Mark Addis


Mark Addis is a British philosopher who is known for his work on Ludwig Wittgenstein.

Biography

Addis grew up in Bolton, England, and was educated at Bolton School, Mansfield College, Oxford, the University of Leeds, the University of York and Birmingham City University. He has been a visiting scholar at Georgia State University, US and at Aarhus University, Denmark. Addis has since 2006 been general editor of the Philosophy Insights series for Humanities-Ebooks LLP. He was treasurer of the British Philosophical Association. Addis was a consultant for the film Le Week-End.
Addis specialises in the philosophy of Wittgenstein and related areas as well as having research interests in the philosophies of language, mind, and religion. His book Wittgenstein: Making Sense of Other Minds was described by Rom Harre as "a careful and subtle study" whose "scholarly merits are great". Wittgenstein and Philosophy of Religion is "an interesting and valuable collection of essays", while Wittgenstein: A Guide for the Perplexed is "a clear, balanced and very recommendable book which gives a good idea of the complexity of Wittgenstein's philosophy".

Monographs

  • Wittgenstein : Making Sense of Other Minds.
  • Wittgenstein: A Guide for the Perplexed., 0-8264-8496-4
  • Wittgenstein and Philosophy of Religion., 0-415-33555-8

Essays and chapters

  • '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, pp. 87–92.
  • 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.
  • 'Intellectual Property and the Public Interest', in The International Journal of the Book 6:1, pp. 121–124.
  • 'Wittgenstein's Private Language Argument and Self Consciousness', in Sats-Nordic Journal of Philosophy 8:2, pp. 89–103.
  • 'Criteria: the State of the Debate', in Journal of Philosophical Research XX, pp. 139–174.
  • 'Surveyability and the Sorites Paradox', in Philosophia Mathematica 3:2, pp. 157–165.
  • 'Philosophy in the Workplace', in Philosophy Now 95