Mark Addis

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(b. 1969) is a British philosopher who is known for his work on

Ludwig Wittgenstein Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein ( ; ; 26 April 1889 – 29 April 1951) was an Austrian-British philosopher who worked primarily in logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language. He is considere ...

Biography

Addis grew up in

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, England, and was educated at

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, Mansfield College,

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, the

University of Leeds , mottoeng = And knowledge will be increased , established = 1831 – Leeds School of Medicine1874 – Yorkshire College of Science1884 - Yorkshire College1887 – affiliated to the federal Victoria University1904 – University of Leeds , ...

, the

University of York , mottoeng = On the threshold of wisdom , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £8.0 million , budget = £403.6 million , chancellor = Heather Melville , vice_chancellor = Charlie Jeffery , students ...

and Birmingham City University. He has been a visiting scholar at

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(2005) and at Aarhus University, Denmark. Addis has since 2006 been general editor of the Philosophy Insights series for Humanities-Ebooks LLP

He was treasurer of the

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. Addis was a consultan

for the film

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. Addis specialises in the philosophy of

Wittgenstein Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein ( ; ; 26 April 1889 – 29 April 1951) was an Austrians, Austrian-British people, British philosopher who worked primarily in logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy o ...

and related areas as well as having research interests in the philosophies of

language Language is a structured system of communication. The structure of a language is its grammar and the free components are its vocabulary. Languages are the primary means by which humans communicate, and may be conveyed through a variety of met ...

mind The mind is the set of faculties responsible for all mental phenomena. Often the term is also identified with the phenomena themselves. These faculties include thought, imagination, memory, will, and sensation. They are responsible for various m ...

, and

religion Religion is usually defined as a social- cultural system of designated behaviors and practices, morals, beliefs, worldviews, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or organizations, that generally relates humanity to supernatural, ...

. 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". ''Wittgenstein and Philosophy of Religion'' (2001, co-edited with

Robert Arrington Robert L. Arrington (October 19, 1938 - June 20, 2015) was an American philosopher, specialising in moral philosophy, the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein, and the philosophy of psychology. Arrington was born in Bainbridge, Georgia, and educate ...

) is "an interesting and valuable collection of essays", 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".Jesper Garsdal, ''Philosophy in Review'' 27.3 (2007), pp.159-160

Bibliography

Monographs

*''Wittgenstein : Making Sense of Other Minds'' (Aldershot: Ashgate, 1999). *''Wittgenstein: A Guide for the Perplexed'' (London: Continuum, 2006). (hbk), 0-8264-8496-4 (pbk) *''Wittgenstein and Philosophy of Religion'' (co-edited with

, London: Routledge, 2001). (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. *Entries on

Reuben Louis Goodstein Reuben Louis Goodstein (15 December 1912 – 8 March 1985) was an English mathematician with a strong interest in the philosophy and teaching of mathematics. Education Goodstein was educated at St Paul's School in London. He received his Mast ...

pp. 336–7, Margeret Macdonald pp. 601–5, Margeret Masterman pp. 664–5, and David Pears pp. 756–60 in Stuart Brown, ed., ''Dictionary of Twentieth-Century British Philosophers'' (Bristol: Thoemmes Press, 2005). (Reprinted in A.C. Grayling, Andrew Pyle, Naomi Goulder eds., ''Continuum Encyclopedia of British Philosophy'' (Thoemmes Continuum, London 2006), as Goodstein pp. 1256–7, MacDonald pp. 1997–8, Masterman p. 2104, and Pears pp. 2454–7. ) *'Intellectual Property and the Public Interest', in ''The International Journal of the Book'' 6:1 (2009), pp. 121–124. *'Wittgenstein's Private Language Argument and Self Consciousness', in ''Sats-Nordic Journal of Philosophy'' 8:2 (2007), pp. 89–103. (Reprinted in ''Analysis and Metaphysics'' 6 (Dec. 2007),pp. 288–302. ) *'Criteria: the State of the Debate', in ''Journal of Philosophical Research'' XX (1995), pp. 139–174. *'Surveyability and the Sorites Paradox', in ''Philosophia Mathematica'' 3:2 (1995), pp. 157–165. *'Philosophy in the Workplace', in ''Philosophy Now'' 95 (2013)

References

External links

* Mark Addis's page at Academia.ed

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