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The Claim of Reason: Wittgenstein, Skepticism, Morality, and Tragedy

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This article is published in Philosophical Investigations.The article was published on 1982-07-01. It has received 137 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Skepticism & Tragedy (event).

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Causation A Unified Framework for the Social Sciences

TL;DR: The authors argue that there is a unitary conception of causality in the social sciences, and present four main arguments about the nature of causal relationships in social sciences: a cause, a causality, a cause and a cause.
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Galileo and the Indispensability of Scientific Thought Experiment

TL;DR: This paper examined the role of thought experiments in scientific inquiry and showed that reasoning about particular entities within the context of an imaginary scenario can lead to rationally justified conclusions that-given the same initial information-would not be rationally justifiable on the basis of a straightforward argument.
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A companion to rhetoric and rhetorical criticism

Walter Jost, +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose a method to solve the problem of "uniformity" in the following manner, i.i.p.a.1-1.

Galileo and the Indispensability of Scientific Thought Experiment

Tamar Szab
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine one of the most famous thought experiments in the history of science, that by which Galileo is said to have refuted the Aristotelian theory that heavier bodies fall faster than lighter ones.
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Education for Sustainable Development and Normativity: A Transactional Analysis of Moral Meaning-Making and Companion Meanings in Classroom Communication.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present and illustrate two different ways of analysing the normativity and discursivity of classroom communication during education for sustainable development (ESD), and provide important knowledge for discussions of ESD in relation to morals and democracy.
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Wittgenstein et la reconnaissance d’Autrui (entre perception et concept)

TL;DR: In this paper, the notion of relation intersubjective chez Wittgenstein is analyzed, i.e., whether le philosophe aborde the relation Moi-Autrui in terms of epistemiques, or s'il deplace the question on a dimension differente.
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The Gleam of Light: Moral Perfectionism and Education in Dewey and Emerson (review)

TL;DR: The Gleam of Light: Moral Perfectionism and Education in Dewey and Emerson, by Naoko Saito of Kyoto University, is a splendid work that develops an innovative "Emersonian-Deweyan vision" of education, growth, and democracy as discussed by the authors.
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Wittgenstein's Paradox of Ordinary Language

Barry Stocker
- 01 Jun 2000 - 
TL;DR: Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations as discussed by the authors, which is a collection of essays written by the author of the present paper, relies on reference to a non-philosophical language and resistance to any form of ideal language.
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Wittgenstein and pragmatism revisited

TL;DR: In this article, the question of Wittgenstein's relation to pragmatism is raised, and the authors focus on the elements of On Certainty that sound like pragmatic ideas.
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Bashō and the Dao: The Zhuangzi and the Transformation of Haikai (review)

TL;DR: In this paper, Peipei Qiu, in his book Bashō and the Dao: The Zhuangzi and the Transformation of Haikai, discovers plenty more.