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22Baltas, Aristides. Peeling Potatoes or Grinding Lenses: Spinoza and Young Wittgenstein Converse on Immanence and Its Logic (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012). Beiser, Frederick C. The German Historicist Tradition (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011) (review)Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 33 (1). 2012.
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The color-exclusion problem and the development of Wittgenstein's philosophy of logicIn Florian Franken Figueiredo (ed.), Wittgenstein's philosophy in 1929, Routledge. 2023.
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Overlooked distinctions : the mirage of contingent A prioriIn Martin Gustafsson, Oskari Kuusela & Jakub Mácha (eds.), Engaging Kripke with Wittgenstein: The Standard Meter, Contingent Apriori, and Beyond, Routledge. 2023.
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509Engaging Kripke with Wittgenstein: The Standard Meter, Contingent Apriori, and Beyond (edited book)Routledge. 2023.This volume draws connections between Wittgenstein's philosophy and the work of Saul Kripke, especially his Naming and Necessity. Saul Kripke is regarded as one of the foremost representatives of contemporary analytic philosophy. His most important contributions include the strict distinction between metaphysical and epistemological questions, the introduction of the notions of contingent a priori truth and necessary a posteriori truth and original accounts of names, descriptions, identity, nece…Read more
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152The Oxford Handbook of Wittgenstein (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2011.Since the middle of the 20th century Ludwig Wittgenstein has been an exceptionally influential and controversial figure wherever philosophy is studied. This is the most comprehensive volume ever published on Wittgenstein: thirty-five leading scholars explore the whole range of his thought, offering critical engagement and original interpretation.
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16Ethics After Wittgenstein: Contemplation and Critique (edited by Richard Amesbury and Hartmut von Sass)Nordic Wittgenstein Review 12. 2023.
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47Wittgenstein and His Interpreters: Essays in Memory of Gordon Baker (edited book)Wiley-Blackwell. 2007.Comprising specially commissioned essays from some of the most significant contributors to the field, this volume provides a uniquely authoritative and thorough survey of the main lines of Wittgenstein scholarship over the past 50 years, tracing the history and current trends as well as anticipating the future shape of work on Wittgenstein. The first collection of its kind, this volume presents a range of perspectives on the different approaches to the philosophy of Wittgenstein Written by leadi…Read more
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8IntroductionIn Guy Kahane, Edward Kanterian & Oskari Kuusela (eds.), Wittgenstein and His Interpreters: Essays in Memory of Gordon Baker, Wiley-blackwell. 2007.This chapter contains section titled: Main Approaches to Wittgenstein Interpretation Themes and Controversies Questions of Style and Method The Articles in This Volume.
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62Iris Murdoch, Philosopher: A Collection of Essays, edited by Justin Broackes (review)Mind 124 (496): 1249-1254. 2015.
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29Introduction. Editors' introductionIn Oskari Kuusela & Marie McGinn (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Wittgenstein, Oxford University Press. pp. 10-14. 2011.
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21Book Review: Wittgenstein on Rules and NatureDrommKeithWittgenstein on Rules and NatureLondon: Continuum, 2008. 124 pp. $130/£65 (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 43 (3): 400-405. 2013.
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22Note from the EditorsNordic Wittgenstein Review 9. 2020.Originally published March 20, 2020. This version published December 30, 2020.
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24Note from the Editors and Open Review Information (Volume 12)Nordic Wittgenstein Review 12. 2023.Editorial, Vol. 12.
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15Wittgenstein’s Tractatus without paradoxRevista de Filosofia Aurora 34 (63). 2022.This article proposes an interpretation of Wittgenstein’s so-called picture theory of propositions that forgoes the attribution of unsayable truths or theses to the Tractatus. Consequently, the interpretation avoids describing the Tractatus as entangled in a paradox of nonsensical theses. Rather, I argue, the proper expression for Wittgenstein’s logical insights is a logical symbolism into whose structure they are encoded. This also applies to his account of propositions as pictures. Its purpose…Read more
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Wittgenstein's reception of SocratesIn Christopher Moore (ed.), Brill's Companion to the Reception of Socrates, Brill. 2019.A main theme of this chapter is Ludwig Wittgenstein’s critical reception of Socrates in the 1930s, during which time Wittgenstein was developing a new philosophical methodology that he described as being antithetical to that of Socrates and best explained by way of this contrast. In particular, Wittgenstein is critical of an unexamined assumption relating to conceptual unity that seems to inform Socrates’ philosophical engagements, according to which one can always define a concept, or cases tha…Read more
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24Wittgenstein and Phenomenology (edited book)Routledge. 2018.This volume of new essays explores the relationship between the thought of Wittgenstein and the key figures of phenomenology: Husserl, Heidegger, Levinas, Merleau-Ponty and Sartre. It is the first book to provide an overview of how Wittgenstein’s philosophy in its different phases, including his own so-called phenomenological phase, relates to the variety of phenomenological approaches developed in continental Europe. In so doing, the volume seeks to throw light on both sides of the comparison, …Read more
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8Wittgenstein’s Investigations: Awakening the Imagination by Beth SavickeyEstetika: The European Journal of Aesthetics 1 86-92. 2020.
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9Defending Diamond Against Harcourt: Wittgensteinian Moral Philosophy and the Subject Matter of EthicsIn Maria Balaska (ed.), Cora Diamond on Ethics, Springer Verlag. pp. 81-102. 2021.This chapter discusses Edward Harcourt’s recent criticism of Cora Diamond’s account of Wittgensteinian moral philosophy, and the view she associates with Wittgenstein that ethics has no specific subject matter. I argue that Harcourt has misconstrued Diamond’s account, and that his own proposal for what a Wittgensteinian moral philosophy would be like is not consistent with what Wittgenstein says about morality. In particular, Wittgenstein’s suggestion in his later philosophy that goodness is not…Read more
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19Wittgenstein on Logic and Philosophical MethodCambridge University Press. 2022.This Element outlines Wittgenstein's early and later philosophies of logic, and explains Wittgenstein's views regarding the methodological significance of logic for philosophy. Wittgenstein's early philosophy of logic is presented as a further development of Frege's and Russell's accounts of logic, and Wittgenstein later philosophy as a response to problems with his early views, including confusions about idealization and abstraction in logic. The later Wittgenstein's novel logical methods, such…Read more
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11Note from the Editors and Prepublication Open Review InformationNordic Wittgenstein Review 10. 2021.
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13Note from the Editors and Prepublication Open Review InformationNordic Wittgenstein Review 9. 2020.Originally published March 20, 2020. This version published December 30, 2020.
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5Philosophy as Education in Thinking: Why Getting the Reader to Think Matters to WittgensteinIn 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. 21-37. 2019.Wittgenstein writes in the preface to the Philosophical Investigations: ‘I should not like my writing to spare other people the trouble of thinking. But if possible, to stimulate someone to thoughts of his own.’ In the following I argue that this indicates something essential about Wittgenstein’s approach. In order to remain true to his conception of philosophy without theses, he could not, for example, aim to instruct his reader about about grammar or put forward prescriptions about grammar, lo…Read more
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14Philosophy as Education in Thinking: Why Getting the Reader to Think Matters to WittgensteinIn Shyam Wuppuluri & Newton da Costa (eds.), Wittgensteinian : Looking at the World From the Viewpoint of Wittgenstein's Philosophy, Springer Verlag. pp. 21-37. 2019.Wittgenstein writes in the preface to the Philosophical Investigations: ‘I should not like my writing to spare other people the trouble of thinking. But if possible, to stimulate someone to thoughts of his own.’ In the following I argue that this indicates something essential about Wittgenstein’s approach. In order to remain true to his conception of philosophy without theses, he could not, for example, aim to instruct his reader about about grammar or put forward prescriptions about grammar, lo…Read more
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9Wittgenstein’s Investigations: Awakening the Imagination by Beth Savickey (review)Estetika: The European Journal of Aesthetics 57 (1): 86-92. 2020.A book review of Beth Savickey. Wittgenstein’s Investigations: Awakening the Imagination. Cham: Springer, 2017, 137 pp. ISBN 978-3-319-45308-8.
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50Wittgenstein and the unity of goodEuropean Journal of Philosophy 28 (2): 428-444. 2020.This paper discusses the problem of the unity of moral good, concerning the kind of unity that moral good or the concept thereof constitutes. In particular, I am concerned with how Wittgenstein’s identification of various complex modes of conceptual unity, and his introduction of a methodology of clarification for dealing with such complex concepts, can help with the problem of unity, as it rises from the moral philosophical tradition. Relating to this I also address the disputed question, wheth…Read more
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27The Methodological Significance of Intuitions in PhilosophyIn James Conant & Sebastian Sunday (eds.), Wittgenstein on Philosophy, Objectivity, and Meaning, Cambridge University Press. pp. 62-83. 2019.This chapter discusses the methodological and epistemological significance of so-called intuitions in philosophy; that is, whether intuitions can be understood as evidence for or against philosophical claims or, if not, whether they might have some other kind of methodological significance. A closely connected issue which the chapter addresses, is whether our comprehension of logical, conceptual, or metaphysical possibilities and necessities can be explained by reference to intuitions or the cap…Read more
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29The Problem of Domination by Reason and Its Non-Relativistic SolutionNordic Wittgenstein Review 8 23-42. 2019.This paper outlines a solution to what can be called “the problem of domination by reason”, “conceptual domination” or “clarificatorory injustice”, connected with how a philosopher may appear to be in a position to legitimately coerce, by means of arguments, an interlocutor who shares with her a concept or a conceptual system to accept a philosophical characterization of a concept or whatever the concept concerns. The proposed solution is based on a particular interpretation of what Wittgenstein…Read more
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