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21The Methodological Significance of Intuitions in PhilosophyIn James Conant & Sebastian Sunday (eds.), Wittgenstein on Philosophy, Objectivity, and Meaning, Cambridge University Press. pp. 62-83. 2019.This chapter discusses the methodological and epistemological significance of so-called intuitions in philosophy; that is, whether intuitions can be understood as evidence for or against philosophical claims or, if not, whether they might have some other kind of methodological significance. A closely connected issue which the chapter addresses, is whether our comprehension of logical, conceptual, or metaphysical possibilities and necessities can be explained by reference to intuitions or the cap…Read more
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19Perspectives on Wittgenstein: an intermittently opinionated surveyIn Hans Johann Glock, G. Kahane, E. Kanterian & O. Kuusela (eds.), Glock, Hans Johann (2007). Perspectives on Wittgenstein: an intermittently opinionated survey. In: Kahane, G; Kanterian, E; Kuusela, O. Wittgenstein's Interpreters. Essays in Memory of Gordon Baker. Oxford: Blackwell, 37-65, . pp. 37-65. 2007.
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16Wittgenstein on Logic as the Method of Philosophy: Re-Examining the Roots and Development of Analytic PhilosophyOxford University Press. 2019.Oskari Kuusela explores Wittgenstein's account of logic in the context of the history of analytic philosophy. He presents Wittgenstein as developing the logical-philosophical approaches of his contemporaries and credits him with resolving the long-standing dispute between the ideal language and ordinary language schools of analytic philosophy.
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15Wittgenstein on Logic and Philosophical MethodCambridge University Press. 2022.This Element outlines Wittgenstein's early and later philosophies of logic, and explains Wittgenstein's views regarding the methodological significance of logic for philosophy. Wittgenstein's early philosophy of logic is presented as a further development of Frege's and Russell's accounts of logic, and Wittgenstein later philosophy as a response to problems with his early views, including confusions about idealization and abstraction in logic. The later Wittgenstein's novel logical methods, such…Read more
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15Wittgenstein’s Tractatus without paradoxRevista de Filosofia Aurora 34 (63). 2022.This article proposes an interpretation of Wittgenstein’s so-called picture theory of propositions that forgoes the attribution of unsayable truths or theses to the Tractatus. Consequently, the interpretation avoids describing the Tractatus as entangled in a paradox of nonsensical theses. Rather, I argue, the proper expression for Wittgenstein’s logical insights is a logical symbolism into whose structure they are encoded. This also applies to his account of propositions as pictures. Its purpose…Read more
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14The problem of dogmatismThe Philosophers' Magazine 44 36-41. 2009.Wittgenstein’s rejection of philosophical theories doesn’t mean that he, or whoever adopts his method, couldn’t have any positive views about the objects of philosophical investigation. It merely means not presenting those views in a dogmatic manner, as theses that all relevant cases must fit. Wittgenstein’s approach allows one not to take sides in philosophical disputes and to take on board whatever might be correct in the traditional theories.
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13Philosophy as Education in Thinking: Why Getting the Reader to Think Matters to WittgensteinIn Shyam Wuppuluri & Newton da Costa (eds.), Wittgensteinian : Looking at the World From the Viewpoint of Wittgenstein's Philosophy, Springer Verlag. pp. 21-37. 2019.Wittgenstein writes in the preface to the Philosophical Investigations: ‘I should not like my writing to spare other people the trouble of thinking. But if possible, to stimulate someone to thoughts of his own.’ In the following I argue that this indicates something essential about Wittgenstein’s approach. In order to remain true to his conception of philosophy without theses, he could not, for example, aim to instruct his reader about about grammar or put forward prescriptions about grammar, lo…Read more
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12Note from the Editors and Prepublication Open Review InformationNordic Wittgenstein Review 9. 2020.Originally published March 20, 2020. This version published December 30, 2020.
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11Note from the Editors and Prepublication Open Review InformationNordic Wittgenstein Review 10. 2021.
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10Ethics After Wittgenstein: Contemplation and Critique (edited by Richard Amesbury and Hartmut von Sass)Nordic Wittgenstein Review 12. 2023.
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9Wittgenstein’s Investigations: Awakening the Imagination by Beth Savickey (review)Estetika: The European Journal of Aesthetics 57 (1): 86-92. 2020.A book review of Beth Savickey. Wittgenstein’s Investigations: Awakening the Imagination. Cham: Springer, 2017, 137 pp. ISBN 978-3-319-45308-8.
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8Defending Diamond Against Harcourt: Wittgensteinian Moral Philosophy and the Subject Matter of EthicsIn Maria Balaska (ed.), Cora Diamond on Ethics, Springer Verlag. pp. 81-102. 2021.This chapter discusses Edward Harcourt’s recent criticism of Cora Diamond’s account of Wittgensteinian moral philosophy, and the view she associates with Wittgenstein that ethics has no specific subject matter. I argue that Harcourt has misconstrued Diamond’s account, and that his own proposal for what a Wittgensteinian moral philosophy would be like is not consistent with what Wittgenstein says about morality. In particular, Wittgenstein’s suggestion in his later philosophy that goodness is not…Read more
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7Wittgenstein’s Investigations: Awakening the Imagination by Beth SavickeyEstetika: The European Journal of Aesthetics 1 86-92. 2020.
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6Wittgenstein's Conception of Philosophy and Philosophical MethodDissertation, University of Oxford. 2003.
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6IntroductionIn Guy Kahane, Edward Kanterian & Oskari Kuusela (eds.), Wittgenstein and His Interpreters, Blackwell. 2007-08-24.This chapter contains section titled: Main Approaches to Wittgenstein Interpretation Themes and Controversies Questions of Style and Method The Articles in This Volume.
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5Philosophy as Education in Thinking: Why Getting the Reader to Think Matters to WittgensteinIn A. C. Grayling, Shyam Wuppuluri, Christopher Norris, Nikolay Milkov, Oskari Kuusela, Danièle Moyal-Sharrock, Beth Savickey, Jonathan Beale, Duncan Pritchard, Annalisa Coliva, Jakub Mácha, David R. Cerbone, Paul Horwich, Michael Nedo, Gregory Landini, Pascal Zambito, Yoshihiro Maruyama, Chon Tejedor, Susan G. Sterrett, Carlo Penco, Susan Edwards-Mckie, Lars Hertzberg, Edward Witherspoon, Michel ter Hark, Paul F. Snowdon, Rupert Read, Nana Last, Ilse Somavilla & Freeman Dyson (eds.), Wittgensteinian : Looking at the World From the Viewpoint of Wittgenstein’s Philosophy, Springer Verlag. pp. 21-37. 2019.Wittgenstein writes in the preface to the Philosophical Investigations: ‘I should not like my writing to spare other people the trouble of thinking. But if possible, to stimulate someone to thoughts of his own.’ In the following I argue that this indicates something essential about Wittgenstein’s approach. In order to remain true to his conception of philosophy without theses, he could not, for example, aim to instruct his reader about about grammar or put forward prescriptions about grammar, lo…Read more
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1Wittgenstein, Ethics and Philosophical ClarificationIn Reshef Agam-Segal & Edmund Dain (eds.), Wittgenstein’s Moral Thought, Routledge. pp. 37-65. 2018.In this chapter I discuss Wittgenstein’s early and later views on ethics in the light of the development of his views on logic and philosophical method, maintaining that these developments are motivated by his aspiration to discover a method that enables one to do justice to the complexity of though and language use, and the richness of phenomena. I begin by discussing certain continuous features of Wittgenstein’s views on ethics and philosophy, in particular his conception that philosophy can o…Read more
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The color-exclusion problem and the development of Wittgenstein's philosophy of logicIn Florian Franken Figueiredo (ed.), Wittgenstein's philosophy in 1929, Routledge. 2023.
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Method. The development of Wittgenstein's philosophyIn Oskari Kuusela & Marie McGinn (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Wittgenstein, Oxford University Press. 2011.
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Nonsense and Clarification in the Tractatus-Resolute and Ineffability Readings and the Tractatus' FailureActa Philosophica Fennica 80 35. 2006.
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Wittgenstein's reception of SocratesIn Christopher Moore (ed.), Brill's Companion to the Reception of Socrates, Brill. 2019.A main theme of this chapter is Ludwig Wittgenstein’s critical reception of Socrates in the 1930s, during which time Wittgenstein was developing a new philosophical methodology that he described as being antithetical to that of Socrates and best explained by way of this contrast. In particular, Wittgenstein is critical of an unexamined assumption relating to conceptual unity that seems to inform Socrates’ philosophical engagements, according to which one can always define a concept, or cases tha…Read more
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Overlooked distinctions : the mirage of contingent A prioriIn Martin Gustafsson, Oskari Kuusela & Jakub Mácha (eds.), Engaging Kripke with Wittgenstein: The Standard Meter, Contingent Apriori, and Beyond, Routledge. 2023.
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