An investigation of the concept “surveyability” as traced through thought Hilbert, Wittgenstein, and Turing. The communicability reproducibility proof, with certainty, are seen earmarked by symbols, sequences, structures proof in all these thinkers. Hilbert initiated idea within his metamathematics, Wittgenstein took up a kind game formalism 1920s early 1930s response. Turing carried Hilbert’s ...

Louis Sass disputes that schizophrenia can be understood successfully according to the hitherto dominant models—for much of what schizophrenics say and do is neither regressive (as psychoanalysis claims) nor just faulty reasoning (as “cognitivists” claim). Sass argues instead that schizophrenics frequently exhibit hyper-rationality, much as philosophers do. He holds that schizophrenic language ...

[This is a late but not final draft of my chapter in Wittgenstein and the Philosophy of Mind, eds.

Does the way authors treat their own works tell us something about how these works are to be understood? not necessarily. but then a standard argument against the “new Wittgenstein” comes under question. The argument is: the undogmatic interpretation of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus cannot be correct, since Wittgenstein himself later treats it as a work that holds certain positions. my response is: ...

In this paper I will show how Wittgenstein's concept of seeing-as might serve as the foundation for a theory of art. The theory that I will develop is a sketch, and general themes will take precedence over details. I will describe a way of distinguishing between art objects and other objects, consider what makes art, art, give a Wittgensteinian 'definition' of art appreciation, examine various ...