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    What Is Meaning? A Wittgensteinian Answer to an Un-Wittgensteinian Question
    with Hans-Johann Glock and Sebastian Sunday
    In Glock, Hans-Johann (2019). What Is Meaning? A Wittgensteinian Answer to an Un-Wittgensteinian Question. In: Conant, James; Sunday, Sebastian. Wittgenstein on Philosophy, Objectivity, and Meaning. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 185-210, . pp. 185-210. 2019.
  • The Palgrave Handbook of German Idealism and Analytic Philosophy (edited book)
    with Jonas Held
    Palgrave MacMillan. forthcoming.
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    The idea that there is a distinctively practical use of reason, and correspondingly a distinctively practical form of knowledge, unites many otherwise diverse voices in the history of practical philosophy: from Aristotle to Kant, from Rousseau to Marx, from Hegel to G.E.M. Anscombe, and many others. This volume gathers works by scholars who take inspiration from these and many other historical figures in order to deepen our systematic understanding of questions raised by their work that still ar…Read more
  •  68
    Sebastian Rödl's Self-Consciousness and Objectivity is one of the most original and thought-provoking books in philosophy of mind for the last several years. An ambitious defence of absolute idealism, Rödl rejects the idea that reality is simply something given, and instead advances the position that all reality is accessible to thought because reality is already included in judgment. In this outstanding collection, a roster of international contributors critically examine the significance of …Read more
  •  4
    Rethinking Epistemology, Volume 1 (edited book)
    De Gruyter. 2011.
    This volume contains contributions to the "systematic study of knowledge." They suggest both an extension and a new path for classical epistemology. The topics in the first volume are the following: concepts and forms of knowledge, epistemic perspectivism, knowledge and world-views, perceptual knowledge, scientific knowledge, models in science, distributed and integrated knowledge, interaction of forms of knowledge, and relation between forms of knowledge and forms of representation.
  •  18
    Resolute Readings of the Tractatus
    In Hans-Johann Glock & John Hyman (eds.), A Companion to Wittgenstein, Wiley-blackwell. 2017.
    A spectator of the passing philosophical scene, recently encountering the current controversy about “resolute readings” of the Tractatus, might be forgiven for finding it difficult to figure out what the debate is supposed to be about and who exactly is on which side and why. This chapter demonstrates, through a reconstruction of some relevant features of “the” debate, that at one point there are in fact several orthogonal debates taking place, confusedly cast as contributions to a single debate…Read more
  •  84
    Engaging Putnam (edited book)
    De Gruyter. 2022.
    About this book Hilary Whitehall Putnam was one of the leading philosophers of the second half of the 20th century. As student of Rudolph Carnap's and Hans Reichenbach's, he went on to become not only a major figure in North American analytic philosophy, who made significant contributions to the philosophy of mind, language, mathematics, and physics but also to the disciplines of logic, number theory, and computer science. He passed away on March 13, 2016. The present volume is a memorial to his…Read more
  •  115
    What is pragmatism?
    with Richard Rorty, Hilary Putnam, and Gretchen Helfrich
    Think 3 (8): 71-88. 2004.
    The following is a transcript of a discussion about the question between Richard Rorty, Hilary Putnam, and James Conant. The discussion was part of a series of discussions on more or less philosophical subjects broadcast on Chicago Public Radio. This discussion is anchored by Gretchen Helfrich. Two listeners (Chris and Edwin) also took part
  •  77
    Name der Zeitschrift: Nordic Wittgenstein Review Jahrgang: 2 Heft: 1 Seiten: 131-160
  •  37
    This is part 2 of an interview with Prof. J. Conant, conducted by Niklas Forsberg.
  •  3
    Stanley Cavells Wittgenstein
    Agora Journal for metafysisk spekulasjon 26 (1-2): 29-48. 2008.
  •  10
    Spielarten des Skeptizismus
    In Markus Gabriel (ed.), Skeptizismus Und Metaphysik, Akademie Verlag. pp. 21-72. 2011.
  •  87
    4. Resolute Disjunctivism
    In Matthew Boyle & Evgenia Mylonaki (eds.), Reason in Nature: New Essays on Themes From John Mcdowell, Harvard University Press. pp. 111-152. 2022.
  •  28
    An Introduction to Hilary Putnam
    In Sanjit Chakraborty & James Ferguson Conant (eds.), Engaging Putnam, De Gruyter. pp. 1-46. 2022.
  •  212
    The Dialectic of Perspectivism I
    SATS 7 (1): 5-50. 2006.
    Philosophers ... always demand that we should think of an eye that is completely unthinkable, an eye turned in no particular direction, in which the active and interpreting forces, through which alone seeing becomes seeing something, are supposed to be lacking; they always demand of the eye an absurdity and a nonsense.
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    Divided into three parts, this work is a record of the direction Kuhn was taking during the last two decades of his life. It consists of essays in which he refines the basic concepts set forth in "Structure"--Paradigm shifts, incommensurability, and the nature of scientific progress.
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    Wittgensteins Kritik am additiven Verständnis des sprachlichen Zeichens
    Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 69 (1): 1-24. 2021.
    This paper argues that Wittgenstein, both early and late, rejects the idea that the logically simpler and more fundamental case is that of “the mere sign” and that what a meaningful symbol is can be explained through the elaboration of an appropriately supplemented conception of the sign: the sign plus something (say, an interpretation or an assignment of meaning). Rather the sign, in the logically fundamental case of its mode of occurrence, is an internal aspect of the symbol. The Tractatus put…Read more
  •  3
    The Road since Structure
    with Kuhn Thomas and John Haugeland
    In Thomas Kuhn (ed.), The Road Since Structure, University of Chicago Press. 2000.
  •  25
    On Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Mathematics
    with Hilary Putnam
    Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 70 (1): 243-266. 1996.
  •  151
    Why worry about Wittgenstein’s Tractatus? Did not Wittgenstein himself come to think it was largely a mistaken work? Is not Wittgenstein’s important work his later work? And does not his later work consist in a rejection of his earlier views? So does not the interest of the Tractatus mostly lie in its capacity to furnish a particularly vivid exemplar of the sort of philosophy that the mature Wittgenstein was most concerned to reject? So is it not true that the only real reason to worry about the…Read more
  •  319
    Wittgenstein on meaning and use
    Philosophical Investigations 21 (3). 1998.
    Wittgenstein is usually taken to have held that the use of a term is not mentally constrained. That is utterly wrong. A use of language unconstrained by meaning is attributed by him to "meaning-blind" or "aspect-blind" creatures, not to us. We observe meaning when an aspect dawns on us; meaning is the impression (Eindruck) of a term as fitting something; hence, unlike pain, it cannot stand alone. That is a mentalistic theory of meaning: use is determined by images (Vorstellungen) that play seman…Read more
  •  230
    If someone believes himself to have discovered the solution to the problem of life … then in order to refute himself he need only reflect that there was a time when this ‘solution’ had not been discovered; but it must have been possible to live then too…. And that is the position in which we find ourselves in logic. If there comes to seem to be a ‘solution’ to logical (philosophical) problems, we should need only to caution ourselves that there was a time when they had not been solved (and even …Read more
  •  150
    On Wittgenstein's philosophy of mathematics
    Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 97 (2). 1997.
    Hilary Putnam, James Conant; On Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Mathematics, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Volume 97, Issue 1, 1 June 1997, Pages 195–22.
  • Realism with a Human Face (edited book)
    Harvard University Press. 1984.
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    On Wittgenstein
    with Wolfgang Kienzler, Stefan Majetschak, Volker Munz, Josef G. F. Rothhaupt, David Stern, and Wilhelm Vossenkuhl
    In Sascha Bru, Wolfgang Huemer & Daniel Steuer (eds.), Wittgenstein Reading, De Gruyter. pp. 96-107. 2013.
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    The document before you is by a member of a fanatical sect of heretical Ludwig scholars. Through a twist of fate it has fallen into my hands. I hesitate to make it public, since its circulation may do more harm than good. What speaks against publication is that it has the power to corrupt young minds. I do not take a light view of the dangers it poses in this regard. What speaks in favor of publication is the fact that these people must be stopped. Through their pamphlets and brochures they cont…Read more