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30Review of Charles Travis, Thought's Footing: A Theme in Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2008 (4). 2008.
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131Supervenience: Ontological and ascriptiveAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 66 (4): 461-70. 1988.This Article does not have an abstract
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26Wittgenstein and von Wright on GoodnessPhilosophical Investigations 41 (3): 291-303. 2018.Is “good” a family-resemblance concept? Wittgenstein holds it is, since cases of goodness may not have anything in common, but there may be a continuous transition from some cases to others. Von Wright and Hacker argue it is not. They hold that family-resemblance concepts satisfy two conditions that goodness does not satisfy. I assess their arguments and then present a constitutivist account of goodness that Wittgenstein seems to endorse. The constitutivist account is what one would expect if go…Read more
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Timothy Chappell, ed. Values and Virtues: Aristotelianism in Contemporary Ethics Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 28 (2): 96-98. 2008.
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62Marx’s Realms of ‘Freedom’ and ‘Necessity’Canadian Journal of Philosophy 16 (4). 1986.In 1844 Marx held that labor alienation was wholly eliminable, primarily through the abolition of private property. Work in the context of private property was alienating because it was performed for wages and the production of exchange-value. With such purposes, work was experienced as selfish and forced. With the abolition of private property, work would be performed for the production of use-¥alue, to satisfy human needs. With this human purpose, work would be experienced as a free and fulfil…Read more
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Wittgenstein's Community'In Uwe Meixner Peter Simons (ed.), Metaphysics in the Post-Metaphysical Age, Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society. pp. 7--1. 1999.
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38Wittgenstein in ExileMIT Press. 2013.Ludwig Wittgenstein's _Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus_ and _Philosophical Investigations_ are among the most influential philosophical books of the twentieth century, and also among the most perplexing. Wittgenstein warned again and again that he was not and would not be understood. Moreover, Wittgenstein's work seems to have little relevance to the way philosophy is done today. In _Wittgenstein in Exile_, James Klagge proposes a new way of looking at Wittgenstein -- as an exile -- that helps ma…Read more
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46Wittgenstein in ExileMIT Press. 2010.Ludwig Wittgenstein's _Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus_ and _Philosophical Investigations_ are among the most influential philosophical books of the twentieth century, and also among the most perplexing. Wittgenstein warned again and again that he was not and would not be understood. Moreover, Wittgenstein's work seems to have little relevance to the way philosophy is done today. In _Wittgenstein in Exile_, James Klagge proposes a new way of looking at Wittgenstein -- as an exile -- that helps ma…Read more
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15Book Review:Philosophical Perspectives, 6: Ethics, 1992. James E. Tomberlin (review)Ethics 105 (2): 409-. 1995.
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25Book ReviewDavid Carr,, and Jan Steutel,, eds. Virtue Ethics and Moral Education.New York: Routledge, 1999. Pp. xvii+263. $75.00 (review)Ethics 112 (1): 139-141. 2001.
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David Stern and Béla Szabados, eds., Wittgenstein Reads Weininger Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 25 (6): 439-441. 2005.
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8Wittgenstein, Frazer, and TemperamentIn Aidan Seery, Josef G. F. Rothhaupt & Lars Albinus (eds.), Wittgenstein’s Remarks on Frazer: The Text and the Matter, De Gruyter. pp. 233-248. 2016.
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Robert Merrihew Adams, A Theory of Virtue: Excellence in Being for the GoodPhilosophy in Review 29 (4): 233. 2009.
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12The difficulty here is: to stopStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 31 (3): 551-557. 2000.
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11Rationalism, Supervenience, and Moral EpistemologySouthern Journal of Philosophy 29 (S1): 25-28. 1991.
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53Philosophical Occasions, 1912-1951 (edited book)Hackett Publishing Company. 1993.An essential resource for students of Wittgenstein, this collection contains faithful, in some cases expanded and corrected, versions of many important pieces never before available in a single volume, including Notes for the 'Philosophical Lecture', published here for the first time. Fifteen selections, with bi-lingual versions of those originally written in German, span the development of Wittgenstein's thought, his range of interests, and his methods of philosophical investigation. Short intr…Read more
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David Stern and Béla Szabados, eds., Wittgenstein Reads Weininger (review)Philosophy in Review 25 439-441. 2005.
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1Collection of articles concerning methods of inerpreting Plato's works.
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32Renée C. Fox and Judith P. Swazey, Observing Bioethics. Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 30 (4): 259-262. 2010.
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