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12Sociology of Science, Rule Following and Forms of LifeVienna Circle Institute Yearbook 9 347-367. 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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476Moore’s Notes on Wittgenstein’s Lectures, Cambridge 1930-1933: Text, Context, and ContentNordic Wittgenstein Review (1): 161-179. 2013.Wittgenstein’s writings and lectures during the first half of the 1930s play a crucial role in any interpretation of the relationship between the Tractatus and the Philosophical Investigations . G. E. Moore’s notes of Wittgenstein’s Cambridge lectures, 1930-1933, offer us a remarkably careful and conscientious record of what Wittgenstein said at the time, and are much more detailed and reliable than previously published notes from those lectures. The co-authors are currently editing these notes …Read more
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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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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 Roth (eds.), The Blackwell Guidebook to the Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 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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9Das 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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32The “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 David K. Levy & Edoardo Zamuner (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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125Wittgenstein, 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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42Review 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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45How Many Wittgensteins?In Alois Pichler & Simo Säätelä (eds.), Wittgenstein: The Philosopher and his Works, Ontos Verlag. 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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36Des 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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