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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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