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5No Title available: ReviewsPhilosophy 82 (4): 657-661. 2007.This book is a piece of philosophical work of extremely high intellectual quality. Its purpose is to defend in detail a ‘resolute’ reading of the Tractatus. It succeeds in this aim. It thus accomplishes something that has not yet been accomplished even by Conant or Diamond. It is therefore a major contribution to ‘Wittgenstein studies’, to contemporary philosophy and to the philosophical history of recent philosophy.
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5Wittgenstein as Unreliable Narrator/Unreliable AuthorIn Ana Falcato & Antonio Cardiello (eds.), Philosophy in the Condition of Modernism, Springer Verlag. pp. 49-70. 2018.Examining the famous section 133 of the Philosophical Investigations, I seek to elucidate Wittgenstein’s extraordinary writing-stratagem. His writing has often been criticised as ‘obscure’—this evinces a fundamental failure to understand the way Wittgenstein writes, especially in those works where he laboured for years over how to present them. In his two masterworks, Wittgenstein operates as, in broadly Modernist terms, as an unreliable narrator. Wittgenstein seems to offer a theory to end all …Read more
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4Acting from rules: “Internal relations” versus “logical existentialism”International Studies in Philosophy 28 (2): 43-62. 1996.
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4David G. Stern, Wittgenstein on Mind and Language (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 35 (1): 151-152. 1997.
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4Applying WittgensteinContinuum. 2007.A key development in Wittgenstein Studies over recent years has been the advancement of a resolutely therapeutic reading of the Tractatus. Rupert Read offers the first extended application of this reading of Wittgenstein, encompassing Wittgenstein's later work too, to examine the implications of Wittgenstein's work as a whole upon the domains especially of literature, psychopathology, and time. Read begins by applying Wittgenstein's remarks on meaning to language, examining the consequences our …Read more
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4The Ecological Economics Revolution: Looking at Economics from the Vantage-Point of Wittgenstein’s and Kuhn’s PhilosophiesIn 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. 487-502. 2019.Is there a scientific revolution taking place in economics? This piece seeks to apply the thinking of Wittgenstein and of the major philosopher of science who was, I have argued elsewhere, most influenced by him—Kuhn—to the emergence of ‘ecological economics’.
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3Patricia H. Werhane, “Skepticism, Rules, and Private Languages” (review)Philosophy in Review 14 (2): 144-147. 1994.
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1On the nature and centrality of the concept of 'practice' among QuakersQuaker Religious Thought 86 33-39. 1995.
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1Wittgenstein and Faulkner's Benjy: Reflections on and of derangementIn John Gibson Wolfgang Huemer (ed.), The Literary Wittgenstein, Routledge. pp. 267--288. 2004.
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1Patricia H. Werhane, Skepticism, Rules, and Private Languages (review)Philosophy in Review 14 144-147. 1994.
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1Marx and Wittgenstein on vampires and parasites: A critique of capital and metaphysicsIn Gavin Kitching & Nigel Pleasants (eds.), Marx and Wittgenstein: Knowledge, Morality and Politics, Routledge. pp. 35--254. 2002.
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Religion as Sedition: On Liberalism’s Intolerance of Real ReligionArs Disputandi 11. 2011.‘Political liberalism’ claims to manifest the real meaning of democracy, including crucially the toleration of religion – it is through the history of this toleration that it acquired its current form and power. Political liberalism is however, I argue, more hostile to religion than was ever dreamt possible in the philosophy of avowedly anti-clerical Enlightenment Liberalism. For it refuses point-blank ever to engage in serious debate with religion. It considers it of no consequence. It allows r…Read more
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The ancient roots of Wittgenstein's liberatory philosophy : how revisiting the ancients can illuminate the difference between Wittgenstein's philosophy of freedom and Kripke's philosophy of mere anarchyIn Martin Gustafsson, Oskari Kuusela & Jakub Mácha (eds.), Engaging Kripke with Wittgenstein: The Standard Meter, Contingent Apriori, and Beyond, Routledge. 2023.
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On circles of concepts in Goodman and QineDiálogos. Revista de Filosofía de la Universidad de Puerto Rico 31 (68): 23-28. 1996.
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Ludwig WittgensteinIn Leemon McHenry, P. Dematteis & P. Fosl (eds.), British Philosophers, 1800-2000, Bruccoli Clark Layman. pp. 262--320. 2002.
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Goodman's HumeDiálogos. Revista de Filosofía de la Universidad de Puerto Rico 31 (67): 95-122. 1996.
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Is forgiveness ever possible at all?In David Rudrum (ed.), Literature and Philosophy: A Guide to Contemporary Debates, Palgrave-macmillan. 2006.
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The riddle of the new riddle: Goodmanic method applied to GoodmanJournal of Thought 33 (2): 49-73. 1998.
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Extreme aversive emotions: a Wittgensteinian approach to dreadIn Ylva Gustafsson, Camilla Kronqvist & Michael McEachrane (eds.), Emotions and understanding: Wittgensteinian perspectives, Palgrave-macmillan. pp. 221. 2009.
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Practices Without Foundations? Sceptical Readings of Wittgenstein and Goodman: An Investigation Into the Description and Justification of Induction and Meaning at the Intersection of Kripke's "Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language" and Goodman's "Fact, Fiction and Forecast"Dissertation, Rutgers the State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick. 1995.'Practices without foundations' is, in genesis and in effect, a discussion of the following quotation , which serves therefore as an epigraph to it: ;Nelson Goodman's discussion of the 'new riddle of induction' ... deserves comparison with Wittgenstein's work. Indeed ... the basic strategy of Goodman's treatment of the 'new riddle' is strikingly close to Wittgenstein's sceptical arguments .... Although our paradigm of Wittgenstein's problem was formulated for a mathematical problem it ... is com…Read more
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Is Forgiveness Possible?: The Concrete Cases of Thoreau and Rushdie the UnforgivableReason Papers 21 15-35. 1996.
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