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54The University of Iowa Tractatus MapNordic Wittgenstein Review 5 (2): 203-220. 2016.Drawing on recent work on the nature of the numbering system of the _Tractatus_ and Wittgenstein’s use of that system in his composition of the _Prototractatus_, the paper sets out the rationale for the online tool called__ __ The University of Iowa Tractatus Map. The map consists of a website with a front page that links to two separate subway-style maps of the hypertextual numbering system Wittgenstein used in his _Tractatus_. One map displays the structure of the published _Tractatus_; the ot…Read more
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Wittgenstein on the Inverted Spectrum.In Volker Munz, Klaus Puhl & Joseph Wang (eds.), Language and World Part Two: Signs, Minds, and Actions. Proceedings of the 32nd International Ludwig Wittgenstein-Symposium, Ontos Verlag. 2010.
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22Review of Sensations: A Defence of Type Materialism (review)Philosophical Books 34 (1): 32-33. 1993.
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43The Practical TurnIn Stephen P. Turner & Paul Andrew Roth (eds.), The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Wiley-blackwell. pp. 11--185. 2003.
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71Review Article: The Bergen Electronic Edition of Wittgenstein's NachlassEuropean Journal of Philosophy 18 (3): 455-467. 2010.
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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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10Das Observações Filosóficas à Unidade da CiênciaDois Pontos 6 (1). 2009.No verão de 1932, Wittgenstein alegou que o artigo recentemente publicado porCarnap “Linguagem Física como Linguagem Universal da Ciência” fez uso extensivo e semmenções das idéias do próprio Wittgenstein. Em uma carta a Schlick, ele se queixou que“em breve estaria em uma situação na qual seu próprio trabalho seria considerado mera-mente como uma versão requentada ou plágio do de Carnap”. Neste artigo, examino arelação entre o artigo de Carnap, posteriormente reimpresso como A Unidade da Ciência…Read more
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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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44A new exposition of the 'private language argument': Wittgenstein's 'Notes for the "Philosophical Lecture"'Philosophical Investigations 17 (3): 552-565. 1994.
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33The “Middle Wittgenstein” RevisitedIn Danièle Moyal-Sharrock, Volker Munz & Annalisa Coliva (eds.), Mind, Language and Action: Proceedings of the 36th International Wittgenstein Symposium, De Gruyter. pp. 181-204. 2015.
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1Wittgenstein's critique of referential theories of meaning and the paradox of ostension: Philosophical Investigations §§26-48In Edoardo Zamuner & D. K. Levy (eds.), Wittgenstein’s Enduring Arguments, Routledge. 2008.
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59Review of Wittgenstein and the Philosophical Investigations by Marie McGinn (review)Mind 111 (441): 147-149. 2002.
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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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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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127Wittgenstein, the Vienna Circle, and physicalism: A reassessmentIn Alan Richardson & Thomas Uebel (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Logical Empiricism, Cambridge University Press. pp. 305--31. 2007.The "standard account" of Wittgenstein’s relations with the Vienna Circle is that the early Wittgenstein was a principal source and inspiration for the Circle’s positivistic and scientific philosophy, while the later Wittgenstein was deeply opposed to the logical empiricist project of articulating a "scientific conception of the world." However, this telegraphic summary is at best only half-true and at worst deeply misleading. For it prevents us appreciating the fluidity and protean character of…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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14Review of Taking Wittgenstein at his Word by Robert Fogelin (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 50 (1): 147-148. 2012.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Reviewed by:Taking Wittgenstein at his Word: A Textual StudyDavid SternRobert J. Fogelin. Taking Wittgenstein at his Word: A Textual Study. Princeton-Oxford: Princeton University Press. 2009. Pp. xviii + 181. Cloth, $35.00.This is an excellent book, which should be read widely. It is a short, lucid, and accessible introduction to Wittgenstein’s later philosophy, written by a leading expert. It is the ideal sequel to Saul Kripke’s Wit…Read more
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46How Many Wittgensteins?In Alois Pichler & Simo Säätelä (eds.), Wittgenstein: The Philosopher and His Works, Ontos. 2006.The paper maps out and responds to some of the main areas of disagreement over the nature of Wittgenstein’s philosophy: (1) Between defenders of a “two Wittgensteins” reading (which draws a sharp distinction between early and late Wittgenstein) and the opposing “one Wittgenstein” interpretation. (2) Among “two-Wittgensteins” interpreters as to when the later philosophy emerged, and over the central difference between early and late Wittgenstein. (3) Between those who hold that Wittgenstein oppos…Read more
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37Des Remarques philosophiques aux Recherches philosophiquesPhilosophiques 39 (1): 9-34. 2012.La discussion sur le langage privé que l’on trouve dans les Recherchesphilosophiques a été écrite entre 1937 et 1945, après que les 190 premières remarques de la partie I du livre eurent presque atteint leur forme finale. Les textes post-1936 sur le langage privé constituent un nouveau départ, dans sa lettre et son esprit, par rapport au matériau d’avant 1936.Néanmoins, entre 1929 et 1936, Wittgenstein s’est penché à plusieurs reprises sur l’idée d’un langage « que moi seul peux comprendre ». Un…Read more
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63The "standard account" of Wittgenstein’s relations with the Vienna Circle is that the early Wittgenstein was a principal source and inspiration for the Circle’s positivistic and scientific philosophy, while the later Wittgenstein was deeply opposed to the logical empiricist project of articulating a "scientific conception of the world." However, this telegraphic summary is at best only half-true and at worst deeply misleading. For it prevents us appreciating the fluidity and protean character of…Read more
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42The Cambridge Companion to Wittgenstein (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 1996.Ludwig Wittgenstein is one of the most important, influential, and often-cited philosophers of the twentieth century, yet he remains one of its most elusive and least accessible. The essays in this volume address central themes in Wittgenstein's writings on the philosophy of mind, language, logic, and mathematics. They chart the development of his work and clarify the connections between its different stages. The contributors illuminate the character of the whole body of work by keeping a tight …Read more
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43The significance of jewishness for Wittgenstein's philosophyInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 43 (4). 2000.Did Wittgenstein consider himself a Jew? Should we? Wittgenstein repeatedly wrote about Jews and Judaism in the 1930s, and biographical studies make it clear that this writing about Jewishness was a way in which he thought about the kind of person he was and the nature of his philosophical work. Those who have written about Wittgenstein on the Jews have drawn very different conclusions. But much of this debate is confused, because the notion of being a Jew, of Jewishness, is itself ambiguous and…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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154Recent work on Wittgenstein, 1980–1990 (review)Synthese 98 (3): 415-458. 1994.While Wittgenstein wrote unconventionally and denied that he was advancing philosophical theses, most of his interpreters have attributed conventional philosophical theses to him. But the best recent interpretations have taken the form of his writing and his distinctive way of doing philosophy seriously. The 1980s have also seen the emergence of a body of work on Wittgenstein that makes extensive use of the unpublished Wittgenstein papers. This work on Wittgenstein's method and his way of writin…Read more
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