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Concluding Dialogue
Full text linkOn translating the Tractatus: Jaap van der Does and Martin Stokhof in debate with Michael Beaney – concluding dialogue
Nordic Wittgenstein Review Symposium on James R. Shaw’s Wittgenstein on Rules: Justification, Grammar, and Agreement
Full text linkNordic Wittgenstein Review Symposium on James R. Shaw’s Wittgenstein on Rules: Justification, Grammar, and Agreement. With contributions by James R. Shaw, Oskari Kuusela, Alex Miller, and Hannah Ginsborg
50 Years After Wittgenstein’s Vienna. On Wittgenstein, Toulmin and Philosophy. Tomasz Zarębski in Conversation With Allan Janik
Full text linkIn this interview, Tomasz Zarębski speaks with Allan Janik, co-author of Wittgenstein’s Vienna (1973, with Stephen Toulmin), on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the publication of this pathbreaking book. The conversation concerns the circumstances, motivations and reasons for his undertaking the work on the book, as well as its reception and place in Wittgenstein scholarship. A large part of the discussion refers to his perspective of Wittgenstein, Toulmin’s philosophical writings, and Janik’s own vision of philosophy. The interview took place in Innsbruck on 23rd and 25th August 2023
Corrections to: Morra, L. (2024). “Wittgenstein in Alethea Graham’s Diary (1929-1930), and New Data on the Audience of his Lecture on Ethics and LT 1930 Class”, Nordic Wittgenstein Review, 13, https://doi.org/10.15845/nwr.v13.3697
No full textIn Morra, L. (2024). “Wittgenstein in Alethea Graham’s Diary (1929-1930), and New Data on the Audience of his Lecture on Ethics and LT 1930 Class”, Nordic Wittgenstein Review, 13, https://doi.org/10.15845/nwr.v13.3697, footnote 63 and Bibliography, references to Sznajder 2024 were missing. The references have now been added. The original article has been updated to reflect these changes
Grammar and the Formal Identity of Name and Object
No full textIn this paper, I will be arguing that the basic infrastructure of an ineffable formal identity between name and object which is presented in the Tractatus is still very much involved in Wittgenstein\u27s early development of the concept of grammar. First, it will be necessary to clearly describe how the identity between name and object is initially formulated in the Tractatus. Hence, in section 1, I will show how the \u27picture theory\u27 is ontologically grounded on the identity of linguistics\u27 and worldly atomic structural elements. I will discuss the ‘picture theory’ only briefly, since my main interest is to illuminate how that infrastructure remains a core aspect of Wittgenstein\u27s “middle period” thinking: that is, in what way the identity of name and object is contained and presupposed within his concept of grammar and how it is still used as a condition for our symbolism to make sense. Another way to describe this paper\u27s aim, this time from its end backwards, would be to say that it is to reveal that grammatical systems of rules are nothing other than the implementations of that special kind of identity, for the latter is always and already manifest within our symbolis
Thinking about Naturalism and Pragmatism: Wittgenstein and Rorty
No full textMy paper is about the contrasting views of philosophy of Rorty and Wittgenstein. Rorty takes himself to be a kind of pragmatist. He understands the aim of philosophy to be that of changing our social practices, enabling us to cope better with our environment, to find more useful ways of speaking and to discard those that turn out to be unhelpful. Rorty also takes himself to be a kind of naturalist. His form of naturalism is close to that of Huw Price. Their sort of naturalism is concerned with the function in our lives of the terms and concepts and forms of discourse we use. As is explicit in Price’s work, this kind of naturalism involves a kind of external theoretical stance in relation to our forms of thought. My paper contrasts their approach with Wittgenstein’s understanding of philosophy and what he thought it could accomplish. Rorty explicitly contrasts Wittgenstein’s clarificatory aims with what he takes philosophy to aim for; and I tie that contrast to their contrasting understanding of naturalism
A Beginner’s Guide to the Later Philosophy of Wittgenstein: Seventeen Lectures and Dialogues on the Philosophical Investigations, by P. M. S. Hacker: Book Review
Full text linkReview of Hacker, P. M. S. (2024). A Beginner’s Guide to the Later Philosophy of Wittgenstein: Seventeen Lectures and Dialogues on the Philosophical Investigations. London, New York: Anthem Press, pp. 314
Style, Method and Philosophy in Wittgenstein, by Alois Pichler: Book Review
No full textReview of Alois Pichler, Style, Method and Philosophy in Wittgenstein. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. 86 pp