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149What is Analytic Philosophy?Cambridge University Press. 2008.Analytic philosophy is roughly a hundred years old, and it is now the dominant force within Western philosophy. Interest in its historical development is increasing, but there has hitherto been no sustained attempt to elucidate what it currently amounts to, and how it differs from so-called 'continental' philosophy. In this rich and wide-ranging book, Hans Johann Glock argues that analytic philosophy is a loose movement held together both by ties of influence and by various 'family resemblances'…Read more
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The owl of Minerva : is analytic philosophy moribund?In Erich H. Reck (ed.), The Historical turn in Analytic Philosophy, Palgrave-macmillan. 2013.
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Grammar and Methodology: On Wittgenstein's Later Conception of PhilosophyDissertation, University of Oxford (United Kingdom). 1989.Available from UMI in association with The British Library. Requires signed TDF. ;Even among Wittgenstein's admirers, his conception of philosophy as a therapy for conceptual confusion is generally considered to be the weakest part of his later work. It seems to consist of slogans, which are unsupported by argument and belied by his own 'theory construction'. It may even be self-refuting--a philosophical theory that denies the possibility of philosophical theory. ;Unless these objections can be …Read more
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150The Anthropological Difference: What Can Philosophers Do To Identify the Differences Between Human and Non-human Animals?Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 70 105-131. 2012.This paper considers the question of whether there is a human-animal or ‘anthropological difference'. It starts with a historical introduction to the project of philosophical anthropology. Section 2 explains the philosophical quest for an anthropological difference. Sections 3-4 are methodological and explain how philosophical anthropology should be pursued in my view, namely as impure conceptual analysis. The following two sections discuss two fundamental objections to the very idea of such a d…Read more
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23Critical discussionErkenntnis 36 (1): 117-128. 1992.v. Savigny's commentary is a remarkable achievement and essential reading for all scholars of the Investigations. It brings to the exegetical enterprise something new and important — the challenge of an immanent approach and the tool of German philology. However, some of the potential gains may be lost by his leitmotiv of a tight master-scheme. In my view this ‘central theses’ scheme presses Wittgenstein's multifaceted masterpiece into an unsuitable Procrustean bed and tends to impoverish v. Sav…Read more
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16Rise of Analytic Philosophy (edited book)Wiley-Blackwell. 1997.They try to identify key themes and methods in 20th century analytical philosophy and assess various conceptions of what analytical philosophy like that of Dummett is by comparing them with the methodology and practice of eminent analytical philosophers.
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46A Wittgenstein DictionaryWiley-Blackwell. 1996.This lucid and accessible dictionary presents technical terms that Wittgenstein introduced into philosophical debate or transformed substantially, and also topics to which he made a substantial contribution. Hans-Johann Glock places Wittgenstein's ideas in their relevance to current debates. The entries delineate Wittgenstein's lines of argument on particular issues, assessing their strengths and weaknesses, and shed light on fundamental exegetical controversies. The dictionary entries are prefa…Read more
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50Précis of What is Analytic Philosophy?Teorema: International Journal of Philosophy 30 (1). 2011.
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97Wittgenstein: 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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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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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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91Strawson 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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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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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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1Analytic philosophy: Wittgenstein and afterIn Dermot Moran (ed.), The Routledge Companion to Twentieth-Century Philosophy, Routledge. pp. 76. 2008.
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113Wittgenstein'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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110Vygotsky and Mead on the self, meaning and internalisationStudies in East European Thought 31 (2): 131-148. 1986.
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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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200Concepts: 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