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16“What Line Can’t Be Measured With a Ruler?”: Riddles and Concept-Formation in Mathematics and AestheticsNordic Wittgenstein Review 13. 2024.We analyze two problems in mathematics – the first (stated in our title) is extracted from Wittgenstein’s “Philosophy for Mathematicians”; the second (“What set of numbers is non-denumerable?”) is taken from Cantor. We then consider, by way of comparison, a problem in musical aesthetics concerning a Brahms variation on a theme by Haydn. Our aim is to bring out and elucidate the essentially riddle-like character of these problems.
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11Davidson and Literary TheoryIn Ernie Lepore & Kurt Ludwig (eds.), Blackwell Companion to Donald Davidson, Blackwell. 2013.The first section of this chapter discusses the one essay Davidson wrote specifically about the theory of literature, including his criticisms of Kripke's account of names in fiction. The second section describes his intentionalism, anticonventionalism, and account of metaphor. The third section discusses to what extent Davidson's views are taken into account by contemporary literary theorists, such as Michaels and Fish. After discussing how texts are prima facie different from speech, the fourt…Read more
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72Extension of DeconstructionThe Monist 69 (1): 3-21. 1986.Samuel C. Wheeler, III; The Extension of Deconstruction, The Monist, Volume 69, Issue 1, 1 January 1986, Pages 3–21, https://doi.org/10.5840/monist19866913.
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110. True Figures: Metaphor, Social Relations, and the SoritesIn David R. Hiley, James Bohman & Richard Shusterman (eds.), The Interpretive turn: philosophy, science, culture, Cornell University Press. pp. 197-217. 1991.
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42Quine, Davidson, Relative Essentialism and the Question of BeingOpen Philosophy 1 (1): 115-128. 2018.Relative essentialism, the view that multiple objects about which there are distinct de re modal truths can occupy the same space at the same time, is a metaphysical view that dissolves a number of metaphysical issues. The present essay constructs and defends relative essentialism and argues that it is implicit in some of the ideas of W. V. Quine and Donald Davidson. Davidson’s published views about individuation and sameness can accommodate the common-sense insights about change and persistence…Read more
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The Logical Form of Ethical Language: Radical Translation, Morals, and the GoodDissertation, Princeton University. 1970.
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27Analytical vs. Continental Philosophy: Bridging the GapThe European Legacy 15 (7): 897-900. 2010.
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Indeterminacy of french interpretation: Derrida and DavidsonIn Ernest LePore (ed.), Truth and Interpretation: Perspectives on the Philosophy of Donald Davidson, Blackwell. 1986.
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10Language and LiteratureIn Kirk Ludwig (ed.), Donald Davidson, Cambridge University Press. pp. 183--206. 2003.
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32Essay on Transcendental Philosophy. By Salomon Maimon. Translated by Nick Midgley, Henry Somers-Hall, Alastair Welchman, and Merten ReglitzThe European Legacy 17 (4): 570-571. 2012.
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51The European Legacy, Volume 17, Issue 4, Page 570-571, July 2012
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6Neo-Davidsonian Metaphysics: From the True to the GoodRoutledge. 2013.Much contemporary metaphysics, moved by an apparent necessity to take reality to consist of given beings and properties, presents us with what appear to be deep problems requiring radical changes in the common sense conception of persons and the world. Contemporary meta-ethics ignores questions about logical form and formulates questions in ways that make the possibility of correct value judgments mysterious. In this book, Wheeler argues that given a Davidsonian understanding of truth, predicati…Read more
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13Derrida’s Differance and Plato’s DifferentPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 59 (4): 999-1013. 1999.This essay shows that Derrida’s discussion of “Differance,” is remarkably parallel to Plato’s discussion of Difference in the Parmenides. Plato’s presentation of “Parmenides’” discussion of generation from a One which Is is a version of Derrida’s preconceptual spacing. Derrida’s implicit reference to Plato both interprets Plato and explains the obscure features of “Differance.” Derrida’s paradoxical remarks about Differance are very like what Plato implies about Difference.Derrida’s Differance a…Read more
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