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224On the attitude of trustInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 31 (3). 1988.In On Certainty, the emphasis is on the solitary individual as subject of knowledge. The importance of our dependence on others, however, is brought out in Wittgenstein's remarks about trust. In this paper, the role and nature of trust are discussed, the grammar of trust being contrasted with that of reliance. It is shown that to speak of trust is to speak of a fundamental attitude of one person towards others, an attitude which, unlike reliance, is not to be explained, or assessed, by an appeal…Read more
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14It Says What It SaysAmerican Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 85 (4): 589-603. 2011.The aim of this essay is to point to some of the problems that arise in trying to clarify the distinction frequently made between literal and non-literal ways of understanding certain religious beliefs, such as the belief in the resurrection of Christ. The disagreement is sometimes taken to concern whether the words usedin the expression of belief are to be understood in a literal or a non-literal sense. It may alternatively be taken to concern whether or not religious utterances are to be under…Read more
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56The new Wittgenstein. By Alice Crary and Rupert read (eds.), London & new York: Routledge, 2000. Pp. IX + 403, ??17.99Philosophy 78 (3): 425-430. 2003.
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54Rhees on the Unity of LanguagePhilosophical Investigations 35 (3-4): 224-237. 2012.Rush Rhees held Wittgenstein's work in high esteem but considered it in need of deepening. He was critical of Wittgenstein's idea that the builders' game might be the whole language of a tribe and that human language could be thought of as simply a range of language games. Rhees thought that Wittgenstein failed to do justice to the unity of language. The idea of the unity of language appears to have both an anthropological and an ethical aspect. The latter is illustrated with the help of a Hemin…Read more
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82Imagination and the sense of identityIn David Cockburn (ed.), Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement, Cambridge University Press. pp. 143-155. 1991.Most of us, at one time or another, will have been struck by a thought that we might wish to express in the following words: ‘I could have been born in a different time and place, my position in life and all my personal characteristics could have been completely different from what they are; how amazing then that it should have fallen to my lot to live my life, the only life I shall ever live, as this particular individual rather than any other.’ This thought need not derive from a sense that th…Read more
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Very general facts of natureIn Marie McGinn & Oskari Kuusela (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Wittgenstein, Oxford University Press. 2011.
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1Rom Harre and Michael Krausz, Varieties of RelativismPhilosophical Investigations 22 197-202. 1999.
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17Critical noticePhilosophical Investigations 15 (4): 357-371. 1992.Good and Evil: an Absolute Conception, Raimond Gaita, Macmillan 1991. (Swansea Studies in Philosophy.)
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What's in a smile?In Ylva Gustafsson, Camilla Kronqvist & Michael McEachrane (eds.), Emotions and understanding: Wittgensteinian perspectives, Palgrave-macmillan. pp. 113. 2009.
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14Note from the EditorsNordic Wittgenstein Review 3 (1): 5-6. 2014.In their note, the editors thank the contributors and give an overview of the latest news regarding the journal
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26Imagination and the Sense of IdentityRoyal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 29 143-155. 1991.Most of us, at one time or another, will have been struck by a thought that we might wish to express in the following words: ‘I could have been born in a different time and place, my position in life and all my personal characteristics could have been completely different from what they are; how amazing then that it should have fallen to my lot to live my life, the only life I shall ever live, as this particular individual rather than any other.’ This thought need not derive from a sense that th…Read more
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Voices of the willIn Lilli Alanen, Sara Heinämaa & Thomas Wallgren (eds.), Commonality and Particularity in Ethics, St. Martin's Press. pp. 75--94. 1997.
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46D. Z. Phillips' contemplative philosophy of religion: Questions and responses – edited by Andy F. SandersPhilosophical Investigations 32 (4): 381-384. 2009.No Abstract
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20Review of Keith Dromm, Wittgenstein on Rules and Nature (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2009 (7). 2009.
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83Moral Escapism and Applied EthicsPhilosophical Papers 31 (3): 251-270. 2002.Abstract Applied ethics is commonly carried out on the assumption that moral decisions can be handled by experts. This involves a failure to recognize that being morally serious means recognizing that one cannot hand over responsibility for certain decisions to anyone else. The idea of moral expertise is shown to be based on a misconstrual of the nature of moral discourse, one that can be overcome by following Wittgenstein's exhortation to philosophers to pay heed to the actual uses of language.…Read more
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