Severin Schroeder
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A trilemma for naturalized metaphysics 1 Rogelio Miranda Vilchis Holding points of view does not amount to knowledge 11
The Emergence of Wittgenstein’s Views on Aesthetics in the 1933 Lectures Open
In this paper I offer a genetic account of how Wittgenstein developed his ideas on aesthetics in his 1933 lectures. He argued that the word ‘beautiful’ is neither the name of a particular perceptible quality, nor the name of whatever produ…
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Explication, Description and Enlightenment Open
In the first chapter of his book Logical Foundations of Probability, Rudolf Carnap introduced and endorsed a philosophical methodology which he called the method of ‘explication’ . P.F. Strawson took issue with this methodology, but it is …
Wittgenstein on aesthetics and philosophy = Wittgenstein sobre la estética y la filosofía Open
; Wittgenstein offers three objections to the idea of aesthetics as a branch of psychology: (i) Statistical data about people’s preferences have no normative force. (ii) Artistic value is not instrumental value, a capacity to produce indep…
Reasons, Causes, Desires, and Dispositions Open
Revisiting the Wittgenstein/Davidson debate on whether reason explanations are a type of causal explanations, and considering in particular John Hyman's recent reassessment and attempt to defend a causalist account of desires (2015), I arg…
Wittgenstein and his legacy Open
In this chapter the author describes the 'inner-object model' of mental occurrences, i.e. the kind of dualist position that Wittgenstein argued against in different areas of the philosophy of mind. It also discusses the prevalent misconcep…
On some standard objections to mathematical conventionalism Open
According to Wittgenstein, mathematical propositions are rules of grammar, that is, conventions, or implications of conventions. So his position can be regarded as a form of conventionalism. However, mathematical conventionalism is widely …