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    No Title available: Reviews
    Philosophy 82 (4): 657-661. 2007.
    This book is a piece of philosophical work of extremely high intellectual quality. Its purpose is to defend in detail a ‘resolute’ reading of the Tractatus. It succeeds in this aim. It thus accomplishes something that has not yet been accomplished even by Conant or Diamond. It is therefore a major contribution to ‘Wittgenstein studies’, to contemporary philosophy and to the philosophical history of recent philosophy.
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    Recent work: The philosophy of literature
    with Jon Cook
    Philosophical Books 42 (2): 118-131. 2001.
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    Wittgenstein as Unreliable Narrator/Unreliable Author
    In Ana Falcato & Antonio Cardiello (eds.), Philosophy in the Condition of Modernism, Springer Verlag. pp. 49-70. 2018.
    Examining the famous section 133 of the Philosophical Investigations, I seek to elucidate Wittgenstein’s extraordinary writing-stratagem. His writing has often been criticised as ‘obscure’—this evinces a fundamental failure to understand the way Wittgenstein writes, especially in those works where he laboured for years over how to present them. In his two masterworks, Wittgenstein operates as, in broadly Modernist terms, as an unreliable narrator. Wittgenstein seems to offer a theory to end all …Read more
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    Guardians of the future
    The Philosophers' Magazine 57 27-28. 2012.
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    Acting from rules: “Internal relations” versus “logical existentialism”
    with James Guetti
    International Studies in Philosophy 28 (2): 43-62. 1996.
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    David G. Stern, Wittgenstein on Mind and Language (review)
    Journal of the History of Philosophy 35 (1): 151-152. 1997.
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    Applying Wittgenstein
    Continuum. 2007.
    A key development in Wittgenstein Studies over recent years has been the advancement of a resolutely therapeutic reading of the Tractatus. Rupert Read offers the first extended application of this reading of Wittgenstein, encompassing Wittgenstein's later work too, to examine the implications of Wittgenstein's work as a whole upon the domains especially of literature, psychopathology, and time. Read begins by applying Wittgenstein's remarks on meaning to language, examining the consequences our …Read more
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    The Ecological Economics Revolution: Looking at Economics from the Vantage-Point of Wittgenstein’s and Kuhn’s Philosophies
    In A. C. Grayling, Shyam Wuppuluri, Christopher Norris, Nikolay Milkov, Oskari Kuusela, Danièle Moyal-Sharrock, Beth Savickey, Jonathan Beale, Duncan Pritchard, Annalisa Coliva, Jakub Mácha, David R. Cerbone, Paul Horwich, Michael Nedo, Gregory Landini, Pascal Zambito, Yoshihiro Maruyama, Chon Tejedor, Susan G. Sterrett, Carlo Penco, Susan Edwards-Mckie, Lars Hertzberg, Edward Witherspoon, Michel ter Hark, Paul F. Snowdon, Rupert Read, Nana Last, Ilse Somavilla & Freeman Dyson (eds.), Wittgensteinian : Looking at the World From the Viewpoint of Wittgenstein’s Philosophy, Springer Verlag. pp. 487-502. 2019.
    Is there a scientific revolution taking place in economics? This piece seeks to apply the thinking of Wittgenstein and of the major philosopher of science who was, I have argued elsewhere, most influenced by him—Kuhn—to the emergence of ‘ecological economics’.
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    Psychotherapy: A form of prostitution?
    with Emma Wilmer
    British Gestalt Journal 9 (2): 30-36. 2000.
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    Patricia H. Werhane, Skepticism, Rules, and Private Languages (review)
    Philosophy in Review 14 144-147. 1994.
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    Uncertainty – the philosophical problem of our time
    The Philosophers' Magazine 66 100-105. 2014.
  • ‘Political liberalism’ claims to manifest the real meaning of democracy, including crucially the toleration of religion – it is through the history of this toleration that it acquired its current form and power. Political liberalism is however, I argue, more hostile to religion than was ever dreamt possible in the philosophy of avowedly anti-clerical Enlightenment Liberalism. For it refuses point-blank ever to engage in serious debate with religion. It considers it of no consequence. It allows r…Read more
  • On circles of concepts in Goodman and Qine
    Diálogos. Revista de Filosofía de la Universidad de Puerto Rico 31 (68): 23-28. 1996.
  • The New Wittgenstein
    Revue Philosophique de la France Et de l'Etranger 193 (4): 481-482. 2003.
  • Ludwig Wittgenstein
    with Robert Deans
    In Leemon McHenry, P. Dematteis & P. Fosl (eds.), British Philosophers, 1800-2000, Bruccoli Clark Layman. pp. 262--320. 2002.
  • Goodman's Hume
    Diálogos. Revista de Filosofía de la Universidad de Puerto Rico 31 (67): 95-122. 1996.
  • The New Wittgenstein
    Philosophy 78 (305): 425-430. 2003.
  • Extreme aversive emotions: a Wittgensteinian approach to dread
    In Ylva Gustafsson, Camilla Kronqvist & Michael McEachrane (eds.), Emotions and understanding: Wittgensteinian perspectives, Palgrave-macmillan. pp. 221. 2009.
  • 'Practices without foundations' is, in genesis and in effect, a discussion of the following quotation , which serves therefore as an epigraph to it: ;Nelson Goodman's discussion of the 'new riddle of induction' ... deserves comparison with Wittgenstein's work. Indeed ... the basic strategy of Goodman's treatment of the 'new riddle' is strikingly close to Wittgenstein's sceptical arguments .... Although our paradigm of Wittgenstein's problem was formulated for a mathematical problem it ... is com…Read more
  • Is 'What Is Time?' A Good Question to Ask?
    Philosophy 77 (300): 193-209. 2002.