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Avner Baz
Contact Info:
Department of Philosophy
Miner Hall, room 120
Tufts University
Medford, MA 02155
617-627-2842
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Office Hours:
Fri. 10:00 - 12:00
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Assistant Professor
Ethics, Aesthetics, Epistemology, Kant,
Wittgenstein, Ordinary Language Philosophy
Biography
Avner Baz was born and grew up in Israel, on a kibbutz,
where for many years he was a cowboy. Being a true cowboy,
he both philosophized all the time and thought that there
was nothing for him to learn at a university. Later he started
a construction business in Israel, and was horrified to find
that one could easily spend a lifetime thinking about commerce.
He finally decided to go to the university, where he started
by studying physics and math.
Avner has written about ethics and aesthetics, about aspect
perception, about judgment, about Kant and Wittgenstein and
Cavell and John McDowell. His philosophical ambition, at present,
is to dispel the widespread belief that the insights and procedures
of ordinary language philosophy can safely be ignored by current
practitioners in the mainstream of analytic philosophy.
Selected Publications
When Words are Called For –
In Defense of Ordinary Language Philosophy, Harvard University Press
(forthcoming).
Articles
- "Must Philosophers Rely on Intuitions?" (unpublished)
- "Geach’s “Refutation” of Austin Revisited," Canadian Journal of Philosophy,
forthcoming.
- "Who Knows?" European Journal of Philosophy, (forthcoming).
- "Being Right, and Being in the Right," Inquiry (Vol. 51:6, December
2008).
- "The Reaches of Words," International Journal of Philosophical Studies
(Vol. 16:1, January 2008).
- "Kant’s Principle of Purposiveness, and the Missing Point of (Aesthetic)
Judgments," Kantian Review (Volume 10:1, May 2005).
- "Moral Justification and the Idea of an Ethical Position,"
Philosophy
(Vol. 80: 311, January 2005).
- "What’s the Point of Calling Out Beauty?" The British Journal of Aesthetics
(Vol. 44:1, January 2004).
- "On When Words are called For—Cavell, McDowell, and the Wording of Our World,"
Inquiry (Vol. 46:4, December 2003).
- "What’s the Point of Seeing Aspects?" Philosophical Investigations (Vol.
23:2, April 2000)
- "Wittgenstein on Seeing Aspects," forthcoming in Ludwig Wittgenstein: Key
Concepts, Kelly Jolley (ed.), (Acumen, 2009).
- "On Learning from Wittgenstein; or What Does it Take to
See the Grammar
of Seeing Aspects?" forthcoming in Seeing Wittgenstein Anew/ William Day
and Victor Krebs (eds.), (Cambridge University Press, in press).
- "Seeing Aspects and Philosophical Difficulty," forthcoming in
Handbook on the
Philosophy of Wittgenstein, Marie McGinn (ed.), (Oxford University Press,
2009).
- "Knowing Knowing (that Such and Such)," forthcoming in
New Essays on the
Philosophy of J. L. Austin, Richard Sørli and Martin Gustafsson (eds.),
(Oxford University Press).
- "Ordinary Language Philosophy," forthcoming in Pragmatics Encyclopedia,
Louise Cummins (ed.), (Routledge, in press).
Courses Taught Regularly
Kant's /Critique of Pure Reason,
Introduction to Modern Philosophy
Emerson and Thoreau
Seminars
Contextualism and Skepticism
Wittgenstein
Ordinary Language Philosophy
Stanley Cavell and the Philosophy of the Ordinary |
