Rupert Read's Publications List

Ordinary and everyday language

2010-03-11T16:48:49Z

What ‘ordinary/everyday language’ is taken to be opposed to is what’s critical. The key point of this article is to suggest, contra what still tends to be the prevailing wisdom, that the crucial mistake in Wittgenstein studies has been to massively misidentify the contrast class that Wittgenstein intended. The key such contrast-class is: ‘metaphysical’ (not, e.g. ‘scientific’.). It i...

Rupert Read (Forthcoming) Wittgenstein: Key Concepts :

A resolutely resolute reading of the TRACTATUS

2010-03-11T16:49:42Z

Rupert Read (Forthcoming) Beyond the 'TRACTATUS' wars :

Therapy

2010-03-11T16:47:55Z

The key connection between therapy as Wittgenstein practices it and the psychotherapy from where he got the idea is in the authority being vested in the therapee, not the therapist. Thus Wittgensteinian philosophy gives up the standard claim of the philosopher to know, to know what others don’t. Rather, philosophy becomes about helping others to heal – and healing oneself. By means of learning...

Phil Hutchinson, Rupert Read (Forthcoming) Wittgenstein: Key Concepts :

On Rawls's failure to preserve genuine religion

2010-03-11T16:50:20Z

Rupert Read (Draft - under review) :

Heaps of trouble

2010-03-11T16:50:08Z

Rupert Read (Draft - under review) :

A strengthened ethical version of Moore's paradox?

2011-03-10T16:50:51Z

Rupert Read (2011) Philosophical Psychology :

Wittgenstein, Plato, Rawls

2011-03-10T16:50:26Z

Rupert Read (2010) in PHILOSOPHY 85: 333 341-368

Wittgenstein vs. Rawls

2011-03-10T15:18:29Z

Rupert Read (2010) Proceedings of the Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Symposium 2010:

The case of John Rawls vs. The refuseniks

2010-03-11T16:51:47Z

I examine one powerful real-life case-study of the impact John Rawls’s philosophy has had upon the law and politics. The case-study is the (outside Israel) surprisingly little-known significant impact of Rawls’s doctrine on the conscientious objection vs. civil disobedience issue in relation to the ‘Courage to Refuse’ movement in Israel/Palestine. I argue that Rawls’s arguments have ha...

Rupert Read (2009) Practical Philosophy :

“Wittgenstein and Zen: one practice, no dogma”

2010-03-09T15:34:05Z

(2009) Pointing at the Moon 13-24

The hard problem of consciousness is continually reproduced and made harder by all attempts to solve it

2010-03-11T16:52:02Z

I argue that the so-called ‘hard’ problem of consciousness – the problem of how consciousness is possible at all, and how it ‘connects’ with matter – is only an artefact of the ways in which human scientists approach consciousness and (more generally) mind. Putting the point paradoxically but also quite precisely: the efforts to solve the mind-body problem, and this its latest variant ...

Rupert Read (2008) Theory, Culture and Society 25: 2 51-86

There is no such thing as a social science

2010-08-02T12:54:28Z

Phil Hutchinson, Rupert Read, Wes Sharrock (2008) :

Towards a perspicuous presentation of 'perspicuous presentation'

2010-03-11T16:54:07Z

Phil Hutchinson, Rupert Read (2008) PHILOSOPHICAL INVESTIGATIONS 31: 2 141-160

Economics is philosophy

2010-08-02T10:51:46Z

Rupert Read (2007) IJGE 1: 2

Philosophy for Life

2010-08-02T12:53:50Z

Rupert Read (2007) :

Applying Wittgenstein

2010-08-02T12:54:54Z

Rupert Read (2007) :

A no-theory theory?

2010-02-18T15:35:54Z

R.Read (2006) PHILOSOPHICAL INVESTIGATIONS :

An ELUCIDATORY interpretation of the _TRACTATUS_

2010-08-02T10:53:02Z

Phil Hutchinson, Rupert Read (2006) IJPS 14: 1 1-29

The first shall be last...: the importance of On Certainty 501

2010-08-02T12:39:43Z

OC 501 seems a pretty plain indication of the continuity of Wittgenstein’s philosophy. But is it perhaps an indication that OC is continuous with TLP (construed after the ‘ineffabilist’ interpretation of Anscombe, Hacker, etc.) and not with PI? I suggest rather that in his last writings Wittgenstein comes to recognise more explicitly the continuities between TLP and PI etc. and OC. I do thi...

Rupert Read (2005) Essays on On Certainty

Film as Philosophy

2010-08-02T12:57:47Z

(2005) :

Throwing away 'the bedrock'

2010-08-02T10:47:30Z

Rupert Read (2004) Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 105: 1 81-98

Wittgenstein and Faulkner's Benjy

2010-08-02T12:37:46Z

Rupert Read (2004) The literary Wittgenstein

Literature as philosophy of psychopathology

2010-08-02T10:54:52Z

Rupert Read (2003) PPP 10: 2 115-124

"Nothing is shown"

2010-08-02T10:51:03Z

We argue: (1) That Mounce’s critique of ‘the New Wittgenstein’ interpretation as a form of positivism begs the question, by ignoring the possibility that any reading of Wittgenstein that is not ‘mystical’ must be positivistic; and that Mounce moreover relies -- in his defence of a ‘mystic’ or ‘ineffabilistic’ reading of Wittgenstein -- on an interpretation of the saying vs. sho...

Rupert Read, Rob Deans (2003) Philosophical Investigations 26: 3 239-268

On delusions of sense: A reply to Sass and Coetzee

2010-08-02T10:53:40Z

Rupert Read (2003) PPP 10: 2 135-142

Against 'time-slices'

2010-08-02T11:09:52Z

The concept of ‘time-slice’ turns out to be at best philosophically inconsequential, I argue. Influential philosophies of time as apparently diverse as those of Dummett, Lewis and Bergson, thus must come to grief. The very idea of ‘time-slice’ upon which they rest -- the very idea of spatialising time, and of rendering the resulting ‘slices’ of potentially infinitely small measure -- t...

Rupert Read (2003) Philosophical Investigations 26: 1 24-43

Time to stop trying to provide an account of time

2010-08-02T10:59:47Z

Rupert Read (2003) Philosophy 78: 397-408

Kripke's Hume

2010-08-02T11:00:48Z

Rupert Read (2003) Graduate Faculty Research Journal 24: 1

Kuhn: philosopher of scientific revolution

2010-08-02T12:51:35Z

Rupert Read and Wes Sharrock (2002) :

Nature, Culture, _Ecosystem_: or 'The priority of Environmental Ethics to epistemology and metaphysics'

2010-08-02T12:34:53Z

Rupert Read (2002) Feminist readings of Wittgenstein 408-431

Is 'What is time?' a good question to ask?

2010-08-02T11:09:09Z

Rupert Read (2002) Philosophy 77: 193-209

Wittgenstein and Marx on vampirism and parasitism

2010-08-02T12:36:02Z

Rupert Read (2002) Wittenstein and Marxism 254-281

Kripke's Conjuring Trick

2010-08-02T11:07:37Z

Rupert Read, Wes Sharrock (2002) Journal of Thought 37: 3 65-96

On approaching schizophrenia via Wittgenstein

2010-08-02T10:56:46Z

Rupert Read (2001) Philosophical Psychology 14: 4 449-475

On wanting to say "All we need is a paradigm"

2010-08-02T11:14:35Z

Rupert Read (2001) The Harvard Review of Philosophy XI: 88-105

What does 'signify' signify?

2010-08-02T10:55:56Z

Rupert Read (2001) Philosophical Psychology 14: 4 499-514

The New Wittgenstein

2010-08-02T12:52:13Z

(2000) :

Psychotherapy: a form of prostitution?

2010-08-02T11:16:32Z

Rupert Read, Emma Willmer (2000) British Gestalt Journal 9: 2 30-36

How I learned to love (and hate) Noam Chomsky

2010-08-02T11:12:47Z

Rupert Read (2000) Philosophical Writings 15/16: 23-48

Wittgenstein and Marx on ordinary and philosophical language

2010-08-02T11:17:42Z

Rupert Read (2000) Essays in Philosophy 1: 2 1-41

The New Hume debate

2010-08-02T12:52:45Z

(2000) :

Meaningful Consequences

2010-08-02T11:19:16Z

James Guetti, Rupert Read (1999) Philosophical Forum XXX: 4 289-314

IS FORGIVENESS POSSIBLE? The cases of Thoreau and Rushdie (on) (writing) the unforgiveable

2010-08-02T12:27:21Z

Rupert Read (1996) Reason Papers 21: 15-35

Acting from Rules

2010-08-02T12:28:42Z

James Guetti, Rupert Read (1996) International Studies in Philosophy XXVIII: 2 43-62

"The real philosophical discovery"

2010-08-02T12:30:16Z

(1995) Philosophical Investigations 18: 4 362-370

The unstatability of Kripkean scepticisms

2010-08-02T12:32:29Z

Rupert Read (1995) Philosophical Papers XXIV: 1 67-75

Pain and Certainty

2010-08-02T12:31:33Z

Rupert Read (1990) Ludwig Wittgenstein: A symposium 160-169