Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal

A Wittgensteinian/Austinian Qualified Defense of Ryle on Know-How, by Rupert Read

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Rupert Read is Reader in Philosophy at the University of East Anglia. He is the author of a number of works, including A Wittgensteinian Way with Paradoxes (Lexington, 2012), Wittgenstein among the Sciences: Wittgensteinian Investigations into the “Scientific Method,” ed. Simon Summers (Routledge, 2012), Philosophy for Life: Applying Philosophy in Politics and Culture, ed. Matthew A. Lavery (Continuum, 2007), and (with Wes Sharrock) Kuhn: Philosopher of Scientific Revolution (Polity, 2002). He has edited numerous essay collections, including (with Matthew A. Lavery) Beyond the Tractatus Wars: The New Wittgenstein Debate (Routledge, 2011), (with Jerry Goodenough) Film as Philosophy: Essays in Cinema after Wittgenstein and Cavell (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), and (with Alice Crary) The New Wittgenstein (Routledge, 2000). Among his recently published articles are (with Ruth Makoff) “Beyond Just Justice—Creating Space for a Future-Care Ethic,” Philosophical Investigations (2016) and “The Tale Parfit Tells: Analytic Metaphysics of Personal Identity versus Wittgensteinian Film and Literature,” Philosophy and Literature (2015).

Rupert Read, “A Wittgensteinian/Austinian Qualified Defense of Ryle on Know-How,” Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 39:2 (2019), pp. 405-29.

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