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1Michael Dummett, Origins of Analytical PhilosophyJournal of the History of Philosophy 33 (4): 699-699. 1995.
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26Critical notice of Alan Richardson,'Carnap's construction of the world: the Aufbau and the emergence of logical empiricism'Philosophical Books 40 (2): 89-98. 1999.
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20Wollheim, Wittgenstein, and Pictorial Representation: Seeing-as and Seeing-In (edited book)Routledge. 2016.Pictorial representation is one of the core questions in aesthetics and philosophy of art. What is a picture? How do pictures represent things? This collection of specially commissioned chapters examines the influential thesis that the core of pictorial representation is not resemblance but 'seeing-in', in particular as found in the work of Richard Wollheim. We can see a passing cloud _as_ a rabbit, but we also see a rabbit _in_ the clouds. 'Seeing-in' is an imaginative act of the kind employed …Read more
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213Editors' IntroductionIn Frederique Janssen-Lauret & Gary Kemp (eds.), Quine and His Place in History, Palgrave. pp. 1-7. 2015.Editors' introduction which discusses Quine's place in the history of analytic philosophy and the content of the papers collected in this volume.
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Western philosophy since Descartes has been marked by certain seminal books whose concern is the nature and scope of human knowledge. After Descartes Meditations, works by Locke, Berkeley, Hume and Kant are perhaps the most familiar and enduringly influential examples. Quine’s Word and Object (1960) does not conspicuously announce itself as a successor to these, but that is very much what it is. And after Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations, it is amongst the most likely of the philosoph…Read more
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156Pushing Wittgenstein and Quine Closer TogetherJournal for the History of Analytical Philosophy 2 (10). 2014.As against the view represented here by Peter Hacker and John Canfield, I urge that the philosophies of Quine and Wittgenstein can be reconciled. Both replace the orthodox view of language as resting on reference: Quine with the notion of linguistic disposition, Wittgenstein with the notions of grammar and forms of life. I argue that Wittgenstein's insistence, in the rule-following discussion, that at bottom these are matters of practice, of ‘what we do’, is not only compatible in a rough sort o…Read more
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77The Themes of Quine’s Philosophy: Meaning, Reference, and Knowledge, by Edward Becker.: Book Reviews (review)Mind 122 (488): 1061-1065. 2013.
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198Critical Thinking: A Concise GuideRoutledge. 2001._Critical Thinking_ is a much-needed guide to thinking skills and above all to thinking critically for oneself. Through clear discussion, students learn the skills required to tell a good argument from a bad one. Key features include: *jargon-free discussion of key concepts in argumentation *how to avoid confusions surrounding words such as 'truth', 'knowledge' and 'opinion' *how to identify and evaluate the most common types of argument *how to spot fallacies in arguments and tell good reasonin…Read more
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44Propositions and reasoning in Russell and FregePacific Philosophical Quarterly 79 (3). 1998.Both Russell and Frege were inclined to think that there is nothing essentially linguistic about thought: any actual reliance of ours upon language is a mere psychological contingency. If so then it should be possible to formulate logic in such a way that logical relationships are not represented or expressed as principles pertaining to linguistic forms. Russell and Frege take pains to achieve this, but fail. I explain this by looking at some features of Grundgesetz and Principia . Their failure…Read more
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48Quine and His Place in History (edited book)Palgrave. 2014.Containing three previously unpublished papers by W.V. Quine as well as historical, exegetical, and critical papers by several leading Quine scholars including Hylton, Ebbs, and Ben-Menahem, this volume aims to remedy the comparative lack of historical investigation of Quine and his philosophical context.
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53Review of W. V. Quine, Confessions of a Confirmed Extensionalist and Other Essays; and, Quine in Dialogue (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2009 (4). 2009.
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Glock’s book is about evenly divided between Quine and Davidson. The central claims are (i) that they are best studied in conjunction; (ii) that they ‘can profitably be seen as logical pragmatists’ (meaning primarily that they view language as action that can be understood or clarified by means of formal logic); (iii) that they ‘combine profound insights with serious distortions’; and (iv) that their respective attempts to ‘accommodate higher phenomena such as meaning and thought within a natura…Read more
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31Philosophy as Fiction: Self, Deception, and Knowledge in Proust (review)Philosophy and Literature 29 (2): 498-500. 2005.Landy’s book (OUP 2004; 255 pp.+ x) delivers what has gone long and scandalously missing: a philosophical analysis of Proust’s incomparable book that is muscular, concise, philosophically informed and sophisticated; logically rigorous, explanatorily fruitful, and meticulously answerable to its data, namely the text. The philosophy here is not, as often the case in writing about Proust, mere rhetoric or window-dressing, but substantive and literally believable. The book should for a long time be …Read more
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23The Unity of the Proposition in the later WittgensteinConceptus: Zeitschrift Fur Philosophie 40 (97). 2011.
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60The Croce‐Collingwood Theory as TheoryJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 61 (2): 171-193. 2003.
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29Quine: Underdetermination and Naturalistic MetaphysicsPhilosophical Topics 43 (1-2): 179-188. 2015.Quine’s naturalism has no room for a point of view outside science from which one might criticize science, or a transcendental point of view from which one could ask questions about the adequacy of science with respect to reality (‘as it is in itself ’). Adrian Moore sniffs out some genuine tensions in this, arguing in effect that Quine is forced by his own views to admit those sorts of questions as legitimate. I venture that Quine, even if he would grant that the posing of such questions is an …Read more
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37Proust on art and the value of livingEuropean Journal of Philosophy 15 (2). 2007.No abstract available
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14Davidson, Quine, and Our Knowledge of the External WorldPacific Philosophical Quarterly 73 (1): 44-62. 1992.
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296 Assertion as a practiceIn Dirk Greimann & Geo Siegwart (eds.), Truth and Speech Acts: Studies in the Philosophy of Language, Routledge. pp. 5--106. 2007.
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5IntroductionIn Christopher Belshaw & Gary Kemp (eds.), 12 Modern Philosophers, Wiley-blackwell. 2009.This chapter contains sections titled: The Past The Present Metaphysics, Epistemology, and Philosophy of Mind Ethics Philosophy and Culture.
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