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Present at the Creation: Essay Review of The Creation of Wittgenstein, edited by Thomas Wallgren
Full text linkEssay Review of T. Wallgren (ed.), The Creation of Wittgenstein: Understanding the Roles of Rush Rhees, Elizabeth Anscombe and Georg Henrik von Wright. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023
Book Review: Language, Mind, and Value, by Severin Schroeder
Full text linkReview of Severin Schroeder, Language, Mind, and Value: Essays on Wittgenstein. London: Anthem Press
Book review: Cavell’s Must We Mean What We Say? at 50 , edited by Greg Chase, Juliet Floyd and Sandra Laugier
No full textReview of Cavell’s Must We Mean What We Say? at 50, edited by Greg Chase, Juliet Floyd and Sandra Laugie
“With regard to the last article in the volume…”– A Note on Rush Rhees and “The Study of Philosophy” in Without Answers
Full text linkBased on material from Rush Rhees’ Nachlass, this article reconstructs, in PART I, the circumstances that motivated Rhees to include “The Study of Philosophy” as the concluding chapter of his 1969 publication Without Answers. As originally conceived, this chapter was longer than the version that eventually appeared in print. The reconstruction references the correspondence between Rhees and the editor of Without Answers, Dewi Z. Phillips. It outlines the central ideas of “The Study of Philosophy”, including Rhees’ clarifications of Wittgenstein’s call to “Go the bloody hard way”. The original, somewhat longer version of the chapter is reproduced in PART II of the article. It consists of two text extracts from two letters to Maurice O’C. Drury from July and September 1963. Drury’s “intermediate” letter to Rhees from August 1963 is also reproduced. This article is also a “narrative” about the way one of Wittgenstein’s editor’s experiences being edited and published via an editor
Book review: Wittgenstein and Ethics by Anne-Marie Søndergaard Christensen
No full textReview of Wittgenstein and Ethics by Anne-Marie Søndergaard Christense
Morphology and Metaphilosophy: Goethe, Wittgenstein and Waismann
Full text linkThe paper explores how Wittgenstein and Waismann interpreted Goethe’s ideas from The Metamorphosis of Plants. These ideas laid the foundation for Wittgenstein’s concept of “family resemblance”, which Waismann also embraced in The Principles of Linguistic Philosophy. However, the paper argues that Wittgenstein’s and Waismann’s metaphilosophical implications evolved differently in their later works. Notably, it is Waismann, rather than Wittgenstein, who took these ideas to their extreme, concluding in How I See Philosophy that all forms of philosophical theorizing should be rejected. By contrast, Wittgenstein rejected only the kind of theorizing in philosophy which aims at offering monistic and reductionist explanations of key philosophical concepts
Book review: Wittgenstein’s Philosophy in 1929, edited by Florian Franken Figueiredo
No full textReview of Wittgenstein’s Philosophy in 1929, edited by Florian Franken Figueiredo
“What Line Can’t Be Measured With a Ruler?”: Riddles and Concept-Formation in Mathematics and Aesthetics
Full text linkWe 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 twofold: first, to bring out and elucidate the essentially riddle-like character of these problems; second, to show that the comparison with riddles does not reduce their solution to an exercise in bare subjectivity
Book review: Wittgensteins Grammatik des Fremdseelischen, by Jasmin Trächtler
Full text linkReview of Jasmin Trächtler, Wittgensteins Grammatik des Fremdseelischen. Berlin: J.B. Metzler, 2022