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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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97The 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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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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