Gilad Nir
Biographic Data
| ID | 4293524 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gilad Nir |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gilad |
| FAMILY NAME | Nir |
| SIGNATURE | NIR G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institut für Philosophie Universität Potsdam Potsdam Germany |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9942-844X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Unsolvable Riddles and the Truth of Skepticism
Both Wittgenstein and Cavell see riddles as a model of intellectual difficulty. By drawing attention to it, they remind us that not all of our intellectual challenges take the form of empirically answerable questions—there may be cases of our not merely lacking knowledge, but of being caught in the fantasy that a certain type of knowledge can be had. They further remind us what is involved in solving riddles, namely the transformation of our init…
Early Analytic Philosophy
International audience
Toward a Resolute Reading of Being and Time
Both Heidegger and Wittgenstein consider the possibility of a philosophical inquiry of an absolutely universal scope—an inquiry into the being of all beings, in Heidegger’s case, and into the logical form of everything that can be meaningfully said, in Wittgenstein’s. Moreover, they both raise the worry that the theoretical language by means of which we speak of particular beings and assert particular facts is not suitable for this task. And yet …
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Toward a Resolute Reading of Being and Time
Both Heidegger and Wittgenstein consider the possibility of a philosophical inquiry of an absolutely universal scope—an inquiry into the being of all beings, in Heidegger’s case, and into the logical form of everything that can be meaningfully said, in Wittgenstein’s. Moreover, they both raise the worry that the theoretical language by means of which we speak of particular beings and assert particular facts is not suitable for this task. And yet …
Unsolvable Riddles and the Truth of Skepticism
Both Wittgenstein and Cavell see riddles as a model of intellectual difficulty. By drawing attention to it, they remind us that not all of our intellectual challenges take the form of empirically answerable questions—there may be cases of our not merely lacking knowledge, but of being caught in the fantasy that a certain type of knowledge can be had. They further remind us what is involved in solving riddles, namely the transformation of our init…
Early Analytic Philosophy
International audience
Epistemology (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Wittgensteinian philosophy and applications (2 works) · Classical Philosophy and Thought (1 works) · Computer Science (1 works) · Context (archaeology) (1 works) · Dilemma (1 works) · Linguistics (1 works) · Logic, programming, and type systems (1 works) · Medieval and Classical Philosophy (1 works)