P.M.S.
Hacker
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- 'The linguistic turn in analytic philosophy'
Oxford Handbook for the History of Analytic Philosophy (Oxford University Press, 2013), pp. 926-47.
- 'Wittgenstein on Grammar, Theses and Dogmatism',
Philosophical Investigations 35 (2012)
- 'Metaphysics: from ineffability to normativity',
for H.-J. Glock and J. Hyman eds. Blackwell Companion to Wittgenstein (Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford), forthcoming 2014/15.
- 'Intentionality and the Harmony between Thought and Reality',
A rejoinder to Professor Crane.
- The
Sad and Sorry History of
Consciousness: being among other things a
challenge to the “consciousness studies community”
Royal Institute of
Philosophy, supplementary volume 70
(2012)
- A
Normative Conception of
Necessity:
Wittgenstein on Necessary Truths of Logic, Mathematics and Metaphysics
in V. Munz, K. Puhl, and J. Wang eds. Language
and the World, Part
One:
Essays on the Philosophy of Wittgenstein, Proceedings of the 32nd
International Ludwig Wittgenstein Symposium in Kirchberg,2009
(Ontos
Verlag, Frankfurt, 2010), pp. 13-34
- Wittgenstein’s
Anthropological and Ethnological Approach
in Jesus Padilla Galvez ed. Philosophical
Anthropology
– Wittgenstein’s Perspective
(Ontos Verlag,
Frankfurt, 2010), pp. 15-32
- Covert
Cognition in the
Persistent
Vegetative State
Progress in
Neurobiology 80 (2010), pp.
68-76, co-authored with P. Nachev
- The development of
Wittgenstein’s philosophy of psychology
in P. M. S. Hacker and J. Cottingham eds. Mind,
Method and Morality
Essays in Honour of Anthony Kenny
(Clarendon Press, Oxford,
2010), pp. 275-305
- Philosophy:
a contribution, not to human knowledge, but to human understanding
in Anthony O’Hear ed. The
Nature of Philosophy, in Royal
Institute of Philosophy Lectures,
(Cambridge University Press,
Cambridge, 2010), pp. 219-54
- ‘A
Philosopher of
Philosophy’, critical notice of Timothy
Williamson’s The Philosophy of Philosophy
The Philosophical Quarterly
59 (April 2009), pp. 337-48
- Gordon
Baker’s late interpretation of Wittgenstein
published in G. Kahane, E. Kanterian, and O. Kuusela eds. Interpretations
of Wittgenstein (Blackwell,
Oxford, 2007)
- The relevance of
Wittgenstein’s philosophy of psychology to the psychological
sciences
, forthcoming
in Proceedings of the Leipzig
Conference on Wittgenstein and Science
2007
- Analytic Philosophy: Beyond the
linguistic turn and back again
in M. Beaney ed. The Analytic
Turn: Analysis in Early Analytic Philosophy and Phenomenology
(Routledge, London, 2007)
- Passing
by the Naturalistic Turn: on Quine’s cul-de-sac
Philosophy
2006
- Scott
Soames’s Philosophical
Analysis in the Twentieth Century
critical notice, Philosophical
Quarterly 2006
- Of
knowledge and of knowing that someone is in pain
in A. Pichler and S. Säätelä eds.,
Wittgenstein: The Philosopher and his Works ((The
Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen, Bergen, 2005)), pp.
203-235
- Substance:
Things and Stuffs
Proceedings
of the Aristotelian Society,
2004, pp. 41-63
- Of
the ontology of belief
in Mark Siebel and Mark Textor ed. Semantik
und Ontologie (Ontos Verlag,
Frankfurt, 2004), pp. 185-222
- The conceptual framework for the
investigation of the emotions
International Review of
Psychiatry, Vol.16, No. 3
(August 2004), pp. 199-208
- Is
there anything it is like to be a bat?
Philosophy
77, 2002, pp. 157-74
- Wittgenstein
and the Autonomy of Humanistic Understanding
in R. Allen and M. Turvey eds., Wittgenstein:
Theory and the Arts (Routledge.
London, 2001), pp. 39-74
- An
Orrery of Intentionality
in Language and Communication,
21(2001), pp.119-141
- When
the Whistling had to Stop
in D.O.M. Charles and T.W. Child eds. Wittgensteinian
Themes: Essays in Honour of David Pears
(Clarendon Press, Oxford, 2001)
- Was he Trying to Whistle it?
in A. Crary and R. Read eds. The
New Wittgenstein (Routledge,
London, 2000), pp. 353-88
- Wittgenstein, Carnap and the New
American Wittgensteinians
Philosophical Quarterly
53 (2003), pp. 1 -23

Dr P.M.S. Hacker
St John's College
Oxford OX1 3JP