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99Quine Versus Davidson: Truth, Reference, and MeaningOxford University Press. 2012.Gary Kemp presents a penetrating investigation of key issues in the philosophy of language, by means of a comparative study of two great figures of late twentieth-century philosophy. He reveals unexplored tensions between the views of Quine and Davidson, and presents a powerful argument in favour of Quine and methodological naturalism.
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12Did Wittgenstein have a Theory of Colour?In Frederik Gierlinger & Štefan Joško Riegelnik (eds.), Wittgenstein on Colour, De Gruyter. pp. 57-66. 2014.
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39Beauty and languageBritish Journal of Aesthetics 47 (3): 258-267. 2007.I argue against Hume and Kant, who maintain that ‘beauty’ expresses a state of the subject, rather than describes features of the object. The word ‘beauty’ is far from being alone in having an expressive dimension, and that which it has falls short of individuating it semantically. Instead, I propose a theory of linguistic idealism with respect to ‘beauty’
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1712 Modern Philosophers (edited book)Wiley-Blackwell. 2009.Featuring essays from leading philosophical scholars, __12 Modern Philosophers__ explores the works, origins, and influences of twelve of the most important late 20th Century philosophers working in the analytic tradition. Draws on essays from well-known scholars, including Thomas Baldwin, Catherine Wilson, Adrian Moore and Lori Gruen Locates the authors and their oeuvre within the context of the discipline as a whole Considers how contemporary philosophy both draws from, and contributes to, the…Read more
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16Quine’s Criticisms of SemanticsIn Piotr Stalmaszczyk (ed.), Philosophy of Language and Linguistics: The Legacy of Frege, Russell, and Wittgenstein, De Gruyter. pp. 139-160. 2014.
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1Michael Dummett, Origins of Analytical PhilosophyJournal of the History of Philosophy 33 (4): 699-699. 1995.
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27Critical 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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22Wollheim, 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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20th Century Philosophy |
Metaphysics and Epistemology |