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59Nothing to be Said: Wittgenstein and Wittgensteinian EthicsSouthern Journal of Philosophy 34 (2): 243-256. 1996.
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42Ethics and Private LanguagePhilosophical Topics 38 (1): 181-203. 2010.There are intriguing hints in the works of Stanley Cavell and Stephen Mulhall of a possible connection between ethics and Wittgenstein’s remarks on private language, which are concerned with expressions of Empfindungen: feelings or sensations. The point of this paper is to make the case explicitly for seeing such a connection. What the point of that is I will address at the end of the paper. If Mulhall and Cavell both know their Wittgenstein and choose their words carefully, which I will take as…Read more
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48Whose Ethics? Which Wittgenstein?Philosophical Papers 31 (3): 323-342. 2002.The relevance of Wittgenstein for ethics depends on which Wittgenstein we mean. I argue that we should distinguish not only between Wittgenstein's personal opinions and his philosophy, but also, within his philosophical work, between broadly methodological remarks and what Wittgenstein might call genuinely philosophical remarks (which are not about philosophy but try to bring clarity to the mind bewitched by language). Wittgenstein's personal opinions will be considered irrelevant by most philos…Read more
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19Review of Tim labron, Wittgenstein and Theology (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2009 (9). 2009.
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415The 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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