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109The 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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1Wittgenstein's critique of referential theories of meaning and the paradox of ostension: Philosophical Investigations §§26-48In Edoardo Zamuner & D. K. Levy (eds.), Wittgenstein’s Enduring Arguments, Routledge. 2014.
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1Toward 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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254Recent 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 The 1980s have also seen the emergence of a body of work on Wittgenstein that makes extensive use of the unpublished Wittgenstein papers.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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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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51Leading a Human Life: Wittgenstein, Intentionality and Romanticism (review)Review of Metaphysics 52 (3): 676-676. 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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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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216Wittgenstein, 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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131The Later Wittgenstein: The Emergence of a New Philosophical MethodPhilosophical Review 99 (4): 639. 1990.
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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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115Review 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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3Russell Nieli, Wittgenstein: From Mysticism to Ordinary Language (review)Philosophy in Review 7 (12): 517-519. 1987.
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104How Many Wittgensteins?In Alois Pichler & Simo Säätelä (eds.), Wittgenstein: The Philosopher and his Works, De Gruyter. pp. 205-229. 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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85Das 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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110The Cambridge Companion to Wittgenstein (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 1996.Ludwig Wittgenstein is one of the most important, influential, and often-cited philosophers of the twentieth century, yet he remains one of its most elusive and least accessible. The essays in this volume address central themes in Wittgenstein's writings on the philosophy of mind, language, logic, and mathematics. They chart the development of his work and clarify the connections between its different stages. The contributors illuminate the character of the whole body of work by keeping a tight …Read more
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122The 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's epistemology in the 1920s and 1930s: from the picture theory to'philosophical pictures.'In Paul Weingartner & Gerhard Schurz (eds.), Proceedings of the 11th International Wittgenstein Symposium, Hölder-pichler-tempsky. 1987.
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3The 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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83Reading Wittgenstein (on) Reading An IntroductionIn David G. Stern & Béla Szabados (eds.), Wittgenstein Reads Weininger, Cambridge University Press. pp. 1. 2004.
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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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Ludwig Wittgenstein, The Published Works of Ludwig Wittgenstein (review)Philosophy in Review 14 147-150. 1994.
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2Are disagreements about taste possible? A discussion of Kant's antinomy of taste.Iowa Review 21 (2): 66-71. 1991.
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143The "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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Was Wittgenstein a Jew?In James Carl Klagge (ed.), Wittgenstein: Biography and Philosophy, Cambridge University Press. 2001.
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1The Wittgenstein papers as text and hypertext: Cambridge, Bergen, and beyondIn Kjell S. Johannessen (ed.), Wittgenstein and Norway, Solum Press. 1994.
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34Sociology 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), Springer. 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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72Review 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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