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56YanivIczkovits, Wittgenstein's Ethical Thought (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012). xi + 200, price £50.00 (review)Philosophical Investigations 36 (4): 381-384. 2013.
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48“It Says What It Says”American 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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Gaita on recognizing the humanIn Christopher Cordner & Raimond Gaita (eds.), Philosophy, Ethics, and a Common Humanity: Essays in Honour of Raimond Gaita, Routledge. 2011.
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1On Being TrustedIn Arne Grøn & Claudia Welz (eds.), Trust, Sociality, Selfhood, Mohr Siebeck. 2010.
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64Wittgenstein’s MetaphysicsPhilosophical Review 107 (1): 163. 1998.Which famous twentieth-century philosopher instigated a revolution in philosophy, arguing that the philosopher’s business is not to advance general theories about reality, but rather to help release our thinking from the intellectual cramps produced by a misunderstanding of the forms of language? Wittgenstein? Wrong! according to John W. Cook. This revolution in philosophy actually had no author. Apparently, it arose through a misinterpretation of Wittgenstein’s later writings. In fact, Cook imp…Read more
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22Hacker on Wittgenstein’s Ethnological ApproachIn Eric Lemaire & Jesús Padilla Gálvez (eds.), Wittgenstein: Issues and Debates, De Gruyter. pp. 117-126. 2010.
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98The sense is where you find itIn Timothy McCarthy & Sean C. Stidd (eds.), Wittgenstein in America, Oxford University Press. pp. 90--102. 2001.
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41Avner Baz, When Words are Called For: A Defense of Ordinary Language Philosophy , xv + 238 pp., price £28 (review)Philosophical Investigations 39 (1): 92-95. 2015.
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The importance of being thoughtfulIn Danièle Moyal-Sharrock (ed.), Perspicuous Presentations: Essays on Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Psychology, Palgrave-macmillan. 2007.
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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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