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Why Wittgenstein?

Wittgenstein has fascinated me since I first came across him at university. His writings were very different from other philosophers, and his later philosophy seemed to me to sort things out so comprehensively that I gave up philosophy and never pursued an academic...

Struggling for Certainty

On Certainty is the first Wittgenstein text I read cover to cover – in fact, I seem to remember reading it twice feverishly over one weekend. It’s more a collection of notes than a worked-up text and it is slightly infuriating – you keep thinking he has got the...

What did Wittgenstein want from philosophy?

Wittgenstein’s philosophy (or rather both of them – that contained in the Tractatus and that contained in his later writings) is unusual in that it does not set out to give answers to any of the great philosophical questions that drive most people to...

The Strange Feeling of Being Watched

Have you ever had the feeling that someone was watching you? It’s a feeling that many people talk about and it is seen as as a somewhat strange feeling, since it seems a bit uncanny that somehow we can sense that someone is looking at us. I would imagine that...

McCain UK Challenge Final 2011

  British men’s throwing was boosted again today with a quality hammer competition at today’s McCain UK Challenge Final in Birmingham as Mike Floyd (coach: Kevin Madden) came away with the victory and a PB. The Commonwealth bronze medallist made his intentions...