Date of Award
Spring 2007
Document Type
Dissertation - Restricted
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Department
Philosophy
First Advisor
Tallon, Andrew
Second Advisor
Peressini, Anthony
Third Advisor
Ibanez-Noe, Javier
Abstract
This dissertation began as a paper for Professor Michael McNulty's seminar on Wittgenstein's Philosophical lnvestigations. That paper, ''To Verify a Feeling," was subsequently accepted by the British Society for the Philosophy of Religion for presentation at Oxford in August 2003. I gratefully acknowledge Professor McNulty's encouragement to "grow this paper into a dissertation" as well as the admonition from Professor D.Z. Phillips, reactor to my paper at Oxford, to "get it clear whether you mean to verify the cognitive worth of emotional feeling overall or just to verify that we can know whether we are talking about the same particular feeling."