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10What does “Experiencing Meaning” Mean?In Danièle Moyal-Sharrock (ed.), The Third Wittgenstein. Ashgate Wittgenstin Studies, Ashgate. pp. 107-123. 2004.Wittgenstein links the strange phenomenon of experiencing meaning to the more familiar phenomenon of seeing-as, or noticing an aspect. His interest in the subject seems to have been sparked by the work of William James, and this chapter examines both what he has to say on the matter and its relevance to language-learning, prose, poetry and puns.
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26Benton, RA, 527 Blackburn, P., 281 Braüner, T., 359 Brink, C., 543Journal of Philosophical Logic 31 (615). 2002.
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7A Unified Pyrrhonian Resolution of the Toxin Problem, The Surprise Examination and Newcomb’s PuzzleAmerican Philosophical Quarterly 45 (4). 2008.The three puzzles here considered are shown to have a common structure. And in each, an agent is thrust into a cleverly contrived deliberatively unstable situation. The paper advocates a resolutely Pyrrhonian abandonment of the futile reasoning in which the agent is trapped and advocates an alternative strategy for escape.
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2Toward the World and Wisdom of Wittgenstein’s ‘Tractatus’Philosophical Quarterly 25 (98): 84-85. 1975.
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6Letters to Russell, Keynes and Moore.Philosophical GrammarPhilosophical Quarterly 25 (100): 279. 1975.
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4III A Unified Solution to Some ParadoxesProceedings of the Aristotelian Society 100 (n/a): 53-74. 2000.The Russell class does not exist because the conditions purporting to specify that class are contradictory, and hence fail to specify any class. Equally, the conditions purporting to specify the Liar statement are contradictory and hence, although the Liar sentence is grammatically in order, it fails to yield a statement. Thus the common source of these and related paradoxes is contradictory (or tautologous) specifying conditions-for such conditions fail to specify. This is the diagnosis. The cu…Read more
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5Spandrels of Truth * By JC BEALLAnalysis 70 (3): 586-589. 2010.(No abstract is available for this citation)
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The Barber, Russell's Paradox, Catch-22, God, Contradiction, and MoreIn Graham Priest, Jc Beall & Bradley P. Armour-Garb (eds.), The law of non-contradiction : new philosophical essays, Oxford University Press. 2004.
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1Gardner-Inspired Design of Teaching MaterialsDiscourse: Learning and Teaching in Philosophical and Religious Studies 10 (1): 173-202. 2010.
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1The Philosophy of Wilfrid Sellars: Queries and ExtensionsPhilosophical Quarterly 30 (119): 153-155. 1980.
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5The Imagination as Glory: The Poetry of James DickeyJournal of Aesthetic Education 22 (2): 118. 1988.
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4The general aim of this project is to fundamentally re-think the design of teaching materials in view of what is now known about cognitive deficits and about what Howard Gardner has termed ‘multiple intelligences’. The applicant has implemented this strategy in two distinct areas, the first involving the writing of an English language programme for Chinese speakers, the second involving the construction of specialized equipment for teaching elementary logic to blind students. The next phase is t…Read more
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34Kripke, Pierre and ConstantinescuThe Reasoner 1 (5): 4-5. 2007.Refutes Cristian Constantinescu's proposed solution of Kripke's puzzle about belief.
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1The Adverbial Theory of Conceptual ThoughtThe Monist 65 (3): 379-392. 1982.Romane Clark has complained of the dissimilarity between Sellars’s treatment of conceptual thought and his treatment of sense impressions. For sense impressions are intrinsic to perceptions and, on Sellars’s view, both conceptual thought and perception are species of judgment. In the first section of this paper I want to raise a converse sort of complaint: Sellars offers an ‘adverbial’ theory of sense impressions and a similar account of conceptual thought. But this similarity of treatment is no…Read more
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2Wittgenstein’s Most Important Contribution to the Philosophy of LogicIn Danièle Moyal-Sharrock, Volker Munz & Annalisa Coliva (eds.), Mind, Language and Action: Proceedings of the 36th International Wittgenstein Symposium, De Gruyter. pp. 3-20. 2015.
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University of KentRegular Faculty
University of St. Andrews
PhD, 1977