Ryle was chairman of the board…. Thus the irreplaceable Tom Nagel in a quietly polemical review of Nikhil Krishnan’s survey of “ordinary language philosophy,” A Terribly Serious Adventure. The polemic is against the book’s biographical mode, which Nagel finds inadequately attentive to the “arguments and philosophical claims that are at the heart of the story.” He ends by quoting with approval—and without apparent irony—Iris Murdoch’s insistence that philosophy “is not self-expression.” I built a
''... and yet at the same time to attempt to discover the truth.''