Article
Wittgenstein and Frege on Negation and Denial
Johnston C (2024) Wittgenstein and Frege on Negation and Denial. Journal for the History of Analytical Philosophy, 12 (3). https://jhaponline.org/jhap/article/view/5476
我要吃瓜 me
I am a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the 我要吃瓜.
After a BA in Mathematics at Cambridge (1998), I took an MPhil (2002) and a PhD (2005) in Philosophy at UCL, and was then a postdoctoral Jacobsen Research Fellow at the University of London Institute of Philosophy (2005-8). In 2008 I joined the philosophy department at Stirling.?
Divisional / Faculty Contribution
Chief Examiner, Law and Philosophy
Professional Career
PI, AHRC Project, Frege and Wittgenstein's conception of language as world-involving
Research
My principal area of research is the history of early analytic philosophy. In particular, I am concerned to understand connections between Frege and the Tractarian Wittgenstein on, broadly, the nature of judgment and truth.
I have worked also in the philosophy of time, action and the first person.
Outputs (22)
Outputs
Book Chapter
Johnston C (2023) That which ‘is true’ must already contain the verb: Wittgenstein’s rejection of Frege’s separation of judgment from content. In: Zalabarado JL (ed.) Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus: A Critical Guide. Cambridge Critical Guides. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (CUP). https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/wittgensteins-tractatus-logicophilosophicus/D98F7DEEF0B576D6FC33FAA949C8B241
Book Chapter
Temporal Passage and Being in Time
Johnston C (2022) Temporal Passage and Being in Time. In: Haddock A & Wiseman R (eds.) The Anscombean Mind. Routledge Philosophical Minds. London: Routledge, pp. 154-173. https://www.routledge.com/The-Anscombean-Mind/Haddock-Wiseman/p/book/9781138551367
Article
Frege, the self-consciousness of judgement, and the indefinability of truth
Johnston C (2021) Frege, the self-consciousness of judgement, and the indefinability of truth. British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 29 (6), pp. 1124-1143. https://doi.org/10.1080/09608788.2021.1910484
Book Chapter
Solipsism And The Graspability Of Fact
Johnston C (2020) Solipsism And The Graspability Of Fact. In: Appelqvist H (ed.) Wittgenstein and the Limits of Language. Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Philosophy. New York: Routledge, pp. 46-64. https://www.routledge.com/Wittgenstein-and-the-Limits-of-Language-1st-Edition/Appelqvist/p/book/9780815385011
Book Chapter
Solipsism And The Graspability Of Fact
Johnston C (2020) Solipsism And The Graspability Of Fact. In: Appelqvist H (ed.) Wittgenstein and the Limits of Language. Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Philosophy. London: Routledge, pp. 46-64. https://www.routledge.com/Wittgenstein-and-the-Limits-of-Language/Appelqvist/p/book/9780815385011
Commentary
Zalabardo on Semantic Unity and Metaphysical Unity
Johnston C (2018) Zalabardo on Semantic Unity and Metaphysical Unity. Australasian Philosophical Review, 2 (3), pp. 321-326. https://doi.org/10.1080/24740500.2019.1655844
Book Chapter
Judgments, Facts, and Propositions: Theories of Truth in Russell, Wittgenstein, and Ramsey
Sullivan P & Johnston C (2018) Judgments, Facts, and Propositions: Theories of Truth in Russell, Wittgenstein, and Ramsey. In: Glanzberg M (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Truth. Oxford Handbooks. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 150-192. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-oxford-handbook-of-truth-9780199557929
Article
Frege on Syntax, Ontology, and Truth's Pride of Place
Johnston C (2018) Frege on Syntax, Ontology, and Truth's Pride of Place. European Journal of Philosophy, 26 (1), pp. 569-588. https://doi.org/10.1111/ejop.12284
Book Chapter
Wittgenstein on Representability and Possibility
Johnston C (2017) Wittgenstein on Representability and Possibility. In: Lapointe S & Pincock C (eds.) Innovations in the History of Analytical Philosophy. Palgrave Innovations in Philosophy. London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 127-147. http://www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9781137408075
Book Chapter
Johnston C (2017) The Picture Theory. In: Glock H & Hyman J (eds.) A Companion to Wittgenstein. London: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 141-158. http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1118641167.html
Article
Johnston C (2014) Conflicting Rules and Paradox. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 88 (2), pp. 410-433. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1933-1592.2012.00588.x
Article
Judgment and the identity theory of truth
Johnston C (2013) Judgment and the identity theory of truth. Philosophical Studies, 166 (2), pp. 381-397. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-012-0046-x
Book Chapter
Russell, Wittgenstein and Synthesis in Thought
Johnston C (2012) Russell, Wittgenstein and Synthesis in Thought. In: Zalabardo J (ed.) Wittgenstein's Early Philosophy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 15-36. http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199691524.do#.ULik7O9kYcs
Book Review
Wittgenstein in Exile by James Klagge
Johnston C (2012) Wittgenstein in Exile by James Klagge. Review of: Wittgenstein in Exile, James Klagge, Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, 2011, 264pp, ISBN 9780262015349. Mind, 121 (482), pp. 490-494. http://mind.oxfordjournals.org/content/121/482/490.extract; https://doi.org/10.1093/mind/fzs071
Book Review
Objectivity and the Parochial by Charles Travis
Johnston C (2012) Objectivity and the Parochial by Charles Travis. Review of: Objectivity and the Parochial, Charles Travis, Oxford: OUP, 2011, 361pp. ISBN 9780199596218. Philosophical Quarterly, 62 (247), pp. 418-420. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9213.2011.00032.x
Book Chapter
Assertion, Saying, and Propositional Complexity in Wittgenstein's Tractatus
Johnston C (2011) Assertion, Saying, and Propositional Complexity in Wittgenstein's Tractatus. In: Kuusela O & McGinn M (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Wittgenstein. Oxford Handbooks in Philosophy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 60-78. http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199287505.do#.ULikVu9kYcs
Article
Tractarian Objects and Logical Categories
Johnston C (2009) Tractarian Objects and Logical Categories. Synthese, 167 (1), pp. 145-161. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-008-9307-9
Conference Paper (published)
The Determination of Form by Syntactic Employment: a Model and a Difficulty
Johnston C (2008) The Determination of Form by Syntactic Employment: a Model and a Difficulty. In: Hieke A & Leitgeb H (eds.) Papers of the 31st IWS, volume 16. 31st International Wittgenstein Symposium, Kirchberg am Wechsel, Austria, 10.08.2008-16.08.2008. Kirchberg am Wechsel: ALWS (Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society), pp. 156-158. http://wab.uib.no/ojs/agora-alws/article/view/1546
Book Review
Applying Wittgenstein by Rupert Read
Johnston C (2008) Applying Wittgenstein by Rupert Read. Review of: Read, Rupert: 'Applying Wittgenstein', Laura Cook (ed.), London: Continuum, 2007, 187pp, ISBN 9780826494504. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. http://ndpr.nd.edu/news/23623-applying-wittgenstein/
Article
Symbols in Wittgenstein's Tractatus
Johnston C (2007) Symbols in Wittgenstein's Tractatus. European Journal of Philosophy, 15 (3), pp. 367-394. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0378.2007.00253.x
Article
The Unity of a Tractarian Fact
Johnston C (2007) The Unity of a Tractarian Fact. Synthese, 156 (2), pp. 231-251. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-006-0002-4
Teaching
I teach undergraduate courses in metaphysics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of action.
At master's level I have taught courses in truth, Wittgenstein and the philosophy of time.