Wittgenstein: Attention to Particulars Essays in honour of Rush Rhee
According to Wittgenstein, philosophical puzzles are due to deep prejudices about language. In this collection of essays, in honour of Rush Rhees, philosophers investigate the hold such prejudices have on us in a number of closely related areas of philoso
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Rush Rhees (photograph by Michael Nedo)
Wittgenstein: Attention to Particulars Essays in honour of Rush Rhees (1905-89) Edited by
D. Z. PHILLIPS and
PETER WINCH
Palgrave Macmillan
UK
ISBN 978-1-349-11197-8 (eBook) ISBN 978-1-349-11199-2 DOI 10.1007/978-1-349-11197-8 ©D. Z. Phillips and Peter Winch 1989 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1989 978-0-333-51237-1 All rights reserved. For information, write: Scholarly and Reference Division, St. Martin's Press, Inc., 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010 First published in the United States of America in 1989 Phototypeset by Input Typesetting Ltd, London Printed in Great Britain ISBN 978-0-312-03499-3 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Wittgenstein: attention to particulars: essays in honour of Rush Rhees/edited by D.Z. Phillips and Peter Winch. p. em. "Rush Rhees, main publications": p. Includes index. ISBN 978-0-312-03499-3 1. Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951. 2. Rhees, Rush. I. Rhees, Rush. II. Phillips, D. Z. (Dewi Zephaniah) III. Winch, Peter. 1990 B3376.W564W557 89-34718 192-dc20 CIP
Contents Rush Rhees
frontispiece
Notes on the Contributors
vii
Introduction: Attention to Particulars D. Z. Phillips
1
1 Rules: Looking in the Right Place Cora Diamond
12
2 Language Game (2) Norman Malcolm
35
3 Lusus Naturae R. F. Holland
45.
4 Anderson on Generality H. 0. Mounce
61
5 Commitment to Persons David Cockburn
74
6 'The Kind of Certainty is the Kind of Language Game' Lars Hertzberg
92
7 Moral Judgement and Deception ilham Dilman
112
8 The Personal in Ethics Raimond Gaita
124
9 'He's to Blame!' Peter Winch
151
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Contents
10 How Lucky Can You Get? D. Z. Phillips
165
11 Learning to Theologise Paul L. Holmer
194
Rush Rhees: Main Publications
201
Index
203
Notes on the Contributors Cora Diamond
Professor of Philosophy, University of Virginia
Norman Malcolm Visiting Professor, King's College, London; formerly Susan Linn Sage Professor of Philosophy, Cornell University H. 0. Mounce
Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, University College of Swansea
Lars Hertzberg
Professor of Philosophy, Finland
David Cockburn
Lecturer in Philosophy, St David's University College, Lampeter
ilham Oilman
Professor of Philosophy, University College of Swansea
Peter Winch
Professor of Philosophy, University of Illinois, Urbana/Champaign; formerly Professor of Philosophy, King's College, London
Raimond Gaita
Lecturer London
D. Z. Phillips
Professor of Philosophy, University College of Swansea
Paul L. Holmer
formerly Noah Porter Professor of Philosophical Theology, Yale Divinity School
R. F. Holland
formerly Professor of Philosophy, University of Leeds
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Philosophy,
Abo Academy,
King's
College,
Introduction: Attention to Particulars D. Z. Phillips It is well known that Ludwig Wittgenstein thought the hold of
many philosophical problems on us to be due to deep prejudices about the ways words have meaning in our commerce with each other. These prejudices have become enshrined in various theories of meanin
