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102Animal Minds: A Non-Representationalist ApproachAmerican Philosophical Quarterly 50 (3): 213-232. 2013.Do animals have minds? We have known at least since Aristotle that humans constitute one species of animal. And some benighted contemporaries apart, we also know that most humans have minds. To have any bite, therefore, the question must be restricted to non-human animals, to which I shall henceforth refer simply as "animals." I shall further assume that animals are bereft of linguistic faculties. So, do some animals have minds comparable to those of humans? As regards that question, there are t…Read more
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144Quine and Davidson on Language, Thought and RealityCambridge University Press. 2003.Quine and Davidson are among the leading thinkers of the twentieth century. Their influence on contemporary philosophy is second to none, and their impact is also strongly felt in disciplines such as linguistics and psychology. This book is devoted to both of them, but also questions some of their basic assumptions. Hans-Johann Glock critically scrutinizes their ideas on ontology, truth, necessity, meaning and interpretation, thought and language, and shows that their attempts to accommodate mea…Read more
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2Necessity, a priority and analyticity: a Wittgensteinian perspectiveIn Daniel Whiting (ed.), The later Wittgenstein on language, Palgrave-macmillan. 2009.
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176The linguistic doctrine revisitedGrazer Philosophische Studien 66 (1): 143-170. 2003.At present, there is an almost universal consensus that the linguistic doctrine of logical necessity is grotesque. This paper explores avenues for rehabilitating a limited version of the doctrine, according to which the special status of analytic statements like 'All vixens are female' is to be explained by reference to language. Far from being grotesque, this appeal to language has a respectable philosophical pedigree and chimes with common sense, as Quine came to realize. The problem lies in d…Read more
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61Subjective, intersubjective, objectivePhilosophical Investigations 26 (4). 2003.Books reviewed: Donald Davidson, Subjective, Intersubjective, Objective.
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305Concepts, conceptual schemes and grammarPhilosophia 37 (4): 653-668. 2009.This paper considers the connection between concepts, conceptual schemes and grammar in Wittgenstein’s last writings. It lists eight claims about concepts that one can garner from these writings. It then focuses on one of them, namely that there is an important difference between conceptual and factual problems and investigations. That claim draws in its wake other claims, all of them revolving around the idea of a conceptual scheme, what Wittgenstein calls a ‘grammar’. I explain why Wittgenstei…Read more
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87'Analytic versus Continental: Arguments on the Methods and Value of Philosophy', by James Chase and Jack ReynoldsAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 90 (2): 398-402. 2012.Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Volume 0, Issue 0, Page 1-5, Ahead of Print.
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143Reviews lot 2: The language of thought revisited by Jerry A. Fodor oxford university press, 2008Philosophy 85 (1): 164-167. 2010.
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44Wie wichtig ist Erkenntnistheorie?Zeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung 56 (1). 2002.In der zeitgenössischen analytischen Philosophe wird oft behauptet, die Erkenntnistheorie sei weniger fundamental als die Ontologie, da sich aus Aussagen über unser Erkenntnisvermögen keine Aussagen über die Wirklichkeit ableiten lassen und die Frage nach der Beschaffenheit der Wirklichkeit der Frage nach ihrer Erkennbarkeit vorausgeht. Dagegen verteidige ich folgende Thesen: eine Form der Erkenntnistheorie—die Auseinandersetzung mit der Skepsis —ist nicht fundamental; eine andere Form—die Ausei…Read more
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20Wittgenstein's `Philosophical Investigations': Text and ContextPhilosophical Quarterly 44 (176): 392-394. 1994.
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1Perspectives on Wittgenstein : an intermittently opinionated surveyIn Guy Kahane, Edward Kanterian & Oskari Kuusela (eds.), Wittgenstein and His Interpreters: Essays in Memory of Gordon Baker, Blackwell. 2007.