Another cartoon portrait of the mind from the reductionist metaphysicians--a review of Peter Carruthers ‘The Opacity of Mind’ (2011) (review revised 2019) [PDF]
, 2019 Materialism, reductionism, behaviorism, functionalism, dynamic systems theory and computationalism are popular views, but they were shown by Wittgenstein to be incoherent.
Starks, Michael
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A Wittgenstein for Postliberal Theologians [PDF]
, 2016 Remarkably, the theological discourse surrounding Hans Frei and postliberal theology has continued for nearly thirty years since Frei's death. This is due not only to the complex and provocative character of Frei's work, nor only to his influence upon an
Springs, Jason A.
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Limits, Limitations, and Necessity in Margaret Macdonald
European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT I offer a contribution to recent work on Margaret Macdonald (1903–1956), a prolific though largely unknown figure in the history of analytic philosophy who applied Wittgensteinian insights to a broad range of issues. Here I examine the development of Macdonald's views with respect to idealism and conventionalism, through the application of a ...
Oliver Thomas Spinney
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Contribuições de Wittgenstein para uma reflexão filosófica sobre a tecnologia
Ethic@: an International Journal for Moral Philosophy, 2016 Este artigo discute o pessimismo cultural de Wittgenstein diante do progresso da civilização tenocientífica ocidental na primeira metade do século XX, bem como as contribuições do pensador austríaco para uma reflexão filosófica sobre a tecnologia ...
Geraldo Dôres Armendane
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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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Hyman, Ryle, and the Unity of Knowledge
European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.Abstract In a number of papers and a book over the past thirty years, John Hyman has developed a unified account of knowledge that builds on Gilbert Ryle and Ludwig Wittgenstein's conceptions of knowledge as closely linked to ‘ability’. On Hyman's account, knowledge that p is the ability to be guided by the fact that p.
Matt Dougherty
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The evaluation of the Wittgenstein’s way and Descartes’ one in overcoming the problem of dualism with emphesis on connection between them [PDF]
حکمت و فلسفه, 2017 This article is an attempt to address a main question: is there any connection between Wittgenstein’s way and Descartes’ one in overcoming the problem of dualism?
Jafar Mazhabi, Mohammad Meshkat
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Wittgenstein and the memory debate [PDF]
, 2008 Original article can be found at: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/0732118X Copyright Elsevier Ltd. DOI: 10.1016/j.newideapsych.2008.04.015In this paper, I survey the impact on neuropsychology of Wittgenstein’s elucidations of memory ...
Moyal-Sharrock, Daniele
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Unsolvable Riddles and the Truth of Skepticism: Wittgenstein and Cavell
European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.Abstract Both Wittgenstein and Cavell see riddles as a model of intellectual difficulty. By drawing attention to it, they remind us that not all of our intellectual challenges take the form of empirically answerable questions—there may be cases of our not merely lacking knowledge, but of being caught in the fantasy that a certain type of knowledge can ...
Gilad Nir
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Horwich’s Account of Later Wittgenstein’s Criticisms of the Metaphysics and Theory of Meaning of the Tractatus [PDF]
حکمت و فلسفه, 2018 In his later philosophical reflections, Wittgenstein, criticizes his early views in the Tractatus. Since the publication of Philosophical Investigations commentators and philosophers have made various attempts to explain the nature and the scope of these
Reza Mosmer
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