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20Review of Keith Dromm, Wittgenstein on Rules and Nature (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2009 (7). 2009.
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20Stoutland vs. MetaphysicsPhilosophical Topics 44 (1): 287-298. 2016.In his essay “Analytic Philosophy and Metaphysics,” Frederick Stoutland argues that an unspoken metaphysical spirit underlies much of twentieth-century analytic philosophy, in spite of the fact that the word “metaphysics” has had a pejorative ring. The metaphysical habit of mind results in an activity which at best is an unproductive diversion, at worst a dialectical illusion, making claims which only appear to be truth-evaluable. I agree with Stoutland’s diagnosis, which is inspired by Wittgens…Read more
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19Spinoza on Ethics and Understanding, by Peter WinchNordic Wittgenstein Review 12. 2023.Review of Peter Winch, Spinoza on Ethics and Understanding.
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17Critical noticePhilosophical Investigations 15 (4): 357-371. 1992.Good and Evil: an Absolute Conception, Raimond Gaita, Macmillan 1991. (Swansea Studies in Philosophy.)
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16Review of Cora Diamond: Reading Wittgenstein with Anscombe, Going on to Ethics (review)Nordic Wittgenstein Review 9. 2020.Review of Cora Diamond: Reading Wittgenstein with Anscombe, Going on to Ethics.
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14It Says What It SaysAmerican Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 85 (4): 589-603. 2011.The aim of this essay is to point to some of the problems that arise in trying to clarify the distinction frequently made between literal and non-literal ways of understanding certain religious beliefs, such as the belief in the resurrection of Christ. The disagreement is sometimes taken to concern whether the words usedin the expression of belief are to be understood in a literal or a non-literal sense. It may alternatively be taken to concern whether or not religious utterances are to be under…Read more
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14Note from the EditorsNordic Wittgenstein Review 3 (1): 5-6. 2014.In their note, the editors thank the contributors and give an overview of the latest news regarding the journal
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11The Idea of CompositionalityIn Anja Weiberg & Stefan Majetschak (eds.), Aesthetics Today: Contemporary Approaches to the Aesthetics of Nature and of Arts. Proceedings of the 39th International Wittgenstein Symposium in Kirchberg, De Gruyter. pp. 435-448. 2017.
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10Understanding Wittgenstein, Understanding Modernism, ed. Anat MatarNordic Wittgenstein Review 8 (1-2): 241-247. 2019.Review of Anat Matar, ed., Understanding Wittgenstein, Understanding Modernism. New York et al: Bloomsbury, 2017, ISBN: HB: 978-1-5013-0243-5, xv+270 pp.
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8Wittgenstein and the life we live with languageAnthem Press, an imprint of Wimbledon Publishing Company. 2022.This work is guided by the idea that Wittgenstein's thought opens the door to a more profound break with the philosophical tradition than has been generally recognized. It brings this insight to bear on some basic problems of philosophy.
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8The Practice of LanguageSpringer Verlag. 2002.This book shows that philosophers and linguists of quite different brands have tended to give undue priority to their own favorite theoretical framework, and have presupposed that the descriptive scheme invoked by that framework constitutes a pattern to which any linguistic practice somehow has to conform. United by a critical attitude towards such essentialist aspirations, the authors collectively manage to cast doubt on the very attempt to fit the whole of linguistic practice into a general th…Read more
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7Attending to the Actual Sayings of ThingsIn Volker Munz (ed.), Essays on the philosophy of Wittgenstein, De Gruyter. pp. 125-134. 2010.
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6Språkspel kontra samtal – Wittgenstein och RheesNorsk Filosofisk Tidsskrift 44 (3-4): 306-314. 2010.
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6Chapter 2. Peter Winch: Philosophy as the art of disagreementIn John T. Edelman (ed.), Sense and reality: essays out of Swansea, Ontos Verlag. pp. 23-48. 2009.
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6AndrewGleeson and CraigTaylor (eds.),Morality in a Realistic Spirit: Essays for Cora Diamond (Routledge, 2020). vi + 260, price £ 120 hb (review)Philosophical Investigations 44 (1): 99-105. 2021.Philosophical Investigations, EarlyView.
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5Can Robots Learn to Talk?In A. C. Grayling, Shyam Wuppuluri, Christopher Norris, Nikolay Milkov, Oskari Kuusela, Danièle Moyal-Sharrock, Beth Savickey, Jonathan Beale, Duncan Pritchard, Annalisa Coliva, Jakub Mácha, David R. Cerbone, Paul Horwich, Michael Nedo, Gregory Landini, Pascal Zambito, Yoshihiro Maruyama, Chon Tejedor, Susan G. Sterrett, Carlo Penco, Susan Edwards-Mckie, Lars Hertzberg, Edward Witherspoon, Michel ter Hark, Paul F. Snowdon, Rupert Read, Nana Last, Ilse Somavilla & Freeman Dyson (eds.), Wittgensteinian : Looking at the World From the Viewpoint of Wittgenstein’s Philosophy, Springer Verlag. pp. 409-422. 2019.We are all familiar with robots and other computers producing linguistic expressions. The essay discusses the question in what sense these speech-like phenomena can be regarded as an outcome of what might be called learning to talk. The question might also be rephrased as follows: in what sense can a talking robot be considered a speaker. In the debate becoming a speaker is often construed as an ability to connect signs with objects. As was shown by Wittgenstein this conception of being a speake…Read more
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4Can Robots Learn to Talk?In Shyam Wuppuluri & Newton da Costa (eds.), Wittgensteinian : Looking at the World From the Viewpoint of Wittgenstein's Philosophy, Springer Verlag. pp. 409-422. 2019.We are all familiar with robots and other computers producing linguistic expressions. The essay discusses the question in what sense these speech-like phenomena can be regarded as an outcome of what might be called learning to talk. The question might also be rephrased as follows: in what sense can a talking robot be considered a speaker. In the debate becoming a speaker is often construed as an ability to connect signs with objects. As was shown by Wittgenstein this conception of being a speake…Read more
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4The Psychology of Volition: “Problem and Method Pass One Another By”In Jesús Padilla Gálvez (ed.), Philosophical Anthropology: Wittgenstein's Perspective, De Gruyter. pp. 139-152. 2010.
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1On Being TrustedIn Arne Grøn & Claudia Welz (eds.), Trust, Sociality, Selfhood, Mohr Siebeck. 2010.
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1Rom Harre and Michael Krausz, Varieties of RelativismPhilosophical Investigations 22 197-202. 1999.
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The importance of being thoughtfulIn Danièle Moyal-Sharrock (ed.), Perspicuous Presentations: Essays on Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Psychology, Palgrave-macmillan. 2007.
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Very general facts of natureIn Marie McGinn & Oskari Kuusela (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Wittgenstein, Oxford University Press. 2011.
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