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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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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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165Recent 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 The 1980s have also seen the emergence of a body of work on Wittgenstein that makes extensive use of the unpublished Wittgenstein papers.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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22Leading a Human Life (review)Review of Metaphysics 52 (3): 676-677. 1999.This is an original, ambitious, and provocative book. It argues that Wittgenstein’s later philosophy can best be understood as a response to two problems that animate post-Kantian idealism and romanticism, drawing primarily on the work of Fichte, Schiller, Schlegel, Hegel, Wordsworth, and Goethe. The first is the metaphilosophical problem of the “critique of critique,” the question of what basis can there possibly be for critical philosophy if Kant’s own appeal to the categories proves unaccepta…Read more
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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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1Are disagreements about taste possible? A discussion of Kant's antinomy of taste.Iowa Review 21 (2): 66-71. 1991.
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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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34The Later Wittgenstein: The Emergence of a New Philosophical MethodPhilosophical Review 99 (4): 639. 1990.
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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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18Sociology of science, rule following and forms of lifeIn Michael Heidelberger & Friedrich Stadler (eds.), History of Philosophy of Science: New Trends and Perspectives. Vienna Circle Institute yearbook (9), Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 347-367. 2002.Ludwig Wittgenstein was trained as a scientist and an engineer. He received a diploma in mechanical engineering from the Technische Hochschule in Charlottenburg, Berlin, in 1906, after which he did several years of research on aeronautics before turning to the full-time study of logic and philosophy. Hertz, Boltzmann, Mach, Weininger, and William James, all important influences on Wittgenstein, are authors whose work was both philosophical and scientific. The relationship between everyday life, …Read more
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23Das 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 meramentecomo 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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150Models of memory: Wittgenstein and cognitive sciencePhilosophical Psychology 4 (2): 203-18. 1991.
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13Appearance and Reality: A Philosophical Investigation into Perception and Perceptual Qualities (review)Philosophical Books 30 (1): 33-35. 1989.
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56The uses of Wittgenstein's beetle: Philosophical investigations and its interpretersIn Guy Kahane, Edward Kanterian & Oskari Kuusela (eds.), Wittgenstein and His Interpreters: Essays in Memory of Gordon Baker, Wiley-blackwell. pp. 248--268. 2007.
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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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29Reading Wittgenstein (on) Reading An IntroductionIn David G. Stern & Béla Szabados (eds.), Wittgenstein Reads Weininger, Cambridge University Press. pp. 1. 2004.
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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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5Private LanguageIn Marie McGinn & Oskari Kuusela (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Wittgenstein, Oxford University Press. 2011.Ludwig Wittgenstein's treatment of private language has received more attention than any other aspect of his philosophy. Yet, for more than fifty years, a remarkably self-contained exegetical tradition has defined the terms of debate and the principal positions that are discussed. Orthodox interpreters hold that the proof that a private language is impossible turns on showing it is ruled out by some set of systematic philosophical commitments about logic, meaning, and knowledge. Leading candidat…Read more
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14Digital Wittgenstein scholarship: past, present and futureIn Alois Pichler & Herbert Hrachovec (eds.), Wittgenstein and the Philosophy of Information: Proceedings of the 30th International Wittgenstein Symposium, volume 1, Ontos Verlag. pp. 223-238. 2008.
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30Wittgenstein: Lectures, Cambridge 1930–1933, From the Notes of G. E. Moore: Lecture 3b, May 5, 1933 and Lecture 4a, May 9, 1933In Aidan Seery, Josef G. F. Rothhaupt & Lars Albinus (eds.), Wittgenstein’s Remarks on Frazer: The Text and the Matter, De Gruyter. pp. 85-98. 2016.
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139Wittgenstein on mind and languageOxford University Press. 1995.Drawing on ten years of research on the unpublished Wittgenstein papers, Stern investigates what motivated Wittgenstein's philosophical writing and casts new light on the Tractatus and Philosophical Investigations. The book is an exposition of Wittgenstein's early conception of the nature of representation and how his later revision and criticism of that work led to a radically different way of looking at mind and language. It also explains how the unpublished manuscripts and typescripts were pu…Read more
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15Weininger and Wittgenstein on ‘animal psychology.’In David G. Stern & Béla Szabados (eds.), Wittgenstein Reads Weininger, Cambridge University Press. pp. 169. 2004.
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22Review of Gavin Kitching, Nigel Pleasants (eds.), Marx and Wittgenstein: Knowledge, Morality and Politics (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2003 (10). 2003.
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Towards a critical edition of the Philosophical InvestigationsIn Kjell S. Johannessen & Tore Nordenstam (eds.), Wittgenstein and the Philosophy of Culture, Hölder-pichler-tempsky. 1996.
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