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On Being NeighbourlyIn D. Z. Phillips & John H. Whittaker (eds.), The Possibilities of Sense, Palgrave. pp. 24--38. 2002.
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38Wittgenstein’s Lecture on Ethics, edited by Zamuner, Di Lascio & LevyNordic Wittgenstein Review 4 (2): 143-145. 2015.Book Review of Ludwig Wittgenstein, Lecture on Ethics, edited with commentary by Edoardo Zamuner, Ermelina Valentina Di Lascio and D. K. Levy. Wiley Blackwell: Chichester, 2014, vii + 141 pp
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72If it is asked: “How do sentences manage to represent?” – the answer might be: “Don’t you know? You certainly see it, when you use them.” For nothing is concealed. How do sentences do it? – Don’t you know? For nothing is hidden. But given this answer: “But you know how sentences do it, for nothing is concealed” one would like to retort “Yes, but it all goes by so quick, and I should like to see it as it were laid open to view.”.
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8The Practice of LanguageSpringer Verlag. 2002.This book shows that philosophers and linguists of quite different brands have tended to give undue priority to their own favorite theoretical framework, and have presupposed that the descriptive scheme invoked by that framework constitutes a pattern to which any linguistic practice somehow has to conform. United by a critical attitude towards such essentialist aspirations, the authors collectively manage to cast doubt on the very attempt to fit the whole of linguistic practice into a general th…Read more
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20Stoutland vs. MetaphysicsPhilosophical Topics 44 (1): 287-298. 2016.In his essay “Analytic Philosophy and Metaphysics,” Frederick Stoutland argues that an unspoken metaphysical spirit underlies much of twentieth-century analytic philosophy, in spite of the fact that the word “metaphysics” has had a pejorative ring. The metaphysical habit of mind results in an activity which at best is an unproductive diversion, at worst a dialectical illusion, making claims which only appear to be truth-evaluable. I agree with Stoutland’s diagnosis, which is inspired by Wittgens…Read more
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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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