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50Précis of What is Analytic Philosophy?Teorema: International Journal of Philosophy 30 (1). 2011.
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237Necessity and language: In defence of conventionalismPhilosophical Investigations 31 (1). 2007.Kalhat has forcefully criticised Wittgenstein's linguistic or conventionalist account of logical necessity, drawing partly on Waismann and Quine. I defend conventionalism against the charge that it cannot do justice to the truth of necessary propositions, renders them unacceptably arbitrary or reduces them to metalingustic statements. At the same time, I try to reconcile Wittgenstein's claim that necessary propositions are constitutive of meaning with the logical positivists’ claim that they are…Read more
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94Wittgenstein: a critical reader (edited book)Blackwell. 2001.Exploring all of the central themes of Wittgenstein's "oeuvre," this volume includes discussion of core topics such as meaning and use, rule following, the ...
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222Does ontology exist?Philosophy 77 (2): 235-260. 2002.Early analytic philosophers like Carnap, Wittgenstein and Ryle regarded ontology as a branch of metaphysics that is either trivial or meaningless. But at present it is generally assumed that philosophy can make substantial discoveries about what kinds of things exist and about the essence of these kinds. My paper challenges this ontological turn. The currently predominant conceptions of the subject, at any rate, do not license the idea that ontology can provide distinctively philosophical insigh…Read more
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103Could anything be wrong with analytic philosophy?Grazer Philosophische Studien 74 (1): 215-237. 2007.There is a growing feeling that analytic philosophy is in crisis. At the same time there is a widespread and prima facie attractive conception of analytic philosophy which implies that it equates to good philosophy. In recognition of these conflicting tendencies, my paper raises the question of whether anything could be wrong with analytic philosophy. In section 1 I indicate why analytic philosophy cannot be defined by reference to geography, topics, doctrines or even methods. This leaves open t…Read more
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93Strawson and Kant (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2003.Kant is generally regarded as the greatest modern philosopher. But that analytic philosophers treat him as a central voice in contemporary debates is largely due to Sir Peter Strawson, the most eminent philosopher living in Britain today. In this collection, leading Kant scholars and analytic philosophers, including Strawson himself, for the first time assess his relation to Kant. The essays raise questions about how philosophy should deal with its past, what kind of insights it can achieve, and…Read more
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1Analytic philosophy: Wittgenstein and afterIn Dermot Moran (ed.), The Routledge Companion to Twentieth Century Philosophy, Routledge. pp. 76. 2008.
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1"Resumen de" What is analytic philosophy?"Teorema: International Journal of Philosophy 30 (1): 5-18. 2011.
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5L'Intention (edited book)Université de Tunis, Faculté des sciences humaines et sociales de Tunis. 2010.
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40Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations: Text and Context (edited book)Routledge. 2002.Self-Hypnosis: The Complete Manual for Health and Self-Change, 2nd ed offers a step-by step guide to using hypnosis to better well-being and stronger self-control. For over two decades renowned therapist and author Brian Alman showed thousands of individuals how to use self-inductive techniques for relief from pain, stress, and discomfort. Self-hypnosis assists in meditation and fosters positive self-regard. The exercises in Self-Hypnosis are clear, concise and easily attainable. As an effective…Read more
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54Logic and natural language: On plural reference and its semantic and logical significance, by Hanoch Ben-Yami (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004)Language and Communication 27 (1): 28-40. 2007.
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110Vygotsky and Mead on the self, meaning and internalisationStudies in East European Thought 31 (2): 131-148. 1986.
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204Concepts: Where subjectivism goes wrongPhilosophy 84 (1): 5-29. 2009.The debate about concepts has always been shaped by a contrast between subjectivism, which treats them as phenomena in the mind or head of individuals, and objectivism, which insists that they exist independently of individual minds. The most prominent contemporary version of subjectivism is Fodor's RTM. The Fregean charge against subjectivism is that it cannot do justice to the fact that different individuals can share the same concepts. Proponents of RTM have accepted shareability as a 'non-ne…Read more
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26Beyond the 'Tractatus' Wars. Edited by Rupert Read and Matthew A. Lavery. Routledge, 2011, pp. 200, £24.99 ISBN: 978-0-415-87440-3 (review)Philosophy 89 (1): 161-165. 2014.
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38Review of Howard Wettstein, The Magic Prism: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2005 (12). 2005.
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86Philosophy, Thought and LanguageRoyal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 42 151-. 1997.One of the most striking features of twentieth-century philosophy has been its obsession with language. For the most part, this phenomenon is greeted with hostile incredulity by external observers. Surely, they say, if philosophy is the profound and fundamental discipline which it has purported to be for more than two millennia, it must deal with something more serious than mere words, namely the things they stand for, and ultimately the essence of reality or of the human mind
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34All kinds of nonsenseIn Erich Ammereller & Eugen Fisher (eds.), Wittgenstein at Work: Method in the Philosophical Investigations, Routledge. pp. 221-245. 2004.
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2Necessity and normativityIn Hans D. Sluga & David G. Stern (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Wittgenstein, Cambridge University Press. pp. 198--225. 1996.
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4Dictionnaire WittgensteinEditions Gallimard. 2003.Ce dictionnaire apporte à l'œuvre de Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) ce qui était à ses yeux la chose la plus importante en philosophie, une " vue synoptique ". L'œuvre de Wittgenstein, par son style et son inachèvement, demande beaucoup au lecteur. Ce livre est un véritable guide, dressant la carte de sa philosophie, ou plutôt de ses philosophies, puisque Wittgenstein présente le cas unique d'un grand philosophe auteur de deux philosophies, également influentes, et dont la seconde est largement…Read more
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172Thought, language, and animalsIn Abraham Zvie Bar-On (ed.), Grazer Philosophische Studien, Distributed in the U.s.a. By Humanities Press. pp. 139-160. 1986.This paper discusses Wittgenstein's ideas about the relation between thought, neurophysiology and language, and about the mental capacities of non-linguistic animals. It deals with his initial espousal and later rejection of a 'language of thought', his arguments against the idea that thought requires a medium of images or words, his reasons for resisting the encephalocentric conception of the mind which dominates contemporary philosophy of mind, his mature views about the connection between tho…Read more