My main interests are in Skepticism, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Wittgenstein, Early Analytic Philosophy, and in the relationship between Analytic and Continental philosophy.

Philosophy of Language

Wittgenstein

Philosophy of the Social Sciences

Origins of Analytic Philosophy

Existentialism

Academic anthology/Conference proceedings

• Cahill, Kevin Michael (2024). Wittgenstein on Practice: Back to the Rough Ground. (external link)
• Cahill, Kevin M; Raleigh, Thomas Bainbridge (2018). Wittgenstein and Naturalism. (external link)
• Cahill, Kevin M; Gustafsson, Martin; Wentzer, Thomas Schwarz (2017). Finite But Unbounded: New Approaches in Philosophical Anthropology. (external link)
• Johannessen, Lene M; Cahill, Kevin M (2007). Considering Class: Essays on the Discourse of the American Dream. (external link)

Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

• Cahill, Kevin Michael (2024). Avoiding "Tack-on" Theories of Culture. (external link)
• Cahill, Kevin Michael (2023). The Tractatus and the Carnapian Conception of Syntax. (external link)
• Cahill, Kevin M (2018). Tractarian Ethics. (external link)
• Cahill, Kevin M (2018). Introduction. (external link)
• Cahill, Kevin M (2017). A Degenerate Case of Action. (external link)
• Cahill, Kevin M (2017). An "Exclusively Self-Regarding" Ethics: Response to Sluga. (external link)
• Cahill, Kevin M (2016). Wittgenstein's Paganism. (external link)
• Cahill, Kevin M (2011). ?30. Dezember 1929, Zu Heidegger: Was Konnte Wittgenstein sich Denken?? in Ungesellige Geselligkeiten/Unsocial Sociabilities,. (external link)
• Johannessen, Lene M; Cahill, Kevin M (2007). Introduction. (external link)

Academic monograph

• Cahill, Kevin Michael (2021). Towards a Philosophical Anthropology of Culture: Naturalism, Relativism, and Skepticism. (external link)
• Cahill, Kevin M (2011). The Fate of Wonder: Wittgenstein's Critique of Metaphysics and Modernity. (external link)

Doctoral dissertation

• Mendoza, Lumberto Guce; Cahill, Kevin M; Sørli, Richard (2019). On the possibility of Resolute Transcendentalism in the Later Wittgenstein. (external link)

Compendium

• Bangu, Sorin; Cahill, Kevin M (2017). Filosofi for Realister. (external link)

Academic article

• Cahill, Kevin M (2016). The habitus, coping practices, and the search for the ground of action. (external link)
• Cahill, Kevin M (2014). Quietism or description? McDowell in dispute with Dreyfus. (external link)
• Cahill, Kevin M (2014). Naturalism and the friends of understanding. (external link)
• Cahill, Kevin M (2009). Bildung and Decline. (external link)
• Cahill, Kevin M (2009). Explanation, wonder, and the cultural point of the Tractatus. (external link)
• Cahill, Kevin M (2008). Elucidation, Meta-Philosophy, and Hacker's Use of "External Evidence". (external link)
• Cahill, Kevin M (2008). Wittgenstein and the Fate of Metaphysics. (external link)
• Cahill, Kevin M (2006). The Concept of Progress in Wittgenstein's Thought. (external link)
• Cahill, Kevin M (2004). The Tractatus, Ethics, and Authenticity. (external link)
• Cahill, Kevin M (2004). Ethics and the Tractatus: A resolute failure. (external link)

Book review

• Cahill, Kevin M (2015). BOOK REVIEW The Nature of Philosophical Problems: Their Causes and Implications. By John Kekes. (external link)

Academic lecture

• Cahill, Kevin M (2008). Wittgenstein and the Fate of Metaphysics. (external link)
• Cahill, Kevin M (2007). "What is American Philosophy?". (external link)
• Cahill, Kevin M (2007). Explanation, Wonder, and the Cultural Point of the Tractatus. (external link)
• Cahill, Kevin M (2005). “Skepticism and the Human Condition”. (external link)
• Cahill, Kevin M (2005). “The Concept of Progress in Wittgenstein’s Thought”. (external link)
• Cahill, Kevin M (2004). “The Tractatus, Ethics, and Authenticity”. (external link)
• Cahill, Kevin M (2004). “What Kripke Missed: The Antinomical Structure of the Remarks on Rule-following”. (external link)
• Cahill, Kevin M (2004). “The Concept of Progress in Wittgenstein’s Thought”. (external link)
• Cahill, Kevin M (2003). Ethics and the Tractatus: A Resolute Failure. (external link)
• Cahill, Kevin M (2003). "A Wildly Implausible Response to P.M.S. Hacker". (external link)
• Cahill, Kevin M (2003). Hacker on the External Evidence. (external link)
• Cahill, Kevin M (2002). The Tractatus, Ethics, and Authenticity. (external link)
• Cahill, Kevin M (2002). Progress and the Source of Metaphysics. (external link)
• Cahill, Kevin M (2002). The Moral Dimension of Wittgenstein’s Writing. (external link)
• Cahill, Kevin M (2002). The Antinomical Structure of the Remarks on Rule-Following. (external link)

See a complete overview of publications in Cristin.

Books -

(Editor) Wittgenstein on Practice: Back to the Rough Ground (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024)

Towards a Philosophical Anthropology of Culture: Naturalism, Relativism, and Skepticism (Routledge: New York, 2021)

Co-editor with Thomas Raleigh, Wittgenstein and Naturalism (New York: Routledge, 2018)

Co-editor with Martin Gustafsson and Thomas Schwarz-Wenzer, Finite but Unbounded: New Essays in Philosophical Anthropology, Berlin Studies in Knowledge Research (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2017)

The Fate of Wonder: Wittgenstein’s Critique of Metaphysics and Modernity (New York: Columbia University Press, 2011)

Co-editor with Lene Johannessen Considering Class: Essays on The Discourse of the American Dream (Lit-Verlag: Berlin, 2007)

Papers -

“Wittgensteinian Political Quietism and Rawls’ Political Liberalism”            

“Avoiding ‘Tack-on’ Theories of Culture” in Wittgenstein on Practice, ed. Kevin M. Cahill (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024) 287-216                                         

“The Tractatus and the Carnapian Conception of Syntax” in The Tractatus at 100, eds. Martin Stokhof and Hao Tang (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023), 119-142. 

“Tractarian Ethics" in The Cambridge Companion to Wittgenstein, 2^nd ed. (eds.) Hans Sluga and David Stern (Cambridge: Cambridge, 2017) 96-125

“‘A Purely Self-Regarding Ethics’: Response to Sluga” in Ed Dain and Reshef Agam-Segal (eds.) Wittgenstein’s Moral Thought (London: Routledge, 2017) 223-245 

“A Degenerate Case of Action” in Finite but Unbounded: New Essays in Philosophical Anthropology, Berlin Studies in Knowledge Research, (de Gruyter, 2017) 119-132         

“The Habitus, Coping Practices and the Search for the Ground of Action”, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 46 (5):498-524                            

“Wittgenstein’s Paganism” in Mark Bevir and Andrius Galisanka, eds., Ludwig Wittgenstein and Normative Inquiry (Leiden: Brill, 2016) 174-191    

“Quietism or Description? McDowell in Dispute with Dreyfus”, The Review of Metaphysics 68 (December 2014) 395-409 

“Naturalism and the Friends of Understanding” Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 44(4), 2014, 460-477

“30. Dezember 1929, Zu Heidegger: Was Konnte Wittgenstein sich Denken?” in Ungesellige Geselligkeiten/Unsocial Sociabilities, ed. Esther Ramharter (Berlin: Parerga Verlag, 2011) 97-118

"Explanation, Wonder, and the Cultural Point of the Tractatus”
Norsk Filosofisk Tidsskrift, vol. 44, no. 3-4, 2009, 206-217

“Wittgenstein and the Fate of Metaphysics”
 Sats: Nordic Journal of Philosophy, vol. 9, no. 2. pp. 61-73
                                   
“Bildung and Decline”
Philosophical Investigations, 32:1 January, 2009, 23-43

“Elucidation, Meta-Philosophy, and Hacker’s Use of ‘External Evidence’”
Journal of Philosophical Research, Volume 33, 2008, 73-99
        
 Co-editor with Lene Johannessen
 Considering Class: Essays on The Discourse of the American Dream
 Lit-Verlag: Berlin, 2007

“The Concept of Progress in Wittgenstein’s Thought”
 Review of Metaphysics, September, 2006, Volume LX (1), 71-100

“What Kripke Missed: The Antinomical Structure of the Remarks on Rule-following” Ludwig Wittgenstein and Analytic Philosophy: Papers of the Conference on the Occasion of the 115th Anniversaryof his Birth (Sofia, 2005) 22-34

“Ethics and the Tractatus: A Resolute Failure”
 Philosophy, January, 2004, Volume 79 (1), 2004, 33-55

“The Tractatus, Ethics, and Authenticity”
Journal of Philosophical Research, Volume 29, 2004, 267-288

Main Collaborator and Co-Applicant (Project Leader, Sorin Bangu)

“Mathematics with a Human Face”

Norwegian Research Council Fripro-Frihumsam Research Grant

2019-2023

https://www.uib.no/en/fof/122915/fripro-funding-sorin-bangu-and-kevin-cahill

From 2010 to 2013 I was project leader of the NordForsk Nordic Network for Philosophical Anthropology http://www.philosophicalanthropology.org/

My current work examines the problem of skepticism from an anthropological and historical perspective.