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51The Illusion of DoubtOxford University Press UK. 2016.The Illusion of Doubt confronts one of the most important questions in philosophy and beyond: what can we know? The radical sceptic's answer is 'not very much' if we cannot prove that we are not subject to deception. For centuries philosophers have been impressed by the radical sceptic's move, but this book shows that the radical sceptical problem turns out to be an illusion created by a mistaken picture of our evidential situation. This means that we don't need to answer the radical sceptical p…Read more
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25Meaning and Conversational Impropriety in Sceptical ContextsMetaphilosophy 47 (3): 431-448. 2016.According to “disjunctivist neo-Mooreanism”—a position Duncan Pritchard develops in a recent book—it is possible to know the denials of radical sceptical hypotheses, even though it is conversationally inappropriate to claim such knowledge. In a recent paper, on the other hand, Pritchard expounds an “überhinge” strategy, according to which one cannot know the denials of sceptical hypotheses, as “hinge propositions” are necessarily groundless. The present article argues that neither strategy is en…Read more
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52Art and the ‘Morality System’: The Case of Don GiovanniEuropean Journal of Philosophy 23 (4): 1025-1043. 2013.Mozart's great opera, Don Giovanni, poses a number of significant philosophical and aesthetic challenges, and yet it remains, for the most part, little discussed by contemporary philosophers. A notable exception to this is Bernard Williams's important paper, ‘Don Juan as an Idea’, which contains an illuminating discussion of Kierkegaard's ground-breaking interpretation of the opera, ‘The Immediate Erotic Stages or the Musical-Erotic’, in Either/Or. Kierkegaard's pseudonymous author's approach he…Read more
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Wittgensteinian Approaches to ReligionIn Graham Robert Oppy (ed.), Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Philosophy of Religion, Routledge. 2015.
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127Review: 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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66McDowellian 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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