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132On the very idea of denying the existence of radically different conceptual schemesInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 41 (2). 1998.It has become very popular among philosophers to attempt to discredit, or at least set severe limits to, the thesis that there exist conceptual schemes radically different from ours. This fashion is misconceived. Philosophers have attempted to justify it in two main ways: by means of arguments which are a priorist relative to the relevant linguistic and textual evidence (and either independent of or based upon positive theories of meaning, understanding, and interpretation); and by means of argu…Read more
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14Chapter Eight. Defenses Against Pyrrhonian SkepticismIn Kant and Skepticism, Princeton University Press. pp. 44-52. 2009.
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9IntroductionIn Wittgenstein on the Arbitrariness of Grammar, Princeton University Press. pp. 1-4. 2004.
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75. Alternative Grammars? The Case of Formal LogicIn Wittgenstein on the Arbitrariness of Grammar, Princeton University Press. pp. 107-128. 2004.
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58Hegel’s Idea of a ‘Phenomenology of Spirit’University of Chicago Press. 1998.In Hegel's Idea of a Phenomenology of Spirit, Michael N. Forster advances an original reading of the work.
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6Chapter Two. “Veil of Perception” SkepticismIn Kant and Skepticism, Princeton University Press. pp. 6-12. 2009.
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34. Some Modest CriticismsIn Wittgenstein on the Arbitrariness of Grammar, Princeton University Press. pp. 82-104. 2004.
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7Chapter Nine. Some Relatively Easy ProblemsIn Kant and Skepticism, Princeton University Press. pp. 55-57. 2009.
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52Menschen und andere Tiere. Über das Verhältnis von Mensch und Tier bei TomaselloDeutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 55 (5): 761-767. 2007.Der Beitrag handelt von Michael Tomasellos Theorie des Verhältnisses von Mensch und Tier. Tomasellos Theorie wird als ein Beispiel für eine Reihe von Theorien gedeutet, die das betreffende Verhältnis als durch eine Kluft und Überlegenheit gekennzeichnet auffassen. Der Beitrag kritisiert die empirisch-theoretische Begründung dieser Theorie und verdächtigt sie einer bestimmten ideologischen und zwar tierfeindlichen Funktion
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9Appendix. The Philosophical InvestigationsIn Wittgenstein on the Arbitrariness of Grammar, Princeton University Press. pp. 189-192. 2004.
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27Hegel and SkepticismPhilosophical Review 101 (2): 401. 1992.This is a review of Forster's book.
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98Herder’s Philosophy of Language, Interpretation, and Translation: Three Fundamental PrinciplesReview of Metaphysics 56 (2). 2002.A GOOD CASE COULD BE MADE that Herder is the founder not only of the modern philosophy of language but also of the modern philosophy of interpretation and translation and that he has many things to say on these subjects from which we may still learn today. This essay will not attempt to make such a case, but it will be concerned with some aspects of Herder’s position that would be central to it: three fundamental principles in his philosophy of language which also play fundamental roles in his t…Read more
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72German philosophy of language: from Schlegel to Hegel and beyondOxford University Press. 2011.This book not only sets the historical record straight but also champions the Herderian tradition for its philosophical depth and breadth.
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42Wittgenstein on the Arbitrariness of GrammarPrinceton University Press. 2004.What is the nature of a conceptual scheme? Are there alternative conceptual schemes? If so, are some more justifiable or correct than others? The later Wittgenstein already addresses these fundamental philosophical questions under the general rubric of "grammar" and the question of its "arbitrariness"--and does so with great subtlety. This book explores Wittgenstein's views on these questions. Part I interprets his conception of grammar as a generalized version of Kant's transcendental idealist …Read more
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10Chapter Ten. A Metaphysics of Morals?In Kant and Skepticism, Princeton University Press. pp. 58-62. 2009.
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9Chapter Eleven. Failures of Self-ReflectionIn Kant and Skepticism, Princeton University Press. pp. 63-75. 2009.
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106. Alternative Grammars? The Limits of LanguageIn Wittgenstein on the Arbitrariness of Grammar, Princeton University Press. pp. 129-152. 2004.
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7Ein Anfang der Metaphysik: Parmenides über den Widerspruch und das Paradoxon des NichtseinsIn Andreas Speer, Wolfram Hogrebe & Markus Gabriel (eds.), Das Neue Bedürfnis Nach Metaphysik / the New Desire for Metaphysics, De Gruyter. pp. 3-28. 2015.
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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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7Chapter One. Varieties Of SkepticismIn Kant and Skepticism, Princeton University Press. pp. 3-5. 2009.
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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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