"See Unpublished"

I'm on a Conant kick. Before, I had a cursory understanding of the "resolute" reading of Wittgenstein. I had read Diamond's "Ethics, Imagination, and the Method of the Tractatus," and Conant's "Frege and Early Wittgenstein on Elucidation," as well as Hacker's criticisms. Now that I'm almost done with said kick, I have a much better understanding of the resolute reading (at least, as it's presented by Conant). In the last week I have read Conant's "Mild Mono-Wittgensteinianism," and I am about half of the way through "The Method of the Tractatus" (which, incidentally, is the longer version of "Frege and Early Wittgenstein on Elucidation"; apparently Conant likes to write rather long papers, and then trim them down for publication or presentation, only to later publish the longer version). Both are very good reads. Though I strongly disagree with his intrepretation, I have to say that Conant is one of the most lucid and clever writers I have come across.

I hope to say something about these articles next week, but for now I'd like to mention an oddity of citation. In note 29 Conant references an unpublished paper by Thomas Ricketts with the phrase "see Ricketts, unpublished." I understand that this locution is meant to attribute content to Ricketts, but it's an odd way to put it. I want to respond, "I can't very well see it, if it's unpublished." Is this the standard (no pun intended) way of referencing unpublished work?

Mild Mono-Wittgensteinianism

A couple of years ago, James Conant read a paper titled "The Alleged Heresy of Mono-Wittgensteinianism" at a conference ("Wittgenstein, Philosophy and Language") in Skjolden. The audio is here: http://wab.aksis.uib.no/wab_contrib-audio-cj-sk05.page.

Conant refers to his paper as a shortened version of a paper titled "Moses and Mono-Wittgensteinianism." I googled that title a couple of days ago and found Conant's longer paper (it's over 100 pages). It is titled "Mild Mono-Wittgensteinianism," and is the best presentation of his reading of Wittgenstein that I have read. Here's the link:

http://www.essex.ac.uk/centres/TheoStud/papers/Mild%20Mono-Wittgensteinianism%20revised%20page%20proofs.pdf

[Update: Conant's "Mild Mono-Wittgensteinianism" was just published (July, 2007) in Wittgenstein and the Moral Life: Essays in Honor of Cora Diamond. Here's the link: http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11173]