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Why Later Wittgenstein was not a therapist

open access: yesAufklärung, 2021
Wittgenstein famously regarded philosophy as an activity and not as a body of doctrine. And yet within the secondary literature there is little agreement as to what Wittgenstein took the purpose of that activity to be.
Victor Loughlin
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Parikh and Wittgenstein [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
A survey of Parikh’s philosophical appropriations of Wittgensteinian themes, placed into historical context against the backdrop of Turing’s famous paper, “On computable numbers, with an application to the Entscheidungsproblem” (Turing in Proc Lond Math ...
Floyd, Juliet
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The Composition of Wittgenstein's "Tractatus": An Interpretative Study [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
When Wittgenstein started writing the Tractatus in June 1915, he was convinced that he was producing a theory. Accordingly, he chose a theoretical style of expressing his thought.
Milkov, Nikolay
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Anscombe i Wittgenstein

open access: yesEnrahonar. An international journal of theoretical and practical reason, 2020
En este estudio me he centrado en la importancia de Wittgenstein en el pensamiento de Elizabeth Anscombe. Aunque Anscombe se separó del enfoque de su maestro, su encuentro con él fue de gran importancia para su propio trabajo. En particular, tomaré en consideración puntos comunes y discrepancias entre ambos filósofos.
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Is Education a Key to Reducing Vulnerability to Natural Disasters and hence Unavoidable Climate Change?

open access: yesEcology and Society, 2014
The collection of articles in this Special Feature is part of a larger project on "Forecasting Societies' Adaptive Capacity to Climate Change" (an Advanced Grant of the European Research Council to Wolfgang Lutz).
Raya Muttarak, Wolfgang Lutz
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Survival and Years of Good Life in Finland in the very long run

open access: yesFinnish Yearbook of Population Research, 2020
In this paper we apply the recently developed wellbeing indicator ‘Years of Good Life’ (YoGL) to Finland, which has the world’s longest annual demographic time series starting in 1722. We combine this with scenarios up to 2100 as developed under the SSP (
Claudia Reiter, Wolfgang Lutz
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How much time is left? International trends in parenthood expectancy

open access: yesDemographic Research, 2023
Background: Many industrialized societies have experienced increases in life expectancy and in the mean age at first birth (MAFB). This has likely impacted the lifetime that parents share with their children; i.e., parenthood expectancy (PEX ...
Erich Striessnig, Alessandra Trimarchi
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Thresholds for clinical practice that directly link handgrip strength to remaining years of life: estimates based on longitudinal observational data

open access: yesBMJ Open, 2022
Objective Muscle strength is a powerful predictor of mortality that can quickly and inexpensively be assessed by measuring handgrip strength (HGS). What is missing for clinical practice, however, are empirically meaningful cut-off points that apply to ...
Sergei Scherbov   +2 more
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Wittgenstein and Aesthetics

open access: yes, 2023
This Element argues that aesthetics broadly conceived plays a significant role in Wittgenstein's philosophy. In doing so, it draws on the interpretative tradition that emphasizes affinities between Wittgenstein's thought and Kant's philosophy. Following the chronology of Wittgenstein's philosophical work, this Element addresses Wittgenstein's early ...
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What Dynamic Approaches Have Taught Us About Cognition and What They Have Not: On Values in Motion and the Importance of Replicable Forms

open access: yesTopics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract Over the past several decades, research in the cognitive sciences has foregrounded the importance of active bodies and their continuous dependence on the changing environment, strengthening the relevance of dynamical models. These models have been steadily developed within the ecological psychology approach to cognition, which arguably ...
Joanna Rączaszek‐Leonardi
wiley   +1 more source

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