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3Alfred R. Mele, Irrationality: An Essay on Akrasia, Self-Deception and Self-Control Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 8 (5): 178-181. 1988.
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22Was wittgenstein a fideist? two viewsSophia 41 (2): 41-54. 2002.Kai Nielsen and Felicity McCutcheon have each in their own way taken issue with the received view that Wittgenstein’s remarks on religious language are to be construed as a form of “fideism”. They each provide sharply divergent views on Wittgenstein’s remarks on the meaning of religious language and, indeed, the importance of religion itself. These differences, however, serve to bring into relief both Wittgenstein’s recognition of the genuinely descriptive nature of ordinary religious discourse …Read more
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8Wittgenstein at the Movies: Cinematic Investigations (edited book)Lexington Books. 2011.Wittgenstein at the Movies is centered on in-depth explorations of two intriguing experimental films on Wittgenstein: Derek Jarman's Wittgenstein and Péter Forgács' Wittgenstein Tractatus. The featured essays look at cinematic interpretations of Wittgenstein's life and philosophy in a manner bound to provoke the lively interest of Wittgenstein scholars, film theorists, students of film aesthetics and artistic modernism, and those concerned with the world of Cambridge in the first half of the twe…Read more
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25Rorty on belief and self‐deceptionInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 17 (1): 464-473. 1974.In this note I argue that although Rorty's programme (Inquiry, Vol. 15, No. 4) to bring into focus the role that belief plays in self?deception is a salutary one, her actual claims obscure that role. It is also contended that Rorty fails to de?mythologize self?deception, since her account is either paradox?ridden or else describes a concept recognizably distinct from the concept of self?deception
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13Embarrassment and Self-EsteemJournal of Philosophical Research 15 341-349. 1990.Emotions are in as a philosophical topic. Yet the recent literature is bent on grand theorizing rather than attempting to explore particular emotions and their roles in our lives. In this paper, I aim to remedy this situation a little by exploring the emotion of embarrassment. First, I critically examine R.C. Solomon’s conceptual sketch and try to distinguish “embarrassment” from “shame”, “humiliation” and “being amused”. Secondly, I argue that “private embarrassment” is a coherent and useful id…Read more
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BR Tilghman, Wittgenstein, Ethics and Aesthetics: The View from Eternity Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 12 (4): 297-299. 1992.
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15OnCanadian Journal of Philosophy 8 (1): 117-129. 1978.Not so long ago it was fashionable to claim that it is not the moral philosopher's business to say what things are good or what actions we should perform. This view is succinctly stated by A. J. Ayer:There is a distinction, which is not always sufficiently marked, between the activity of a moralist, who sets out to elaborate a moral code, or to encourage its observance, and that of a moral philosopher, whose concern is not primarily to make moral judgments but to analyse their nature.On the othe…Read more
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25Wittgenstein Reads Weininger (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2004.Otto Weininger was one of the most controversial and widely read authors of fin-de-siècle Vienna. He was both condemned for his misogyny, self-hatred, anti-semitism and homophobia, as well as praised for his uncompromising and outspoken approach to gender and morality. For Wittgenstein Weininger was a 'remarkable genius'. He repeatedly recommended Weininger's Sex and Character to friends and students and included the author on a short list of figures who had influenced him. The purpose of this n…Read more
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1Lloyd H. Steffen, Self-Deception and the Common Life (review)Philosophy in Review 7 (5): 216-218. 1987.
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1Hendrik Hart, Ronald A. Kuipers and Kai Nielsen, eds., Walking the Tightrope of Faith: Philosophical Conversations about Reason and Religion Reviewed by (review)Philosophy in Review 20 (3): 186-189. 2000.
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1James C. Klagge, ed., Wittgenstein: Biography and Philosophy Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 22 (2): 123-125. 2002.
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56Self deceptionCanadian Journal of Philosophy 4 (September): 41-49. 1974.People do, quite naturally and not uncommonly, speak of other people as deceiving themselves, as being their own dupes. A man's child is ill and growing constantly worse. The father keeps talking optimistically about the future, keeps explaining away the evidence, and keeps pointing to what he insists are signs of improvement. We can easily imagine ourselves deciding that he has deceived himself about his son's condition. Nor is it the case that talk of self-deception is appropriate only in conn…Read more
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85HypocrisyCanadian Journal of Philosophy 9 (2). 1979.What is it to be a hypocrite? Gilbert Ryle's answer is the by now commonly held one: to be hypocritical is to “try to appear activated by a motive other than one's real motive”; again, it is “deliberately to refrain from saying what comes to one's lips, while pretending to say frankly things one does not mean.” Can this be the right answer? My aim is to show that it cannot. In doing this I hope to gesture towards a richer understanding of our notion of hypocrisy.
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Ranjit Chatterjee, Wittgenstein and Judaism: A Triumph of Concealment (review)Philosophy in Review 26 83-85. 2006.
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Duncan Richter, Historical Dictionary of Wittgenstein's Philosophy Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 25 (4): 293-295. 2005.
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21On "Moral Expertise"Canadian Journal of Philosophy 8 (1): 117-129. 1978.Not so long ago it was fashionable to claim that it is not the moral philosopher's business to say what things are good or what actions we should perform. This view is succinctly stated by A. J. Ayer:There is a distinction, which is not always sufficiently marked, between the activity of a moralist, who sets out to elaborate a moral code, or to encourage its observance, and that of a moral philosopher, whose concern is not primarily to make moral judgments but to analyse their nature.On the othe…Read more
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2Brian McGuinness, ed., Wittgenstein and his Times Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 4 (1): 31-34. 1984.
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7Michael Hymers, Wittgenstein and the Practice of Philosophy. Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 30 (5): 355-357. 2010.
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51On the track of reason: essays in honor of Kai Nielsen (edited book)Westview Press. 1992.This festschrift includes a dozen essays on issues that have been at the focus of Kai Nielsen's research, mainly issues in ethics and political philosophy. Among these are four essays on socialism and Marxism. There are also essays on philosophy of religion, epistemology, and meta-philosophy.
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24Wittgenstein: Conversations 1949–1951 O. K. Bowsma Edited by J. L. Craft and Ronald E. Hustwit Indianapolis, IN: Hackett, 1986. Pp. xxiv, 78 (review)Dialogue 26 (4): 771. 1987.
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29Book Review: Jews and Gender: Responses to Otto Weininger (review)Philosophy and Literature 20 (2): 548-550. 1996.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Reviewed by:Jews and Gender: Responses to Otto WeiningerBéla SzabadosJews and Gender: Responses to Otto Weininger, edited by Nancy A. Harrowitz and Barbara Hyams; 341 pp. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1995, $54.95 cloth, $24.95 paper.“Every artist has been influenced by others and shows traces of that influence yet his significance for us is nothing but his personality. What he inherits from others can be nothing but eggshel…Read more
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17Jealousy and Self-KnowledgePhilosophie Et Culture: Actes du XVIIe Congrès Mondial de Philosophie 3 477-481. 1988.
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60Reading Rousseau through the eyes of embarrassmentBritish Journal of Aesthetics 34 (3): 266-277. 1994.
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