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    This study examines the philosophical question of how it is possible to appreciate music aesthetically as an expressive art form. First it examines a number of general theories that seek to make sense of expressiveness as a characteristic of music that can be considered relevant to our aesthetic appreciation of the latter. These include accounts that focus on resemblances between music and human behaviour or human feelings, on music's powers of emotional arousal, and on various ways in which mus…Read more
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    Maria Kokoszyńska-Lutmanowa (1906-1981) was a Polish philosopher and student of Kazimierz Twardowski, the founder of the Lvov-Warsaw School. In 1938 she went to the University of Cambridge (Newnham College) on a Sarah Smitton Fellowship. There she attended George Edward Moore’s lectures as well as one of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Lectures on the Foundations of Mathematics in 1939. In this interview which was conducted with Alois Eder she talks about her encounter with Wittgenstein. It was published …Read more
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    Wittgensteins "Denkbewegungen" (Tagebücher 1930-1932/1936-1937) aus interdisziplinärer Sicht = (edited book)
    with Ilse Somavilla and Bożena Sieradzka-Baziur
    Studien Verlag. 2019.
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    Tomasz Mróz. Selected Issues in the History of Polish Philosophy
    Forum Philosophicum: International Journal for Philosophy 21 (2): 251-254. 2017.
    This article reviews the book Selected Issues in the History of Polish Philosophy, by Tomasz Mróz.
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    Schmalenbach on Standing Alone before God: A Philosophical Case-Study in Ontologico-Historical Understanding
    Forum Philosophicum: International Journal for Philosophy 21 (2): 157-186. 2016.
    This article explores the clarificatory potential of a specific way of approaching philosophical problems, centered on the analysis of the ways in which philosophers treat the relationship between ontological and historical forms of commitment. Its distinctive feature is a refusal to begin from any premises that might be considered “ontologistic” or “historicistic.” Instead, the relative status of the two forms of commitment is left open, to emerge in the light of more specific inquiries themsel…Read more
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    Ian Dearden. Do Philosophers Talk Nonsense?
    Forum Philosophicum: International Journal for Philosophy 18 (2): 269-278. 2014.
    In his newly reissued and revised book, the philosopher Ian Dearden at- tempts a critical inquiry into a philosophical position he calls “nonsensi- calism,” which he takes to correspond to the view “that it is possible to be mistaken in thinking one means anything by what one says”.1 He holds that an unexamined assumption to this effect is implicit in a large swathe of philosophical work dating from a period stretching throughout most of the 20th century, thanks to the widespread tendency of phi…Read more
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    Wittgenstein, philosopher of cultures (edited book)
    with Walter Schweidler
    Academia Verlag. 2017.