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1. Essays in Philosophy: Volume > 10 > Issue: 2
A. M. Ungar Review of Truth and Predication, by Donald Davidson
2. Essays in Philosophy: Volume > 10 > Issue: 2
Joseph Levine Collective Responsibility and the Individual
3. Essays in Philosophy: Volume > 10 > Issue: 2
Miguel Martinez-Saenz Review of Does Ethics Have a Chance in a World of Consumers? by Zygmunt Bauman
4. Essays in Philosophy: Volume > 10 > Issue: 2
Steven Ross Review of In the Beginning Was the Deed: Realism and Moralism in Political Argument, by Bernard Williams
5. Essays in Philosophy: Volume > 10 > Issue: 2
Peter H. Denton Review of Moral Disquiet and Human Life, by Monique Canto-Sperber, trans. Silvia Pavel
6. Essays in Philosophy: Volume > 10 > Issue: 2
Michael Corrado Review of Freedom and Determinism, ed. Joseph Keim Campbell, Michael O’Rourke, and David Shier
7. Essays in Philosophy: Volume > 11 > Issue: 1
Martin Schönfeld Issue Introduction
8. Essays in Philosophy: Volume > 11 > Issue: 1
Holly Wilson Divine Sovereignty And The Global Climate Change Debate
9. Essays in Philosophy: Volume > 11 > Issue: 1
Ruth Irwin Climate Change and Heidegger’s Philosophy of Science
10. Essays in Philosophy: Volume > 11 > Issue: 1
Bellarmine Nneji Eco-Responsibility: The Cogency for Environmental Ethics in Africa
11. Essays in Philosophy: Volume > 11 > Issue: 1
Philip Cafaro Economic Growth or the Flourishing of Life: The Ethical Choice Climate Change Puts to Humanity
12. Essays in Philosophy: Volume > 11 > Issue: 1
Casey Rentmeester A Kantian Look at Climate Change
13. Essays in Philosophy: Volume > 11 > Issue: 1
Maximiliano E. Korstanje Review of The Abuse of Evil: The Corruption of Politics and Religion since 9/11, by Richard J. Bernstein
14. Essays in Philosophy: Volume > 11 > Issue: 1
Steven Ross Review of Rescuing Justice and Equality, by G.A. Cohen
15. Essays in Philosophy: Volume > 11 > Issue: 1
Leon Niemoczynski Review of From Realism to ‘Realicism’: The Metaphysics of Charles Sanders Peirce, by Rosa Maria Perez-Teran Mayorga
16. Essays in Philosophy: Volume > 11 > Issue: 1
Malek K. Khazaee Review of Hegel’s Preface to the Phenomenology of Spirit, by Yirmiyahu Yovel
17. Essays in Philosophy: Volume > 11 > Issue: 2
Sally Parker Ryan Reconsidering Ordinary Language Philosophy: Malcolm’s (Moore’s) Ordinary Language Argument
18. Essays in Philosophy: Volume > 11 > Issue: 2
Anthony Coleman, Ivan Welty Issue Introduction
19. Essays in Philosophy: Volume > 11 > Issue: 2
Jeff Johnson Grice’s Unspeakable Truths
20. Essays in Philosophy: Volume > 11 > Issue: 2
Alberto Voltolini Is Wittgenstein a Contextualist?
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There is definitely a family resemblance between what contemporary contextualism maintains in philosophy of language and some of the claims about meaning put forward by the later Wittgenstein. Yet the main contextualist thesis, namely that linguistic meaning undermines truth-conditions, was not defended by Wittgenstein. If a claim in this regard can be retrieved in Wittgenstein despite his manifest antitheoretical attitude, it is instead that truth-conditions trivially supervene on linguistic meaning. There is, however, another Wittgensteinian claim that truly has a contextualist flavour, namely that linguistic meaning is itself wide-contextual. To be sure, this claim does not lead to the eliminativist/intentionalist conception of linguistic meaning that radical contextualists have recently developed. Rather, it goes together with a robust conception of linguistic meaning as intrinsically normative. Yet it may explain why Wittgenstein is taken to be a forerunner of contemporary contextualism.