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AUTHOR
Chon Tejedor
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CONDITIONED RESPONSIBILITY, BELONGING AND THE VULNERABILITY OF OUR ETHICAL UNDERSTANDING
2020
AbstractIn this paper I explore the ethical responsibility of agents who find themselves in situations characterized by what I call the Individual Ethical Gap (IEG). Individual Ethical Gap situatio...
Wittgenstein on Physics
2019
In this paper, I explore Wittgenstein’s philosophical approach to physics, an approach that crystallises in the Tractatus and is then polished—rather than replaced—in his later writings. The question of Wittgenstein’s attitude towards science has been the subject of much scholarly debate. Wittgenstein maintained throughout his life that philosophy, ethics and religion should be kept separate from the natural sciences. In his view, any attempt to apply scientific methodologies to philosophical, ethical and religious discussions is both dangerous and futile. Some interpreters have read this aspect of Wittgenstein’s thinking as expressing a strong hostility to science: Wittgenstein, they sugge…