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2. The Sense in Which Grammar Is ArbitraryIn Wittgenstein on the Arbitrariness of Grammar, Princeton University Press. pp. 21-65. 2004.
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2Herder: Philosophical Writings (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2002.Johann Gottfried von Herder is one of the most important German philosophers of the eighteenth century, who had enormous influence on later thinkers such as Hegel, Schleiermacher and Nietzsche. His wide-ranging ideas were formative in the development of linguistics, hermeneutics, anthropology and bible scholarship, and even today they retain their vitality and relevance to an extraordinary degree. This volume presents a translation of Herder's most important and characteristic philosophical writ…Read more
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63What was the source of this great flowering? Much of the credit for it has tended to go to Jacobi and Mendelssohn, who in 1785 began a famous public dispute concerning the question whether or not Lessing had been a Spinozist, as Jacobi alleged Lessing had admitted to him shortly before his death in 1781. But Jacobi and Mendelssohn were both negatively disposed towards Spinoza. In On the Doctrine of Spinoza in Letters to Mr
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3Chapter Three. Skepticism and MetaphysicsIn Kant and Skepticism, Princeton University Press. pp. 13-15. 2009.
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12Chapter Five. Humean SkepticismIn Kant and Skepticism, Princeton University Press. pp. 21-32. 2009.
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87. Alternative Grammars? The Problem of AccessIn Wittgenstein on the Arbitrariness of Grammar, Princeton University Press. pp. 153-188. 2004.
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121Kant and Skepticism (edited book)Princeton University Press. 2009.This book puts forward a much-needed reappraisal of Immanuel Kant's conception of and response to skepticism, as set forth principally in the Critique of Pure Reason. It is widely recognized that Kant's theoretical philosophy aims to answer skepticism and reform metaphysics--Michael Forster makes the controversial argument that those aims are closely linked. He distinguishes among three types of skepticism: "veil of perception" skepticism, which concerns the external world; Humean skepticism, wh…Read more
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21Eine Revolution in der Philosophie der Sprache, der Linguistik, der Hermeneutik und der Übersetzungstheorie im späten 18. und frühen 19. Jahrhundert: deutsche und französische Beiträge (review)In Adriana Serban & Larisa Cercel (eds.), Friedrich Schleiermacher and the Question of Translation, De Gruyter. pp. 23-40. 2015.
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12Chapter Seven. Defenses against Humean SkepticismIn Kant and Skepticism, Princeton University Press. pp. 40-43. 2009.
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73. The Sense in Which Grammar Is Non-ArbitraryIn Wittgenstein on the Arbitrariness of Grammar, Princeton University Press. pp. 66-81. 2004.
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61Nietzsche on morality as a “sign language of the affects”Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 60 (1-2): 165-188. 2017.This article argues that Nietzsche’s meta-ethics is basically a form of sentimentalism, but a form of sentimentalism that includes cognitive components in the sentiments that are involved. The article also ascribes to Nietzsche the more original position that the moral sentiments in question vary dramatically between historical periods, cultures, and even individuals, sometimes indeed to the point of becoming inverted between one case and another. Finally, the article also attributes to Nietzsch…Read more
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6AcknowledgmentsIn Wittgenstein on the Arbitrariness of Grammar, Princeton University Press. 2004.
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80This paper concerns a surprisingly sharp disagreement about the nature of ancient Pyrrhonism which first emerges clearly in Kant and Hegel, but which continues in contemporary interpretations. The paper begins by explaining the character of this disagreement, then attempts to adjudicate it in the light of the ancient texts.
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90Herder has been sufficiently neglected in recent times, especially among philosophers, to need a few words of introduction. He lived 1744-1803; he was a favorite student of Kant's, and a student and friend of Hamann's; he became a mentor to the young Goethe, on whose development he exercised a profound influence; and he worked, among other things, as a philosopher, literary critic, Bible scholar, and translator. As I mentioned, Herder has been especially neglected by philosophers. This.
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8Chapter Twelve. The Pyrrhonist’s RevengeIn Kant and Skepticism, Princeton University Press. pp. 76-92. 2009.
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7Chapter Four. Kant’s Pyrrhonian CrisisIn Kant and Skepticism, Princeton University Press. pp. 16-20. 2009.
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150Schleiermacher’s Hermeneutics: Some Problems and SolutionsThe Harvard Review of Philosophy 13 (1): 100-122. 2005.The purpose of this paper is to explore some central aspects of Schleiermacher’s hermeneutics and to suggest how they should be interpreted and assessed. My general strategy will involve pointing up rather than playing down certain inconsistencies and other problems in his position, in part simply because I believe that they are there and that exegesis therefore ought to recognize them, but also in part because reflecting on them seems to me philosophically fruitful. The interpretive and philoso…Read more
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60After Herder: Philosophy of Language in the German TraditionOxford University Press. 2010.In the course of developing these historical points, this book also shows that Herder and his tradition are in many ways superior to dominant trends in more ...
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