Quantificational accounts of logical truth and logical consequence aim to reduce these modal concepts to the nonmodal one of generality. A logical truth, for example, is said to be an instance of a "maximally general" statement, a statement whose terms other than variables are "logical constants." These accounts used to be the objects of severe criticism by philosophers like Ramsey and Wittgens...

In their book “Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience”, the philosopher Peter Hacker (Oxford University) and the neuroscientist Max Bennett (University of Sydney) join forces to draw attention to some of the most entrenched conceptual confusions in neuroscience and consciousness research. Coming from a Wittgensteinian perspective in analytical philosophy, the two authors defend an anti-reduc...

In Carnap’s autobiography, he tells the story how one night in January 1931, “the whole theory of language structure” in all its ramifications “came to [him] like a vision”. The shorthandmanuscript he produced immediately thereafter, he says, “was the first version” ofLogical Syntax of Language. This document, which has never been examined since Carnap’s death, turns out not to resemble Logical...

Decisions must be justified. In medical ethics various grounds are given to justify decisions, but ultimate justification seems illusory and little considered. The philosopher Wittgenstein discusses the problem of ultimate justification in the context of general philosophy. His comments, nevertheless, are pertinent to ethics. From a discussion of Wittgensteinian notions, such as 'bedrock', the ...

Las principales obras de Wittgenstein en las que aparecen con más frecuencia referencias al concepto fenomenología (Phänomenologie) son Observaciones filosóficas (1929-1930), la Gramática filosófica (1931-1934) y The Big Typescript (1933-1934). No obstante, se antoja necesario hacer precisión el uso wittgensteiniano del no parece estar vinculado a tradición fenomenológica husserliana. En este s...

Wittgenstein ficou famoso por considerar a filosofia uma atividade e não um corpo de doutrinas. E, no entanto, na literatura secundária, há pouco acordo quanto ao que considerou ser o propósito dessa atividade. Neste artigo, afirmo da filosófica, pelo menos com segundo Wittgenstein, era resolver problemas filosóficos. Como suporte para essa afirmação, argumento nossa conversa cotidiana sobre me...

The aim of this paper is to make sense of cases of apparent nonsense in the writings of Kierkegaard and Wittgenstein. Against commentators such as Cora Diamond and James Conant, we argue that, in the case of Wittgenstein, recognising such a category of nonsense is necessary in order to understand the development of his thought. In the case of Kierkegaard, we argue against the view that the noti...

In this paper, I show that, in a number of publications the early 1950s, Margaret Macdonald argues that art does not admit definition, is – sense associated with Wittgenstein family resemblance concept, and definitions are best understood as confused or poorly expressed contributions to criticism. This package views most typically famous paper by Morris Weitz from 1956. demonstrate advanced pri...