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Wittgenstein vs J.G. Frazer in recent anthropology
Palmié’s critique of Wittgenstein’s critique of Frazer, and James’s commentary
Jul 24, 2022
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MICHAEL G. HELLER
Ludwig Wittgenstein, The Blue Book
The meaning of meanings, and philosophy’s pseudo-science generalisations
Jul 18, 2022
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MICHAEL G. HELLER
Wittgenstein on Rules, by Saul A. Kripke on rule-checking 'community'
Each person who claims to follow a rule is checked for deviance by a community. Maths + community = ‘proof’. Robinson Crusoe, isolated, cannot have…
Oct 26, 2022
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Michael G. Heller
Wittgenstein Tractatus 6.23-6.3432 on a priori intuitive logic about the world, supported by calculation and mechanics
With sister Hermine on not-fun maths, L's Tractatus error, the illogicalities of naturalistic artistic imagination, and avoiding bust-ups over busts and…
Sep 26, 2022
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Michael G. Heller
Arif Ahmed, Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations
Limitations of language and limitations of philosophy; ‘Philosophy simply puts everything before us, and neither explains nor deduces anything’; ‘Pain…
Jan 18, 2023
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Michael G. Heller
The path of The Habitus
By Pierre Bourdieu [the 1st of 2 concepts he made famous]
Jun 14, 2022
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MICHAEL G. HELLER
Three masters of philosophy who were not philosophers [Darwin, Newman, Freud] in Anthony Kenny's An Illustrated Brief History of Western…
CHAPTER 20
Apr 1, 2023
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Michael G. Heller
Impersonal Rules vs Discretion and Kadi Justice
Kahneman & Sunstein 2021 on Interpersonal Noise, plus Heller
Mar 26, 2022
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MICHAEL G. HELLER
Theory & History
Evolution and Social Systems, Prehistoric
Aug 21, 2024
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Michael G. Heller
Wootton, The Invention of Science
Medieval science and the religion context..
Mar 24, 2024
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Michael G. Heller
Steven Lukes, Different cultures, different rationalities?
A far-reaching dispute between two anthropologists, Sahlins and Obeyesekere, about how the Hawaiians perceived Captain James Cook in 1778–1779..
Feb 3, 2023
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Michael G. Heller
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