Hanna Pitkin - Wittgenstein and Justice: On the Significance of Ludwig Wittgenstwin for Social and Political Thought Oops. One more Witty related thin...
Just came across this bit of gold in Anscombe's obituary in the Guardian: "Once, threatened by a mugger in Chicago, she told him that that was no way ...
This is a bit obscure to me. It's not clear that the subject-object distinction fits here (more appropriate seems to me to be something like principal...
Ah, this is super useful. I was thinking - and Wittgenstein's phrasing encourages this - of two different mistakes, one which might be called systemic...
Hmm, this genealogy seems off to me. Gods were always conceived of as human-like (see the Greek and Roman Gods), only with powers and long lives and w...
The main thing I'd emphasise throughout all the things mentioned is a changed relationship with time, in which the human relationship with time gets p...
§143 §143 begins the section on learning and understanding. For a great deal of what is to come, Witty's overarching question is something like: how d...
A lot rides on this and I think there may be a genuine question of how to understand this. One part of me wants to agree that a picture doesn't contai...
There's definitely something to the author's conception of modernity, but the story told in the quotes is only the half of it, as I understand it. Pro...
§142, Boxed Note Forgot about this one. Anyway, recalling that §142 remarks that language-games only work if certain constants or invariants are in pl...
Interesting discussion. Andrew Inkpin has written some nice stuff on how to understand rede - which he perspicaciously translates as 'articulacy' rath...
I remember being annoyed, a long time ago, about Run DMC t-shirts being something of a fad among hipsters who, as far as I could tell, had never liste...
And with the above, we're at the start of (what I think is) another new section! If I may recap, here's my idiosyncratic breakdown of what's been cove...
§142 This one's quite straight-forward, so I want to try and maybe couch it in different terms: language-game require certain things to stay constant....
§141 I mentioned above that what is being said here of pictures also applies to rules. This section in particular brings that similarity out, especial...
§139, Boxed Note, (a) This note brings out the stakes of §139 quite nicely I think, and I want to try and consider both together. What seems to be at ...
This was nice: "The picture, don't forget, is not being cast as an aid to understanding; it is supposed to be the thing itself. But it's hard to see h...
Actually, reading a bit closer and prompted by @"Luke"'s quote, I want to make an amendment to what I wrote above. I think I was wrong to speak of pic...
§139, §140 I want to suggest that these sections are an elaboration of §115, in which Witty spoke of being held 'captive by a picture': "And we couldn...
Agnes Callard made a really nice case recently about how progress in philosophy consists of 'raising the costs' of asserting anything, which I quite l...
My point is that this is a dumb dichotomy. Say there was a 'little free man'. What accounts for 'his' freedom? Another little free man? And so on ad i...
I quite like Giorgio Agamben's approach to the etymology of religion, of which he writes in relation to the profane: "The term religio does not derive...
"Mind controls body": what a strange phrase, as if 'mind' were a little man in the head with a bunch of control levers pushing the body about. But the...
Alot of two-bit philosophy of science would be cleared up were people to call 'observation' in science by its proper name, measurement. That a conveni...
Sure, but what strikes me as absurd is that the admission of the limits of Wittgenstein's inquiries are then called upon as a critique of them; as if ...
Yes, and the results of the experiment add yet one more piece of evidence that 'observation' at the quantum level is irrevocably determined by the app...
Correct, these lines preceed Wheeler's unequivocal declaration that "consciousness has nothing to do with the quantum process": that consciousness has...
A nice deflationary answer, if only what motivated it wasn't a claim for human exceptionalism as being beyond or above nature altogether. Quote this s...
I could trot out the rather explicit quote by Wheeler that consciousness has nothing whatsoever to do with QM, but you'd ignore it, as you always do. ...
:point: Yep. Rather than point out and engage with the myriad of places where these concerns are being addressed in science - and not necessarily by m...
It's funny how the opposite of human exceptionalism is the boogeyman of reductionism. How fragile those are who are denied their special little place ...
Lol when someone calls Witty an empricist what is one to do but throw one's hands up and laugh; "The limit of the empirical -- is concept formation" (...
I guess the first thing to note is that the abortion debate is not the same kind of debate as the metaphysical debates that you and James discuss: Jam...
The most depressing part of this - for me anyway - is that Thompson, one of the authors of the article, has done more than most to show that science d...
Oh boy, wait till you read up on it - I think you'll hate it, haha. The paper from which the book is drawn: http://www.dan.sperber.fr/wp-content/uploa...
A reading list in place of specific sciences - because there are so many - too many - relevant ones: Alicia Juarrero - Dynamics in Action: Intentional...
§138, Boxed Note Witty's boxed notes are always obscure, and this one is no different, but my sense here is that he's suggesting that while we underst...
§138 §138 finally brings out, I think, why any of these previous discussons matter at all in the context of the PI. That is: what does it matter wheth...
Also, as an aside, I've been reading Sara Ellenbogen's Wittgenstein's Account of Truth, and there's a passage in there I really like, and though it re...
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