI 10.3280/PARA2016-003005
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When Wittgenstein is called a pragmatist, it is usually with qualification. In this paper, I examine some of the criteria used to relate Wittgenstein to pragmatism (primacy of action, anti-foundationalism, fallibilism), and conclude that inasmuch as Wittgenstein is neither an anti-foundationalist nor a fallibilist, there may not be sufficient grounds to call him a pragmatist. But nothing stands in the way of considering him a full-fledged enactivist.

Quando si chiama Wittgenstein pragmatista, di solito si hanno buone ragioni per farlo. In questo saggio esamino alcuni dei criteri usati per mettere in relazione Wittgenstein con il pragmatismo (primato dell’azione, anti-fondazionalismo, fallibilismo) e concludo che, nella misura in cui Wittgenstein non è né un antifondazionalista né un fallibilista, non ci sono ragioni sufficienti per chiamarlo pragmatista. Ma nulla osta a considerarlo appieno un enattivista.

Keywords:Wittgenstein, Pragmatismo, Enattivismo, Fondazionalismo, Fallibilismo.

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Danièle Moyal-Sharrock, Can Wittgenstein be called a pragmatist? in "PARADIGMI" 3/2016, pp 67-85, DOI: 10.3280/PARA2016-003005