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    This volume celebrates the work of Hans-Johann Glock, a philosopher renowned for both his exegesis of Wittgenstein and his many contributions to debates in contemporary philosophy. It brings together 16 new essays by up-and-coming and distinguished philosophers engaging with Glock’s work, and it concludes with a "Reflections and Replies" chapter in which Glock responds to his interlocutors. Glock’s distinctive philosophical voice features a rare combination of a Wittgenstein-inspired approach wi…Read more
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    Introduction - Wittgenstein and Beyond
    In Christoph C. Pfisterer & Nicole Rathgeb (eds.), Wittgenstein and Beyond: Essays in Honour of Hans-Johann Glock, Routledge. pp. 1-12. 2022.
    The introduction charts Hans-Johann Glock’s academic career, introduces some of his core philosophical views, and provides an overview of the chapters included in the festschrift.
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    In the last decade, various analyses of beliefs in terms of dispositions have been advanced. One principled objection against dispositional accounts of belief is that they cannot accommodate first-person authority. While people can infallibly state their beliefs without the need for any kind of evidence, their assertions about their dispositions are fallible and in need of evidential support. Hence, the argument goes, beliefs are not the same thing as dispositions. In this paper, I defend a ling…Read more
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    Handbuch Philosophie des Geistes (edited book)
    J.B. Metzler. 2019.
    Welchen Status haben mentale Zustände, wie bewusste Empfindungen, Wünsche, Überzeugungen oder Emotionen, in einer physikalischen Welt? Lassen sich alle derartigen Zustände auf Hirnzustände reduzieren? Was genau zeichnet mentale Zustände aus, und was können wir über die mentalen Zustände unserer Mitmenschen wissen? Dieses Handbuch liefert einen systematischen Überblick über Positionen und Fragestellungen in der Philosophie des Geistes. Ein zentrales Themengebiet ist dabei das Verhältnis zwischen …Read more
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    In the last decade, various analyses of beliefs in terms of dispositions have been advanced. One principled objection against dispositional accounts of belief is that they cannot accommodate first-...
  • In the first edition of _Language, Truth and Logic_, Ayer defines an analytic proposition as one whose ‘validity depends solely on the definitions of the symbols it contains’. In the introduction to the second edition of the book, he defines it as a proposition that is ‘true solely in virtue of the meaning of its constituent symbols’. In this paper, I spell out how the two formulations are to be understood and how they relate to each other. I discuss a problem that arises in connection with the …Read more
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    Nimtz' Neo-Deskriptivismus und der Nutzen der Begriffsanalyse
    Zeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung 70 (2): 280-295. 2016.