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15Persuasion as tool of education: The Wittgensteinian caseEducational Philosophy and Theory 53 (6): 624-633. 2020.In this paper, I aim to explore what role persuasion plays in the early education of children. Advocating Wittgenstein, I claim that persuasion involves imparting to a pupil about a particular world-picture (Weltbild) by showing rather than explaining. This because we cannot introduce a child to the hinges of a world-picture through a discursive argument. I will employ the remarks of Wittgenstein in On Certainty (1969) (OC) to define what persuasion (Überredung) is. I will make use of the notes …Read more
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23Persuasion as tool of education: The Wittgensteinian caseEducational Philosophy and Theory 53 (6): 624-633. 2020.In this paper, I aim to explore what role persuasion plays in the early education of children. Advocating Wittgenstein, I claim that persuasion involves imparting to a pupil about a particular world-picture (Weltbild) by showing rather than explaining. This because we cannot introduce a child to the hinges of a world-picture through a discursive argument. I will employ the remarks of Wittgenstein in On Certainty (1969) (OC) to define what persuasion (Überredung) is. I will make use of the notes …Read more
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34Oskari Kuusela, Wittgenstein on Logic as the Method of Philosophy: Re‐examining the Roots and Development of Analytic Philosophy . xi + 297, £55.00 hb (review)Philosophical Investigations 42 (4): 424-427. 2019.
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87The later Wittgenstein’s guide to contradictionsSynthese 198 (4): 3783-3799. 2019.This paper portrays the later Wittgenstein’s conception of contradictions and his therapeutic approach to them. I will focus on and give relevance to the Lectures on the Foundations of Mathematics, plus the Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics. First, I will explain why Wittgenstein’s attitude towards contradictions is rooted in: a rejection of the debate about realism and anti-realism in mathematics; and Wittgenstein’s endorsement of logical pluralism. Then, I will explain Wittgenstein’s t…Read more
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