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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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BR Tilghman, Wittgenstein, Ethics and Aesthetics: The View from Eternity Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 12 (4): 297-299. 1992.
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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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24Wittgenstein 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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1James C. Klagge, ed., Wittgenstein: Biography and Philosophy Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 22 (2): 123-125. 2002.
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55Self 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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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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84HypocrisyCanadian 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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20On "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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Duncan Richter, Historical Dictionary of Wittgenstein's Philosophy Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 25 (4): 293-295. 2005.
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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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2Brian McGuinness, ed., Wittgenstein and his Times Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 4 (1): 31-34. 1984.
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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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48On 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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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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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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B.R. Tilghman, Wittgenstein, Ethics And Aesthetics: The View From Eternity (review)Philosophy in Review 12 297-299. 1992.
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23Ludwig Wittgenstein on Race, Gender, and Cultural Identity: Philosophy as a Personal EndeavourEdwin Mellen Press. 2010.This book paints a portrait of Ludwig Wittgenstein that is very different from conventional portraits that narrowly depict him as a philosopher's philosopher silent about social, ethical and cultural questions.
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87Wittgenstein’s WomenJournal of Philosophical Research 22 483-508. 1997.While Wittgenstein commentators dismiss his remarks on women and femininity as trivial and unworthy of attention, I focus exactly on what they consider parenthetical and of no philosophical value. First, I document Wittgenstein’s attitudes toward women and femininity, and subject his remarks to critical analysis. Secondly, I retrieve and explore some aspects of Otto Weininger’s influence on Wittgenstein. Thirdly, by introducing considerations of chronology and circumstance, I argue that while th…Read more
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James C. Klagge, ed., Wittgenstein: Biography and Philosophy (review)Philosophy in Review 22 123-125. 2002.
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48The Morality of Self-DeceptionDialogue 13 (1): 25-34. 1974.Is self-deception always immoral? That it is always immoral to deceive oneself seems to have been the ‘received’ view amongst philosophers. Such a view was vigorously supported by Bishop Butler in the eighteenth century. Recently, Herbert Fingarette has argued for a similar position. In this paper I wish to examine Butler's and Fingarette's arguments and contend that no morally sensitive and reasonable person can possibly accept them without thereby ceasing to be morally sensitive and reasonable…Read more
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1Terence Penelhum, Reason and Religious Faith Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 16 (3): 197-201. 1996.
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