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81The Hardness of the Soft: Wittgenstein’s Early Thought About SkepticismIn James Conant & Andrea Kern (eds.), Varieties of Skepticism: Essays after Kant, Wittgenstein, and Cavell, De Gruyter. pp. 145-182. 2014.
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362Logical Syntax in Wittgenstein's TractatusPhilosophical Quarterly 55 (218): 78-89. 2005.P.M.S. Hacker has argued that there are numerous misconceptions in James Conant's account of Wittgenstein's views and of those of Carnap. I discuss only Hacker's treatment of Conant on logical syntax in the _Tractatus. I try to show that passages in the _Tractatus which Hacker takes to count strongly against Conant's view do no such thing, and that he himself has not explained how he can account for a significant passage which certainly appears to support Conant's reading.
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190Literature and Moral Understanding. A Philosophical Essay on Ethics, Aesthetics, Education, and CulturePhilosophical Books 35 (1): 70-73. 1994.
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4How many legsIn Raimond Gaita (ed.), Value and Understanding: Essays for Peter Winch, Routledge. 2013.
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1525What time is it on the sun?In S. Phineas Upham & Joshua Harlan (eds.), Philosophers in conversation: interviews from the Harvard review of philosophy, Routledge. 2002.
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5Criss-cross philosophyIn Erich Ammereller & Eugen Fischer (eds.), Wittgenstein at Work: Method in the Philosophical Investigations, Routledge. pp. 201--220. 2004.
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391What if x isn't the number of sheep? Wittgenstein and Thought-Experiments in EthicsPhilosophical Papers 31 (3): 227-250. 2002.Wittgensteinian ethics, it may be thought, is committed to detailed examination of realistically described cases, and hence to eschewing the abstract hypothetical cases, many of them quite bizarre, found in much contemporary moral theorizing. I argue that bizarre cases may be helpful in thinking about ethics, and that there is nothing in Wittgenstein's approach to philosophy that would go against this. I examine the case of the ring of Gyges from the Republic; and I consider also some contempora…Read more
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