Vol. 197, No. 6, Special Issue on Knowledge, Virtue and Action: Eastern and Western Perspectives (June 2020), pp. 2433-2464 (32 pages) This paper defends a challenge, inspired by arguments drawn from ...

Old rotten piano, 2011. (Photo by(Ullstein Bild / Getty Images) The philosopher Stanley Cavell, who was the author of some 19 books, passed away in 2018. Fifteen ...

Though Mr. Lin purports to attack "Chomsky's view of language" and to defend the "common sense view of language", he in fact attacks "views" that are basic and common to linguists, psycholinguists, ...

More books have been published about Stanley Cavell than he has written himself. Cavell notes wryly in this memoir that many of these commentaries aim to introduce him to the philosophical world and ...

Nikhil Krishnan’s A Terribly Serious Adventure shows how Oxford’s “ordinary language” movement, pioneered by JL Austin and Gilbert Ryle, looked to words for answers. By Thomas Nagel The philosopher ...

Among philosophers of the 20th century, John Langshaw Austin is not a cultural celebrity like Heidegger, Russell, Sartre or Wittgenstein. But for a period after the Second World War, he was the ...