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The Voice Disrupted: Articulation, Hesitation, and Moral Seriousness in F. R. Leavis's Pedagogy

Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Steven Cranfield
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The Logical Firmament

Philosophical Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay asks a new question: When someone with a firm understanding of basic operations nevertheless remains ignorant of a complex logical or mathematical truth, precisely what kind of information are they missing? I introduce “catenary truths,” a significant component of this non‐omniscient shortfall.
Michael G. Titelbaum
wiley   +1 more source

Worldhood Competence and Performance:\ud The Site for Wittgenstein"s Religious Language [PDF]

, 2003
It is common knowledge that Wittgenstein cannot be called\ud fundamentally a religious writer. All the same, he did not\ud dismiss the reality 'religion' as nonsense. It is opined here\ud that, Wittgenstein was very consistent in his references to\ud it.
Okonkwo, Jerome Ikechukwu
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The Turing Test as a Sceptical Scenario

Theoria, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Turing test is usually seen as an operationalisation of the question whether machines can think. In this paper, my aim is to show that by understanding the test in this way, one ends up in scepticism about the existence of minds in general. By focusing on whether some particular machine can pass the test, or whether it can be said to be an
Marvin Tritschler
wiley   +1 more source

Pseudoscience and the Claim of Practical Utility: The Case of Thomas Erikson's Surrounded by Idiots

Theoria, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT It has been suggested that, by definition, pseudoscientists must assert that their theories are scientific or represent the best available knowledge. However, in business consultation and self‐help literature, pseudoscientists do not often make such strong claims. Instead, they commonly appeal to the practical utility of their theories.
Kaisa Luoma, Ilmari Hirvonen
wiley   +1 more source

Learning to Speak [PDF]

, 2003
Rush Rhees"s Wittgenstein and the Possibility of Discourse constitutes both an extension and a critique of Wittgenstein"s later philosophy. The theme of the book is the question that Rhees argues was central to Wittgenstein throughout his career: what it
Ashdown, Lance
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Wittgenstein’s Phenomenology

, 2017
The Big Typescript is the one of the last works of Wittgenstein where we can find a strong support for the project of a “phenomenology” as it was formulated in 1930 in the Philosophische Bemerkungen. It is in chapters 94 through 107 of the Big Typescript that we find in its most accomplished form the project of a phenomenology as the grammar of our ...
openaire   +3 more sources

Alienation as a Social Pathology: Evaluating Jaeggi's Concept of Alienation

Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
Wouter Wiersma
wiley   +1 more source

Process and Dynamics in AI and Language Use

Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.
Abstract In this volumed, Randall Beer and Joanna Rączaszek‐Leonardi have opened an important discussion of what is further needed to enhance the reach of dynamical approaches to cognition. Focusing on issues concerning the nature of language and developments in language technology, we have attempted, in this brief contribution, to place their ...
Eleni Gregoromichelaki, Gregory J. Mills
wiley   +1 more source

A Critique of Saul Kripke's "Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language" [PDF]

, 2008
In Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language, Saul Kripke presents a controversial skeptical argument, which he attributes to Wittgenstein’s interlocutor in the Philosophical Investigations [PI].
Gitsoulis, Chrysoula
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