the messiness of life," and Quine sought to construct a fluid philoso- phy of belief, Wittgenstein said that each person's truth is revealed in the way he perceives his life's experiences. Ultimately, the philosopher cannot hope to discern universal truths.
Not all Anglo-American philosophy of the past half century has been concerned with language, Ross continues. In his ele- gant Theory of Justice (1971), Harvard phi- losopher John Rawls set out explicitly to construct a set of "just...