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Bourgeois, Bolshevist or Anarchist? The reception of Wittgenstein's philosophy of mathematics
No full textIntroduction1. Perspectives on Wittgenstein: An Intermittently Opinionated Survey: Hans-Johann Glock.2. Wittgenstein's Method: Ridding People of Philosophical Prejudices: Katherine Morris.3. Gordon Baker's Late Interpretation of Wittgenstein: P. M. S. Hacker.4. The Interpretation of the Philosophical Investigations: Style, Therapy, Nachlass: Alois Pichler.5. Ways of Reading Wittgenstein: Observations on Certain Uses of the Word 'Metaphysics': Joachim Schulte.6. Metaphysical/Everyday Use: A Note on a Late Paper by Gordon Baker: Hilary Putnam.7. Wittgenstein and Transcendental Idealism: A. W. Moore.8. Simples and the Idea of Analysis in the Tractatus: Marie McGinn.9. Words, Waxing and Waning: Ethics in/and/of the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus: Stephen Mulhall.10. The Uses of Wittgenstein's Beetle: Philosophical Investigations §293 and Its Interpreters: David G. Stern.11. Bourgeois, Bolshevist or Anarchist?: The Reception of Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Mathematics: Ray Monk.12. Wittgenstein and Ethical Naturalism: Alice Crary.<br/
Life without theory: biography as an exemplar of philosophical understanding
No full textThis article discusses recent attempts to provide the genre of biography with a philosophical, theoretical foundation and attempts to show that such efforts are fundamentally misguided. Biography is, I argue, a profoundly nontheoretical activity, and this, precisely, makes it philosophically interesting. Instead of looking to philosophy to provide a theory of biography, we should, I maintain, look to biography to provide a crucially important example and model of what Ludwig Wittgenstein called "the kind of understanding that consists in seeing connections." This kind of understanding stands in sharp contrast to the theoretical understanding provided by science and is, Wittgenstein maintained, what we as philosophers are, or should be, striving for
Definitions, characterisations…“and similar things”: Hans-Johann Glock on analytic philosophy
No full textThis fictitious life: Virginia Woolf on biography, reality and character
No full textIn the growing body of academic literature on biography that has developed in the last few decades, Virginia Woolf's essay, "The New Biography,"1 has come to occupy a central place—mentioned, discussed and quoted from, I would estimate, more often than any other piece of writing on the subject. Virginia Woolf's distinctive view of the nature and limitations of biography has thus had, and continues to have, a deep and wide-ranging influence on the way the genre is discussed by critics and theorists. My aim in this essay is to present a detailed analysis of Virginia Woolf's thinking about biography in order to make clear why I believe its influence on contemporary theorising about biography is, on the whole, a misfortune.As is often pointed out, Virginia Woolf's views on biography are closely connected with—indeed, to an extent that I hope to make clear, they are simply an application of—her views on fiction. In the light of this, I have tried to trace some of the most striking features of her thinking about biography back to her earlier thoughts on fiction, as presented in both her novels and her essays. The result, I hope, will be that, while the attractions of her way of looking at fiction and biography are recognised and revealed, the manifest flaws in her thinking on these subjects are clearly exposed
Getting inside Heisenberg's head
No full textThis monumental collection of new and recent essays from an international team of eminent scholars represents the best contemporary critical thinking relating to both literary and philosophical studies of literature. Helpfully groups essays into the field's main sub-categories, among them ‘Relations Between Philosophy and Literature’, ‘Emotional Engagement and the Experience of Reading’, ‘Literature and the Moral Life’, and ‘Literary Language’ Offers a combination of analytical precision and literary richness Represents an unparalleled work of reference for students and specialists alike, ideal for course us
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