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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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29Robinson, Daniel N., How Is Nature Possible? Kant’s Project in the First CritiqueReview of Metaphysics 66 (3): 597-599. 2013.
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132Kripke’s metalinguistic apparatus and the analysis of definite descriptionsPhilosophical Studies 156 (3): 363-387. 2011.This article reconsiders Kripke’s ( 1977 , in: French, Uehling & Wettstein (eds) Contemporary perspectives in the philosophy of language, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis) pragmatic, univocal account of the attributive-referential distinction in terms of a metalinguistic apparatus consisting of semantic reference and speaker reference. It is argued that Kripke’s strongest methodological argument supporting the pragmatic account, the parallel applicability of the apparatus to both names…Read more
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39Baumgarten, Alexander., Metaphysics: A Critical Translation, with Kant’s Elucidations, Selected Notes, and Related Materials (review)Review of Metaphysics 67 (4): 867-869. 2014.
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18True to Life. Why Truth Matters – By Michael P. Lynch (review)Philosophical Investigations 30 (4): 389-393. 2007.
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199Puzzles about descriptive namesLinguistics and Philosophy 32 (4): 409-428. 2009.This article explores Gareth Evans’s idea that there are such things as descriptive names, i.e. referring expressions introduced by a definite description which have, unlike ordinary names, a descriptive content. Several ignored semantic and modal aspects of this idea are spelled out, including a hitherto little explored notion of rigidity, super-rigidity. The claim that descriptive names are (rigidified) descriptions, or abbreviations thereof, is rejected. It is then shown that Evans’s theory l…Read more
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23Frege's Definition of Number: No Ontological Agenda?Hungarian Philosophical Review 54 (4): 76-92. 2010.Joan Weiner has argued that Frege’s definitions of numbers constitute linguistic stipulations that carry no ontological commitment: they don’t present numbers as pre-existing objects. This paper offers a critical discussion of this view, showing that it is vitiated by serious exegetical errors and that it saddles Frege’s project with insuperable substantive difficulties. It is first demonstrated that Weiner misrepresents the Fregean notions of so-called Foundations-content, and of sense, referen…Read more
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168The Ideality of Space and Time: Trendelenburg versus Kant, Fischer and BirdKantian Review 18 (2): 263-288. 2013.Trendelenburg argued that Kant's arguments in support of transcendental idealism ignored the possibility that space and time are both ideal and real. Recently, Graham Bird has claimed that Trendelenburg (unlike his contemporary Kuno Fischer) misrepresented Kant, confusing two senses of . I defend Trendelenburg's : the ideas of space and time, as a priori and necessary, are ideal, but this does not exclude their validity in the noumenal realm. This undermines transcendental idealism. Bird's attem…Read more
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22Ludwig WittgensteinReaktion Books. 2007.Ludwig Wittgenstein is generally considered as the greatest philosopher since Immanuel Kant, and his personal life, work, and his historical moment intertwined in a fascinating, complex web. Noted scholar Edward Kanterian explores these intersections in Ludwig Wittgenstein, the newest title in the acclaimed Critical Lives series. Wittgenstein’s works—from Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus to the posthumously published Philosophical Investigations —are notoriously dense, and Kanterian carefully dist…Read more
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37Bodies in Prolegomena§13: Noumena or Phenomena?Hegel Bulletin 34 (2): 181-202. 2013.This article discusses Kant's transcendental idealism in relation to his perplexing use of ‘body’ and related terms inProlegomena§13. Here Kant admits the existence of bodies external to us, although unknown as what they might be in themselves. It is argued that we need to distinguish between a phenomenal and a noumenal use of ‘body’ to make sense of Kant's argument. The most important recent discussions of this passage, i.e., Prauss (1977), Langton (1998) and Bird (2006), are presented and show…Read more
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17th/18th Century Philosophy |