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80Wittgenstein and His Interpreters: Essays in Memory of Gordon Baker (edited book)Wiley-Blackwell. 2007.Comprising specially commissioned essays from some of the most significant contributors to the field, this volume provides a uniquely authoritative and thorough survey of the main lines of Wittgenstein scholarship over the past 50 years, tracing the history and current trends as well as anticipating the future shape of work on Wittgenstein. The first collection of its kind, this volume presents a range of perspectives on the different approaches to the philosophy of Wittgenstein Written by leadi…Read more
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23Privacy and Private LanguageIn Hans-Johann Glock & John Hyman (eds.), A Companion to Wittgenstein, Wiley-blackwell. 2017.This chapter discusses Wittgenstein's private language arguments in both the broad and the narrow sense. It begins by introducing the traditional ideas Wittgenstein's arguments can be seen as undermining. In fact, Wittgenstein points out, it is not bodies that have pains, rather living beings. Only 'of a living human being and what resembles a living human being can one say: it has sensations; it sees; is blind; hears; is deaf; is conscious or unconscious'. Many philosophers have shared the pict…Read more
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8IntroductionIn Guy Kahane, Edward Kanterian & Oskari Kuusela (eds.), Wittgenstein and His Interpreters: Essays in Memory of Gordon Baker, Wiley-blackwell. 2007.This chapter contains section titled: Main Approaches to Wittgenstein Interpretation Themes and Controversies Questions of Style and Method The Articles in This Volume.
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10On the Use and Misuse of the Sciences in the HumanitiesIn Daniela Dumbravă & Bogdan Tătaru-Cazaban (eds.), In-cognita. Ioan Petru Culianu’s Approaches to Religion, . 2021.
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26Approaches to Wittgenstein: Collected PapersPhilosophical Investigations 28 (1): 76-80. 2005.Book reviewed: Brian McGuinness, Approaches to Wittgenstein: Collected Papers, Routledge, 2002, xv + 299 pp, £55.00.
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7Kant's Transition Project and Late Philosophy: Connecting the Opus postumum and Metaphysics of Morals by Oliver ThorndikeReview of Metaphysics 73 (1): 153-154. 2019.
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5Anmerkungen I-V (Schwarze Hefte 1942-1948), Gesamtausgabe by Martin HeideggerReview of Metaphysics 72 (2): 385-387. 2018.
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13What is in a Definition? Understanding Frege’s AccountSiegener Beiträge Zur Geschichte Und Philosophie der Mathematik 9 7-46. 2018.Joan Weiner (2007) has argued that Frege’s definitions of numbers are linguistic stipulations, with no content-preserving or ontological point: they don’t capture any determinate content of numerals, as they have none, and don’t present numbers as preexisting objects. I show that this view is based on exegetical and systematic errors. First, Idemonstrate that Weiner misrepresents the Fregean notions of ‘Foundations-content’, sense, reference, and truth. I then consider the role of definitions, d…Read more
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24Communism: The Shadows of a UtopiaBaltic Worlds 7 (4): 4-11. 2014.Twenty-five years ago, communism, the political system dominant in Eastern Europe, collapsed. Two years later, in 1991, the Soviet Union was dissolved. The People’s Republic of China remained the sole communist power, but throughout the 1990s its anti-capitalist party line was watered down through the introduction of market-oriented reforms. Today, only one country can be said to be truly communist: North Korea. Communism, in the 1980s a mighty geopolitical force holding half of Europe and rough…Read more
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39Joan Weiner (2007) has argued that Frege’s definitions of numbers are linguistic stipulations, with no content-preserving or ontological point: they don’t capture any determinate content of numerals, as they have none, and don’t present numbers as preexisting objects. I show that this view is based on exegetical and systematic errors. First, Idemonstrate that Weiner misrepresents the Fregean notions of ‘Foundations-content’, sense, reference, and truth. I then consider the role of definitions, d…Read more
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3Kant's GodRoutledge. 2017.Kant, God and Metaphysics aims to recover the focal point and inner contradictions of his thought. It first locates Kant in the tradition of reflection on the human weakness from Luther to Hume, and then engages in a critical, but charitable, manner with Kant's entire pre-critical work, including his posthumous fragments.
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11Cioran als Nihilist, Skeptiker und politischer EssayistPhilosophische Rundschau 64 (4): 349-374. 2017.
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27Frege: A Guide for the PerplexedBloomsbury. 2012.Gottlob Frege (1848-1925) was one of the founders of analytical philosophy and the greatest innovator in logic since Aristotle. He introduced many influential philosophical ideas, such as the distinctions between function and argument, or between sense and reference. However, his thought is not readily accessible to the non- expert. His conception of logic, which was crucial to his grand project, the reduction of arithmetic to logic, is especially difficult to grasp. This book provides a lucid …Read more
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35PirminStekeler‐Weithofer, Formen der Anschauung. Eine Philosophie der Mathematik (Berlin/New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2008) 400, price 49.95 Euro (review)Philosophical Investigations 37 (1): 91-94. 2014.
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45Reason’s Disunity with Itself: Comments on Adrian Moore on Kant’s Dialectic of Human ReasonKantian Review 21 (3): 483-493. 2016.Adrian Moore develops a helpful distinction between good and bad metaphysics. Employing this distinction, I argue, first, that some contemporary metaphysical theories might be ‘bad’, insofar as they employ, unreflectively, concepts akin to Kant’s Ideas of reason. Second, I investigate the difficulty Kant himself has with explaining our craving for bad metaphysics. Third, I raise some problems for Kant’s doctrine of ‘transcendental cognition’, which rests on the difficult assumption that Ideas ha…Read more
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Timothy McCarthy/Sean C. Stidd : Wittgenstein in America (review)Philosophischer Literaturanzeiger 55 (4). 2002.
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25This article explores the possibility of locating an ‘ethics of memory’ respecting commission of mass atrocities via the link between justice, truth and memory. First, it suggests a typology for memory in relation to justice in its retributive and restorative aspects. Second, it explores how so-called ‘memory-justice’ arises in the course of international proceedings—and particularly given its significance under the Rome Statute—by considering, critically, the international community's ability t…Read more
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Peter Hacker: Wittgenstein: Connections and Controversies (review)Philosophischer Literaturanzeiger 56 (4). 2003.
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49Kant, God and Metaphysics: The Secret ThornRoutledge. 2017.Kant is widely acknowledged as the greatest philosopher of modern times. He undertook his famous critical turn to save human freedom and morality from the challenge of determinism and materialism. Intertwined with his metaphysical interests, however, he also had theological commitments, which have received insufficient attention. He believed that man is a fallen creature and in need of ‘redemption’. He intended to provide a fortress protecting religious faith from the failure of rationalist meta…Read more
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56Carl Stumpf und Gottlob Frege – By Wolfgang Ewen (review)Philosophical Investigations 34 (3): 312-317. 2011.
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