My main interests are in Skepticism, problems concerning rationality, culture, and ethics, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Wittgenstein, and the relationship between Analytic and Continental philosophy.

Wittgenstein

Origins of Analytic Philosophy

Philosophy of the Social Sciences

Philosophy of Language

Existentialism

Vitenskapelig Kapittel/Artikkel/Konferanseartikkel

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

Vitenskapelig monografi

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

Doktorgradsavhandling

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

Vitenskapelig antologi/Konferanseserie

• Cahill, Kevin M; Raleigh, Thomas Bainbridge (2018). Wittgenstein and Naturalism. (ekstern lenke)
• Cahill, Kevin M; Gustafsson, Martin; Wentzer, Thomas Schwarz (2017). Finite But Unbounded: New Approaches in Philosophical Anthropology. (ekstern lenke)
• Johannessen, Lene M; Cahill, Kevin M (2007). Considering Class: Essays on the Discourse of the American Dream. (ekstern lenke)

Kompendium

• Bangu, Sorin; Cahill, Kevin M (2017). Filosofi for Realister. (ekstern lenke)

Vitenskapelig artikkel

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

Anmeldelse

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

Vitenskapelig foredrag

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

Se en full oversikt over publikasjoner i Cristin

Books -

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

“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/

I am currently working on a monograph on skepticism and its relation to anthropology.

AOS:  History of Analytic Philosophy, Philosophy of Language, Ethics and Culture            Skepticism, Wittgenstein
   
AOC:  Ethics, Modern Philosophy, Applied Ethics, Kant, Critical Thinking/Logic,                Existentialism, Metaphysics, Epistemology, American Philosophy, Heidegger