Back around 1980 a student friend Gary Biester dropped by my house to present me with a gift of the Bruce Springsteen album “The River.” I had not heard of “The Boss” so I was interested to explore whatever it was that Gary thought was so special about him and his music. I very soon…

Back in the 1950s a philosopher named John L. Austin taught at Oxford University and has become famous for his detailed analytical examination of the later philosophy of one Ludwig Wittgenstein. However, rather than engage in broad generalizations about the importance of ordinary language in sorting out the various philosophical puzzles to which traditional theorizing…