Skepticism, Rules and Private Languages, by Patricia H. Werhane. (Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey: Humanities Press International, Inc., 1992).

An extensive discussion of the issue of private language and rule following, although Kripke seems to be the impetus for most of it. Werhane says that her book has three central aims. First, to make explicit Wittgenstein's original private language arguments, second, an analysis of some of the important reformulations of the private language argument appearing in the secondary literature, third, to determine what can be justifiably derived from the valid private language arguments to be found in Wittgenstein or others.

Reviews of Skepticism, Rules and Private Languages

• Harre, Rom, International Studies in Philosophy, 27 (2), 1995, pp. 141-143.
• Read, Rupert, Canadian Philosophical Reviews, 14 (2), Ap 94, pp. 144-147.

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