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Future Pasts: The Analytic Tradition in Twentieth-Century PhilosophyPhilosophy 78 (303): 142-145. 2003.
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The Rule of the Mathematical: Wittgenstein's Later DiscussionsDissertation, Harvard University. 1990.If we consider Wittgenstein's career as a whole, it appears that he wrote more on the philosophy of logic and mathematics than any other subject. Yet his writings on these subjects have exerted little influence. Indeed, the tide of response to Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics, which contains the bulk of his latest views of mathematics, has been for the most part overwhelmingly negative. Given his later emphasis on the context-bound character of language, mathematics and logic--where lan…Read more
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Wittgensteins Diagonal-Argument: Eine Variation auf Cantor und TuringIn Bromand Joachim & Reichert Bastian (eds.), Wittgenstein und die Philosophie der Mathematik, Mentis Verlag. pp. 167-197. 2018.A German translation with 2017 postscript of Floyd, Juliet. 2012. "Wittgenstein's Diagonal Argument: A Variation on Cantor and Turing." In Epistemology versus Ontology, Logic, Epistemology: Essays in Honor of Per Martin-Löf, edited by P. Dybjer, S. Lindström, E. Palmgren and G. Sundholm, 25-44. Dordrecht: Springer Science+Business Media. An analysis of philosophical aspects of Turing's diagonal argument in his (136) "On computable numbers, with an application to the Entscheidungsproblem" in rel…Read more
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1143 Wittgenstein and the InexpressibleIn Alice Crary (ed.), Wittgenstein and the Moral Life: Essays in Honor of Cora Diamond, Mit Press. pp. 177-234. 2007.
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Rawls' restatement of justice as fairness : an introductory overviewIn Klaus Dethloff & Peter Kampits (eds.), Humane Existenz: Reflexionen zur Ethik in einer pluralistischen Gesellschaft, Parerga. 2007.
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78Bays, Steiner, and Wittgenstein’s “Notorious” Paragraph about the Gödel TheoremJournal of Philosophy 103 (2): 101-110. 2006.
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2Wittgenstein sobre Gödel, Tarski e a VerdadeRevista Portuguesa de Filosofia 58 (3): 605-632. 2002.
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72The Frege-Wittgenstein Correspondence: Interpretive ThemesIn Enzo De Pellegrin (ed.), Interactive Wittgenstein, Springer. pp. 75--107. 2011.
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434Prose versus proof: Wittgenstein on gödel, Tarski and TruthPhilosophia Mathematica 9 (3): 280-307. 2001.A survey of current evidence available concerning Wittgenstein's attitude toward, and knowledge of, Gödel's first incompleteness theorem, including his discussions with Turing, Watson and others in 1937–1939, and later testimony of Goodstein and Kreisel; 2) Discussion of the philosophical and historical importance of Wittgenstein's attitude toward Gödel's and other theorems in mathematical logic, contrasting this attitude with that of, e.g., Penrose; 3) Replies to an instructive criticism of my …Read more
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99Future pasts: the analytic tradition in twentieth-century philosophy (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2001.This collection of previously unpublished essays presents a new approach to the history of analytic philosophy--one that does not assume at the outset a general characterization of the distinguishing elements of the analytic tradition. Drawing together a venerable group of contributors, including John Rawls and Hilary Putnam, this volume explores the historical contexts in which analytic philosophers have worked, revealing multiple discontinuities and misunderstandings as well as a complex inter…Read more
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20Wiener Ausgabe. Band I. Philosophische BemerkungenJournal of the History of Philosophy 34 (3): 475-477. 1996.BOOK REVIEWS 475 mean the traditional notion of arche, i.e., a present homogeneous origin/kingdom" . The significance of this Ursprung is that of the event of world pretheoretically yielding itself itself and things . Van Buren's basic contention is that Heidegger's demythologized question about being in the early Freiburg period is overtaken by remythologizing tendencies, from the existential-transcendental configuration of the question in Being and Time to various mythopoetic reconfigurations.…Read more
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199Recent themes in the history of early analytic philosophyJournal of the History of Philosophy 47 (2). 2009.A survey of the emergence of early analytic philosophy as a subfield of the history of philosophy. The importance of recent literature on Frege, Russell, and Wittgenstein is stressed, as is the widening interest in understanding the nineteenth-century scientific and Kantian backgrounds. In contrast to recent histories of early analytic philosophy by P.M.S. Hacker and Scott Soames, the importance of historical and philosophical work on the significance of formalization is highlighted, as are the …Read more
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21Prefatory Note to the Frege-Wittgenstein CorrespondenceIn Enzo De Pellegrin (ed.), Interactive Wittgenstein, Springer. pp. 1--14. 2011.
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129Chains of Life: Turing, Lebensform, and the Emergence of Wittgenstein’s Later StyleNordic Wittgenstein Review 5 (2): 7-89. 2016.This essay accounts for the notion of _Lebensform_ by assigning it a _logical _role in Wittgenstein’s later philosophy. Wittgenstein’s additions of the notion to his manuscripts of the _PI_ occurred during the initial drafting of the book 1936-7, after he abandoned his effort to revise _The Brown Book_. It is argued that this constituted a substantive step forward in his attitude toward the notion of simplicity as it figures within the notion of logical analysis. Next, a reconstruction of his la…Read more
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6Philosophy of Emerging Media: Understanding, Appreciation and Application (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2015.This book presents a wide range of thinking about how the discipline of philosophy has engaged and might in the future engage with the profound questions raised by rapidly shifting methods of communication. Although social media and telecommunications have dramatically altered the daily lives of people, and no technology has enjoyed the same rapid success as that of the mobile phone, the philosophical underpinnings and consequences of these changes have been insufficiently explored. Clustered in…Read more
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3The Fact of Judgment: The Kantian Response to the Humean ConditionIn Jeff Malpas (ed.), From Kant to Davidson: Philosophy and the Idea of the Transcendental, Routledge. pp. 22--47. 2002.
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60Prose versus Proof: Wittgenstein on Gödel, Tarski and Truth†: ArticlesPhilosophia Mathematica 9 (3): 280-307. 2001.1) A survey of current evidence available concerning Wittgenstein's attitude toward, and knowledge of, Gödel's first incompleteness theorem, including his discussions with Turing, Watson and others in 1937–1939, and later testimony of Goodstein and Kreisel; 2) Discussion of the philosophical and historical importance of Wittgenstein's attitude toward Gödel's and other theorems in mathematical logic, contrasting this attitude with that of, e.g. , Penrose; 3) Replies to an instructive criticism of…Read more
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25Frege, semantics, and the double definition strokeIn Anat Biletzki & Anat Matar (eds.), The Story of Analytic Philosophy: Plot and Heroes, Routledge. pp. 141-166. 1998.
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368A Note on Wittgenstein’s “Notorious Paragraph” About the Gödel TheoremJournal of Philosophy 97 (11): 624-632. 2000.
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60Response to Michael FriedmanIn Schneewind J. (ed.), Teaching New Histories of Philosophy, . pp. 225-234. 2004.
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460Putnam's 'the meaning of meaning': Externalism in historical contextIn Yemima Ben-Menahem (ed.), Hilary Putnam (Contemporary Philosophy in Focus), Cambridge University Press. 2005.
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1Carnap, Turing and Wittgenstein : contrasting notions of analysisIn Pierre Wagner (ed.), Carnap's ideal of explication and naturalism, Palgrave-macmillan. 2012.
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The varieties of rigorous experienceIn Michael Beaney (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of The History of Analytic Philosophy, Oxford University Press. 2013.
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28Review of James C. Klagge ed., Wittgenstein: Biography and Philosophy (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2002 (6). 2002.Wittgenstein Biography and Philosophy
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2On being surprised: Wittgenstein on aspect-perception, logic, and mathematicsIn William Day & Víctor J. Krebs (eds.), Seeing Wittgenstein Anew, Cambridge University Press. 2010.
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