Severin Schroeder 

(MA, PhD, Hamburg)        

Department of Philosophy

University of Reading

Reading RG6 6AA

email: s.j.schroeder@reading.ac.uk

Whiteknights Campus, HumSS G68

Tel: 0118 378 7333

I am a Reader in the Department of Philosophy at Reading, which I joined in 2005. I have taught at Birkbeck College, London (1997-98), Christ Church, Oxford (since 1997), and Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford (1998-2005).

Undergraduate Teaching

• Wittgenstein  (PP3LWL) Autumn 2010

• Aesthetics  (PP2AES) Spring 2011

• Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Sartre  (PP3SNS) Spring 2011

• Philosophy of Mind  (PP2MIN)

• Philosophy of Literature  (PP3LIT)

Research Interests
Wittgenstein; Aesthetics; Philosophy of Mind; Schopenhauer.

Publications include:

    Ed.: Philosophy of Literature, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.

        Wittgenstein lesen: Ein Kommentar zu ausgewählten Passagen der “Philosophischen Untersuchtungen”,

                        Stuttgart: Frommann-Holzboog, 2009.

    Wittgenstein: The Way Out of the Fly Bottle, Cambridge: Polity Press, 2006.

       Ed.: Wittgenstein and Contemporary Philosophy of Mind, Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001.

         Das Privatsprachen-Argument: Wittgenstein über Empfindung und Ausdruck, Paderborn: Schöningh/Mentis, 1998.

Some articles

• ‘Schopenhauer’s Influence on Wittgenstein’, forthcoming in B. Vandenabeele (ed.), A Companion to Schopenhauer, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.

•‘Private Sprache’, in: H.J. Sandkühler (ed), Enzyklopädie Philosophie, Hamburg: Felix Meiner Verlag, 2010.

•‘Wittgenstein’, in: T. O'Connor & C. Sandis (eds), A Companion to the Philosophy of Action, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.

• ‘A Tale of Two Problems: Wittgenstein’s Discussion of Aspect Perception’, in: J. Cottingham & P.M.S. Hacker (eds), Mind, Method, and Morality: Essays in Honour of Anthony Kenny, Oxford: OUP, 2010.

• ‘Hempel’s Paradox, Law-likeness, and Causal Relations’, in Philosophical Investigations, July 2009.

• ‘Analytic Truths and Grammatical Propositions’, in: H. J. Glock & J. Hyman (eds), Wittgenstein and Analytic Philosophy, Oxford: OUP, 2009.

• ‘The Tightrope Walker’ [Wittgenstein on religious belief], in: Ratio, Dec 2007.

• ‘Moore’s Paradox and First Person Authority’, in: Grazer Philosophische Studien 71, 2006.

• ‘Why Juliet is the Sun’, in: M. Siebel & M. Textor (eds), Semantik & Ontologie, Frankfurt/Main: Ontos Verlag, 2004.

• ‘The Concept of Trying’, in: Philosophical Investigations, July 2001.

• ‘The Coded-Message Model of Literature’, in: R. Allen & M. Turvey (eds), Wittgenstein, Theory and the Arts, London: Routledge, 2001.