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Certainties and the Bedrock of Moral Reasoning: Three Ways the Spade Turns

open access: yesAnalytic Philosophy, Volume 67, Issue 1, Page 12-24, March 2026.
ABSTRACT In this paper, we identify and explain three kinds of bedrock in moral thought. The term “bedrock,” as introduced by Wittgenstein in §217 of the Philosophical Investigations, stands for the end of a chain of reasoning. We affirm that some chains of moral reasoning do indeed end with certainty.
Konstantin Deininger, Herwig Grimm
wiley   +1 more source

Wittgenstein's Contributions to Philosophy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
Any discussion of Wittgenstein's philosophical thought would be incomplete without taking notice of the method he employs. Often criticized for his style and organization, many feel that they are indicative of his state of mind; that such a lack of rigid
Thompson, James M.
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Three Applications of an Austin/Wittgenstein Ontological Insight [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
On the first page of How to do Things with Words, Austin claims that `making a statement" is primary, and `statement" derivative – a `logical construction", as he calls it, out of the makings of statements.
Goldstein, Laurence
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Wittgenstein – morfolog I = Wittgenstein the Morphologist I = Wittgenstein – morphologue I = Wittgenstein als Morphologe I

open access: yes, 2008
In the 1st part authors investigate Wittgenstein as the morphologist. They explicate his notion of overview and seeing connections (PI: 122, and related texts and commentaries) as his description of the method and they also make a few notes on authors which influenced him on this matter (Goethe and Spengler).
Krkač, Kristijan, Lukin, Josip
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Wittgenstein´s Critique of Gödel´s Incompleteness Results [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
It is often said that Gödel´s famous theorem of 1931 is\ud equal to the Cretian Liar, who says that everything that he\ud says is a lie. But Gödel´s result is only similar to this\ud sophism and not equivalent to it.
Ohmacht, Martin
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Editorial: Current challenges in forest restoration and sustainable forest management

open access: yesFrontiers in Forests and Global Change, 2023
Jasmin Mantilla Contreras   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Poststructuralist Broom of Wallace’s System: A Conversation Between Wittgenstein and Derrida

open access: yes, 2018
David Foster Wallace famously characterized his first novel, The Broom of the System, as ‘a conversation between [Ludwig] Wittgenstein and [Jacques] Derrida.’ This comes as little surprise, given the ubiquity of the question of language in the works of ...
Cisney, Vernon W.
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Seeing Qualitons as Qualia: A Dialogue with Wittgenstein on Private Experience, Sense Data and the Ontology of Mind [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
In this paper we put forward the thesis that qualia are tropes (or qualitons), and not (universal) properties. Further, we maintain that Wittgenstein hints in this direction.
Bensusan, Hilan   +1 more
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Ideation and Appropriation: Wittgenstein on Intellectual Property [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
This paper provides a critique of the contemporary notion of intellectual property based on the consequences of Wittgenstein's “private language argument”.
Friedland, Julian
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