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3Russell Nieli, Wittgenstein: From Mysticism to Ordinary Language (review)Philosophy in Review 7 (12): 517-519. 1987.
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2Wittgenstein, Qualia, and the Inverted SpectrumIn Arley Moreno (ed.), Wittgenstein: Certeza?, Unicamp, Centro De Lógica, Epistemologia E História Da Ciência. 2010.
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2Another strand in the private language argumentIn Arif Ahmed (ed.), Wittgenstein's Philosophical investigations: a critical guide, Cambridge University Press. 2010.The title of this chapter is borrowed from John McDowell's ‘One strand in the private language argument’ (1998b). In that paper, he argues that much of what is best in Wittgenstein's discussion of private language can be seen as a development of the Kantian insight that there is no such thing as an unconceptualized experience - that even the most elementary sensation must have a conceptual aspect. On McDowell's view, a sensation is a ‘perfectly good something - an object, if you like, of concept…Read more
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1Wittgenstein's critique of referential theories of meaning and the paradox of ostension: Philosophical Investigations §§26-48In David K. Levy & Edoardo Zamuner (eds.), Wittgenstein’s Enduring Arguments, Routledge. 2008.
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1Are disagreements about taste possible? A discussion of Kant's antinomy of taste.Iowa Review 21 (2): 66-71. 1991.
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1The Methods of the Tractatus: beyond positivism and metaphysics?In Paolo Parrini, Wes Salmon & Merrilee Salmon (eds.), Logical Empiricism: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, Pittsburgh University Pres. 2003.
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1From Logical Atomism to Practical HolismIn Wittgenstein on mind and language, Oxford University Press. 1995.This chapter examines the developments that led from Wittgenstein’s early logical atomist view that all meaningful discourse can be analyzed into logically independent elementary propositions to his later philosophy. In 1929, Wittgenstein rejected logical atomism for a “logical holist” conception of language as composed of calculi, formal systems characterized by their constitutive rules. By the mid-1930s, he had rejected the model of a calculus, emphasizing that language is action within a soci…Read more
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Practices, practical holism, and background practicesIn Mark Wrathall & Jeff Malpas (eds.), Heidegger, Coping, and Cognitive Science: Essays in Honor of Hubert L. Dreyfus, Volume 2, Mit Press. 2000.
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Heidegger and Wittgenstein on the subject of Kantian philosophyIn David Klemm & Günter Zöller (eds.), Figuring the Self: subject, individual and other in German idealism, Suny Press. 1997.
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The Description of Immediate ExperienceIn Wittgenstein on mind and language, Oxford University Press. 1995.The first section of this chapter presents a close reading of Wittgenstein’s “Remarks on Logical Form”, focusing on the conception of the relationship between language and experience, and the nature of the analysis of immediate experience that are set out there. Section two sets out an interpretation of what Wittgenstein meant when he said that he had rejected “phenomenological language” or “primary language” as his goal. Distinguishing between a weak and a strong sense of these terms shows how …Read more
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Toward a complete edition of the Wittgenstein papers: prospects and problemsIn Roberto Casati & Graham White (eds.), Papers of the 16th International Wittgenstein Symposium, vol. I, The Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society. 1993.
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New Evidence Concerning the Construction //Troubled History// of Part I of the Investigations.In Kjell S. Johannessen & Tore Nordenstam (eds.), Culture and Value: Philosophy and the Cultural Sciences. Papers of the 18th International Wittgenstein Symposium, The Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society. 1995.
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IntroductionIn Wittgenstein on mind and language, Oxford University Press. 1995.Unlike most books on Wittgenstein, Wittgenstein on Mind and Language begins from the initial articulation of his thoughts in his first drafts, conversations, and lectures, and attends closely to the process of revision that led to the Tractatus and Philosophical Investigations. This introductory chapter provides information about the nature of the Wittgenstein papers, summarizes the rationale for reading his work in this way, and outlines the reading of the development of Wittgenstein’s philosop…Read more
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Wittgenstein's 'Battle Against the Bewitchment of Our Understanding by Means of Language'Dissertation, University of California, Berkeley. 1987.Wittgenstein's middle period work has been brought into the current debate on rule following and representation by Kripke and the Hintikkas. In my dissertation, I argue that approaches which aim at a consistent reconstruction of Wittgenstein's argument, while valuable in their own right, fail to do justice to his focus on the conflicting intuitions that lie behind philosophical theory building. For this hidden and ambiguous side to his thought is the turning point in his philosophical developmen…Read more
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Tracing the Development of Wittgenstein’s Writing on Private LanguageIn Nuno Venturinha (ed.), Wittgenstein after his Nachlass, Palgrave-macmillan. 2010.
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The Flow of LifeIn Wittgenstein on mind and language, Oxford University Press. 1995.In 1929, Wittgenstein made use of river imagery to convey the supposedly inexpressible thesis that all is in flux. However, he rejects this extreme thesis in manuscripts from the early 1930s and drafts of the Philosophical Investigations, affirming that one can step twice into the same river. His later discussion of the “stream of life” involves a return, in certain respects, to the river analogy, albeit in a very different key. Examining Wittgenstein’s changing use of this image casts light on …Read more
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Wittgenstein's epistemology in the 1920s and 1930s: from the picture theory to'philosophical pictures.'In Paul Weingartner & Gerhard Schurz (eds.), Proceedings of the 11th International Wittgenstein Symposium, Hölder-pichler-tempsky. 1987.
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The availability of Wittgenstein's philosophyIn Hans D. Sluga & David G. Stern (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Wittgenstein, Cambridge University Press. 1996.
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On Dialogues -- Wittgenstein’s Literary Style and Philosophical MethodsIn Jan Drehmel & Kristina Jaspers (eds.), Wittgenstein-Vorträge: Annäherungen aus Kunst und Wissenschaft, Junius Verlag. 2011.
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Logic and LanguageIn Wittgenstein on mind and language, Oxford University Press. 1995.An analysis of the sources of Wittgenstein’s picture theory — which include not only his moment of insight on reading a magazine story about the use of models in a traffic court, but also the work of Russell, Hertz, and Boltzmann — provides the basis for an exploration of Wittgenstein’s articulation of a pictorial conception of representation in his wartime notebooks and its crystallization in the Tractatus. A discussion of Wittgenstein’s later criticism of the picture theory and his notion of a…Read more
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Was Wittgenstein a Jew?In James Klagge (ed.), Wittgenstein: Biography and Philosoph, Cambridge University Press. 2001.
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The Wittgenstein papers as text and hypertext: Cambridge, Bergen, and beyondIn Kjell Johannessen (ed.), Wittgenstein and Norway, Solum Press. 1994.
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Ludwig Wittgenstein, The Published Works of Ludwig Wittgenstein Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 14 (2): 147-150. 1994.
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Wittgenstein and Moore on grammarIn Wittgenstein in the 1930s: Between the Tractatus and the Investigations, Cambridge University Press. 2018.
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Subject and ObjectIn Wittgenstein on mind and language, Oxford University Press. 1995.This chapter argues that the ontology of the Tractatus is best understood as the consequence of Wittgenstein’s conception of logic and representation in general, and the postulate of the determinacy of sense in particular. Once it is recognized that Wittgenstein arrived at the idea of simple objects based on an abstract argument about the nature of complexes and analysis without providing any specific examples of such analyses, it is easy to see the need for caution in attributing any characteri…Read more
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