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119Wittgensteinian : Looking at the World From the Viewpoint of Wittgenstein’s Philosophy (edited book)Springer Verlag. 2019.“Tell me," Wittgenstein once asked a friend, "why do people always say, it was natural for man to assume that the sun went round the earth rather than that the earth was rotating?" His friend replied, "Well, obviously because it just looks as though the Sun is going round the Earth." Wittgenstein replied, "Well, what would it have looked like if it had looked as though the Earth was rotating?” What would it have looked like if we looked at all sciences from the viewpoint of Wittgenstein’s philos…Read more
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Proceedings of the Conference “Emotions, Others and the Self” (edited book)Åbo Akademi University. 2005.
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19Spinoza on Ethics and Understanding, by Peter WinchNordic Wittgenstein Review 12. 2023.Review of Peter Winch, Spinoza on Ethics and Understanding.
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7Attending to the Actual Sayings of ThingsIn Volker Munz (ed.), Essays on the philosophy of Wittgenstein, De Gruyter. pp. 125-134. 2010.
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4The Psychology of Volition: “Problem and Method Pass One Another By”In Jesús Padilla Gálvez (ed.), Philosophical Anthropology: Wittgenstein's Perspective, De Gruyter. pp. 139-152. 2010.
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6Chapter 2. Peter Winch: Philosophy as the art of disagreementIn John T. Edelman (ed.), Sense and reality: essays out of Swansea, Ontos Verlag. pp. 23-48. 2009.
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25Wittgenstein on Criteria and PracticesCambridge University Press. 2023.In the interpretive literature from the 1950's through the 1970's the term 'criterion' was thought to be a central key to the understanding of Wittgenstein's later philosophy. Later on, it was relegated from this place of honour to being one of a variety of expressions used by Wittgenstein in dealing with philosophical questions. This Element tries to account for the shifting fate of this concept. It discusses the various occurrences of the word “criteria” in the Philosophical Investigations, ar…Read more
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8Wittgenstein and the life we live with languageAnthem Press, an imprint of Wimbledon Publishing Company. 2022.This work is guided by the idea that Wittgenstein's thought opens the door to a more profound break with the philosophical tradition than has been generally recognized. It brings this insight to bear on some basic problems of philosophy.
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9Språkspel kontra samtal – Wittgenstein och RheesNorsk Filosofisk Tidsskrift 44 (3-4): 306-314. 2010.
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6AndrewGleeson and CraigTaylor (eds.),Morality in a Realistic Spirit: Essays for Cora Diamond (Routledge, 2020). vi + 260, price £ 120 hb (review)Philosophical Investigations 44 (1): 99-105. 2021.Philosophical Investigations, EarlyView.
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18Review of Cora Diamond: Reading Wittgenstein with Anscombe, Going on to Ethics (review)Nordic Wittgenstein Review 9. 2020.Review of Cora Diamond: Reading Wittgenstein with Anscombe, Going on to Ethics.
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5Can Robots Learn to Talk?In A. C. Grayling, Shyam Wuppuluri, Christopher Norris, Nikolay Milkov, Oskari Kuusela, Danièle Moyal-Sharrock, Beth Savickey, Jonathan Beale, Duncan Pritchard, Annalisa Coliva, Jakub Mácha, David R. Cerbone, Paul Horwich, Michael Nedo, Gregory Landini, Pascal Zambito, Yoshihiro Maruyama, Chon Tejedor, Susan G. Sterrett, Carlo Penco, Susan Edwards-Mckie, Lars Hertzberg, Edward Witherspoon, Michel ter Hark, Paul F. Snowdon, Rupert Read, Nana Last, Ilse Somavilla & Freeman Dyson (eds.), Wittgensteinian : Looking at the World From the Viewpoint of Wittgenstein’s Philosophy, Springer Verlag. pp. 409-422. 2019.We are all familiar with robots and other computers producing linguistic expressions. The essay discusses the question in what sense these speech-like phenomena can be regarded as an outcome of what might be called learning to talk. The question might also be rephrased as follows: in what sense can a talking robot be considered a speaker. In the debate becoming a speaker is often construed as an ability to connect signs with objects. As was shown by Wittgenstein this conception of being a speake…Read more
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5Can Robots Learn to Talk?In Shyam Wuppuluri & Newton da Costa (eds.), Wittgensteinian : Looking at the World From the Viewpoint of Wittgenstein's Philosophy, Springer Verlag. pp. 409-422. 2019.We are all familiar with robots and other computers producing linguistic expressions. The essay discusses the question in what sense these speech-like phenomena can be regarded as an outcome of what might be called learning to talk. The question might also be rephrased as follows: in what sense can a talking robot be considered a speaker. In the debate becoming a speaker is often construed as an ability to connect signs with objects. As was shown by Wittgenstein this conception of being a speake…Read more
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11Understanding Wittgenstein, Understanding Modernism, ed. Anat MatarNordic Wittgenstein Review 8 (1-2): 241-247. 2019.Review of Anat Matar, ed., Understanding Wittgenstein, Understanding Modernism. New York et al: Bloomsbury, 2017, ISBN: HB: 978-1-5013-0243-5, xv+270 pp.
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25Giving Hostages to Irrationality?Nordic Wittgenstein Review 6 (2): 7-30. 2017.Peter Winch, following Wittgenstein, was critical of the notion that philosophy could pass judgment on matters like the sense of words, the rationality of actions, or the validity of arguments. His critique had both what we might call a local strand – the insight that criteria of thought and action are not universal but vary between cultures and between practices – and a personal strand – the insight that those local criteria are ultimately given shape through the particular applications made of…Read more
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12The Idea of CompositionalityIn Anja Weiberg & Stefan Majetschak (eds.), Aesthetics Today: Contemporary Approaches to the Aesthetics of Nature and of Arts. Proceedings of the 39th International Wittgenstein Symposium in Kirchberg, De Gruyter. pp. 435-448. 2017.
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57The new Wittgenstein. By Alice Crary and Rupert read (eds.), London & new York: Routledge, 2000. Pp. IX + 403, ??17.99Philosophy 78 (3): 425-430. 2003.
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58Rhees on the Unity of LanguagePhilosophical Investigations 35 (3-4): 224-237. 2012.Rush Rhees held Wittgenstein's work in high esteem but considered it in need of deepening. He was critical of Wittgenstein's idea that the builders' game might be the whole language of a tribe and that human language could be thought of as simply a range of language games. Rhees thought that Wittgenstein failed to do justice to the unity of language. The idea of the unity of language appears to have both an anthropological and an ethical aspect. The latter is illustrated with the help of a Hemin…Read more
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83Imagination and the sense of identityIn Human Beings, Cambridge University Press. pp. 143-155. 1991.Most of us, at one time or another, will have been struck by a thought that we might wish to express in the following words: ‘I could have been born in a different time and place, my position in life and all my personal characteristics could have been completely different from what they are; how amazing then that it should have fallen to my lot to live my life, the only life I shall ever live, as this particular individual rather than any other.’ This thought need not derive from a sense that th…Read more
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