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5Caroline van Eck, James McAllister and Renée Van De Vall, eds., “The question of Style in Philosophy and the Arts” (review)Philosophy in Review 16 (3): 215-217. 1996.
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On circles of concepts in Goodman and QineDiálogos. Revista de Filosofía de la Universidad de Puerto Rico 31 (68): 23-28. 1996.
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61What does ‘signify’ signify?: A response to GillettPhilosophical Psychology 14 (4): 499-514. 2001.Gillett argues that there are unexpected confluences between the tradition of Frege and Wittgenstein and that of Freud and Lacan. I counter that that the substance of the exegeses of Frege and Wittgenstein in Gillett's paper are flawed, and that these mistakes in turn tellingly point to unclarities in the Lacanian picture of language, unclarities left unresolved by Gillett. Lacan on language is simply a kind of enlarged/distorted mirror image of the Anglo-American psychosemanticists: where they …Read more
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40Beyond Just Justice – Creating Space for a Future‐Care EthicPhilosophical Investigations 39 (4). 2016.Distributive justice relies on metaphors about spatial distribution. Modelling cross-temporal relations on cross-spatial relations in this way obscures how earlier groups become the later ones. Procedural justice metaphors rely on metaphors of contract and thereby on impartial reasoning. Their dominance is already problematic in the case of contemporary relations, but is even more so in the case of relations across time, where the conditions for later parties are controlled and created by earlie…Read more
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17Kripke’s HumeGraduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 24 (1): 103-121. 2003.The purpose of this paper is to consider whether or not Kripke’s ‘Wittgensteinian’ invocation of “assertibility conditions” and “the community” is a skeptical solution. In other words, this paper relates Kripke’s famous and major book, Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language, to the key background text for his work—the corpus that forms the backdrop even to his most unusual reading of Wittgenstein: Hume’s works. Through questions of influence and of Kripke’s use of particular terms, the analy…Read more
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47The carbon credit crunchThe Philosophers' Magazine 51 (51): 46-49. 2010.Those of us contemplating jetting off to a philosophy conference abroad really do need to ask ourselves how much good we would really be doing by going and whether we can justify the harm that we are certainly responsible for if we go.
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102Iain McGilchrist, The master and his emissary: the divided brain and the making of the Western world (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2010) (review)Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 11 (1): 119-124. 2012.Iain McGilchrist, The master and his emissary: the divided brain and the making of the Western world (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2010) Content Type Journal Article Category Book Review Pages 119-124 DOI 10.1007/s11097-011-9235-x Authors Rupert Read, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK Journal Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences Online ISSN 1572-8676 Print ISSN 1568-7759 Journal Volume Volume 11 Journal Issue Volume 11, Number 1
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31The Nature of Science: Problems and Perspectives (review)Teaching Philosophy 21 (3): 301-303. 1998.
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11Throwing Away 'the Bedrock'Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 105 81-98. 2005.If one is impressed with Wittgenstein's philosophizing, then it is a deep mistake to think that the terms that he made famous-philosophical terms like 'form of life', 'language-game', 'everyday', 'bedrock'-are the key to his philosophy. On the contrary, they are in the end an obstacle to be overcome. The last temptation of the Wittgensteinian philosopher is to treat these terms as providing a kind of ersatz foundation. They are rather a ladder that takes one... to where one already is, only now …Read more
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3Patricia H. Werhane, “Skepticism, Rules, and Private Languages” (review)Philosophy in Review 14 (2): 144-147. 1994.
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126Why There Cannot be Any Such Thing as “Time Travel”Philosophical Investigations 35 (2): 138-153. 2011.Extending work of Wittgenstein, Lakoff and Johnson I suggest that it is the metaphors we rely on in order to conceptualise time that provide an illusory space for time-travel-talk. For example, in the “Moving Time” spatialisation of time, “objects” move past the agent from the future to the past. The objects all move in the same direction – this is mapped to time always moving in the same direction. But then it is easy to imagine suspending this rule, and asking why the objects should not start …Read more
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531A Wittgensteinian Way with ParadoxesLexington Books. 2012.A Wittgensteinian Way with Paradoxes examines how some of the classic philosophical paradoxes that have so puzzled philosophers over the centuries can be dissolved. Read argues that paradoxes such as the Sorites, Russell’s Paradox and the paradoxes of time travel do not, in fact, need to be solved. Rather, using a resolute Wittgensteinian ‘therapeutic’ method, the book explores how virtually all apparent philosophical paradoxes can be diagnosed and dissolved through examining their conditions of…Read more
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8The Enchantment of Words (review)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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45Wittgenstein and the Illusion of ‘Progress’: On Real Politics and Real Philosophy in a World of TechnocracyRoyal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 78 265-284. 2016.‘You can’t stop progress’, we are endlessly told. But what is meant by “progress”? What is “progress” toward? We are rarely told. Human flourishing? And a culture? That would be a good start – but rarely seems a criterion for ‘progress’. Rather, ‘progress’ is simply a process, that we are not allowed, apparently, to stop. Or rather: it would be futile to seek to stop it. So that we are seemingly-deliberately demoralised into giving up even trying.Questioning the myth of ‘progress’, and seeking t…Read more
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4Acting from rules: “Internal relations” versus “logical existentialism”International Studies in Philosophy 28 (2): 43-62. 1996.
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27Risky businessForum for European Philosophy Blog. 2016.Rupert Read and David Burnham on what philosophy can tell us about dealing with uncertainty, systemic risk, and potential catastrophe.
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54Does Thomas Kuhn have a 'model of science'?Social Epistemology 17 (2-3): 293-296. 2003.No abstract
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4David G. Stern, Wittgenstein on Mind and Language (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 35 (1): 151-152. 1997.
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65On future peopleThink 10 (29): 43-47. 2011.It is no longer socially-acceptable to exhibit prejudice against ethnic minority people on grounds of their ethnicity, women on grounds of their gender, or working-class people on grounds of their class. The last bastions of discrimination are being overcome: such as prejudice against gay and lesbian people, and against disabled people. …Or, is there one more, crucial bastion of discrimination still strongly in place?
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44Wittgenstein in Exile by James C. Klagge (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 51 (3): 499-500. 2013.James Klagge aims to shed light on Wittgenstein’s philosophy by situating it in its biographical–cultural context. While Klagge is not alone in pursuing this aim, his claim to originality lies in his thematic focus on Wittgenstein’s relationship to his time and culture as one of “alienation” (3), expressed by the metaphor of being “in exile” (61). A central concern of Klagge’s is how we, as modern readers living in a “civilized” culture not dissimilar to the one from which Wittgenstein felt hims…Read more
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1Wittgenstein and Faulkner's Benjy: Reflections on and of derangementIn John Gibson Wolfgang Huemer (ed.), The Literary Wittgenstein, Routledge. pp. 267--288. 2004.
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17th/18th Century Philosophy |