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Der Denker als Seiltänzer. Ludwig Wittgenstein über Religion, Mystik und Ethik (review)Zeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung 57 (1). 2003.
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581On the Inflation of NecessitiesMetaphysica 13 (1): 51-54. 2012.This brief paper argues that Kripke’s thesis of the necessity of origin has some implausible consequences.
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138A Puzzle About Responsibility: A Problem and its Contextualist SolutionErkenntnis 74 (2): 207-224. 2011.This paper presents a puzzle about moral responsibility. The problem is based upon the indeterminacy of relevant reference classes as applied to action. After discussing and rejecting a very tempting response I propose moral contextualism instead, that is, the idea that the truth value of judgments of the form S is morally responsible for x depends on and varies with the context of the attributor who makes that judgment. Even if this reply should not do all the expected work it is a first step.
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Leading a Human Life. Wittgenstein, Intentionality, and Romanticism (review)Zeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung 54 (4). 2000.
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7Response to Schaffer's ReplyIn Stefan Tolksdorf (ed.), Conceptions of Knowledge, De Gruyter. pp. 425-431. 2011.This is a response to Jonathan Schaffer's reply to my criticism of contrastivism.
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72Ist der Begriff des Wissens inkohärent?Zeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung 55 (4): 594-601. 2001.This is a response to Ansgar Beckermann's argument to the effect that the concept of knowledge is incoherent and should thus be given up.
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74The Wittgenstein ArchivePhilosophy Now 58 26-27. 2006.Something in the way of a parody of iconography...
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Kant y el yoIn Felipe Castañeda, Vincente Durán & Luis Eduardo Hoyos (eds.), Immanuel Kant: vigencia de la filosofía crítica, Siglo Del Hombre Editores. pp. 79-89. 2007.An interpretation and discussion of Kant's theory of the self.
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1983Epistemic closureIn Sven Bernecker & Duncan Pritchard (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Epistemology, Routledge. pp. 597--608. 2013.This article gives an overview over different principles of epistemic closure, their attractions and their problems.
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177Three Doors, Two Players, and Single-Case ProbabilitiesAmerican Philosophical Quarterly 42 (1): 71-79. 2005.The well known Monty Hall-problem has a clear solution if one deals with a long enough series of individual games. However, the situation is different if one switches to probabilities in a single case. This paper presents an argument for Monty Hall situations with two players (not just one, as is usual). It leads to a quite general conclusion: One cannot apply probabilistic considerations (for or against any of the strategies) to isolated single cases. If one does that, one cannot but violate a …Read more
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Handlung, Absicht und InstrumentalitätIn Christoph Hubig, Andreas Luckner & Nadia Mazouz (eds.), Handeln und Technik - mit und ohne Heidegger, Lit-verlag. pp. 77-82. 2007.This paper argues that two types of action - routine action and affective action - have been neglected in current action theory. Inquiry into these kinds of action can lead to interesting insights.
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Areas of Specialization
| Epistemology |
| Philosophy of Mind |
| 17th/18th Century Philosophy |
Areas of Interest
| Epistemology |
| 17th/18th Century Philosophy |