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Aspect perception and rule‐following in Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations
Philosophical Investigations, Volume 49, Issue 1, Page 74-96, January 2026.Abstract This paper aims to highlight a distinctive, projective, mode of aspect perception within Wittgenstein's philosophy that has gone underappreciated in the scholarly literature. Although it bears a family resemblance to other instances of the phenomenon Wittgenstein describes as ‘noticing an aspect’ in PI Part II §113, it is distinctive in that ...
James Connelly
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Ontological imagination: transcending methodological solipsism and the promise of interdisciplinary studies [PDF]
, 2013 This text is a presentation of the notion of ontological imagination. It constitutes an attempt to merge two traditions: critical sociology and science and technology studies - STS.
Nowak, Andrzej W.
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On the Consistent Histories Approach to Quantum Mechanics
, 1996 We review the consistent histories formulations of quantum mechanics developed by Griffiths, Omn\`es and Gell-Mann and Hartle, and describe the classification of consistent sets.
Dowker, Fay, Kent, Adrian
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Cognitive Computation sans Representation [PDF]
, 2017 The Computational Theory of Mind (CTM) holds that cognitive processes are essentially computational, and hence computation provides the scientific key to explaining mentality. The Representational Theory of Mind (RTM) holds that representational content
A Clark +30 more
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Unsolvable Riddles and the Truth of Skepticism: Wittgenstein and Cavell
European Journal of Philosophy, Volume 33, Issue 4, Page 1540-1556, December 2025.Abstract Both Wittgenstein and Cavell see riddles as a model of intellectual difficulty. By drawing attention to it, they remind us that not all of our intellectual challenges take the form of empirically answerable questions—there may be cases of our not merely lacking knowledge, but of being caught in the fantasy that a certain type of knowledge can ...
Gilad Nir
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Macdonald Before Quine on Truth by Convention
Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 106, Issue 4, Page 188-199, December 2025.ABSTRACT I show that Margaret Macdonald anticipated Quine's well‐known criticisms of logical conventionalism in her unpublished 1934 PhD thesis, but that she later developed her criticisms in a direction distinct from that of Quine under the influence of Wittgenstein. Macdonald rejected as senseless the suggestion that statements of logical truth admit
Oliver Thomas Spinney
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Felsefe Dünyası, 2003 In this investigation we tried to give a brief introduction about Wittgenstein's "private language arqument". At the begining we wanted to show why this subject is important for philosophy. Later on we defined the concept of "private language". The main
Şeref Günday
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European Journal of Philosophy, 1996 Abstract This essay is concerned with solipsism, understood as the extreme sceptical view that I have no knowledge except of my subjective state. A less rough formulation of the view is mooted, inspired by a Quinean combination of naturalism and empiricism.
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