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6Wittgenstein, Human Beings and ConversationAnthem Studies in Wittgenstein. 2021.The papers in this volume can be roughly divided between?the philosophy of mind? and?the philosophy of language?. They are, however, united by the idea that this standard philosophical classification stands in the way of clear thinking about many of the core issues. With this, they are united by the idea that the notion of a human being must be central to any philosophical discussion of issues in this area, and by an insistence on an inescapably ethical dimension of any adequate discussion of th…Read more
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3Chapter 1. Rush Rhees: The reality of discourseIn John Edelman (ed.), Sense and reality: essays out of Swansea, Ontos Verlag. pp. 1-22. 2009.
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8Fatalism: thoughts about tomorrow's sea battlePhilosophy 94 (2): 295-312. 2019.The hold of the fatalistic reasoning that Aristotle criticizes is dependent, first, on the idea, articulated by Frege, that the real candidates for truth and falsity are something other than particular contingent happenings such as affirmations or thinkings, and, second, on the idea that the demand for speculative reflection overrides any demand for practical deliberation. Standard challenges to the reasoning embody the same presuppositions and so simply perpetuate the core confusions. They do s…Read more
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44Deirdre’s Smile: Names, Faces, and ‘the Simple Actuality’ of AnotherSophia 60 (1): 209-223. 2019.The paper explores what it could mean to speak of love as involving a delight in ‘the simple actuality’ of another, or, as Buber does, of the ‘touchable’ human being as ‘unique and devoid of qualities’. Developing strands in Merleau-Ponty’s treatment of perception, it is argued that the relation between recognising this as a particular individual and recognising particular qualities in her may be close to the reverse of what might be supposed: a recognition of this distinctive smile being depend…Read more
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35Rush Rhees, Wittgenstein and the possibility of discoursePhilosophical Investigations 25 (1). 2002.
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51ARCHON: A distributed artificial intelligence system for industrial applicationsIn N. Jennings & G. O'Hare (eds.), Foundations of Distributed Artificial Intelligence, Wiley. pp. 319--344. 1996.
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44Trust in ConversationNordic Wittgenstein Review 3 (1): 47-68. 2014.We may think of the notion of “trust” primarily in epistemological terms or, alternatively, primarily in ethical terms. These different ways of thinking of trust are linked with different ways of picturing language, and my relation to the words of another. While an analogy with an individual continuing an arithmetical series has had a central place in discussions of language originating from Wittgenstein, Rush Rhees suggests that conversation provides a better model for thinking about language. …Read more
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9Other Times: Philosophical Perspectives on Past, Present and FutureMind 108 (432): 761-764. 1999.
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15Memories, traces and the significance of the pastIn Christoph Hoerl & Teresa McCormark (eds.), Time and Memory, Oxford University Press. 2001.
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29Tense and emotionIn Robin Le Poidevin (ed.), Questions of Time and Tense, Oxford University Press. pp. 77--91. 1998.
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O'HEAR, ANTHONY The Elements of Fire: Science, Art and the Human World (review)Philosophy 64 (n/a): 272. 1989.
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24In the Beginning Was the DeedPhilosophical Investigations 36 (4): 303-319. 2013.Winch's readings of Wittgenstein and Weil call for a significant rethinking of the relation between “metaphysics” and “ethics.” But there are confusions, perhaps to be found in all three of these writers, that we may slip into here. These are linked with the tendency to see idealist tendencies in Wittgenstein, and with his remark that giving grounds comes to an end, not in a kind of seeing on our part, but in our acting. The sense that we think we see in this suggestion is dependent on a distort…Read more
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13The Element of Fire: Science, Art and the Human World By Anthony O'Hear London: Routledge, 1988, 178 pp., £19.95 (review)Philosophy 64 (248): 272-. 1989.
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10Wittgenstein and Kierkegaard: Religion, Individuality and Philosophical MethodPhilosophical Books 31 (2): 82-83. 1990.
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8An introduction to the philosophy of mindPalgrave. 2001.This book differs from others by rejecting the dualist approach associated in particular with Descartes. It also casts serious doubt on the forms of materialism that now dominate English language philosophy. Drawing in particular on the work of Wittgenstein, a central place is given to the importance of the notion of a human being in our thought about ourselves and others.