Certainty in Action

"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…