Wittgensteinian content‐externalism

Tacit Knowledge: A Wittgensteinian Approach

Key Words: Wittgenstein, K.S. Johannessen, the strong thesis of tacit knowledge, intransitive understanding, pragmatic turn in epistemology. Influenced by later Wittgenstein's philosophy, a group of Scandinavian philosophers, with K.S.Johannessen as the leading figure, make a unique contribution to the ongoing discussion of tacit knowledge. They differentiate the strong and the weak interpretat...

Wittgensteinian Anti-Scepticism and Epistemic Vertigo

We offer an overview of what we take to be the main themes in Annalisa Coliva’s book,Moore and Wittgenstein: Scepticism, Certainty and Common Sense. In particular, we focus on the ‘framework reading’ that she offers of Wittgenstein’s On Certainty and its anti-sceptical implications. While broadly agreeing with the proposal that Coliva puts forward on this score, we do suggest one important supp...

What would a Wittgensteinian computational linguistics be like

The paper tries to relate Wittgenstein’s later writings about language with the history and content of Artificial Intelligence (AI), and in particular, its sub-area normally called Computational Linguistics, or Natural Language Processing. It argues that the shift, since 1990, from rule-driven approaches to computational language and logic, associated with traditional AI and the linguistics of ...

Language, games and the role of interpreters in psychiatric diagnosis: a Wittgensteinian thought experiment.

British society is becoming increasingly culturally and linguistically diverse. This poses a major challenge to mental health services charged with the responsibility to work in ways that respect cultural and linguistic difference. In this paper we investigate the problems of interpretation in the diagnosis of depression using a thought experiment to demonstrate important features of language-g...

The Debate over ›Wittgensteinian Fideism‹ and Phillips’ Contemplative Philosophy of Religion