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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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139Reply to Heck on meaning and truth-conditionsPhilosophical Quarterly 52 (207): 233-236. 2002.Richard Heck has contested my argument that the equation of the meaning of a sentence with its truth-condition implies deflationism, on the ground that the argument does not go through if truth-conditions are understood, in Davidson's style, to be stated by T-sentences. My reply is that Davidsonian theories of meaning do not equate the meaning of a sentence with its truth-condition, and thus that Heck's point does not actually obstruct my argument
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58Quine: a guide for the perplexedContinuum. 2006.Willard Van Orman Quine is one of the most influential analytic philosophers of the latter half of the twentieth century.
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111What is This Thing Called Philosophy of Language?Routledge. 2013.Philosophy of language explores some of the fundamental yet most technical problems in philosophy, such as meaning and reference, semantics, and propositional attitudes. Some of its greatest exponents, including Gottlob Frege, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Bertrand Russell are amongst the major figures in the history of philosophy. In this clear and carefully structured introduction to the subject Gary Kemp explains the following key topics: the basic nature of philosophy of language and its historica…Read more
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72Introduction to Philosophy and Museums: Essays in the Philosophy of MuseumsRoyal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 79 1-12. 2016.Museums and their practices—especially those involving collection, curation and exhibition—generate a host of philosophical questions. Such questions are not limited to the domains of ethics and aesthetics, but go further into the domains of metaphysics, epistemology and philosophy of religion. Despite the prominence of museums as public institutions, they have until recently received surprisingly little scrutiny from philosophers in the Anglo-American tradition. By bringing together contributio…Read more
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97Quine 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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38Beauty 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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1612 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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15Quine’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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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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