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A Wittgensteinian Way with Paradoxes
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2012
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A Wittgensteinian Way with Paradoxes examines how some of the classic philosophical paradoxes that have so puzzled philosophers over the centuries can be dissolved. Read argues that paradoxes such as the Sorites, Russell’s Paradox and the paradoxes of time travel do not, in fact, need to be solved. Rather, using a resolute Wittgensteinian ‘therapeutic’ method, the book explores how virtually all apparent philosophical paradoxes can be diagnosed and dissolved through examining their conditions of arising; to loosen their grip and therapeutically liberate those philosophers suffering from them (including oneself). The book contrasts such paradoxes with real, ‘lived paradoxes’: paradoxes that are genuinely experienced outside of the philosopher’s study, in everyday life. Thus Read explores instances of lived paradox (such as paradoxes of self-hatred and of denial of other humans’ humanity) and the harm they can cause, psychically, morally or politically. These lived paradoxes, he argues, sometimes cannot be dissolved using a Wittgensteinian treatment. Moreover, in some cases they do not need to be: for some, such as the paradoxical practices of Zen Buddhism (and indeed of Wittgenstein himself), can in fact be beneficial. The book shows how, once philosophers’ paradoxes have been exorcized, real lived paradoxes can be given their due.
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2012
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-6896-7
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-6897-4
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
285
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Preface and Acknowledgements No access
A Note on Quotations No access
Introduction: The Paradoxes of (Philosophical) Delusion No access Pages 1 - 16
Chapter One: Pre-empting Russell’s Paradox: Wittgenstein and Frege Against Logicism No access
Chapter Two: ‘Time Travel’: The Very Idea No access
Chapter Three: A Paradox for Chomsky: On Our Being Through and Through ‘Inside’ Language No access
Chapter Four: Kripke’s Rule-Following Paradox—and Kripke’s Conjuring Trick No access
Chapter Five: The Unstatability of Kripkean Skepticisms No access
Chapter Six: Heaps of Trouble: ‘Logically Alien Thought’ and the Dissolution of ‘Sorites’ Paradoxes No access
Chapter Seven: The Dissolution of the ‘Surprise Exam’ Paradox—and its Implications for Rational Choice Theory No access
Chapter Eight: Swastikas and Cyborgs: The Significance of PI 420, for Reading Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations as a ‘War Book’ No access
Chapter Nine: From Moore’s Paradox to ‘Wittgenstein’s Paradox’?: On Lived Paradox in Cases of (Moral and) Mental Ill-Health No access
Chapter Ten: Lived ‘Reductio Ad Absurdum’: A Paradoxical and Proper Method of Philosophy, and of Life No access
Chapter Eleven: Leaving Things As It Is (sic.): Philosophy and Life ‘After’ Wittgenstein and Zen No access
Chapter Twelve: Conclusion: On Lived Paradoxes No access
