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5‘A better sort of reader’: Wittgenstein on literary readingPhilosophical Investigations 47 (3): 411-429. 2024.F. R. Leavis, the leading literary critic at Cambridge from 1930 to 1960, recounts the time when his friend Ludwig Wittgenstein told him to ‘give up literary criticism!’ The remark came as a surprise to Leavis, and it remains somewhat puzzling to anyone who reads of the encounter, for there are few contextual clues as to why Wittgenstein would say such a thing. But there are clues in Wittgenstein's many remarks on literature, music and other art forms scattered throughout his writings. In this p…Read more
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2ConclusionPhilosophical Investigations 47 (3): 430-431. 2024.Philosophical Investigations, EarlyView.
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9Ronald E.Hustwit, K. Bouwsma: A Philosopher's Journey (New York: Peter Lang, 2015). x + 228 pages, price £53.00 hb (review)Philosophical Investigations 40 (1): 93-98. 2017.
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24Literacy: The end and means of literaturePhilosophical Investigations 27 (3). 2004.In modern times a gap has appeared between the arts of history and literature, and the sciences of historicism and criticism. Many modern critics, historians, and teachers of literature and history (and even many so‐called authors of literature) have welcomed, or at least complied with, the “scientification” of their arts, resulting in widespread illiteracy with regard to literature and history. The solution to this problem lies in a (re‐)investigation of how the art of literature teaches us the…Read more
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17Ronald E. Hustwit, K. Bouwsma: A Philosopher's Journey . x + 228 pages, price £53.00 hb (review)Philosophical Investigations 40 (1): 93-98. 2016.
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Not the Crime, but the Man: Sherlock Holmes and Charles Augustus MilvertonIn Philip Tallon & David Baggett (eds.), The Philosophy of Sherlock Holmes, University Press of Kentucky. 2012.
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37"Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus": A "Poem" by Ludwig WittgensteinJournal of the History of Ideas 63 (2): 345. 2002.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Journal of the History of Ideas 63.2 (2002) 345-363 [Access article in PDF] Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus: A "Poem" by Ludwig Wittgenstein David Rozema In the Fall term of 1911 the 22-year-old Ludwig Wittgenstein presented himself to the Cambridge philosopher of mathematics, Bertrand Russell, as a prospective student of philosophy. Wittgenstein had left off his studies as a promising young aeronautical engineer because, in the cours…Read more
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23Plato's Theaetetus: What to do with an Honours StudentJournal of Philosophy of Education 32 (2). 1998.Socrate's dialogue with the young student, Theaetetus, is a case of the highest form of education: a ‘divine service’ to the state of Athens, to Theaetetus' family and friends, and to Theaetetus himself. It is less a means for Socrates (or Plato) to present his theory of knowledge than a sort of ‘noble lie’ designed and intended by Socrates to keep Theaetetus both appropriately humble and hungry for wisdom. The progress of the dialogue is an allegory of moral education, a picturing of what Arist…Read more
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14The Polemics of EducationJournal of Philosophy of Education 35 (2): 237-254. 2001.In his book, Sex, Economy, Freedom and Community, Wendell Berry describes two poles of how one understands ‘economy’: (a) ‘the kind of economy that exists to protect the “right” of profit’ and (b) ‘the kind of economy [that] exists for the protection of gifts’. In this paper I describe a similar polemic in how one understands ‘education’. I suggest that, correspondingly, there are two kinds of education. There is (a) the education of commodity—the kind of education that seeks to produce persons …Read more
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14Contemplating Religious Forms of Life: Wittgenstein and D. Z. Phillips. By Mikel BurleyAmerican Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 88 (1): 163-166. 2014.
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