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- Bill Brenner
- Professor
- Philosophy & Religious Studies
- 9014 Batten Arts and Letters
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Norfolk,
VA
23529
- 757-683-3867
- wbrenner@odu.edu
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Education
- University of Virginia,
1970
- Major: Philosophy
- Degree: Ph. D.
- University of Virginia,
1965
- Major: Philosophy
- Degree: M.A.
- The College of St. Thomas,
1963
- Major: Philosophy
- Degree: B.A.
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Books
- Brenner, W. H. (2005). Readings of Wittgenstein’s On Certainty. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Brenner, W. H. (1999). Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigation. Albany, N.Y: State University of New York Press.
- Brenner, W. H. (1993). Logic and Philosophy: An Integrated Introduction. Notre Dame, Ind: University of Notre Dame Press.
- Brenner, W. H. (1989). Elements of Modern Philosophy: Descartes Through Kant. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall.
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Book Chapters
- Brenner, W. H. (2005). Wittgenstein’s ‘Kantian Solution’, in D. Moyal-Sharrock and William H. Brenner, eds., Readings of Wittgenstein’s On Certainty. (pp. pp. 122-141). Palgrave Macmillan.
- Brenner, W. H. (2001). Creation, Causality, and Freedom of the Will, Chapter 4 in Robert L. Arrington and Mark Addis, eds., Wittgenstein’s Philosophy
of Religion. (pp. pp. 51-65). New York: Routledge.
- Brenner, W. H. (1993). "Logic," in Leemon McHenry and Fred Adams, eds. Reflections on Philosophy.. New York: St. Martin's Press.
- Brenner, W. H. (1985). Essays in Introduction to Philosophy.. Lexington, Mass.: Ginn Press.
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Articles
- Brenner, W. H. (2003). Bewitched By the Word ‘Know’. Proceedings of the 2003 Wittgenstein Symposium
- Brenner, W. H. (2003). Dialogues on Causality and the Limits of Empiricism. Philosophical Investigations, 26, (pp. pp. 1-23).
- Brenner, W. H. (2001). Natural Law, Motives, and Freedom of the Will. Philosophical Investigations, 24, (pp. pp.246-261).
- Brenner, W. H. (1997). Arithmetic as Grammar. Philosophical Investigations, 20, (pp. pp. 315-325).
- Brenner, W. H. (1996). Theology as Grammar. The Southern Journal of Philosophy (pp. pp. 439-454).
- Brenner, W. H. (1995). The Soulless Tribe. The Southern Journal of Philosophy (pp. pp. 279-298).
- Brenner, W. H. (1991). Chesterton, Wittgenstein, and the Foundations of Ethics. Philosophical Investigations, 14, (pp. pp. 311-323).
- Brenner, W. H. (1991). Seeing Red Blue. Proceedings of the 14th International Wittgenstein Symposium/Hoelder-Pichler-Temsky
- Brenner, W. H. (1987). 'Brownish-Yellow' and 'Reddish-Green'. Philosophical Investigations, 10, (pp. pp. 200-211).
- Brenner, W. H. (1985). Brown and Yellow. Proceedings of the 9th International Wittgenstein Symposium/ Hoelder-Pichler-Temsky (pp. pp. 305-307).
- Brenner, W. H., and Hatab, L. J. (1983). Heidegger and Wittgenstein on Language and Mystery. International Studies in Philosophy, XV, (pp. pp. 25-43).
- Brenner, W. H. (1982). Wittgenstein's Color Grammar. The Southern Journal of Philosophy, XX, (pp. pp. 289-298).
- Brenner, W. H. (1976). Prime Matter and Barrington Jones. The New Scholasticism, L, (pp. pp. 223-228).
- Brenner, W. H. (1971). George Mavrodes on the Epistemology of Religion. International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, II, (pp. pp. 172-182.).
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Presentations
- Aquinas, Kierkegaard and the Existence of God
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Brenner, W. H.
- Kanzi’s Primal Language
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Brenner, W. H.
- The Ethics of Elfland
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Brenner, W. H.
- The Problem of Evil
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Brenner, W. H.
Hatab, L.
Ford, L.
- What is Philosophy?
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Brenner, W. H.
- Wittgenstein and Christianity
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Brenner, W. H.
- Wittgenstein's Color Grammar
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Brenner, W. H.
- An Interpretation of ESP Phenomena
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Brenner, W. H.
- What Does it Mean to Believe that God Exists?
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Brenner, W. H.
- D. Z. Phillips’ Wittgensteinian Philosophy of Religion
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- Date: 2007
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Brenner, W. H.
- D. Z. Phillips’ Philosophy of Religion
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- Date: October, 2007
- Authors/Presenters:
Brenner, W. H.
- Bewitched By the Word ‘Know’
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- Location: Austria
- Date: 2003
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Brenner, W. H.
- Morality and Religion: Towards Meeting Hume's Challenge
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- Location: Claremont, California
- Date: February, 1997
- Authors/Presenters:
Brenner, W. H.
- Remarks on James Klagge's "Causality & Wittgenstein
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- Date: 1993
- Authors/Presenters:
Brenner, W. H.
- Chesterton, Wittgenstein, and the Foundations of Ethics
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- Date: 1991
- Authors/Presenters:
Brenner, W. H.
- Another Vial of Wittgenstein for Professor Carroll
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- Date: 1990
- Authors/Presenters:
Brenner, W. H.
- Chesterton, Wittgenstein, & Joseph Campbell on Ethics & Religion
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- Date: May, 1990
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Brenner, W. H.
- Seeing Red Blue
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- Location: Austria
- Date: 1989
- Authors/Presenters:
Brenner, W. H.
- Brownish Yellow and Reddish Green
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- Date: March, 1987
- Authors/Presenters:
Brenner, W. H.
- Brownish Yellow' and 'Reddish Green
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- Location: Austria
- Date: 1984
- Authors/Presenters:
Brenner, W. H.
- Wittgenstein on Language
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- Date: 1984
- Authors/Presenters:
Brenner, W. H.
- Wittgenstein and Heidegger
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- Date: 1982
- Authors/Presenters:
Brenner, W. H.
- Wittgenstein's Color Grammar
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- Date: 1982
- Authors/Presenters:
Brenner, W. H.
- (Language and Mystery: The Kinship of Heidegger and Wittgenstein (L. J. Hatab, co-author)
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- Date: 1980
- Authors/Presenters:
Brenner, W. H.
Hatab, L. J.