Mark Addis
Mark Addis | |
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| Born | 1969 Bolton, United Kingdom |
| Nationality | British |
Main interests | Ludwig Wittgenstein |
Mark Addis FRSA (b. 1969) is a British philosopher who is known for his work on Ludwig Wittgenstein
Biography
Addis grew up in
USA (2005) and at Aarhus University, Denmark. Addis has since 2006 been general editor of the Philosophy Insights series for Humanities-Ebooks LLP. [1] He was treasurer of the British Philosophical Association. Addis was a consultant [2] for the film Le Week-End
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Addis specialises in the philosophy of
Wittgenstein and related areas as well as having research interests in the philosophies of language, mind, and religion. His book Wittgenstein: Making Sense of Other Minds (1999) was described by Rom Harre as "a careful and subtle study" whose "scholarly merits are great".[2] Wittgenstein and Philosophy of Religion (2001, co-edited with Robert Arrington) is "an interesting and valuable collection of essays",[3] while Wittgenstein: A Guide for the Perplexed (2006) is "a clear, balanced and very recommendable book which gives a good idea of the complexity of Wittgenstein's philosophy".[4]
Bibliography
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Monographs
- Wittgenstein : Making Sense of Other Minds (Aldershot: Ashgate, 1999). ISBN 0754610438
- Wittgenstein: A Guide for the Perplexed (London: Continuum, 2006). ISBN 0-8264-8495-6(hbk), 0-8264-8496-4 (pbk)
- Wittgenstein and Philosophy of Religion (co-edited with ISBN 0-415-21780-6(hbk), 0-415-33555-8 (pbk)
Essays and chapters
- 'D. Z. Phillips' Fideism in Wittgenstein's Mirror', in Wittgenstein and Philosophy of Religion pp. 85–100
- 'Wittgenstein and the Transfinite in Set Theory', in Klaus Puhl, ed., Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Mathematics (Vienna: Holder-Pichler-Tempsky, 1993), pp. 87–92. ISBN 3-209-01592-9
- Entries on ISBN 1-84371-141-9)
- 'Intellectual Property and the Public Interest', in The International Journal of the Book 6:1 (2009), pp. 121–124. ISSN 1447-9516
- 'Wittgenstein's Private Language Argument and Self Consciousness', in Sats-Nordic Journal of Philosophy 8:2 (2007), pp. 89–103. ISSN 1584-0778)
- 'Criteria: the State of the Debate', in Journal of Philosophical Research XX (1995), pp. 139–174. ISSN 1053-8364
- 'Surveyability and the Sorites Paradox', in Philosophia Mathematica 3:2 (1995), pp. 157–165. ISSN 0031-8019
- 'Philosophy in the Workplace', in Philosophy Now 95 (2013)
References
- ^ Oxford University Chess Club#President
- Rom Harre, International Studies in Philosophy 35.4 (2003), pp.132-134
- ^ Patrick Sherry, Religious Studies 38.2 (2002), pp.244-246
- ^ Jesper Garsdal, Philosophy in Review 27.3 (2007), pp.159-160
External links
- Mark Addis's page at Academia.edu [3]
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