Duncan Richter
Biographic Data
| ID | 3892416 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Duncan Richter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Duncan |
| FAMILY NAME | Richter |
| SIGNATURE | RICHTER D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Virginia Military Institute |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2476-9247 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Some Remarks of Anscombe’s on Faith and Justice
In G. E. M. Anscombe’s extensive correspondence with G. H. von Wright, one of the many topics that come up is the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II. What she says in these letters is significant because of the interest in what she wrote elsewhere about the use of atomic weapons. It is especially interesting because she might seem to imply here that only a person with religious faith is capable of being just. This paper …
Sheer Poison? Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Religion
Anscombe once said to Anthony Kenny that "On the topic of religion, Wittgenstein is sheer poison". This paper offers an assessment of that view. I take it that Anscombe meant that Wittgenstein was a bad influence rather than that his views were necessarily false, although she seems to have been uncertain about what exactly his views were. In "Paganism, Superstition and Philosophy", she identifies five ideas that make up "a certain current in phil…
Wittgenstein's Tractatus
Subjectivity after Wittgenstein
Wittgenstein in Exile. By James C. Klagge
Wittgenstein at his word
"This book explains how Wittgenstein's idea of the value of philosophy shaped his philosophical method and led him to talk and write about the abstruse questions he dealt with in most of his work. Unlike many books, it examines not only the Tractatus and Philosophical Investigations, but also Wittgenstein's work on epistemology, ethics and religion. This book shows for the first time the real connections between Wittgenstein the man and Wittgenst…
Missing the entire point
In this paper I contrast some widespread ideas about what Wittgenstein said about religious belief with statements Wittgenstein made about his purposes and method in doing philosophy, in order to argue that he did not hold the views commonly attributed to him. These allegedly Wittgensteinian doctrines in fact essentialize religion in a very un-Wittgensteinian way. A truly Wittgensteinian philosophy of religion can only be a personal process, and …
Virtue Without Theory
Is abortion vicious
Sheer Poison? Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Religion
Anscombe once said to Anthony Kenny that "On the topic of religion, Wittgenstein is sheer poison". This paper offers an assessment of that view. I take it that Anscombe meant that Wittgenstein was a bad influence rather than that his views were necessarily false, although she seems to have been uncertain about what exactly his views were. In "Paganism, Superstition and Philosophy", she identifies five ideas that make up "a certain current in phil…
Is abortion vicious
Virtue Without Theory
Missing the entire point
In this paper I contrast some widespread ideas about what Wittgenstein said about religious belief with statements Wittgenstein made about his purposes and method in doing philosophy, in order to argue that he did not hold the views commonly attributed to him. These allegedly Wittgensteinian doctrines in fact essentialize religion in a very un-Wittgensteinian way. A truly Wittgensteinian philosophy of religion can only be a personal process, and …
Wittgenstein at his word
"This book explains how Wittgenstein's idea of the value of philosophy shaped his philosophical method and led him to talk and write about the abstruse questions he dealt with in most of his work. Unlike many books, it examines not only the Tractatus and Philosophical Investigations, but also Wittgenstein's work on epistemology, ethics and religion. This book shows for the first time the real connections between Wittgenstein the man and Wittgenst…
Wittgenstein in Exile. By James C. Klagge
Subjectivity after Wittgenstein
Wittgenstein's Tractatus
Some Remarks of Anscombe’s on Faith and Justice
In G. E. M. Anscombe’s extensive correspondence with G. H. von Wright, one of the many topics that come up is the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II. What she says in these letters is significant because of the interest in what she wrote elsewhere about the use of atomic weapons. It is especially interesting because she might seem to imply here that only a person with religious faith is capable of being just. This paper …
Sheer Poison? Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Religion
Anscombe once said to Anthony Kenny that "On the topic of religion, Wittgenstein is sheer poison". This paper offers an assessment of that view. I take it that Anscombe meant that Wittgenstein was a bad influence rather than that his views were necessarily false, although she seems to have been uncertain about what exactly his views were. In "Paganism, Superstition and Philosophy", she identifies five ideas that make up "a certain current in phil…
Epistemology (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Wittgensteinian philosophy and applications (2 works) · 1889-1951 (1 work) · Abortion (1 work) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (1 work) · Biology (1 work) · Chemistry (1 work) · Computer Science (1 work) · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences (1 work)