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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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25The Tractatus revolves around the connection between two central topics – the preconditions of symbolic representation and the nature of logic-cum-philosophy. Proper philosophy is an activity, namely of revealing the hidden structures that allow language to represent reality by way of logical analysis. At the same time the main purpose of such logical analysis consists in revealing metaphysical statements to be nonsensical. In the subsequent development of analytic philosophy, these two ideas pa…Read more
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25Concepts and experience in bounds of sense and beyondIn Hans-Johann Glock, Audun Bengtson, Sybren Heyndels & Benjamin De Mesel (eds.), Glock, Hans-Johann (2024). Concepts and experience in bounds of sense and beyond. In: Bengtson, Audun; Heyndels, Sybren; De Mesel, Benjamin. P. F. Strawson and his philosophical legacy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 120-145, . pp. 120-145. 2024.P.F. Strawson and his Philosophical Legacy aims to bring out the continuing relevance of Sir Peter Frederick Strawson’s (1919–2006) work for current philosophical debates. It is the first collection of essays published after Strawson’s death that covers the full range of his work. The focus in contemporary work on Strawson is often on his relation to Kant or his paper ‘Freedom and Resentment’. While this volume gives due attention to these topics, it also includes essays on Strawson’s lasting co…Read more
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24The later Wittgenstein and moral philosophy Benjamin de Mesel, Cham, Springer, 2018, € 50.28, vii+186 pp (review)Ratio 35 (1): 71-74. 2021.Ratio, Volume 35, Issue 1, Page 71-74, March 2022.
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24A Companion to Wittgenstein (edited book)Wiley-Blackwell. 2017.The most comprehensive survey of Wittgenstein’s thought yet compiled, this volume of fifty newly commissioned essays by leading interpreters of his philosophy is a keynote addition to the Blackwell series on the world’s great philosophers, covering everything from Wittgenstein’s intellectual development to the latest interpretations of his hugely influential ideas. The lucid, engaging commentary also reviews Wittgenstein’s historical legacy and his continued impact on contemporary philosophical …Read more
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23Sir Anthony Kenny is one of the most distinguished and prolific philosophers of our time. In the wide range and historical breadth of his interests, he has influenced many parts of the philosophical landscape, especially in the philosophy of mind and the theory of human action and responsibility. In contrast to many of his contemporaries, who have played down philosophy's debt to its past, Kenny's work has always been rooted in the great tradition of Western philosophical inquiry. Mind, Method a…Read more
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22Critical 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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21Understanding the origins of human social cognition is a central challenge in contemporary science. In recent decades, the idea of a ‘Theory of Mind’ (ToM) has emerged as the most popular way of explaining unique features of human social cognition. This default view has been progressively undermined by research on ‘implicit’ ToM, which suggests that relevant precursor abilities may already be present in preverbal human infants and great apes. However, this area of research suffers from conceptua…Read more
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21This 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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20Wittgenstein's `Philosophical Investigations': Text and ContextPhilosophical Quarterly 44 (176): 392-394. 1994.
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20Moral certainties – subjective, objective, objectionable?In Hans-Johann Glock, Cecilie Eriksen, Julia Hermann, Neil O'Hara & Nigel Pleasants (eds.), Glock, Hans-Johann (2022). Moral certainties – subjective, objective, objectionable? In: Eriksen, Cecilie; Hermann, Julia; O'Hara, Neil; Pleasants, Nigel. Philosophical perspectives on moral certainty. New York: Routledge, Taylor&Francis Group, 171-191, . pp. 171-191. 2022.The idea of moral certainties is venerable, highly contentious, and nevertheless alive. What I call “hinge ethics” (in analogy to hinge epistemology) combines three currents – meta-ethical concerns about the scope and limits of moral knowledge and objectivity, the idea of limits of doubt as articulated in On Certainty, and sympathies for Wittgensteinian ideas about ethics. This essay critically assesses hinge ethics, focusing on Nigel Pleasants’ work. My main objection is not that Wittgensteinia…Read more
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19Truth without people?Philosophy 72 (279): 85-104. 1997.There is a venerable tradition according to which the concept of truth is totally independent of human beings, their actions and beliefs, because truth consists in the correspondence of mind-independentpropositions to a mind-independent reality. For want of arespect. One way of doing so is relativism, the idea that whether a belief is true or false depends on the point of view of individuals or communities. A closely related position is a consensus theory of truth, according to which a belief is…Read more
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19Review of P. Frascola, Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Mathematics (review)Philosophical Quarterly 47 (189): 552-555. 1997.
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19Perspectives on Wittgenstein: an intermittently opinionated surveyIn Hans Johann Glock, G. Kahane, E. Kanterian & O. Kuusela (eds.), Glock, Hans Johann (2007). Perspectives on Wittgenstein: an intermittently opinionated survey. In: Kahane, G; Kanterian, E; Kuusela, O. Wittgenstein's Interpreters. Essays in Memory of Gordon Baker. Oxford: Blackwell, 37-65, . pp. 37-65. 2007.
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18Quine and DavidsonIn Hans Johann Glock, Kirk Ludwig & Ernest Lepore (eds.), Glock, Hans Johann (2013). Quine and Davidson. In: Ludwig, Kirk; Lepore, Ernest. A Companion to Donald Davidson. New York: Wiley, 567-587, . pp. 567-587. 2013.
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17Animal rationality and beliefIn Hans Johann Glock, Kirstin Andrews & Jacob Beck (eds.), Glock, Hans Johann (2018). Animal rationality and belief. In: Andrews, Kirstin; Beck, Jacob. The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Animal Minds. London: Routledge, 89-99, . pp. 89-99. 2018.
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17Philosophical Investigations: principles of interpretationIn Hans Johann Glock, W. Brandl & R. Haller (eds.), Schriftenreihe der Wittgenstein-Gesellschaft, . pp. 152-162. 1990.