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90Jean Fernel on Divine Immanence and the Origin of Simple FormsIn Vlad Alexandrescu & Robert Theis (eds.), Nature et Surnaturel: Philosophies de la Nature et Métaphysique aux XVIe-XVIIIe siècles, Georg Olms Verlag. pp. 9-21. 2010.
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90Wittgenstein on Expectation, Action, and Internal Relations, 1930–1932Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 50 (3). 2007.According to Wittgenstein, internal relations are such that, once their terms are given, it is unthinkable that they do not hold. In his early philosophy, the concept of internal relation plays a central role in his views on meaning. The present paper addresses the question of how Wittgenstein's views about internal relations develop during his years of transition (1930-32). In particular, it investigates the connections between the concepts of internal relation, logical multiplicity, and aspect…Read more
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89Material points and formal concepts in the early WittgensteinCanadian Journal of Philosophy 37 (2): 245-261. 2007.In an influential article, Gerd Grasshoff has argued for the identification of the objects in Wittgenstein's Tractatus with the ultimate constituents of reality in Heinrich Hertz's Principles of Mechanics. Grasshoff's interpretation is based on two interrelated claims: The specific determination of the objects in the world and the relation among them is the primary theme in Wittgenstein's early philosophy, because it is the primary theme for Hertz. Wittgenstein did not assume the existence of si…Read more
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88Leibniz und die panpsychistische Deutung der Theorie der einfachen SubstanzenStudia Leibnitiana 32 (1). 2000.In this discussion note, I defend four claims: (1) The interpretation of Leibniz's theory of simple substances as a philosophy of panpsychism has no direct support from Leibniz's texts. (2) According to Leibniz there is a perfect continuity between perceptions of different degrees of distinctness. (3) Nevertheless, due to the reflective structure of sensation, there is a discontinuity between the perceptions of bare simple substances and sensations, which are characteristic of souls. (4) Finally…Read more
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88Renaissance Aristotelianism and the Conciliatory Approach to Individuation in the Early LeibnizIn Leibniz’ Rezeption der Aristotelischen Logik und Metaphysik, . pp. 257-272. 2016.
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88Nicolaus TaurellusIn Peter Adamson (ed.), Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. pp. 1-12. 2012.
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84On interpreting Leibniz's MillIn Peter K. Machamer & Gereon Wolters (eds.), Interpretation: Ways of Thinking About the Sciences and the Arts, University of Pittsburgh Press. 2010.
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76Review of Marine Picon, Normes et objets du savoir dans les premiers essais leibnitiens. (review)Studia Leibnitiana 52 (1-2): 268-269. 2020.
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67Review of Riccarda Suitner, Die philosophischen Totengespräche der Frühaufklärung (review)Renaissance Quarterly 71 774-776. 2018.
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66Wittgenstein on Verification and Seeing-As, 1930–1932Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 54 (6). 2011.Abstract This article examines the little-explored remarks on verification in Wittgenstein's notebooks during the period between 1930 and 1932. In these remarks, Wittgenstein connects a verificationist theory of meaning with the notion of logical multiplicity, understood as a space of possibilities: a proposition is verified by a fact if and only if the proposition and the fact have the same logical multiplicity. But while in his early philosophy logical multiplicities were analysed as an outcom…Read more
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64Wittgenstein on Colours and Logical Multiplicities, 1930–1932Dialogue 47 (2): 311-329. 2008.ABSTRACT: This article explores Wittgenstein's little known remarks on colour from his notebooks of the early 1930s. It emphasizes the importance of the notion of logical multiplicity contained in these remarks. The notion of logical multiplicity indicates that Wittgenstein, as in the years of the Tractatus, is committed to a theory of logical space in which every colour is embedded. However, logical multiplicities in his remarks of the early 1930s do not depend on an apparatus of simple objects…Read more
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62Review of Nicolaus Taurellus, Philosophiae triumphus, hoc est, Metaphysica philosophandi methodus (review)Renaissance Quarterly 66 1052-1053. 2013.
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45Wittgenstein's Tractatus and the problem of a phenomenological languagePhilosophia 29 (1-4): 327-341. 2002.
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34Review of Tye (2003): Consciousness and Persons. Unity and Identity (review)Pragmatics and Cognition 14 (1): 188-191. 2006.
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30Die kategoriale Unbestimmtheit der Gegenstände in Wittgensteins TractatusGrazer Philosophische Studien 60 (1): 197-215. 2000.This paper has two aims: In the first part it is argued, that - contrary to a predominant line of interpretation in recent literature - Wittgenstein holds no implicit (positive or negative) assumptions conceming the categorial status of objects in the Tractatus. The second part tries to explain the categorial indeterminacy of Tractarian objects as a consequence of Wittgenstein's concept of logic and his distinction between "logic" and "application of logic".
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23Introduction: Self-esteem and social esteem: Normative issuesHuman Affairs 30 (3): 297-301. 2020.
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18Vegetative Powers: The Roots of Life in Ancient, Medieval and Early Modern Natural Philosophy (edited book)Springer. 2021.The volume analyzes the natural philosophical accounts and debates concerning the vegetative powers, namely nutrition, growth, and reproduction. While principally focusing on the early modern approaches to the lower functions of the soul, readers will discover the roots of these approaches back to the Ancient times, as the volume highlights the role of three strands that help shape the study of life in the Medieval and early modern natural philosophies. From late antiquity to the early modern pe…Read more
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12Missing a Soul That Endows Bodies with Life: An IntroductionIn Fabrizio Baldassarri & Andreas Blank (eds.), Vegetative Powers: The Roots of Life in Ancient, Medieval and Early Modern Natural Philosophy, Springer. pp. 1-12. 2021.In the history of ideas, innumerable attempts to explain life and to define living activities have invoked the notion of the soul. Yet this theoretical entity seems to be an unfathomable thing. Difficulties beset the mere definition of it, and controversies span from whether the soul is a material body or an immaterial form, an immortal or a mortal thing, a subject of experiential or of theoretical knowledge, to the question of whether it is the subject of a specific discipline or rather of a sc…Read more
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6Protestant Hermeneutics and the Persistence of Moral Meanings in Early Modern Natural HistoriesPerspectives on Science. forthcoming.Peter Harrison explains the disappearance of symbolic meanings of animals from seventeenth-century works in natural history through what he calls the “literalist mentality of the reformers.” By contrast, the present article argues in favor of a different understanding of the connection between hermeneutics and Protestant natural history. Martin Luther, Philipp Melanchthon, Johannes Brenz, Johannes Oecolampadius, and Jean Calvin continued to assign moral meanings to natural particulars, and moral…Read more
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5Der Logische Aufbau von Leibniz' MetaphysikWalter de Gruyter. 2001.Für das gegenwärtige Bild von Leibniz' Metaphysik ist das Urteil von Catherine Wilson charakteristisch, die in ihr ein Beispiel für „revisionäre" Metaphysik im Sinne Strawsons sieht: eine Metaphysik, die das alltägliche Verständnis der Welt durch ein ganz anderes ersetzt, im Gegensatz zu einer „deskriptiven" Metaphysik, die die impliziten Strukturen unseres alltäglichen Verständnisses der Welt offenlegt. Auch Strawson stellt Leibniz im wesentlichen auf die Seite der revisionären Metaphysik. Die …Read more
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3Wittgenstein on Colors and Internal Relations, 1930–1932In Christian Kanzian (ed.), Cultures. Conflict - Analysis - Dialogue: Proceedings of the 29th International Ludwig Wittgenstein-Symposium in Kirchberg, Austria, Walter De Gruyter. pp. 21-32. 2007.
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Leibniz, Spinoza y el Intelecto AgenteIn Leticia Cabanas and Oscar M. Esquisabel (ed.), Leibniz frente a Spinoza. Una interpretacíon panorámica, Editorial Comares. 2014.
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Review of Stuart Brown and N. J. Fox, Historical Dictionary of Leibniz’s Philosophy (review)Philosophy in Review 27 100-102. 2007.
Andreas Blank
Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt
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Alpen-Adria Universität KlagenfurtResearcher
Areas of Specialization
History of Western Philosophy |
Areas of Interest
History of Western Philosophy |
20th Century Philosophy |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |