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6Attuning philosophy and literary criticism: a response to 'In the Heart of the Country'In Patrick Hayes & Jan Wilm (eds.), Beyond the Ancient Quarrel: Literature, Philosophy, and J.M. Coetzee, Oxford University Press. 2017.
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6How Wrong Can One Be?Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 96 (1). 1996.Max de Gaynesford; How Wrong Can One Be?, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Volume 96, Issue 1, 1 June 1996, Pages 387–394, https://doi.org/10.1093/arist.
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4Radical self-silencing is a particular variety of speech act disablement where the subject silences themselves, whether knowingly or not, because of their own faults or deficiencies. The paper starts with some concrete cases and preparatory comments to help orient and motivate the investigation. It then offers a summary analysis, drawing on a small number of basic concepts to identify its five individually necessary and jointly sufficient conditions and discriminating their two basic forms, ‘int…Read more
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4Hilary PutnamRoutledge. 2006.Putnam is one of the most influential philosophers of recent times, and his authority stretches far beyond the confines of the discipline. However, there is a considerable challenge in presenting his work both accurately and accessibly. This is due to the width and diversity of his published writings and to his frequent spells of radical re-thinking. But if we are to understand how and why philosophy is developing as it is, we need to attend to Putnam's whole career. He has had a dramatic influe…Read more
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3Incense and Insensibility: Austin on the ‘Non‐Seriousness’ of PoetryIn Severin Schroeder (ed.), Philosophy of Literature, Wiley‐blackwell. 2010.This chapter contains sections titled: I II III IV V.
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3Being at home : human beings and human bodiesIn Brian Leiter & Michael Rosen (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Continental Philosophy, Oxford University Press. 2007.
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3The Rift In The Lute: Attuning Poetry and PhilosophyOxford University Press. 2017.What is it for poetry to be serious and to be taken seriously? What is it to be open to poetry, exposed to its force, attuned to what it says and alive to what it does? These are important questions that call equally on poetry and philosophy. But poetry and philosophy, notoriously, have an ancient quarrel. Maximilian de Gaynesford sets out to understand and convert their mutual antipathy into something mutually enhancing, so that we can begin to answer these and other questions. The key to attun…Read more
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2Wittgenstein on “I” and the SelfIn Hans-Johann Glock & John Hyman (eds.), A Companion to Wittgenstein, Wiley-blackwell. 2017.Consensus identifies an underlying continuity to Wittgenstein's treatment of the self and 'I', despite certain obvious surface variations and revisions. Almost all Wittgenstein's arguments and observations concerning 'I' and the self in the Tractatus are arranged as attempts to explicate. The philosophical self is not the human being, not the human body, or the human soul, with which psychology deals, but rather the metaphysical subject, the limit of the world, not a part of it. The picture that…Read more
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2Kant and Strawson on the First PersonIn Hans-Johann Glock (ed.), Strawson and Kant, Clarendon Press. 2003.
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1Balance in The Golden Bowl: Attuning Philosophy and Literary CriticismIn Sanjit Chakraborty & James Ferguson Conant (eds.), Engaging Putnam, De Gruyter. pp. 309-330. 2022.
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1How wrong can one be?Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 96 (1): 387-394. 1996.Max de Gaynesford; How Wrong Can One Be?, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Volume 96, Issue 1, 1 June 1996, Pages 387–394, https://doi.org/10.1093/arist.
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Being at home : human beings and human bodiesIn Brian Leiter & Michael Rosen (eds.), The Oxford handbook of continental philosophy, Oxford University Press. 2007.
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Contempt and IntegrityIn Nafsika Athanassoulis & Samantha Vice (eds.), The Moral Life: Essays in Honour of John Cottingham, Palgrave-macmillan. 2008.
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WV Quine, From Stimulus to Science Paolo Crivelli and Marco Santambrogio, eds, On Quine: New EssaysRadical Philosophy. forthcoming.
Areas of Specialization
Metaphysics and Epistemology |
History of Western Philosophy |
Value Theory |
Areas of Interest
Metaphysics and Epistemology |
History of Western Philosophy |
Value Theory |