A sample of Wittgenstein and the Cognitive Science of Religion: Interpreting Human Nature and the Mind is available here
Rob Vinten's Philosophy Blog
Wednesday 23 August 2023
Tuesday 14 March 2023
A symposium discussing Robert Vinten's book Wittgenstein and the Social Sciences (Anthem Press, 2020) has been published in the journal Cosmos + Taxis. The symposium was edited by Richard Eldridge and contains contributions from Paul Roth, Daniel Little, Rupert Read, Rafael Azize, and Richard Raatzsch - as well as a response from Robert Vinten. There are some great discussions of Wittgenstein's relevance to the social sciences as well as his relevance to social and political philosophy. Rafael Azize compares Wittgenstein's philosophy to art and Richard Raatzsch compares Wittgenstein to Brecht. All of the papers can be found, Open Access, here
Tuesday 15 November 2022
Wednesday 10 August 2022
Hayek, Scepticism, and Democracy: A Wittgensteinian Critique
'Hayek, Scepticism, and Democracy: A Wittgensteinian Critique' can be found here
Vol. 5: Issue 2, Dewey Studies.
Tuesday 7 September 2021
Wittgenstein, Guilt and Western Buddhism
Article 'Wittgenstein, Guilt and Western Buddhism' in the journal Contemporary Buddhism is available here
Friday 23 July 2021
Theolologicophilolological Investigations: Is Wittgenstein’s Tractatus a Modernist Work?
'Theolologicophilolological Investigations: Is Wittgenstein’s Tractatus a Modernist Work?' - in Philosophical Investigations journal, 2021
The article can be found here on the journal's website
Monday 12 July 2021
Marx and Wittgenstein on Religion
Chapter by Robert Vinten - 'Marx and Wittgenstein on Religion' in the book Wittgenstein and Marx. Marx and Wittgenstein (edited by Fabio Sulpizio, Gabriele Schimmenti, and Moira De Iaco, Peter Lang, 2021)
Wittgenstein and Marx. Marx and Wittgenstein available here