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The Defence of Wit: Sterne, Locke and the Particular

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  • Welcome
  • Biographical Sketch
  • Connections
    • Reality and Culture
  • Wittgenstein
    • Criteria and Truth
    • Truth, Yardsticks and Language-Games
    • Wittgenstein and Scepticism
    • The Limits of Relativism in late Wittgenstein
  • Philosophy of Language
    • Word & World
    • Heidegger and the Analytic Tradition on Truth
    • Identity, Predication and Color
  • Moral Philosophy
    • Julius Kovesi’s Refutation of Hume
    • Moral Theory and the Concept of Trust
    • Moral Judgment, Action and Emotion
    • Morality and Interest
    • Bernard Williams on Moral Knowledge
  • Philosophy and Literature
    • What Is Fiction For?
    • Accident, Self-love and Relationship in Tristram Shandy
    • The Defence of Wit: Sterne, Locke and the Particular
    • Aharon Appelfeld and the Problem of Holocaust Fiction
    • The New Propositionalism
    • Work published in “Inconvenient Fictions”
      • How to Reconcile Humanism and Deconstruction
      • The Defence of Wit: Sterne, Locke and the Particular
      • Forster and Moore
      • Deconstructing Derrida
      • The Text as Interrogator: Muriel Spark and Job
      • Rhetoric and the Self
      • Secrets and Surfaces
      • The Truth about Metaphor
    • Neill: Review of “Inconvenient Fictions”
  • Writings on Antisemitism
    • What Is Antisemitism?
    • How the Media Promote Antisemitism
    • In Defense of the IHRA Definition (despite Its Defects as a Definition)
    • Spiriting the Jews out of Sight
    • Review of Cary Nelson, ‘Not In Kansas Any More: Academic Freedom in Palestinian Universities’
    • Review of Cary Nelson, ‘Mindless: What happened to Universities’
    • Patterson: Review of “Blaming the Jews: Politics and Delusion”
    • Profiting from the Holocaust
    • Universalism, Nationalism, and the Jews
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