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Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals in Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters
Philosophical Investigations, Volume 48, Issue 4, Page 421-437, October 2025.Abstract This essay focuses on Iris Murdoch's final book of philosophy, Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals, and Anton Chekhov's final and greatest play, Three Sisters. The essay uses Murdoch's ideas to present a new reading of Three Sisters as a working‐out of a metaphysics by which people find the breaks, the limits, of their pictures of the world and ...
Ross Collin
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Three Applications of an Austin/Wittgenstein Ontological Insight [PDF]
, 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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The ontological argument as a practice of Metaphilosophy: Two Wittgensteinian developments
Philosophical Investigations, Volume 48, Issue 4, Page 438-458, October 2025.Abstract This article assesses the metaphilosophical significance of the interpretation given to the ontological argument by two Wittgensteinian philosophers: Norman Malcolm and Morris Lazerowitz. Contrary to the usual approach to the subject, I do not consider what the ontological argument reveals about religious language and reasoning, but what it ...
Aleksei Rakhmanin
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From “Sharp, Wittgenstein, is” to “Wittgenstein is Sharp”
Análisis. Revista de investigación filosófica, 2016 Recension del libro de John Collins, The Unity of Linguistic Meaning , Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.
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Family resemblance and the problem of universals: Bambrough's analysis revisited
Philosophical Investigations, Volume 48, Issue 4, Page 401-420, October 2025.Abstract In ‘Universals and Family Resemblances’, Renford Bambrough claims that Ludwig Wittgenstein's conception of family resemblance solves the problem of universals. Bambrough's analysis has attracted a number of criticisms, including (i) that his exposition of the problem of universals is ill‐conceived, (ii) that he overgeneralizes Wittgenstein's ...
David Hommen
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Other minds: ‘Ordinary’ and ‘Sceptical’ doubts
Philosophical Investigations, Volume 48, Issue 4, Page 377-400, October 2025.Abstract This paper investigates the nature of, and distinctions between, ‘ordinary’ and ‘sceptical’ doubts regarding our knowledge of the external world, and their relationship to such doubts regarding our knowledge of other minds. It introduces a framework for distinguishing these doubts within the context of external world scepticism and evaluates ...
Daniel Simons
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Verdad, tautología y verificación en el <i>Tractatus</i> de Wittgenstein
, 1968 George Kimball Plochmann
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