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43Parmenides' Grand Deduction: A Logical Reconstruction of the Way of TruthOxford University Press. 2014.Michael V. Wedin presents a rigorous reconstruction of the deductions in Parmenides' Way of Truth: the most important philosophical treatise before Plato and Aristotle. He answers criticisms which claim that Parmenides' arguments are shot through with logical fallacies, and argues against natural explanations of Parmenides in the Ionian tradition
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Some Logical Problems in Metaphysics GammaIn David Sedley (ed.), Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy: Volume Xix Winter 2000, Clarendon Press. 2000.
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14Trouble in Paradise?Grazer Philosophische Studien 42 (1): 23-55. 1992.It is argued that Wittgenstein did not abandon his tractarian position because he was of the opinion that the Tractatus suffered from an intemal incoherence inherited from the incompatibility of the thesis of mutual independence of elementary propositions (MI) and the picture theory of the proposition (PIC) or an incoherent notion of the elementary proposition itself. In the way suggested, TLP provides no opportunity for such concems to arise, for the inner sub-surface structure of a proposition…Read more
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12Nozick on Explaining NothingPhilosophy Research Archives 10 337-346. 1984.This paper raises some difficulties with the strategy suggested in Robert Nozick’s Philosophical Explanations for explaining why there is something rather than nothing. I am concerned less with his adoption of an egalitarian, as opposed to inegalitarian, explanatory stance (the net effect of which is to detach for independent consideration the question, “Why is there something?”) than with his use of a crucial assumption in reasoning from the egalitarian point of view. I argue that this assumpti…Read more
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25Trouble in Paradise?Grazer Philosophische Studien 42 (1): 23-55. 1992.It is argued that Wittgenstein did not abandon his tractarian position because he was of the opinion that the Tractatus suffered from an intemal incoherence inherited from the incompatibility of the thesis of mutual independence of elementary propositions (MI) and the picture theory of the proposition (PIC) or an incoherent notion of the elementary proposition itself. In the way suggested, TLP provides no opportunity for such concems to arise, for the inner sub-surface structure of a proposition…Read more
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20Fred R. Berger: 1937 - 1986Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 60 (3). 1987.
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5Criss-crossing a Philosophical LandscapeGrazer Philosophische Studien 42 23-55. 1992.It is argued that Wittgenstein did not abandon his tractarian position because he was of the opinion that the Tractatus suffered from an intemal incoherence inherited from the incompatibility of the thesis of mutual independence of elementary propositions and the picture theory of the proposition or an incoherent notion of the elementary proposition itself. In the way suggested, TLP provides no opportunity for such concems to arise, for the inner sub-surface structure of a proposition cannot cau…Read more
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74Collection and Division in the Phaedrus and StatesmanPhilosophical Inquiry 12 (1-2): 1-21. 1990.
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3Collection and Division in the Phaedrus and Statesman in Le Cratyle de Platon (II)Revue de Philosophie Ancienne 5 (2): 207-233. 1987.