Mark Addis is Professor of Philosophy

Philosophy

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 at Birmingham City University

Birmingham City University

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, Birmingham

Birmingham

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, United Kingdom.

Biography

Addis (b. 1969) is a British philosopher who is known for his work on Ludwig Wittgenstein

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein was an Austrian philosopher who worked primarily in logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language. He was professor in philosophy at the University of Cambridge from 1939 until 1947...

. He grew up in Bolton

Bolton

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, England

England

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, and was educated at Bolton School

Bolton School

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, Mansfield College, Oxford

Oxford

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, the University of Leeds

University of Leeds

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, the University of York

University of York

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 and Birmingham City University. He began his career at Birmingham City University as a Senior Researcher and subsequently became Professor of Philosophy. He has also been a visiting scholar at Georgia State University

Georgia State University

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, USA (2005) and at Aarhus University, Denmark

Denmark

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 (2007-). Addis has since 2006 been general editor of the Philosophy Insights series for Humanities-Ebooks LLP. http://www.humanities-ebooks.co.uk He is also the treasurer of the British Philosophical Association

British Philosophical Association

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Addis specialises in the philosophy of Wittgenstein and related areas as well as having research interests in the philosophies of language

Language

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, mind

Mind

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, and religion

Religion

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. His book Wittgenstein: Making Sense of Other Minds (1999) was described by Rom Harre as "a careful and subtle study" whose "scholarly merits are great". Wittgenstein and Philosophy of Religion (2001, co-edited with Robert Arrington) is "an interesting and valuable collection of essays", while Wittgenstein: A Guide for the Perplexed (2006) is "a clear, balanced and very recommendable book which gives a good idea of the complexity of Wittgenstein's philosophy".

Works

• Wittgenstein: A Guide for the Perplexed (London: Continuum, 2006). ISBN 0-8264-8495-6 (hbk), 0-8264-8496-4 (pbk)
• Wittgenstein and Philosophy of Religion (co-edited with Robert Arrington, London: Routledge, 2001). ISBN 0-415-21780-6 (hbk), 0-415-33555-8 (pbk)
• Wittgenstein: Making Sense of Other Minds (Aldershot: Ashgate, 1999). ISBN 0-7546-1043-8
• 'D. Z. Phillips' Fideism in Wittgenstein's Mirror', in Wittgenstein and Philosophy of Religion pp. 85–100
• 'Wittgenstein and the Transfinite in Set Theory', in Klaus Puhl, ed., Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Mathematics (Vienna: Holder-Pichler-Tempsky, 1993), pp. 87–92. ISBN 3-20901-592-9
• Entries on Reuben Louis Goodstein pp. 336–7, Margeret Macdonald pp. 601–5, Margeret Masterman pp. 664–5 , and David Pears pp. 756–60 in Stuart Brown, ed., Dictionary of Twentieth-Century British Philosophers (Bristol: Thoemmes Press, 2005). ISBN 1-84371-096-X (Reprinted in A.C. Grayling, Andrew Pyle, Naomi Goulder eds., Continuum Encyclopedia of British Philosophy (Thoemmes Continuum, London 2006), as Goodstein pp. 1256–7, MacDonald pp. 1997–8, Masterman p. 2104, and Pears pp. 2454–7. ISBN 1843711419)
• 'Intellectual Property and the Public Interest', in The International Journal of the Book 6:1 (2009), pp. 121–124. ISSN: 1447-9516
• 'Wittgenstein’s Private Language Argument and Self Consciousness', in Sats-Nordic Journal of Philosophy 8:2 (2007), pp. 89–103. ISSN: 1600-1974 (Reprinted in Analysis and Metaphysics 6 (Dec. 2007),pp. 288–302. ISSN: 1584-0778)
• 'Criteria: the State of the Debate', in Journal of Philosophical Research XX (1995), pp. 139–174. ISSN: 1053-8364
• 'Surveyability and the Sorites Paradox', in Philosophia Mathematica 3:2 (1995), pp. 157–165. ISSN: 00318019
• Review of J. M. Lazenby, The Early Wittgenstein on Religion, in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (2008). ISSN: 1538-1617
• Teaching the Contemporary: Fiction Report (with Philip Tew
  Philip Tew
  Professor Philip Tew is an English academic. A professor in English in the School of Arts at Brunel University , Tew is a literary critic and theorist in the field of contemporary and modern British fiction after 1945, and of various strands of critical or 'high' theory, particularly metarealism...
  
  , 2007).http://www.www.english.heacademy.ac.uk/explore/projects/archive/contemp/contemp1.php

External links

• http://www.bcu.ac.uk/pme/school-of-english/staff/mark-addis