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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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80Iv *-throwing away 'the bedrock'Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 105 (1): 81-98. 2005.If one is impressed with Wittgenstein's philosophizing, then it is a deep mistake to think that the terms that he made famous-philosophical terms like 'form of life', 'language-game', 'everyday', 'bedrock'-are the key to his philosophy. On the contrary, they are in the end an obstacle to be overcome. The last temptation of the Wittgensteinian philosopher is to treat these terms as providing a kind of ersatz foundation. They are rather a ladder that takes one... to where one already is, only now …Read more
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80The road since ‘structure’ (review)British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 55 (1): 175-178. 2004.
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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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1Patricia H. Werhane, Skepticism, Rules, and Private Languages (review)Philosophy in Review 14 144-147. 1994.
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47Literature as Philosophy of Psychopathology: William Faulkner as WittgensteinPhilosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 10 (2): 115-124. 2003.I argue that the language of some schizophrenic persons is akin to the language of Benjy in Williams Faulkner's novel The Sound and the Fury, in one crucial respect: Faulkner displays to us language that, ironically, cannot be translated or interpreted into sense... without irreducible 'loss' or 'garbling.' The same is true of famous schizophrenic writers, such as Renee and Schreber. Such 'garbling' is of an odd kind, admittedly: it is a garbling that inadvisably turns nonsense into sense.... Fa…Read more
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23Wittgenstein and the Grammar of Literary Experience by James Guetti (review)British Journal of Aesthetics 35 (4): 412-413. 1995.
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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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63Wittgenstein and Zen Buddhism: one practice, no dogmaIn Mario D'Amato, Jay L. Garfield & Tom J. F. Tillemans (eds.), Pointing at the Moon: Buddhism, Logic, Analytic Philosophy, Oxford University Press. pp. 13--23. 2009.
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164 Kuhn's Fundamental InsightIn Vasō Kintē & Theodore Arabatzis (eds.), Kuhn's The structure of scientific revolutions revisited, Routledge. pp. 64. 2012.
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7Wittgenstein and literary languageIn Garry Hagberg & Walter Jost (eds.), A Companion to the Philosophy of Literature, Wiley-blackwell. 2007.
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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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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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16David G. Stern, Wittgenstein on Mind and Language (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 35 (1): 151-153. 1997.
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59A strengthened ethical version of Moore's Paradox? Lived paradoxes of self-loathing in psychosis and neurosisPhilosophical Psychology 25 (1). 2012.Wittgenstein once remarked: ?nobody can truthfully say of himself that he is filth. Because if I do say it, though it can be true in a sense, this is not a truth by which I myself can be penetrated: otherwise I should either have to go mad or change myself.? This has an immediate corollary, previously unnoted: that it may be true that someone is simply filth?a rotten person through and through?and also true that they don?t believe that they are filth (or, in a certain sense, that they do), but t…Read more
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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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40Wittgenstein and Marx on ordinary and philosophical languageEssays in Philosophy 1 (2): 1-41. 2000.
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133Is ‘what is time?’ A good question to ask?Philosophy 77 (2): 193-210. 2002.Dummett in his recent paper in Philosophy replies in the negative to the question, “Is time a continuum of instants?” But Dummett seems to think that this negative reply entails giving an alternative theoretical account; he nowhere canvasses the possibility that there is something amiss with the question. In other words, Dummett thinks that he still has to reply to the question, “What (then) is time?” I offer no answer whatsover to such ‘questions’. Rather, I ask what it could possibly mean to s…Read more
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38The Tale Parfit Tells: Analytic Metaphysics of Personal Identity vs. Wittgensteinian Film and LiteraturePhilosophy and Literature 39 (1): 128-153. 2015.[B]ecause I have shown my hands to be empty you must now expect not only that an illusion will follow but that you will acquiesce in it.Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.What has to be overcome is not difficulty of the intellect but of the will.“Are you watching closely?”The last line of Parfit’s description of the “branch-line case” of tele-transportation, the very epicenter of his hugely influential thought experiment that famously proposes a radically new view on “personal iden…Read more
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53The difference principle is not action-guidingCritical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 14 (4): 487-503. 2011.Utilitarianism would allow any degree of inequality whatsoever productive of the greatest happiness of the greatest number. But it does not guide political action, because determining what level of inequality would produce the greatest happiness of the greatest number is opaque due to well-known psychological coordination problems. Does Rawlsian liberalism, as is generally assumed, have some superiority to Utilitarianism in this regard? This paper argues not; for Rawls’s ‘difference principle’ w…Read more
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