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421The subject of this paper is not Wittgensteinian ethics but Wittgenstein’s own ethical beliefs, specifically as these are revealed in the so-called Koder diaries. While the Koder Diaries, also known as Manuscript 183, do contain the kind of thing that one would expect to find in a diary (e.g. accounts of travel and personal relationships), they also contain more obviously philosophical remarks, sometimes as reflections on these personal remarks. Wittgenstein’s diaries illustrate well a point th…Read more
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31Wittgenstein in Exile. By James C. Klagge (review)The European Legacy 17 (6): 848-849. 2012.No abstract
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19The a to Z of Wittgenstein's PhilosophyScarecrow Press. 2010.The A to Z of Wittgenstein's Philosophy is intended for anyone who wants to know more about the philosophy and the life of this enigmatic thinker. The book contains an introductory overview of his life and work, a timeline of the major relevant events in and after his life, an extensive bibliography, and, above all, an A-Z of ideas, people, and places that have been involved in his philosophy and its reception. The dictionary is written with no particular agenda and includes entries on philosoph…Read more
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On the pursuit of happinessIn Ylva Gustafsson, Camilla Kronqvist & Michael McEachrane (eds.), Emotions and understanding: Wittgensteinian perspectives, Palgrave-macmillan. pp. 185. 2009.
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19Historical Dictionary of Wittgenstein's PhilosophyRowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2004.This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Wittgenstein's Philosophy covers the history of this philosophy through a chronology, an introductory essay, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 300 cross-referenced entries on every aspect of his work.
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5Wittgenstein at His WordThoemmes Continuum. 2004.This book explains how Wittgenstein's idea of the value of philosophy shaped his philosophical method and led him to talk and write about the abstruse questions ...
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26Rupert Read, Wittgenstein among the Sciences: Wittgensteinian Investigations into the “Scientific Method,” edited by Simon Summers (London: Ashgate, 2012). xvi + 230, price £55.00 hb (review)Philosophical Investigations 36 (3): 279-282. 2013.
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1Cressida J. Heyes, ed., The Grammar of Politics: Wittgenstein and Political Philosophy Reviewed by (review)Philosophy in Review 23 (6): 395-397. 2003.
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29Wandering in Wittgenstein’s footsteps (review)The Philosophers' Magazine 56 (56): 106-107. 2012.
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1Terry Nardin, The Philosophy of Michael Oakeshott Reviewed by (review)Philosophy in Review 22 (6): 429-431. 2002.
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24Philosophy and PoetryEssays in Philosophy 12 (2): 254-272. 2011.Philosophy certainly has connections with science but it is not itself a science. Nor is it literature. But it is related to literature in a way that excessive emphasis on science can obscure. In this paper I defend the rather old-fashioned view that philosophy is essentially linguistic. I also argue, less conventionally, that there is an unavoidable personal aspect to at least some philosophical problems, and in answering them we must speak for ourselves without being able to count on every oth…Read more
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6Anscombe's Moral PhilosophyLexington Books. 2010.Anscombe's Moral Philosophy is an accessible introduction to Elizabeth Anscombe's work on ethics. It also offers a critique of her views on such diverse subjects as the bombing of Hiroshima, same-sex marriage, consequentialism, moral obligation, and intention
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18Why be good?: a historical introduction to ethicsOxford University Press. 2008.Plato -- Aristotle -- Christianity -- Aquinas -- Hobbes -- Hume -- Kant -- Mill -- Nietzsche -- Virtue after Nietzsche.
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25Subjectivity after Wittgenstein: The Post-Cartesian Subject and the “Death of Man.” (review)The European Legacy 21 (4): 445-446. 2016.
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61Missing the entire point: Wittgenstein and religionReligious Studies 37 (2): 161-175. 2001.In this paper I contrast some widespread ideas about what Wittgenstein said about religious belief with statements Wittgenstein made about his purposes and method in doing philosophy, in order to argue that he did not hold the views commonly attributed to him. These allegedly Wittgensteinian doctrines in fact essentialize religion in a very un-Wittgensteinian way. A truly Wittgensteinian philosophy of religion can only be a personal process, and there can be no part in it for generalized hypothe…Read more
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