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28Gilbert Ryle: A Mediator between Analytic Philosophy and PhenomenologySouthern Journal of Philosophy 40 (S1): 143-151. 2002.
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8What is Wrong with the Building Block Theory of Language?Grazer Philosophische Studien 36 (1): 79-95. 1989.It is argued that Davidson's basic objection to the Building Block Method in semantics is neither that it gives the wrong explanation of how a first language is learned nor that it assigns a meaning to Single words prior to interpreting a whole language. The arguments against Fregean concepts and truth-values as the references of predicates and sentences are found to be equally superficial as the arguments against a primitive notion reference defmed in causal terms.Davidson's basic objection tur…Read more
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18Gegen den Primat des IntentionalenGrazer Philosophische Studien 28 (1): 105-131. 1986.Die beste Erklärung für den Gegenstandsbezug unserer Gedanken erhalten wir, so die These meines Aufsatzes, indem wir die Semantik jener Ausdrücke studieren, mit denen wir uns auf Individuen beziehen. Für diese methodologische Entscheidung sprechen dreierlei Gründe: Erstens die Uneinheitlichkeit der Kategorie singulärer Terme; zweitens die Notwendigkeit, zwischen einem starken und einem schwachen Begriff des de re Glaubens zu unterscheiden; sowie drittens die Unmöglichkeit, psychische Phänomene z…Read more
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21The immanence theory of intentionalityIn David Woodruff Smith & Amie Lynn Thomasson (eds.), Phenomenology and Philosophy of Mind, Oxford: Clarendon Press. pp. 167. 2005.
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11Die Entwicklung der Autorität der Ersten PersonDeutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 62 (5). 2014.
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1IntentionalityIn Liliana Albertazzi, Massimo Libardi & Roberto Poli (eds.), The School of Franz Brentano, Kluwer Academic Publishers. 1995.
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34Young children’s protest: what it can (not) tell us about early normative understandingPhenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 14 (4): 719-740. 2015.In this paper we address the question how children come to understand normativity through simple forms of social interaction. A recent line of research suggests that even very young children can understand social norms quite independently of any moral context. We focus on a methodological procedure developed by Rakoczy et al., Developmental Psychology, 44, 875–881, that measures children’s protest behaviour when a pre-established constitutive rule has been violated. Children seem to protest when…Read more
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5Grazer Philosophische Studien, Vol 92 – 2015 (edited book)Brill | Rodopi. 2015.Grazer Philosophische Studien is a peer reviewed journal that publishes articles on philosophical problems in every area, especially articles related to the analytic tradition.
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13Was heißt vollständige Verifikation?Grazer Philosophische Studien 33 (1): 227-247. 1989.Wittgenstein meint, nur ein endliches Verifikationsverfahren könne einem Satz Sinn verleihen. Darin unterscheidet er sich sowohl vom alten Verifikationismus des Wiener Kreises als auch von neueren Bedeutungstheorien, die den Satzsinn durch die Bedingungen des berechtigten Behauptens erklären wollen. Es wird gezeigt, daß beide Positionen in einen Regreß münden, sobald sie Wittgensteins Forderung nach vollständiger Verifizierbarkeit ernst nehmen. Weder der epistemische Begriff des "endgültigen" Ve…Read more
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20Essays on the Philosophy of Terence Horgan (edited book)Atlanta: Rodopi. 2002.... Studien-26 THEMES IN MY PHILOSOPHICAL WORK Terry HORGAN University of Memphis This paper is an overview of my philosophical work. ...
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13Über die Einfachheit der WahmehmungserlebnisseIn Mark Siebel & Markus Textor (eds.), Semantik und Ontologie: Beiträge zur philosophischen Forschung, Ontos Verlag. pp. 2--15. 2004.
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10Semantic Holism Is Here To StayGrazer Philosophische Studien 46 (1): 1-16. 1993.Critically reflecting some theses of Fodor & LePore's Holism, it is argued that semantic holism in spite of all their criticism is not defeated. As a consequence of the rejection of the analytic-synthetic distinction, a first result is that they do not take Traditional Holism, as it originates from Frege and Wittgenstein, serious at all. Whereas a Weak Anatomism, inspired with views of Traditional Holism, might be an interesting alternative to atomism and holism even for Quine and Neo-Fregeans l…Read more
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1Was Brentano an Early Deflationist about Truth?The Monist 100 (1): 1-14. 2017.It is often assumed that deflationist accounts of truth are a product of philosophy of logic and language in the twentieth century. In this paper I show why this assumption is historically short-sighted. An early version of deflationism about truth can already be found in Brentano’s 1889 lecture “On the Concept of Truth.” That Brentano is a precursor of deflationism has gone largely unnoticed because of a different reception of his lecture: according to most scholars, Brentano proposes in it a r…Read more
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51Gilbert Ryle: A Mediator between Analytic Philosophy and PhenomenologySouthern Journal of Philosophy 40 (S1): 143-151. 2002.
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7Wittgenstein--eine Neubewertung: Akten des 14. Internationalen Wittgenstein-Symposiums, Feier des 100. Geburtstages, 13. bis 20. August 1989, Kirchberg am Wechsel (Österreich) (edited book, review)Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky. 1990.
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60Gegenstandslose GedankenGrazer Philosophische Studien 25 (1): 501-531. 1985.Thoughts may have a subject — they may concern a certain topic —without having an object in the sense of being directed upon a referent. It is argued that, once this distinction is acknowledged, a third position between Meinong and Russell can be established. There will then be objectless thoughts which need not be false in view of the non-existence of their purported referents. But there will also be object-dependent thoughts which have their referents necessarily. Neither logically proper name…Read more
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83The Mind of Donald Davidson (edited book)Netherlands: Rodopi. 1989.WHAT IS PRESENT TO THE MIND? Donald DAVIDSON The University of California at Berkeley There is a sense in which anything we think about is, ...
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43Die natur Des subjektiven: Einige bemerkungen zu kutscheras objektivismus-kritik (review)Erkenntnis 48 (2-3): 183-188. 1998.Kutschera's criticism of an objectivist theory of mind is shown to rest on a premise which an objectivist need not accept, namely, that there is a deep metaphysical distinction between the physical and the psychological domain. This premise can be rejected on naturalistic grounds. Referring to the work of Rosenthal, Dennett and Davidson, it is argued that less metaphysically loaded explanations can be given of what is subjective about the mind.
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1Rezension zu: Michael Dummett: Ursprünge der analytischen Philosophie. Übersetzt von Joachim Schulte. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp 1988, 200 S (review)Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 73 (3): 337-344. 1991.
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53Intentionality, Information, and ExperienceIn Alexander Hieke & Hannes Leitgeb (eds.), Reduction: Between the Mind and the Brain, Ontos Verlag. pp. 12--9. 2009.The investigation of the mind has been one of the major concerns of our philosophical tradition and is still a dominant subject in modern philosophy and science. Many philosophers in the scientific tradition want to solve the "puzzles of the mind," but believe the "puzzles" to be puzzles of the brain. So, whilst the former think of the mental as something of its own kind, the latter deny that philosophy of mind has to do with anything else but the brain. Philosophers also believe that reduction …Read more
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7Wittgenstein: Eine Neubewertung/Towards a Re-evaluation (edited book)Verlag Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky. 1990.An läßlich der I 00. Wiederkehr des Geburtstages von Ludwig Wittgenstein, dem wohl bedeutendsten Philosophen unseres Jahrhunderts und Namensgeber der veranstaltenden Gesellschaft, wurde das 14. Internationale Symposium in Kirchberg gänzlich unter die programmatische Perspektive einer Neubewertung seiner Philosophie gestellt. Dem Anlasse entsprechend war dieses Symposium das weitaus größte aller bisherigen mit nahezu 600 Teilnehmern und 230 Vorträgen. Nur 138 davon konnten in die Akten des 14. Sy…Read more
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Grazer Philosophische Studien: Internationale Zeitschrift Für Analytische Philosophie. Gegründet von Rudolf Haller (edited book)Brill | Rodopi. 2004.
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90What is pre-reflective self-consciousness? Brentano's theory of inner consciousness revisitedIn Denis Fisette & Guillaume Fréchette (eds.), Themes from Brentano, Editions Rodopi. pp. 44--41. 2013.
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26Erratum to: Young children’s protest: what it can (not) tell us about early normative understandingPhenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 16 (1): 179-179. 2017.
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9Twardowski's Distinction between Actions and ProductsIn Katarzyna Kijania-Placek & Jan Woleński (eds.), The Lvov-Warsaw school and contemporary philosophy, Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 23--34. 1998.
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20th Century Philosophy |
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20th Century Philosophy |
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