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20Descartes' IntentionsCanadian Journal of Philosophy 3 (1). 1973.So many times have we heard it told and even recounted it ourselves, that the tale of Descartes’ metaphysical adventure is something we can slip our philosophical feet into without feeling the slightest pinch. The story, or perhaps, only its plot, is this: Descartes, in order to discover whether anything is certain, attempted to doubt everything; though he succeeded in casting at least a shadow of doubt on vast areas of belief, happily one item, though only one, emerged from the inquiry in a res…Read more
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21Wittgenstein on EssencePhilosophical Investigations 42 (1): 3-14. 2019.In the Investigations, #s 371 and 373, Wittgenstein said: “Essence is expressed by grammar” and “Grammar tells what kind of object anything is …”. Those passages, which commit Wittgenstein to holding that things have essences and which offer an account of what essences consist in, have been ignored by commentators, chiefly because it is thought that in #65ff (family resemblances) Wittgenstein rejected essentialism. The aim of this paper is to straighten out the story of Wittgenstein's thought on…Read more
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22Sensations and kinaesthetic knowledgePhilosophy Research Archives, No. NO 1485 111-168. 1982.When Wittgenstein said psychology contains conceptual confusions and experimental results, one item he had in mind was the psycho-physiological theory of kinaesthesis, which offers an account of how we know limb movement and position. The aim of this essay is to develop and evaluate the objections to that theory which have been produced by Wittgenstein, Melden and Anscombe. That project involves specifying clearly what is involved in the theory, resolving various disagreements between the critic…Read more
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3John V. Canfield, The Looking Glass Self: An Examination of Self Awareness Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 12 (1): 13-15. 1992.
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Newton Garver, This Complicated Form of Life: Essays on Wittgenstein Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 15 (5): 321-322. 1995.
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Comments on George Vick's AddressPacific Philosophical Quarterly 53 (3): 357. 1972.This paper was a comment on address at a conference whose proceedings were published by The Personalist (now the Pacific Philosophical Quarterly.) It was pure ephemera and only someone interested in the paper on which it was a comment would find this of interest. I have no copy of it remaining and have, at this distance, no memory of what I might have said.
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10Sensations and Kinaesthetic KnowledgePhilosophy Research Archives 8 111-168. 1982.When Wittgenstein said psychology contains conceptual confusions and experimental results, one item he had in mind was the psycho-physiological theory of kinaesthesis, which offers an account of how we know limb movement and position. The aim of this essay is to develop and evaluate the objections to that theory which have been produced by Wittgenstein, Melden and Anscombe. That project involves specifying clearly what is involved in the theory, resolving various disagreements between the critic…Read more
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11Hubert Rudolf Georg Schwyzer, 1935-2006Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 80 (5). 2007.
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Newton Garver, This Complicated Form of Life: Essays on Wittgenstein (review)Philosophy in Review 15 321-322. 1995.
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5Sensations and Kinaesthetic KnowledgePhilosophy Research Archives 8 111-168. 1982.When Wittgenstein said psychology contains conceptual confusions and experimental results, one item he had in mind was the psycho-physiological theory of kinaesthesis, which offers an account of how we know limb movement and position. The aim of this essay is to develop and evaluate the objections to that theory which have been produced by Wittgenstein, Melden and Anscombe. That project involves specifying clearly what is involved in the theory, resolving various disagreements between the critic…Read more
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16Infallibility, Knowledge, and the Epistemological TraditionInternational Philosophical Quarterly 23 (4): 367-381. 1983.
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13Science, Revolution and Discontinuity (review)Philosophical Books 23 (2): 98-99. 1982.A favorable review of John Krige's Science, Revolution and Discontinuity
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11Beginning with the Pre-SocraticsWCB/McGraw-Hill. 1987.An introduction to Pre-Socratic philosophy. It is not intended for scholars - though the interpretation of Parmenides is wholly original. It is for students in a class on Greek Philosophy, giving a useful account of the Pre-Socratics in a course that will be dominated by Socrates, Plato and Aristotle.
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