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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I would like to thank the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia¹ for their financial support throughout my PhD in Lisbon as well as for my postdoctoral work there. They also funded a visit to Argentina for me to present a paper in La Plata and in Córdoba during August and September of 2017 (‘Interpretaciones de Wittgenstein por marxistas ingleses: una crítica’). I would like to thank Andrés Oliva for translating that paper into Spanish. Material from the English version of that paper appears in this book in Chapters 5 and 6. Pedro Karczmarczyk helped to arrange the trip and also arranged my accommodation (with the wonderful and kind Angélica Sangronis and Luis Alberto Pacheco). I am very grateful to him and to Angélica and Luis. It was Guadalupe Reinoso in Córdoba who arranged my talk there. I am grateful to her for arranging that and for showing me around the campus there. She was a fabulous host! The audiences who were present at my talks in La Plata and Córdoba also gave me valuable feedback on my work. I met a Spanish Wittgensteinian, Isabel Gamero, while I was in Argentina and I would like to thank her for stimulating discussion as well as for her help with practical matters in La Plata and Buenos Aires.

In Portugal I would like to thank Nuno Venturinha and Diogo Pires Aurélio, who were my advisors during my doctoral studies. Nuno, in particular, has been very helpful not only with advice about my philosophical work but also with administrative business in the university and outside of it. He helped to arrange for me to travel to Granada, Spain, to give a talk there (a paper about justice which appears, in slightly revised form, as Chapter 8 of this book), and has also invited me to speak at conferences at Universidade Nova de Lisboa.

I would like to thank the MLAG group at the Universidade do Porto for giving me the opportunity to present my paper about Wittgenstein and Freedom of the Will at their conference (the organisers of the conference were Anna Ciaunica, Sofia Miguens, João Alberto Pinto, José Pedro Correia, Diana Couto, and Luís Veríssimo). That paper has now become Chapter 7 of this book.

In Spain I would particularly like to thank Vicente Sanfélix Vidarte. He arranged for me to visit the Universitat de València to present a paper about Wittgenstein and Liberalism. That paper has since appeared in the Spanish journal Teorema (in English) in 2017 and in the Colombian journal Análisis (in Spanish) in 2018. I’m grateful to participants in the seminar in Valencia for their comments. Nicolas Sanchez Dura, in particular, was very involved in the discussion both during and after the talk. Carlota Sánchez Garcia translated my paper into Spanish before the talk so that those who wanted to read it in Spanish could read it. It is her translation that appeared in Análisis. I am very grateful to her. I am would also like to thank Simon Glendinning for comments on an earlier draft of that chapter as well as to two anonymous referees at the journal Teorema. A revised version of that paper appears within this book as Chapter 4.

Various people have commented on my published work during the course of the past six years. I would like to thank participants in the Dimensões da Epistemologia conference, held at Universidade Nova de Lisboa on 6 September 2016, for their comments on an earlier draft of the first chapter of this book. Modesto Gómez-Alonso gave me very helpful comments after the event, which helped me in redrafting my work. I am grateful to Wayne Blackledge, António Caeiro, Philip Cartwright, Pedro Karczmarczyk, Gavin Kitching, Nigel Pleasants, Constantine Sandis, and George Wrisley for their comments on my papers ‘Leave Everything as it is’ and ‘Eagleton’s Wittgenstein’. Their comments on those papers prompted me to make changes to the criticisms that I made of Anderson, Callinicos, and Eagleton in Chapters 5 and 6 of this book. I would also like to thank participants at the MLAG conference in Porto for comments on an earlier version of Chapter 7. Javier Cumpa, Manuel de Pinedo, Nils Kurbis, Carla Carmona, and Neftalí Villanueva all gave me very valuable feedback on an earlier draft of Chapter 8 at the University of Granada. At the same conference there was also a discussion of epistemic injustice (featuring Manuel Almagro, Carla Carmona, María José Frápolli, Alba Moreno, Llanos Navarro, Jesús Navarro, Eduardo Pérez, Nuno Venturinha, and Neftalí Villanueva) which was useful in thinking about the issues in Chapter 8.

Constantine Sandis deserves special thanks as the editor of this series and also as someone who has produced great work in philosophy that has influenced my own. Constantine has read a lot of my work over the years and has given me sage advice.

I would like to thank my parents, Janet Szpakowski, Michael Szpakowski, and David Vinten for their support throughout the writing of this book (and for reading various parts of it). My brother and sister, Jack Vinten and Anna Szpakowska, have also been supportive and Jack has produced the cover for this book. I’m grateful to him for that.

Finally, I want to thank Gabriela Ferreira for her support as I have worked on this book. She has been incredible!

¹The Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), the Portuguese national funding agency. My PhD (2014–18) was funded by a PhD grant (SFRH/BD/94166/2013) and my current position as a research fellow is funded by the project Epistemology of Religious Belief: Wittgenstein, Grammar, and the Contemporary World (PTDC/FER-FIL/32203/2017).