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31Philosophy in Question: Philosophical Investigations 133Philosophical Investigations 18 (4): 348-361. 1995.
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90The enchantment of words: Wittgenstein's Tractatus logico-philosophicusOxford University Press. 2006.The Enchantment of Words is a study of Wittgenstein's early masterpiece, the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. Recent years have seen a great revival of interest in the Tractatus. McManus's study of the work offers novel readings of all its major themes and sheds light on issues in metaphysics, ethics and the philosophies of mind, language, and logic.
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62Heidegger, measurement and the 'intelligibility' of scienceEuropean Journal of Philosophy 15 (1). 2007.
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41Freedom, Grammar and the Given—Mind and World and WittgensteinJournal of the British Society for Phenomenology 31 (3): 248-263. 2000.
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37Austerity, Psychology, and the Intelligibility of NonsensePhilosophical Topics 42 (2): 161-199. 2014.This paper explores difficulties that resolute readers of the early Wittgenstein face, arising out of what I call the ‘sheer lack’ interpretation of their ‘austere’ conception of nonsense, and the intelligibility of philosophical confusion—there being a sense in which we rightly talk of a ‘grasp’ of philosophical nonsense and indeed of its ‘logic’. Such readers depict philosophical and ‘plain’ nonsense as distinct psychological kinds; but I argue that the ‘intelligibility’ of philosophical confu…Read more
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Wittgenstein, Sociology and the 'Transcendental Perspective’In Denis McManus (ed.), Culture and Value: Contributions of the Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society, . pp. 397-403. 1995.
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2John Coates, The Claims of Common Sense: Moore, Wittgenstein, Keynes and the Social Sciences Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 17 (3): 157-159. 1997.
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137Heidegger and the Supposition of a Single, Objective WorldEuropean Journal of Philosophy 23 (2): 195-220. 2012.Christina Lafont has argued that the early Heidegger's reflections on truth and understanding are incompatible with ‘the supposition of a single objective world’. This paper presents her argument, reviews some responses that the existing Heidegger literature suggests, and offers what I argue is a superior response. Building on a deeper exploration of just what the above ‘supposition’ demands, I argue that a crucial assumption that Lafont and Haugeland both accept must be rejected, namely, that d…Read more
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203Boghossian, Miller and Lewis on dispositional theories of meaningMind and Language 15 (4): 393-399. 2000.Paul Boghossian has pointed out a ’circularity problem’ for dispositionalist theories of meaning: as a result of the holistic character of belief fixation, one cannot identify someone’s meaning such and such with facts of the form S is disposed to utter P under conditions C, without C involving the semantic and intentional notions that such a theory was to explain. Alex Miller has recently suggested an ’ultra‐sophisticated dispositionalism’ (modelled on David Lewis’s well known version of functi…Read more
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59Wittgenstein, Moore, and the Allure of Transcendental IdealismPhilosophical Topics 43 (1-2): 125-148. 2015.This paper explores the place of realist and idealist themes in Wittgenstein’s Tractatus. It takes as its starting point Adrian Moore’s denial that transcendental idealism is present in that text only as an “enemy”—to be “diagnosed and dispelled,” as Peter Sullivan puts it. I question whether reflection on TI can perform the positive task which Moore’s reading assigns to it—in particular, whether coming to recognize its ultimate incoherence leads us to a recognition of “the forces that give this…Read more
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127The general form of the proposition: The unity of language and the generality of logic in the early WittgensteinPhilosophical Investigations 32 (4): 295-318. 2009.The paper presents an interpretation of the thinking behind the early Wittgenstein's "general form of the proposition." It argues that a central role is played by the assumption that all domains of discourse are governed by the same laws of logic. The interpretation is presented partly through a comparison with ideas presented recently by Michael Potter and Peter Sullivan; the paper argues that the above assumption explains more of the key characteristics of the "general form of the proposition"…Read more
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44Heidegger and Authenticity: From Resoluteness to ReleasementInternational Journal of Philosophical Studies 20 (5): 777-782. 2012.No abstract
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44Being-Towards-Death and Owning One's JudgmentPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 91 (2): 245-272. 2015.
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42Error, Hallucination and the Concept of 'Ontology' in the Early Work of HeideggerPhilosophy 71 (278). 1996.Recently the attempt has been made to demonstrate Heidegger's relevance to the concerns of analytic philosophers. A focus for this effort has been the criticism in his early work of Cartesian ontology. While a number of important works have mapped out this area of Heidegger's thought, a crucial task has not been carried out, namely that of assessing how Heidegger can accommodate those phenomena which motivate the Cartesian to adopt his highly counter-intuitive ontology. As long as we fail to exa…Read more
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42On being as a whole and being-a-wholeIn Lee Braver (ed.), Division III of Heidegger’s Being and Time: The Unanswered Question of Being, Mit Press. 2015.This paper identifies a problem that Aristotle revealed and that Heidegger’s own insights, into the diverse forms that the Being of entities takes, exacerbated: the problem is whether there is sense to the idea of ‘Being in general’—‘Being as a whole’—and this is a problem because there not being such sense threatens the very possibility of the discipline of ontology. The paper proposes that Heidegger envisaged the project which a completed Being and Time would have carried out as an attempt to …Read more
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45Heidegger and the Measure of TruthOxford University Press. 2012.Denis McManus presents a novel account of Martin Heidegger's early vision of our subjectivity and the world we inhabit. He explores key elements of Heidegger's philosophy, and argues that Heidegger's central claims identify genuine demands that must be met if we are to achieve the feat of thinking determinate thoughts about the world around us
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246Book review. Charles and Child (eds.)'Wittgensteinian Themes', Crary and Read (eds.)'The New Wittgenstein'and McCarthy and Stidd (eds.)'Wittgenstein in America' (review)Mind 114 (453): 129-137. 2005.
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20The General Form of the Proposition: The Unity of Language and the Generality of Logic in the Early WittgensteinPhilosophical Investigations 32 (4): 295-318. 2009.The paper presents an interpretation of the thinking behind the early Wittgenstein's “general form of the proposition.” It argues that a central role is played by the assumption that all domains of discourse are governed by the same laws of logic. The interpretation is presented partly through a comparison with ideas presented recently by Michael Potter and Peter Sullivan; the paper argues that the above assumption explains more of the key characteristics of the “general form of the proposition”…Read more
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