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119Oxford realism: Knowledge and perception IIBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 8 (3). 2000.This Article does not have an abstract
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12Jérôme Dokic et Pascal Engel, Ramsey. Vérité et Succès, Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, collection Philosophies, 2001, 128 pages.Jérôme Dokic et Pascal Engel, Ramsey. Vérité et Succès, Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, collection Philosophies, 2001, 128 pages (review)Philosophiques 31 (1): 266-269. 2004.
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490La logique symbolique en débat à Oxford à la fin du XIXe siècle : les disputes logiques de Lewis Carroll et John Cook WilsonRevue D’Histoire des Sciences 67 (2): 185-205. 2014.The development of symbolic logic is often presented in terms of a cumulative story of consecutive innovations that led to what is known as modern logic. This narrative hides the difficulties that this new logic faced at first, which shaped its history. Indeed, negative reactions to the emergence of the new logic in the second half of the nineteenth century were numerous and we study here one case, namely logic at Oxford, where one finds Lewis Carroll, a mathematical teacher who promoted symboli…Read more
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210Reasoning about knowledge in linear logic: modalities and complexityIn S. Rahman J. Symons (ed.), Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science, Kluwer Academic Publisher. pp. 327--350. 2004.
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145Oxford realism: Knowledge and perception IBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 8 (2). 2000.This Article does not have an abstract
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33Jogando o bebê junto com a água do banho: Wittgenstein, Goodstein e o cálculo equacionalDois Pontos 6 (1). 2009.Reuben Louis Goodstein (1912-1985) foi aluno de Wittgenstein em Cambridge de1931 a 1934. Neste artigo, faço uma breve descrição de seu trabalho na lógica matemática,no qual se percebe a influência das idéias de Wittgenstein, inclusive a substituição,em seu cálculo equacional, da indução matemática por uma regra de unicidade de umafunção definida por uma função recursiva. Esse último aspecto se encontra no Big Typescriptde Wittgenstein. Também mostro que as idéias fundamentais do cálculo equacion…Read more
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149Radical anti-realism, Wittgenstein and the length of proofsSynthese 171 (3). 2009.After sketching an argument for radical anti-realism that does not appeal to human limitations but polynomial-time computability in its definition of feasibility, I revisit an argument by Wittgenstein on the surveyability of proofs, and then examine the consequences of its application to the notion of canonical proof in contemporary proof-theoretical-semantics.
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5Plato’s Dialogues: Dialectic, Orality and CharacterIn Joseph Andrew Bjelde, David Merry & Christopher Roser (eds.), Essays on Argumentation in Antiquity, Springer. pp. 69-97. 2021.It is first argued that dialectic was a form of regimented debate, which grew out of public debates in Ancient Greece. A set of rules for dialectical bouts is then given and their meaning explained. The transition from oral to written arguments is briefly examined, leading to the formulation of a delimitation problem in Plato’s dialogues, as he inserted dialectical arguments within ordinary dialogue contexts, turning them into discussions where one of the participants reasons hypothetically to m…Read more
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4Omnibus Review (review)Journal of Symbolic Logic 63 (3): 1177-1180. 1998.Reviewed Works:F. P. Ramsey, D. H. Mellor, Philosophical Papers.F. P. Ramsey, D. H. Mellor, Foundations, Essays in Philosophy, Logic, Mathematics and Economics.Frank Plumpton Ramsey, Maria Carla Galavotti, Notes on Philosophy, Probability and Mathematics.Nils-Eric Sahlin, The Philosophy of F. P. Ramsey.
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106Theory Of Knowledge In Britain From 1860 To 1950The Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication 4 5. 2008.In 1956, a series of BBC radio talks was published in London under the title The Revolution in Philosophy . This short book included papers by prominent British philosophers of the day, such as Sir Alfred Ayer and Sir Peter Strawson, with an introduction by Gilbert Ryle. Although there is precious little in it concerning the precise nature of the ‘revolution’ alluded to in the title, it is quite clear that these lectures were meant to celebrate in an insular manner the birth of ‘analytic philoso…Read more
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17Oxford Realism: Knowledge and Perception IBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 8 (2): 299-338. 2000.
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32L’anti-psychologisme de Bradley : idéalité de la signification, jugement et universauxPhilosophiques 36 (1): 53-82. 2009.L’opinion est souvent exprimée que Bradley fut un des tout premiers critiques du psychologisme. Dans cet article, j’examine cette thèse en me penchant principalement sur ses Principles of Logic . Je définis le psychologisme au sens étroit comme une thèse portant sur les fondements de la logique, et le psychologisme au sens large comme une thèse plus générale en théorie de la connaissance pour montrer que Bradley a rejeté les deux, même s’il n’avait pas grand chose à dire sur la version étroite. …Read more
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4Philosophy of LogicIn Constantin V. Boundas (ed.), The Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century Philosophies, Edinburgh University Press. pp. 252-269. 2007.
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26Oxford Realism: Knowledge and Perception IIBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 8 (3): 485-519. 2000.
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Quantification and Finitism a Study in Wittgenstein's Philosophy of MathematicsDissertation, D. Phil., University of Oxford. 1991.
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7[Omnibus Review]Journal of Symbolic Logic 63 (3): 1177-1180. 1998.Reviewed Works:F. P. Ramsey, D. H. Mellor, Philosophical Papers.F. P. Ramsey, D. H. Mellor, Foundations, Essays in Philosophy, Logic, Mathematics and Economics.Frank Plumpton Ramsey, Maria Carla Galavotti, Notes on Philosophy, Probability and Mathematics.Nils-Eric Sahlin, The Philosophy of F. P. Ramsey
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48Dynamic Formal Epistemology (edited book)Springer. 2010.This volume is a collation of original contributions from the key actors of a new trend in the contemporary theory of knowledge and belief, that we call “dynamic epistemology”. It brings the works of these researchers under a single umbrella by highlighting the coherence of their current themes, and by establishing connections between topics that, up until now, have been investigated independently. It also illustrates how the new analytical toolbox unveils questions about the theory of knowledge…Read more
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34Wittgenstein’s Constructivization of Euler’s Proof of the Infinity of PrimesVienna Circle Institute Yearbook 10 171-188. 2003.We will discuss a mathematical proof found in Wittgenstein’s Nachlass, a constructive version of Euler’s proof of the infinity of prime numbers. Although it does not amount to much, this proof allows us to see that Wittgenstein had at least some mathematical skills. At the very last, the proof shows that Wittgenstein was concerned with mathematical practice and it also gives further evidence in support of the claim that, after all, he held a constructivist stance, at least during the transitiona…Read more
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22On the Unity of Collingwood's Philosophy: From Process to Self-CreationCollingwood and British Idealism Studies 12 (2): 125-157. 2006.
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54L’idéalisme britannique : histoire et actualitéPhilosophiques 36 (1): 3-34. 2009.L’idéalisme britannique est un mouvement qui a dominé les universités britanniques pendant une cinquantaine d’années à la fin du xixe siècle et au début du xxe siècle, mais qui est passé presque totalement inaperçu dans le monde francophone. Rejetés en bloc par les philosophes analytiques, ces auteurs ont aussi été ignorés pendant longtemps dans leur pays, mais certains d’entre eux, notamment Bradley et Collingwood, jouissent d’un regain d’intérêt à la faveur d’un renouveau des études sur les or…Read more
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117John Cook WilsonStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2010.John Cook Wilson (1849–1915) was Wykeham Professor of Logic at New College, Oxford and the founder of ‘Oxford Realism’, a philosophical movement that flourished at Oxford during the first decades of the 20th century. Although trained as a classicist and a mathematician, his most important contribution was to the theory of knowledge, where he argued that knowledge is factive and not definable in terms of belief, and he criticized ‘hybrid’ and ‘externalist’ accounts. He also argued for direct real…Read more
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86Ludwig Wittgenstein and Friedrich Waismann. The Voices of Wittgenstein. The Vienna CirclePhilosophia Mathematica 12 (3): 291-293. 2004.
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