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2Toward the World and Wisdom of Wittgenstein’s ‘Tractatus’Philosophical Quarterly 25 (98): 84-85. 1975.
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15Letters to Russell, Keynes and Moore.Philosophical GrammarPhilosophical Quarterly 25 (100): 279. 1975.
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51III A Unified Solution to Some ParadoxesProceedings of the Aristotelian Society 100 (n/a): 53-74. 2000.The Russell class does not exist because the conditions purporting to specify that class are contradictory, and hence fail to specify any class. Equally, the conditions purporting to specify the Liar statement are contradictory and hence, although the Liar sentence is grammatically in order, it fails to yield a statement. Thus the common source of these and related paradoxes is contradictory (or tautologous) specifying conditions-for such conditions fail to specify. This is the diagnosis. The cu…Read more
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71Spandrels of Truth * By JC BEALLAnalysis 70 (3): 586-589. 2010.(No abstract is available for this citation)
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The Barber, Russell's Paradox, Catch-22, God, Contradiction, and MoreIn Graham Priest, J. C. Beall & Bradley Armour-Garb (eds.), The Law of Non-Contradiction: New Philosophical Essays, Clarendon Press. 2006.
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3Gardner-Inspired Design of Teaching MaterialsDiscourse: Learning and Teaching in Philosophical and Religious Studies 10 (1): 173-202. 2010.
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12The Philosophy of Wilfrid Sellars: Queries and ExtensionsPhilosophical Quarterly 30 (119): 153-155. 1980.
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11The Imagination as Glory: The Poetry of James DickeyJournal of Aesthetic Education 22 (2): 118. 1988.
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13The general aim of this project is to fundamentally re-think the design of teaching materials in view of what is now known about cognitive deficits and about what Howard Gardner has termed ‘multiple intelligences’. The applicant has implemented this strategy in two distinct areas, the first involving the writing of an English language programme for Chinese speakers, the second involving the construction of specialized equipment for teaching elementary logic to blind students. The next phase is t…Read more
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Russell, Edward Lear, Plato, Zeno, Grelling, EubulidesThe Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication 1. 2005.
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96Wittgenstein and situation comedyPhilosophia 37 (4): 605-627. 2009.Wittgenstein discusses speakers exploiting context to inject meaning into the sentences that they use. One facet of situation comedy is context-injected ambiguity, where scriptwriters artfully construct situations such that, because of conflicting contextual clues, a character, though uttering a sentence that contains neither ambiguous words nor amphibolous contruction may plausibly be interpreted in at least two distinct ways. This highlights an important distinction between the (concise) sente…Read more
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45Pure Categorial PrinciplesThe Monist 66 (3): 410-421. 1983.If nowadays categories seems to cover a multitude of different enquiries, we can see some continuity and coherence among them, and we can get some sense of what the subject is, by going back to the first treatise to receive the name, the Categories of Aristotle. The scheme of categories worked out by Aristotle in that book was used by him in subsequent works to solve a variety of problems. On one plausible hypothesis, Aristotle’s scheme was partly shaped by ontological considerations. However, o…Read more
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34Linguistic aspects, meaninglessness and paradox: A rejoinder to John David stone (review)Linguistics and Philosophy 4 (4). 1980.
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891The Barber, Russell's Paradox, Catch-22, God, Contradiction, and MoreIn Graham Priest, J. C. Beall & Bradley Armour-Garb (eds.), The Law of Non-Contradiction, Clarendon Press. pp. 295--313. 2004.outrageous remarks about contradictions. Perhaps the most striking remark he makes is that they are not false. This claim first appears in his early notebooks (Wittgenstein 1960, p.108). In the Tractatus, Wittgenstein argued that contradictions (like tautologies) are not statements (Sätze) and hence are not false (or true). This is a consequence of his theory that genuine statements are pictures.
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11I was commissioned by Barry Smith, Editor of The Monist , to act as Advisory Editor for issue 88.1, January 2005 on the topic Humor, and we drafted the appended description. The deadline for submissions is January 31, 2004, and you are welcome to submit an article to me for consideration (word limit 7,500 words, including footnotes). What the Editor and I are, hoping for, is some serious and seriously good philosophical writing on this topic.
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9IntroductionThe Monist 88 (1): 3-10. 2005.According to some commentators, Wittgenstein’s Tractatus is all one big joke: we plough through the text trying to extract the sense out of each spare and heroic proposition, only to be told at the end, that anyone who understands the author will realize that all of his propositions are nonsensical and so are not even propositions. The whole work is a kind of hoax; the readers are ridiculed, but, with luck, will eventually have to laugh when they come to recognize that what they had taken for de…Read more
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34Why the substitution of co-referential expressions in a statement may result in change of truth-value (Concluding Part)The Reasoner 1 (2): 6-7. 2007.
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35Paradoxes: Their roots, range and resolutionAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 82 (4). 2004.Book Information Paradoxes: Their Roots, Range and Resolution. Paradoxes: Their Roots, Range and Resolution Nicholas Rescher , Chicago and La Salle : Open Court , 2001 , xxiii + 293 , US$24.95 ( paper ). By Nicholas Rescher. Open Court. Chicago and La Salle. Pp. xxiii + 293. US$24.95 (paper:).
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University of KentRegular Faculty
University of St. Andrews
PhD, 1977