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  1. Judgements, facts and propositions: theories of truth in Russell, Wittgenstein and Ramsey.Colin Johnston & Peter Sullivan - 2018 - In Michael Glanzberg (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Truth. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. pp. 150-192.
    In 'On the nature of truth and falsehood' Russell offers both a multiple relation theory of judgment and a correspondence theory of truth. It has been a prevailing understanding of the Tractatus that Wittgenstein rejects Russell’s multiple relation idea but endorses the correspondence theory. Ramsey took the opposite view. In his 'Facts and Propositions', Ramsey endorses Russell’s multiple relation idea, rejects the correspondence theory, and then asserts that these moves are both due to Wittgenstein. This chapter will argue that Ramsey’s (...)
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    The Cambridge Companion to Frege.Michael Potter, Joan Weiner, Warren Goldfarb, Peter Sullivan, Alex Oliver & Thomas Ricketts (eds.) - 2010 - New York: Cambridge University Press.
    Offers a comprehensive and accessible exploration of the scope and importance of Gottlob Frege's work.
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  3. Identity theories of truth and the tractatus.Peter M. Sullivan - 2005 - Philosophical Investigations 28 (1):43–62.
    The paper is concerned with the idea that the world is the totality of facts, not of things – with what is involved in thinking of the world in that way, and why one might do so. It approaches this issue through a comparison between Wittgenstein’s Tractatus and the identity theory of truth proposed by Hornsby and McDowell.The paper’s positive conclusion is that there is a genuine affinity between these two. A negative contention is that the modern identity theory is (...)
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  4. Ineffability and nonsense.Peter Sullivan - 2003 - Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 77 (1):195–223.
    [A. W. Moore] There are criteria of ineffability whereby, even if the concept of ineffability can never serve to modify truth, it can sometimes serve to modify other things, specifically understanding. This allows for a reappraisal of the dispute between those who adopt a traditional reading of Wittgenstein's Tractatus and those who adopt the new reading recently championed by Diamond, Conant, and others. By maintaining that what the nonsense in the Tractatus is supposed to convey is ineffable understanding, rather than (...)
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    On Trying to be Resolute: A Response to Kremer on the Tractatus.Peter M. Sullivan - 2002 - European Journal of Philosophy 10 (1):43-78.
    A way of reading the Tractatus has been proposed which, according to its advocates, is importantly novel and essentially distinct from anything to be found in the work of such previously influential students of the book as Anscombe, Stenius, Hacker or Pears. The point of difference is differently described, but the currently most used description seems to be Goldfarb’s term ‘resolution’ – hence one speaks of ‘the resolute reading’. I’ll shortly ask what resolution is. For now, it is enough that (...)
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  6. What is the tractatus about?Peter M. Sullivan - 2004 - In Max Kölbel & Bernhard Weiss (eds.), Wittgenstein's Lasting Significance. New York: Routledge. pp. 28-41.
     
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    Wittgenstein's Tractatus: history and interpretation.Peter Sullivan & Michael Potter (eds.) - 2013 - Oxford: Oxford University Press.
    These new studies of Wittgenstein's Tractatus represent a significant step beyond recent polemical debate.
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  8. Hale on caesar.Peter Sullivan & Michael Potter - 1997 - Philosophia Mathematica 5 (2):135--52.
    Crispin Wright and Bob Hale have defended the strategy of defining the natural numbers contextually against the objection which led Frege himself to reject it, namely the so-called ‘Julius Caesar problem’. To do this they have formulated principles (called sortal inclusion principles) designed to ensure that numbers are distinct from any objects, such as persons, a proper grasp of which could not be afforded by the contextual definition. We discuss whether either Hale or Wright has provided independent motivation for a (...)
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  9. The general propositional form is a variable’.Peter M. Sullivan - 2004 - Mind 113 (449):43-56.
    Wittgenstein presents in the Tractatus a variable purporting to capture the general form of proposition. One understanding of what Wittgenstein is doing there, an understanding in line with the ‘new’ reading of his work championed by Diamond, Conant and others, sees it as a deflationary or even an implosive move—a move by which a concept sometimes put by philosophers to distinctively metaphysical use is replaced, in a perspicuous notation, by an innocent device of generalization, thereby dispersing the clouds of philosophy (...)
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    The Totality of Facts.Peter M. Sullivan - 2000 - Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 100 (1):175-192.
  11. Frege's logic.Peter M. Sullivan - 2004 - In Dov M. Gabbay, John Woods & Akihiro Kanamori (eds.), Handbook of the history of logic. Boston: Elsevier. pp. 659-750.
  12. Transcendental Philosophy and Naturalism.Joel Smith & Peter Sullivan (eds.) - 2011 - Oxford, GB: Oxford University Press.
    Kant's introduction of a distinctive form of philosophical investigation and proof, known as transcendental, inaugurated a new philosophical tradition. Transcendental Philosophy and Naturalism assesses the present state and contemporary relevance of this tradition. The contributors aim to understand the theoretical structures involved in transcendental explanation, and to assess the contemporary relevance of the transcendental orientation, in particular with respect to contemporary philosophical naturalism. These issues are approached from both naturalistic and transcendental perspectives.
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  13. 4. A Version of the Picture Theory.Peter M. Sullivan - 2001 - In Wilhelm Vossenkuhl (ed.), Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus logico-philosophicus. Berlin: Akademie Verlag. pp. 89-110.
    0. My aims in this paper are largely expository: I am more interested in presenting the picture theory than deciding its truth. Even so, I hope that the arguments by which I develop the theory will do something to support it, since I believe that what I will present as Wittgenstein's view is indeed the truth. This is not an admission of insanity, though some things that have been thought intrinsic to the picture theory are things it would be insane (...)
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  14. The 'Truth' in Solipsism, and Wittgenstein's Rejection of the A Priori.Peter M. Sullivan - 1996 - European Journal of Philosophy 4 (2):195-220.
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    The functional model of sentential complexity.Peter M. Sullivan - 1992 - Journal of Philosophical Logic 21 (1):91 - 108.
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    IX-The Totality of Facts.Peter M. Sullivan - 2000 - Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 100 (2):175-192.
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  17. The sense of `a name of a truth-value'.Peter M. Sullivan - 1994 - Philosophical Quarterly 44 (177):476-481.
  18. Simplicity and analysis in early Wittgenstein.Peter M. Sullivan - 2003 - European Journal of Philosophy 11 (1):72–88.
    But logic as it stands, e.g. in Principia Mathematica, can quite well be applied to our ordinary propositions; e.g. from ‘All men are mortal’ and ‘Socrates is a man’ there follows according to this logic ‘Socrates is mortal’, which is obviously correct, even though I equally obviously do not know what structure is possessed by the thing Socrates or the property of mortality. Here they just function as simple objects.
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    Wittgenstein on “The Foundations of Mathematics”, June 1927.Peter M. Sullivan - 1995 - Theoria 61 (2):105-142.
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  20. What Is Wrong with Abstraction?Michael Potter & Peter Sullivan - 2005 - Philosophia Mathematica 13 (2):187-193.
    We correct a misunderstanding by Hale and Wright of an objection we raised earlier to their abstractionist programme for rehabilitating logicism in the foundations of mathematics.
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  21. (1 other version)What is Squiggle? Ramsey on Wittgenstein's Theory of Judgement.Peter M. Sullivan - 2005 - In Hallvard Lillehammer & David Hugh Mellor (eds.), Ramsey's Legacy. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press.
    At the age of 20, and fresh from his undergraduate studies in mathematics, Ramsey set about writing what would be his first substantial publication, his 1923 Critical Notice of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus. It is hard for modern students of that book, who negotiate its obscurities with generations of previous commentary to serve as guides, to appreciate the task Ramsey confronted; and, to the extent that one can appreciate it, it is hard not to feel intimidated by the brilliance of his success. (...)
     
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    IIPeter Sullivan.Peter Sullivan - 2003 - Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 77 (1):195-223.
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    3. Wittgenstein's Context Principle.Peter M. Sullivan - 2001 - In Wilhelm Vossenkuhl (ed.), Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus logico-philosophicus. Berlin: Akademie Verlag. pp. 65-88.
  24. Michael Dummett's Frege.Peter M. Sullivan - 2010 - In Michael Potter, Joan Weiner, Warren Goldfarb, Peter Sullivan, Alex Oliver & Thomas Ricketts (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Frege. New York: Cambridge University Press.
     
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    A note on incompleteness and heterologicality.Peter M. Sullivan - 2003 - Analysis 63 (1):32-38.
  26. Dummett's case for Constructivist Logicism.Peter Sullivan - 2007 - In R. E. Auxier & L. E. Hahn (eds.), The Philosophy of Michael Dummett. Open Court. pp. 753--85.
    Self‐evidently the standard work on the topic its whole title defines, Sir Michael Dummett’s Frege: Philosophy of Mathematics (FPM) is also the most profound and creative discussion in recent decades of the problems confronting the branch of philosophy mentioned after the colon. Chapters 14‐18 and 23‐24 of this book constitute a continuous and challenging diagnosis of these problems.1 They culminate in the proposal that these problems present an impasse that can be escaped only by adopting a constructivist understanding of mathematical (...)
     
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    Facts and Propositions, Trueman-Style.Peter Sullivan - 2022 - Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 96 (1):59-87.
    In a recent book, Robert Trueman develops a version of the identity theory of truth, the theory that true propositions are not in some kind of correspondence with, but are rather identical with, facts. He claims that this theory ‘collapses the gap between mind and world’. Whether it does so will obviously depend on how the theory is to be understood, which in turn depends on the argumentative route to it. Trueman’s route is clear, rigorous, and free of extravagant assumptions. (...)
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    On the Genealogy of Universals: The Metaphysical Origins of Analytic Philosophy, by Fraser MacBride.Peter Sullivan - 2019 - Mind 128 (512):1380-1389.
    On the Genealogy of Universals: The Metaphysical Origins of Analytic Philosophy, by MacBrideFraser. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. viii + 263.
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    New Essays on the Philosophy of Michael Dummett.Johannes Brandl & Peter M. Sullivan (eds.) - 1998 - Rodopi.
    Ever since the publication of 'Truth' in 1959 Sir Michael Dummett has been acknowledged as one of the most profoundly creative and influential of contemporary philosophers. His contributions to the philosophy of thought and language, logic, the philosophy of mathematics, and metaphysics have set the terms of some of most fruitful discussions in philosophy. His work on Frege stands unparalleled, both as landmark in the history of philosophy and as a deep reflection on the defining commitments of the analytic school.This (...)
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  30. New Essays on the Philosophy of Michael Dummett.Johannes L. Brandl & Peter Sullivan - 2000 - Philosophical Quarterly 50 (201):540-542.
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    Preface.Johannes L. Brandl & Peter M. Sullivan - 1998 - Grazer Philosophische Studien 55:1-2.
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    (1 other version)Georg Cavallar.Peter M. Sullivan - 1994 - Mind 103 (410).
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    How did Frege fall into the contradiction?Peter M. Sullivan - 2007 - Ratio 20 (1):91–107.
    Quine made it conventional to portray the contradiction that destroyed Frege’s logicism as some kind of act of God, a thunderbolt that descended from a clear blue sky. This portrayal suited the moral Quine was antecedently inclined to draw, that intuition is bankrupt, and that reliance on it must therefore be replaced by a pragmatic methodology. But the portrayal is grossly misleading, and Quine’s moral simply false. In the person of others – Cantor, Dedekind, and Zermelo – intuition was working (...)
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  34. 32 Peter M. Sullivan.Peter Sullivan - manuscript
    Define ‘het’ as a predicate that truly applies to itself if and only if it does not truly apply to itself and which also truly applies to any predicate that does not truly apply to its own name. We know that the attempted definition of ‘hes’ is a failure, and so a fortiori is that of ‘het’. Similarly, there is no Qussell class which contains itself as a member if and only if it does not contain itself as a member, (...)
     
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    Russell's Idealist Apprenticeship.Peter M. Sullivan - 1992 - Philosophical Books 33 (3):146-148.
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  36. Syntehsizing without concepts.Peter M. Sullivan - 2007
     
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    The Nature of All Being: A Study of Wittgenstein's Modal Atomism.Peter M. Sullivan - 1993 - Philosophical Books 34 (3):148-151.
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    Thinking Out Loud: An Essay on the Relation between Thought and Language.Peter M. Sullivan - 1996 - Philosophical Books 37 (3):195-198.
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    Wittgenstein's Apprenticeship with Russell.Peter Sullivan - 2010 - Philosophical Review 119 (1):100-103.
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    Frege: Importance and Legacy. [REVIEW]Peter M. Sullivan - 2000 - Philosophical Review 109 (4):648.
    Nine of the papers collected here derive directly from a conference organized by Schirn in Munich in 1991. Seven others, three of them reprinted, have been intelligently chosen to complement the original nine. The collection has no overarching theme, nor is it dominated by any particular approach to Frege’s thought. It is “a mixed selection”, and aims to reflect “the prevailing tendency in current Frege scholarship”. The influence of Dreben is less in evidence than one might expect, but otherwise the (...)
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  41. Book Review. [REVIEW]Peter Sullivan - 2007 - Journal of the American Oriental Society 127 (2):220-221.
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    Danielle Macbeth, Frege's logic. Cambridge, ma: Harvard university press, 2005. IX þ 206 pp.£ 29.95. Isbn 0-674-01707-2. [REVIEW]Peter Sullivan - 2009 - History and Philosophy of Logic 30 (1):96.
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    Logisch-philosophische Abhandlung/Tractatus logico-philosophicus. Kritische Edition. [REVIEW]Peter Sullivan - 1990 - Grazer Philosophische Studien 38 (1):218-220.
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