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7Reviews in Health Law: Patenting Technology Instead of IdentityJournal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 32 (3): 524-527. 2004.
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18Reviews in Health Law: Patenting Technology Instead of IdentityJournal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 32 (3): 524-527. 2004.
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8Ordinary Language PhilosophyIn Constantin V. Boundas (ed.), The Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century Philosophies, Edinburgh University Press. pp. 85-95. 2007.
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17Turning to Poetry for Help—Some Desultory RemarksJournal of Aesthetic Education 53 (3): 26-33. 2019.What follows is talky—I skitter across a number of difficult topics much too quickly and with little attempt to defend what I say. I may be able to add some defense later in discussion, but I don't promise anything much and certainly nothing fancy. I am still very much in the process of thinking about these topics, and I aim to do no more than to perhaps nudge you to think about them too.By "poetry" in what follows, I typically mean "lyric poetry." There are poems and poems and poems, and the da…Read more
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5In The Foundations of Arithmetic, Gottlob Frege contended that the difference between concepts and objects was absolute. He meant that no object could be a concept and no concept an object. Benno Kerry disagreed; he contended that a concept could be an object, and that therefore the difference between concepts and objects was only relative. In this book, Jolley aims to understand the debate between Frege and Kerry. But Jolley's purpose is not so much to champion either side; rather, it is to uti…Read more
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59(Kivy on) the form–content identity thesisBritish Journal of Aesthetics 48 (2): 193-204. 2008.Peter Kivy investigates the unity of form and content in the arts, particularly in poetry. While Kivy says much with which I happily agree, I sadly disagree with him about the impossibility of form–content identities. Kivy's arguments fail to compel: there are other ways of understanding form–content identities and the need for them that has been felt by artists and critics. CiteULike Connotea Del.icio.us What's this?
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1Austin Athwart the TraditionIn Consuelo Preti (ed.), Some Main Problems of Moore Interpretation, Routledge. pp. 229-239. 2017.
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Grammatical InvestigationsIn Kelly Dean Jolley (ed.), Wittgenstein: Key Concepts, Routledge. pp. 169-174. 2010.
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Explorations of Plotinus' Philosophical PsychologyDissertation, The University of Rochester. 1994.In the dissertation I explore three central issues in Plotinus' philosophical psychology: The fall of the soul, the relationships of soul and body, and the concept of the ego. ;Chapter 1 introduces the issues. Chapter 2 argues for a dual-aspect theory about the soul's fall. Chapter 3 characterizes the relationships between soul and body. Much of the chapter is devoted to distancing Plotinus' dualism from Cartesian dualism. The chapter ends with a discussion of Plotinus on perception. Chapter 4 i…Read more
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40Once Moore Unto the Breach! Frege and the Concept ‘Horse’ ParadoxPhilosophical Topics 43 (1-2): 113-124. 2015.In this essay, I respond to A. W. Moore’s instructive chapter on Frege. I respond by asking various questions, and I question particularly Moore’s claim that Frege, in reacting to Benno Kerry, falls into Hegelian excess. I toy with responding to my question by regarding Frege as anticipating a Wittgensteinian-Heideggerian exaction. It remains unclear whether this constitutes (much) progress.
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25Resolute ReadingPhilosophical Topics 42 (2): 101-127. 2014.What is it to read Wittgenstein resolutely? In this essay, I make a suggestion about how to answer that question. I backtrack in time to a debate about Philosophical Investigations between O. K. Bouwsma and Gilbert Ryle. I selectively reconstruct that debate, highlighting features of it that I take to be interesting in their own right and in relation to debates about PI, but also interesting in analogy with debates about resolute and standard readings of Tractatus logico-philosophicus. As will b…Read more
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11Wittgenstein: Key ConceptsRoutledge. 2010.Wittgenstein's complex and demanding work challenges much that is taken for granted in philosophical thinking as well as in the theorizing of art, theology, science and culture. Each essay in this collection explores a key concept involved in Wittgenstein's thinking, relating it to his understanding of philosophy, and outlining the arguments and explaining the implications of each concept. Concepts covered include grammar, meaning and meaning-blindness language-games and private language, family…Read more
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5James F. Peterman, Philosophy as Therapy: An Interpretation and Defense of Wittgenstein's Later Philosophical Project Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 13 (6): 334-336. 1993.
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33The Nexus of Unity of an Emerson SentenceThe European Legacy 14 (5): 549-560. 2009.In this essay I investigate the unity of Emerson's sentences. I begin by describing the phenomenology of reading Emerson and use that phenomenology to orient the investigation. I propose to understand the unity of Emerson's sentences by using a variation of Frege's strategy for understanding the unity of sentences generally. I then address how the unity of the Emerson sentence serves to create the unity of the Emerson paragraph and even of the Emerson essay. Along the way I compare Emerson's ess…Read more
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31A Philosophical Education and Philosophical InvestigationsModern Schoolman 76 (4): 293-301. 1999.
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1Metaschematizing Socrates: Hamann, Kierkegaard, and Kant on the value of the EnlightenmentIn Lisa Marie Anderson (ed.), Hamann and the Tradition, Northwestern University Press. 2012.
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301Mensurable Confusion? Wittgenstein’s Meter-Stick and BeyondThe Pluralist 5 (2): 105-140. 2010.I certainly find it easier to recognize the deep continuities within Wittgenstein's thought, than the real nature of the contrasts: one only comes to recognize these for what they are after prolonged engagement with the two works.Heather Gert has offered a reading of Investigations §§ 46-50. Her attention devolves primarily on the notorious standard meter paragraph of § 50. Important to her reading is her conviction about what it is from the Tractatus that is being criticized and about how it is…Read more
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35Logic in 3D: Opeating with Words in Philosophical InvestigationsPhilosophical Papers 35 (2): 193-204. 2006.In this brief essay, I explain the peculiar actions of the shopkeeper described in Philosophical Investigations 1 (the shopkeeper has been given an order and has gone on to fill it). I also shed light on why and how Wittgenstein wants us to notice the peculiarity of the actions. Wittgenstein wants us to watch the shopkeeper so as to displace the general notion of the meaning of a word in our philosophical reflections. Watching the shopkeeper's actions is watching him understand the order he has …Read more
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20Wittgenstein: Biography and Philosophy (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 40 (4): 552-554. 2002.Kelly Dean Jolley - Wittgenstein: Biography and Philosophy - Journal of the History of Philosophy 40:4 Journal of the History of Philosophy 40.4 552-554 Book Review Wittgenstein: Biography and Philosophy James C. Klagge, editor. Wittgenstein: Biography and Philosophy. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. xv + 272. Cloth, $54.95. Paper, $19.95. Collected in this volume are papers from the 1999 conference "Wittgenstein: Biography and Philosophy," along with a few other relevant papers. …Read more
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28Husserl or Frege? Meaning, Objectivity, and Mathematics (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 39 (2): 311-312. 2001.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Journal of the History of Philosophy 39.2 (2001) 311-312 [Access article in PDF] Hill, Claire Ortiz and Guillermo E. Rosado Haddock. Husserl or Frege? Meaning, Objectivity, and Mathematics. Chicago: Open Court, 2000. Pp. xiv + 315. Cloth, $39.95. Analytic philosophy is rooted in Frege; phenomenology, in Husserl: or so goes the old, old story. Most philosophers now recognize that Husserl has a role to play in analysis' roots, and Freg…Read more
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72Motives for philosophizing debunking and Wittgenstein's philosophical investigationsMetaphilosophy 40 (2): 260-272. 2009.Abstract: In this article I contest a reading of Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations —a reading of it as debunking philosophy. I concede that such a reading is not groundless, but I show why it is nonetheless mistaken. To do so, I distinguish two different ways of viewing Philosophical Investigations and its concern with philosophical problems, an External View and an Internal View. On the External View, readers of the book are taken to know ahead of time what philosophical problems are.…Read more
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71Logic's Caretaker–Wittgenstein, logic, and the vanishment of Russell's paradoxPhilosophical Forum 35 (3). 2004.
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117Pollyanna realism: Moral perception and moral propertiesAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 80 (1). 2002.This Article does not have an abstract
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76The Unboundedness of the Plain; or the Ubiquity of Lilliput? How to Do Things with Thompson Clarke?International Journal for the Study of Skepticism 4 (3-4): 225-262. 2014.In this essay, we focus primarily on Moore’s “Proof of an External World” and Kant’s “Refutation of Idealism.” We are not exactly commenting on Clarke’s “The Legacy of Skepticism,” interpreting it, although what we do involves us in (some of) that. Instead of directly commenting on it, we do things with Legacy; we read Moore’s Proof and Kant’s Refutation with Clarke in mind. And by way of doing this, we bring onto the stage a post-Legacy Moore, and a post-Legacy Kant. We do not claim to present …Read more
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20th Century Analytic Philosophy, Misc |