-
40Wittgenstein: Lectures, Cambridge 1930–1933. From the Notes of G. E. MoorePhilosophical Quarterly 70 (278): 220-222. 2020.Wittgenstein: Lectures, Cambridge 1930–1933. From the Notes of G. E. Moore. Edited by Stern David G., Rogers Brian, Citron Gabriel.
-
39Ethics, Metaphysics and Nonsense in Wittgenstein’s TractatusWittgenstein-Studien 1 (1): 1-20. 2010.
-
37The Epistemic Value of Holding for TrueJournal of Philosophical Research 40 155-170. 2015.This paper explores the epistemological problem of holding something to be true while building on Wittgenstein’s later philosophy. I claim that it was Frege’s criticism of psychologism in logic that gave a boost to Wittgenstein’s reflections on this issue, an issue that already occupies a central place in Kant’s theory of knowledge. I shall endeavour to show that Wittgenstein’s considerations on rule-following and the systematic character of belief not only make evident the shortcomings of Frege…Read more
-
36Sraffa's Notes on Wittgenstein's "Blue Book"Nordic Wittgenstein Review. 2012.This article presents an edition of unpublished notes by Sraffa on Wittgenstein’s “Blue Book”, written about 1941 and housed at Trinity College Library, Cambridge. The article includes an introduction to the relationship between Sraffa and Wittgenstein and concludes with an interpretation of various philosophical issues addressed in the notes, namely that of solipsism. Various connections between the “Blue Book” and the Philosophical Investigations are traced
-
33Wittgenstein sur Héraclite et sur la phénoménologiePhilosophiques 39 (1): 189-212. 2012.Cet article vise à examiner la critique wittgensteinienne d’Héraclite et des idées de ce dernier selon lesquelles « tout coule » et « on ne peut entrer deux fois dans la même rivière ». Dans la première section, j’examinerai les sources et les interprétations traditionnelles de ces idées. Dans la seconde section, je discuterai le lien établi par David G. Stern entre les remarques de Wittgenstein sur l’image de la rivière et l’étude qu’il a faite de Platon à partir de 1931. Dans la troisième sect…Read more
-
32O Estatuto Do Singular: Estratégias e Perspectivas (edited book)Imprensa Nacional-Casa da Moeda. 2008.O tradicional problema do conhecimento do singular mantém-se hoje em dia: o impasse assinalado por Aristóteles prevalece na maioria das ciências actuais que lidam precisamente com casos particulares, contingentes, imprevisíveis, que escapam ao enquadramento nos modelos categoriais. Este Colóquio sobre O Estatuto do Singular constituiu um desafio para todos aqueles que em diversas áreas filosóficas e científicas se enfrentam com a necessidade de repensar modelos e estratégias aplicáveis ao caso …Read more
-
31Description of Situations: An Essay in Contextualist EpistemologySpringer Verlag. 2018.This book approaches classic epistemological problems from a contextualist perspective. The author takes as his point of departure the fact that we are situated beings, more specifically that every single moment in our lives is already given within the framework of a specific context in the midst of which we understand ourselves and what surrounds us. In the process of his investigation, the author explores, in a fresh way, the works of key thinkers in epistemology. These include Bernard Bolzano…Read more
-
29A von Wright Error and Wittgenstein’s HeracliteanismWittgenstein-Studien 7 (1): 191-200. 2016.In this note I address two issues in Susan Edwards-McKie’s recent paper “The Cosmic Fragment: Härte des Logischen Zwangs und Unendliche Möglichkeit. Nachlass discoveries and Wittgenstein’s conception of generality and the infinite”. The first has to do with a “von Wright error” that Edwards- McKie found and that I show to have been ultimately corrected by von Wright. The second has to do with her interpretation of Wittgenstein’s reaction to Heraclitus’ idea that “everything flows”, one I interpr…Read more
-
26Special Section: Wittgenstein and Applied EpistemologyWittgenstein-Studien 10 (1): 147-151. 2019.In this introductory piece I summarize the aims and contents of the special section on Wittgenstein and Applied Epistemology, which consists of a selection of papers presented at the 6th Symposium of the International Ludwig Wittgenstein Society that took place at the Nova University of Lisbon in 2017. After explaining the sense in which “applied epistemology” is here employed in connection with Wittgenstein’s thought, brief comments are made on papers by Natalie Alana Ashton, Anna Boncompagni, …Read more
-
23ABSTRACT This review discusses Uffelmann’s thesis that Wittgenstein’s conception of grammar underwent important changes in the different phases of his philosophizing. I claim that if we do not accentuate the shifts in approach and terminology that naturally exist in Wittgenstein’s thought, we can see that grammar and logic go hand in hand all along the way, from the Tractatus to the very end, and that grammar was simply a mode he found to conceive of logic in a completely different way from what…Read more
-
21Replies to CommentatorsPhilosophia 48 (5): 1713-1724. 2020.This text consists of replies to commentaries by Michael Williams, Duncan Pritchard and Javier González de Prado on my book Description of Situations: An Essay in Contextualist Epistemology.
-
15Caught in the Language-GameTopoi 41 (5): 1043-1055. 2022.In this paper, I first introduce the main motivations for the internalism/externalism dichotomy in epistemology and explore different accounts of epistemic justification, mostly externalist, arising from Dretske’s relevant alternatives theory of knowledge, namely the reliabilism of Goldman and Nozick, the contextualism of Cohen and DeRose, which is governed by fallibilist standards, and Lewis’ version of contextualism, to which infallibilist standards apply. I then argue that Wittgenstein critic…Read more
-
14Wittgenstein’s Whewell’s Court lectures: Cambridge 1938–1941, from the notes by Yorick Smythies: edited by Volker A. Munz and Bernhard Ritter, Chichester, Wiley-Blackwell, 2017, pp. xxv+366, £83.25 (hb), ISBN: 978-1-119-16633-7British Journal for the History of Philosophy 28 (2): 423-425. 2020.Volume 28, Issue 2, March 2020, Page 423-425.
-
14Précis of Description of SituationsPhilosophia 48 (5): 1683-1690. 2020.This précis articulates the main themes of my book Description of Situations: An Essay in Contextualist Epistemology.
-
14Wittgenstein on British Anti-Nazi PropagandaNordic Wittgenstein Review 7 (2): 195-208. 2018.This paper contains a historical introduction and an edition of a hitherto unpublished manuscript of Wittgenstein's that was found among G. H. von Wright's materials kept in Helsinki. The document concentrates on British anti-Nazi propaganda and was written in 1945. Wittgenstein's criticism of this kind of propaganda, such as that promoted by Robert Vansittart, is also present in other sources of this period belonging to both the _Nachlass _and the correspondence.
-
13Ludwig Wittgenstein: Dictating Philosophy edited by Arthur Gibson and Niamh O'Mahony (Springer, 2020)Philosophy 96 (4): 687-690. 2021.
-
12Wittgenstein on Forms of Life and the Nature of Experience (edited book)Peter Lang. 2010.To what extent is the form of our life fixed, i.e. is there a form of life or forms of life? How does this bear on the nature of experience? These are two Wittgensteinian questions in need of clarification. Wittgenstein on Forms of Life and the Nature of Experience sheds light on a much exploited but rarely analysed topic in Wittgenstein scholarship while addressing central themes of contemporary philosophy. Bringing together essays from some of the leading scholars in the field, the book concen…Read more
-
12Frege contra Kant: Epistemologia e LógicaPrincipia: An International Journal of Epistemology 27 (1): 31-44. 2023.Este artigo aborda a reação de Frege a Kant e questiona uma influente interpretação, defendida por Jim Conant, de acordo com a qual Frege subscreve os princípios essenciais da filosofia de Kant, nomeadamente a sua conceção antipsicologista avant la lettre da lógica pura. Eu defendo que existem diferenças profundas de ponto de vista entre eles, as quais alimentam o seu bem conhecido desacordo acerca da natureza da aritmética, e que a rejeição de Frege de algumas das premissas fundamentais da epis…Read more
-
10Wittgenstein and the Method of von Wright’s Varieties of GoodnessPhilosophical Investigations 43 (4): 334-345. 2020.Philosophical Investigations, EarlyView.
-
9Wittgenstein’s Whewell’s Court lectures: Cambridge 1938–1941, from the notes by Yorick Smythies: edited by Volker A. Munz and Bernhard Ritter, Chichester, Wiley-Blackwell, 2017, pp. xxv+366, £83.25 (hb), ISBN: 978-1-119-16633-7 (review)British Journal for the History of Philosophy 28 (2): 423-425. 2020.Volume 28, Issue 2, March 2020, Page 423-425.
-
9Wittgenstein after his Nachlass (edited book)Palgrave-Macmillan. 2010.In this book, leading philosophers in the field explore the rich and variable tangles that characterise Wittgensteins Nachlass, as well as their relations to his conception of philosophy"--Provided by publisher.
-
9Knowledge, Language and Mind: Wittgenstein's Thought in Progress (edited book)De Gruyter. 2012.This international series publishes outstanding philosophical monographs and edited volumes about Wittgenstein. Publications may focus on his work as a whole or on specific topics. The series also addresses Wittgenstein's life, his sources, and the impact of his works. The volumes are peer-reviewed and present state-of-the-art Wittgenstein research. German-language contributions will be published in the series Über Wittgenstein, and English-language contributions in the series On Wittgenstein.
-
9AgrammaticalityIn Gisela Bengtsson, Simo Säätelä & Alois Pichler (eds.), New Essays on Frege: Between Science and Literature, Springer. pp. 159-175. 2018.In this paper I begin by scrutinizing classic approaches to the question of agrammaticality, with a particular focus on Frege and the early Wittgenstein, and try to show that a further step is needed in order to adequately address this topic. I then focus on the later Wittgenstein’s treatment of nonsense-poems and claim that the failure of the Philosophical Investigations as a book is actually connected with Wittgenstein’s recognition that philosophy should be written under the form of poetry. T…Read more
-
8A von Wright Error and Wittgenstein’s HeracliteanismWittgenstein-Studien 7 (1): 191-200. 2016.In this note I address two issues in Susan Edwards-McKie’s recent paper “The Cosmic Fragment: Härte des Logischen Zwangs und Unendliche Möglichkeit. Nachlass discoveries and Wittgenstein’s conception of generality and the infinite”. The first has to do with a “von Wright error” that Edwards- McKie found and that I show to have been ultimately corrected by von Wright. The second has to do with her interpretation of Wittgenstein’s reaction to Heraclitus’ idea that “everything flows”, one I interpr…Read more
-
New University of LisbonRegular Faculty
-