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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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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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33The Later Wittgenstein: The Emergence of a New Philosophical MethodPhilosophical Review 99 (4): 639. 1990.
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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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3Russell Nieli, Wittgenstein: From Mysticism to Ordinary Language (review)Philosophy in Review 7 (12): 517-519. 1987.
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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, 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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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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Ludwig Wittgenstein, The Published Works of Ludwig Wittgenstein Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 14 (2): 147-150. 1994.
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13Digital 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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138Wittgenstein 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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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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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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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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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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Nestroy, Augustine, and the opening of the Philosophical InvestigationsIn Rudolf Haller & Klaus Puhl (eds.), Philosophical Investigations, Hölder-pichler-tempsky. 2002.
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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
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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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53The 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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