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126Review: Stephen Mulhall: Wittgenstein's Private Language: Grammar, Nonsense, and Imagination in Philosophical Investigations 243-315 (review)Mind 117 (468): 1108-1112. 2008.
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138‘Hinge Propositions’ and the ‘Logical’ Exclusion of DoubtInternational Journal for the Study of Skepticism 6 (2-3): 165-181. 2016._ Source: _Volume 6, Issue 2-3, pp 165 - 181 Wittgenstein’s notion of ‘hinge propositions’—those propositions that stand fast for us and around which all empirical enquiry turns—remains controversial and elusive, and none of the recent attempts to make sense of it strike me as entirely satisfactory. The literature on this topic tends to divide into two camps: either a ‘quasi-epistemic’ reading is offered that seeks to downplay the radical nature of Wittgenstein’s proposal by assimilating his tho…Read more
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41Vom Zweifel zur verzweiflung: Grundbegriffe der existenzphilosophie sören kierkegaardsEuropean Journal of Philosophy 12 (1). 2004.Books Reviewed:Kristin Kaufmann,Annemarie Pieper, Søren Kierkegaard
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65McDowellian Neo-Mooreanism?International Journal for the Study of Skepticism 3 (3): 202-217. 2013.In a series of recent articles, Duncan Pritchard argues for a ‘neo-Moorean’ interpretation of John McDowell’s anti-sceptical strategy. Pritchard introduces a distinction between ‘favouring’ and ‘discriminating’ epistemic grounds in order to show that within the radical sceptical context an absence of ‘discriminating’ epistemic grounds allowing one to distinguish brain-in-a-vat from non-brain-in-a-vat scenarios does not preclude possessing knowledge of the denials of sceptical hypotheses. I argue…Read more
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63A confusion of the spheres: Kierkegaard and Wittgenstein on philosophy and religionOxford University Press. 2007.As well as contributing to contemporary debate about how to read Kierkegaard's and Wittgenstein's work, A Confusion of the Spheres addresses issues which not ...
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628Wittgenstein and the ’Factorization Model’ of Religious BeliefEuropean Journal for Philosophy of Religion 6 (1): 93--110. 2014.In the contemporary literature Wittgenstein has variously been labelled a fideist, a non-cognitivist and a relativist of sorts. The underlying motivation for these attributions seems to be the thought that the content of a belief can clearly be separated from the attitude taken towards it. Such a ”factorization model’ which construes religious beliefs as consisting of two independent ”factors’ -- the belief’s content and the belief-attitude -- appears to be behind the idea that one could, for ex…Read more
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11True, but Inexpressible? Wittgenstein and ‘McDowellian Neo-Mooreanism’In David Wagner, Wolfram Pichler, Elisabeth Nemeth & Richard Heinrich (eds.), Publications of the Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society - N.S. 17, De Gruyter. pp. 163-176. 2011.
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264It is the object of this paper to investigate the parallels discernible between Wittgenstein’s Tractatus and Kierkegaard’s pseudonymous writings. While such attempts have, in the past, generally focussed on either trying to show that Kierkegaard’s notion of paradox is similar to Wittgenstein’s concept of the ineffable or that both thinkers seek to undermine the idea that there are things that cannot be put into words, I argue here that we must look for the affinities between the two philosophers…Read more
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77Wittgenstein and Analytic Philosophy: Essays for P.M.S. Hacker * EDITED BY Hans-Johann Glock and John Hyman (review)Analysis 70 (2): 379-381. 2010.(No abstract is available for this citation)
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