-
Nestroy, Augustine, and the opening of the Philosophical InvestigationsIn Rudolf Haller & Klaus Puhl (eds.), Philosophical Investigations, Hölder-pichler-tempsky. 2002.
-
99Heraclitus’ and Wittgenstein’s River Images: Stepping Twice into the Same RiverThe Monist 74 (4): 579-604. 1991.This paper examines a number of river images which have been attributed to Heraclitus, the ways they are used by Plato and Wittgenstein, and the connection between these uses of imagery and the metaphilosophical issues about the nature and limits of philosophy which they lead to. After indicating some of the connections between Heraclitus’, Plato’s and Wittgenstein’s use of river images, I give a preliminary reading of three crucial fragments from the Heraclitean corpus, associating each with a …Read more
-
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
Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Ludwig Wittgenstein |
20th Century Analytic Philosophy |
Philosophy of Mind |
Philosophy of Language |