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Monday, December 28, 2009

"Wittgensteinian themes: essays, 1978-1989" by Norman Malcolm,Georg Henrik Wright,1959

His works include:
Ludwig Wittgenstein: A Memoir
Moore and Ordinary Language
Wittgenstein: A Religious Point Of View?
Nothing Is Hidden: Wittgenstein's criticism of his early thought
Problems of Mind: Descartes to Wittgenstein
Knowledge and Certainty
Consciousness and Causality (with D. M. Armstrong)
Memory and Mind
Dreaming and Skepticism
Wittgenstein: The Relation of Language to Instinctive Behaviour
Thought and knowledge
Wittgensteinian themes (edited by Georg Henrik von Wright) and Dreaming.
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In 1949, Wittgenstein was a guest of the Malcolms in Ithaca, New York. In that year Malcolm introduced O.K. Bouwsma to Wittgenstein. Bouwsma remained close to Wittgenstein until Wittgenstein's death in 1951.
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In 1959, his book Dreaming was published,
in which he elaborated on Wittgenstein's question as to whether it really mattered if people who tell dreams "really had these images while they slept, or whether it merely seems so to them on waking".
This work was also a response to Descartes' Meditations.
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Other than that he is known for propagating the view that common sense philosophy and ordinary language philosophy are the same.
He was generally supportive of Moore's theory of knowledge and certitude, though he found Moore's style and method of arguing to be ineffective.
His critique of Moore's articles on skepticism (and also on Moore's 'Here is a hand' argument) lay the foundation for the renewed interest in common sense philosophy and ordinary language philosophy.
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Malcolm was also a defender of a modal version of the ontological argument.
In 1960 he argued that the argument originally presented by Anselm of Canterbury in the second chapter of his Proslogion was just an inferior version of the argument propounded in chapter three.
His argument is similar to those produced by Charles Hartshorne and Alvin Plantinga.
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