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First-Person Knowledge: Wittgenstein, Cavell, and "Therapy" [PDF]

, 2002
The recent publication of The New Wittgenstein signals the arrival of a distinctive "therapeutic" reading of Ludwig Wittgenstein"s philosophical enterprise. As announced in its Preface, this collection presents the "nonsense" of philosophy as the subject
Meyer, Thomas
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Two kinds of curiosity

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 108, Issue 3, Page 811-832, May 2024.
Abstract Leading philosophical models of curiosity represent it as a desiderative attitude whose content is a question, and which is satisfied by knowledge of the answer to that question. I argue that these models do not capture the distinctive character of a form of curiosity that I call 'erotic curiosity'.
Daniela Dover
wiley   +1 more source

Stanley Cavell on the Magic of the Movies

Film-Philosophy, 2017
In order to explain Cavell's account of what makes movies so magical, this article will offer a chronological survey of his major writings on film, beginning with the first edition of The World Viewed (1971), where he poses an intriguing theoretical ...
Daniel Shaw
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The Laugh of the Tramp

Critical Quarterly, Volume 67, Issue 4, Page 17-31, December 2025.
Damian Maher
wiley   +1 more source

Style, Narrative, and Cultural Politics in Bullitt [PDF]

, 2017
Peter Yates’s 1968 film Bullitt cemented the reputation of its star, Steve McQueen, as “the essence of cool” – to borrow a phrase from the title of the 2005 documentary that reflects on the star’s legacy. As the film reveals, however, and the documentary
Childs, Jeffrey Scott
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Forms of life, forms of reality [PDF]

, 2015
The article explores aspects of the notion of forms of life in the Wittgensteinian tradition especially following Iris Murdoch’s lead. On the one hand, the notion signals the hardness and inexhaustible character of reality, as the background needed in ...
DONATELLI, Piergiorgio
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A Sartrean analysis of pandemic shaming. [PDF]

Phenomenol Cogn Sci, 2023
Dolezal L, Rose A.
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Ordinary Language, Conventionalism and a priori Knowledge [PDF]

, 2001
This paper examines popular‘conventionalist’explanations of why philosophers need not back up their claims about how‘we’use our words with empirical studies of actual usage.
Jackman, Henry
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To Not Understand, but Not Misunderstand: Wittgenstein on Shakespeare [PDF]

, 2013
Wittgenstein's lack of sympathy for Shakespeare's works has been well noted by George Steiner and Harold Bloom among others. Wittgenstein writes in 1950, for instance: "It seems to me as though his pieces are, as it were, enormous sketches, not paintings;
Day, William
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Levd skepticism i Karin Boyes Kallocain

Tidskrift för Litteraturvetenskap
This article examines what Karin Boye's dystopian novel Kallocain (1940) knows about other-minds skepticism, and the conditions for understanding the inner lives of other people.
Ingeborg Löfgren
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