H. O. Mounce

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Howard O. Mounce
Born1939 (age 86–87)
Swansea, Wales
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Era 21st-century philosophy
Region Western philosophy
Institutions University of Wales Swansea

Howard Owen Mounce (born 1939) is a British philosopher and Honorary Fellow of Swansea University. He was a long-serving lecturer on philosophy at the then University College of Swansea. Influenced by Rush Rhees, he is amongst those labelled as members of the "Swansea School" or as "Swansea Wittgensteinians". He is a former editor-of Philosophical Investigations, and has made contributions to a broad range of areas including the philosophy of language, the philosophy of religion, metaphysics, ethics, and aesthetics.

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Life and career

H. O. Mounce was born in early 1939 in Swansea (then in Glamorganshire).

A student (and later colleague) of Rush Rhees, [1] who Hertzberg describes as a "formative influence". [2] Mounce obtained his B.A. in 1961 from the then University College of Swansea. He remained there as a tutor over 1962–1963, He was then a lecturer at the then University College of Cardiff 1963–1968, before returning to Swansea as a lecturer in philosophy in 1968/1969. [3] [4] He remained at Swansea, latterly with the position of Senior Lecturer in Philosophy (finally at the then University of Wales at Swansea), until 1999 when he was then elected an honorary fellow of what is now Swansea University. [4] [5] Mounce is, along with D. Z. Phillips, İlham Dilman,and R. W. Beardsmore, amongst those later thinkers who, along with Rhees, Peter Winch and R. F. Holland came to be labelled (by others) from the 1960s on as members of the "Swansea School" or as "Swansea Wittgensteinians". [6]

He was the editor-in-chief of the Philosophical Investigations, a journal in which the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein is consistently highlighted,from 2006 to 2022. [7] He took over the position following the death of Phillips and continued in that role until he was succeeded by Mario Von Der Ruhr. [7] [8]

Mounce has, as Weston notes, published books on American Pragmatism, David Hume, moral philosophy (with D.Z. Phillips) and Wittgenstein’s Tractatus , and articles on a wide range of topics "from Zande witchcraft to the smell of coffee". [4] Many of these works are said by Weston to exhibit the influence of the philosophy of Wittgenstein. [4]

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Books authored

Select papers and book chapters

References

  1. ↑ Carter, Zachery A. (May 2006). "Wittgenstein, Rush Rhees, and the Measure of Language". New Blackfriars . 87 (1009): 288–301. doi:10.1111/j.0028-4289.2006.00148.x. ISSN   0028-4289. JSTOR   43251037.
  2. ↑ Hertzberg, Lars (23 February 2023). "Rush Rhees: 'Discussion is my Only Medicine'" (PDF). The Creation of Wittgenstein: Understanding the Roles of Rush Rhees, Elizabeth Anscombe and Georg Henrik von Wright. Edited by Thomas H. Wallgren. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 23. ISBN   978-1-350-12110-2. Rhees had a formative influence on colleagues such as Peter Winch, Roy Holland, David Cockburn, Ilham Dilman and Howard Mounce
  3. ↑ Academic Whos Who 1975-76: University Teachers in the British Isles in the - Arts, Education and Social Sciences . Gale Group. 1975. p. 501. ISBN   978-0-8103-2020-8.
  4. 1 2 3 4 Weston, Michael (31 December 2009), "Chapter 5. Howard Mounce: Wittgensteinian Transcendent Realism?", Sense and Reality, edited by John Edelman, De Gruyter, pp. 103, 124, doi: 10.1515/9783110328813.103 , ISBN   978-3-11-032881-3 , retrieved 6 January 2026
  5. ↑ Davies, Brian, ed. (1998). Philosophy of religion : a guide to the subject. Washington, DC : Georgetown University Press. pp.  xi. ISBN   978-0-87840-695-1.
  6. ↑ Von Der Ruhr, Mario. (31 December 2009), "Chapter 9. Rhees, Wittgenstein, and the Swansea School", Sense and Reality, edited by John Edelman, De Gruyter, p. 221, doi:10.1515/9783110328813.219, ISBN   978-3-11-032881-3 , retrieved 9 January 2026
  7. 1 2 Sandis, Constantine (26 May 2023). "The Lex Academic Interview: Mario Von Der Ruhr". www.lexacademic.com. Retrieved 6 January 2026.
  8. ↑ "The Swansea School of Philosophy". www.theswanseaschool.org. Retrieved 6 January 2026.
  9. ↑ Atkinson, R. F. (1971). "Review of Moral Practices" . Philosophy . 46 (176): 179–181. ISSN   0031-8191.
  10. ↑ Torrance, Iain R. (November 1971). "Moral Practices. By D. Z. Phillips and H. O. Mounce. Routledge & Kegan Paul (Studies in Ethics and the Philosophy of Religion), 1970. Pp. 135. £1·65" . Scottish Journal of Theology . 24 (4): 507–509. doi:10.1017/S0036930600034141. ISSN   0036-9306.
  11. ↑ "Reviews". Philosophical Investigations. 6 (2): 145–156. April 1983. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9205.1983.tb00480.x. ISSN   0190-0536.
  12. ↑ Suckiel, Ellen Kappy (1998). "Review of The Two Pragmatisms: From Peirce to Rorty" . Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society. 34 (1): 304–312. ISSN   0009-1774.
  13. ↑ Hobbs, Charles A. (2007). "Pragmatism, Radical Empiricism, and Mounce's Account of William James" . William James Studies. 2. ISSN   1933-8295.
  14. ↑ Pavelich, Andrew (April 2002). "Hume's Naturalism (review)" (PDF). Hume Studies . 28 (1): 154–156. doi:10.1353/hms.2011.0321. ISSN   1947-9921.
  15. ↑ Kail, Peter (March 2001). "HO Mounce: Hume's Naturalism" . British Journal for the History of Philosophy . 9 (1). BOOK REVIEWS: 172–174. doi:10.1080/09608780010012765. ISSN   0960-8788.
  16. ↑ Clark, Stephen R. L. (2003). "Review of Tolstoy on Aesthetics: What Is Art?" . Philosophy. 78 (304): 300–303. ISSN   0031-8191.
  17. ↑ Thomson, Katherine (2003). "Review of Tolstoy on Aesthetics: What Is Art?" . Mind . 112 (445): 162–166. ISSN   0026-4423.
  18. ↑ Haldane, John (October 2009). "Metaphysics and the End of Philosophy – By Howard O. Mounce" . Philosophical Investigations. 32 (4): 384–389. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9205.2009.01389.x. ISSN   0190-0536.
  19. ↑ Meynell, Hugo (July 2017). "Metaphysics and the End of Philosophy. By H. O.Mounce. Pp. x, 198. London/NY, Continuum, 2007, $148.00" . The Heythrop Journal . 58 (4): 693–694. doi:10.1111/heyj.12612. ISSN   0018-1196.
  20. ↑ reprinted in: Hudson, W. D., ed. (1969), The Is-Ought Question: A Collection of Papers on the Central Problem in Moral Philosophy , London: Macmillan and Taylor, Paul W., ed. (1972), Problems of moral philosophy; an introduction to ethics (2nd ed.), Encino, Calif. Dickenson Pub. Co
  21. ↑ Burley, Mikel (July 2012). "Mounce and Winch on Understanding (or Not Understanding) an Indigenous Society" . Philosophical Investigations. 35 (3–4): 350–372. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9205.2012.01473.x. ISSN   0190-0536. Howard Mounce's "Understanding a Primitive Society," published in 1973, is in large part a critique of Peter Winch's article of the same title, which was first published nine years earlier. A few years later, in 1976, a further article of Winch's, entitled "Language, Belief and Relativism," included a response to the central criticism that Mounce had made.
  22. ↑ Reinhardt, Lloyd (October 1992). "Wittgenstein: Attention to Particulars. Essays in Honour of Rush Rhees ( 1905–1989 )" . Philosophical Books. 31 (4): 213–216. doi:10.1111/j.1468-0149.1992.tb00644.x. ISSN   0031-8051. H. O. Mounce discusses the views on generality of John Anderson, who taught Rhees before going off to put philosophy on the map in Australia. Anderson thought he had surmounted the realist-nominalist issue with his view that the general was just as available in direct experience as the particular. Mounce expresses admiration for the effort (and Anderson's philosophy generally) while finding the effort a failure.
  23. ↑ Phillips, D. Z. (1990). "From Coffee to Carmelites" . Philosophy. 65 (251): 19–38. ISSN   0031-8191.
  24. ↑ CRITICAL NOTICE: Readings of Wittgenstein’s On Certainty Edited by Daniele Moyal-Sharrock and William H. Brenner, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2007, pp. 352, £ 20.99 ISBN-13: 978-0-230-53552-7 (paperback) Reviewed by Derek A. McDougal
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