I do hope they post the paper, I’d be very interested to see it. The only paper I recall reading that explicitly dealt with Husserl and Wittgenstein re: intentionality was something called “Wittgenstein and the Snark” and then something about social naturalism. I have the paper but do not currently have access to it as I’m away from my desktop.

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On Friday there was a talk given at the Wittgenstein Workshop comparing Wittgenstein and Husserl on intention and fulfillment. The paper wasn’t posted, but there are plans to post the audio soon. The Workshop’s address is: http://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/wittgenstein/

Ryskamp, John Henry, “Paradox, Natural Mathematics, Relativity and Twentieth-Century Ideas” (May 19, 2007). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=897085

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Relatedly, that page links to a paper titled “Whorf hypothesis is supported in the right visual field but not the left”, which looks very interesting, though I have not read it.

This site has the same, without commentary.

When does PI enter the public domain, anyway? I thought it wasn’t for a few years still, but a quick glance at Wikipedia notes that the “Life of the author+infinite years” thing only applies to certain works publishes before 1964.

Oh, good. A little work shows that its copyright was renewed, so I suppose it may very well be indefinitely copyrighted along with Mickey & the gang. I suppose “Fair Use”-sized selections is what the internet gets to work with for the foreseeable future. Ah, well.

I am sure Wittgenstein would have hated the expression ’school of philosophy’ being attributable to him. In the Preface of the Investigations, he mentions how his vanity was stung upon learning that the Blue and Brown Books were in circulation among his students at Cambridge. He appears overly sensitive about being imitated by others, which is why he would never have supported the founding of a school of philosophy in his name. Also, let’s not forget in this context his general disdain of academia.

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As it is usually the case when reviewing old papers, I can definitely find things wrong with it and who knows to what extent I would stand by my arguments now.

Yeah, I’m kind of reminded also of issues in 20th century work in epistemology. I can’t remember who wrote it, but I remember reading a paper (published around the time of the Gettier problem) beginning with a discussion of infinite regress and how that poses a problem to the coherent theory of justification.

Your point is interesting though-so you say that Wittgenstein argues against this view in the Tractatus? Come to think of it, I don’t recall seeing any works regarding Wittgenstein’s view of infinite regress in the Tractatus–I think this would be an interesting area to explore.

There is quite a vast literature on various aspects of these topics in psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, cognitive psychology, cultural anthropology, and psychological anthropology. I encourage you to browse through the stacks in these areas of your library some time.

A good introduction to issues in culture and cognition is set forth in Michael Cole and Sylvia Scribner’s Culture and Thought: A Psychological Introduction (Wiley, 1974). While it’s not a new book, it is well written and remains valid as an introductory overview of the kinds of issues you mentioned in your post. I believe they have a chapter on the Whorfian hypothesis.

So yeah, turns out that psycholinguistics is pretty much like analytic philosophy, at least in the sense that its courses involve criticizing people over mostly semantic concerns