Danièle Moyal-Sharrock

Daniele Moyal-Sharrock is a philosopher, critic, and teacher. In 2007 she was appointed a professor of philosophy at University of Hertfordshire. She specialises in the works of Austrian-British philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein.

Biography Moyal-Sharrock has written extensively about Wittgenstein's works post Philosophical Investigations, an era for which she has coined the term 'the third Wittgenstein'. She is also credited, along with Annalisa Coliva and Duncan Pritchard, with developing a new type of epistemology, 'hinge epistemology', which was developed from her efforts to share the insights within Wittgenstein's On Certainty.

She has completed a book-length study of On Certainty: Understanding Wittgenstein's On Certainty (Palgrave 2004/2007); and her other titles include Perspicuous Presentations: Essays on Wittgenstein's Philosophical Psychology; Hinge Epistemology (with A. Coliva); and F. R. Leavis: critic, teacher, philosopher. A further selection of her writings can be found in 'Certainty in Action: Wittgenstein on language, mind and epistemology' (Bloomsbury, 2021). She has provided the French translation of On Certainty (Gallimard, 2006),

Her published work encompasses topics including Wittgenstein, epistemology, and the philosophy of literature, demonstrating how Wittgenstein's influence can extend beyond the discipline of philosophy but also to closely related fields such as psychology; linguistics; anthropology; sociology; education sciences; and cognitive science. She has also contributed to the discourse on the role of Wittgenstein's pioneering Enactivism in a stronger comprehension of the mind, action, language, and memory, She helps to debunk the reductive discourse of a quietist Wittgenstein which is in part responsible for a depreciation of interest by mainstream philosophy in him, instead helping to demonstrate the ways in which he can be considered an interventionist philosopher both within the field philosophy and for the neighbouring scientific disciplines.

Moyal-Sharrock has been president of the British Wittgenstein Society since 2007, and since 2012 has held the position of executive committee member of The Leavis Society.

Selected publications Moyal-Sharrock, D., 2003, Logic in Action: Wittgenstein's Logical Pragmatism and the Impotence of Scepticism, In: Philosophical Investigations, Vol. 26, No. 2, p. 125-148 Moyal-Sharrock, D., & Brenner, W. H., 2007, Readings of Wittgenstein's On Certainty, 2nd ed., London: Palgrave Macmillan Moyal-Sharrock, D., 2007, Unravelling Certainty, Readings of Wittgenstein's On Certainty, Moyal-Sharrock, D. & Brenner, W. (eds.), London: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 76-99 Moyal-Sharrock, D., 2009, Wittgenstein and the memory debate, In: New Ideas in Psychology, Vol. 27, No. 2, p. 213-227 Moyal-Sharrock, D., 2013, Wittgenstein's Razor: The Cutting Edge of Enactivism, In: American Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 50, No 3, p. 263-279 Moyal-Sharrock, D., 2015, Wittgenstein's Forms of Life, Patterns of Life and Ways of Living, In: Nordic Wittsgenstein Studies, October, p. 21-42 Moyal-Sharrock, D., 2016, The Animal in Epistemology: Wittgenstein's Enactivist Solution to the Problem of Regress, In: International Journal for the Study of Skepticism, Vol. 6, No. 2-3, p. 97-119 23