Bernard Harrison taught for twenty-nine years at the University of Sussex successively as lecturer Reader and Professor of Philosophy before moving in 1992 to the E. E. Ericksen Chair of Philosophy at the University of Utah where he remains an Emeritus Professor. He has also taught or held research posts at the Universities of Michigan Toronto Cincinnati and Western Australia and at the Australian national University. He is the author of seven books and more than fifty papers in journals and anthologies. His interests range from the philosophy of language ethics and the interpretation of Wittgenstein to philosophy and literature. His recent books include Inconvenient Fictions: Literature and the Limits of Theory (Yale University Press 1991) and Word and World: Practice and the Foundations of Language (with Patricia Hanna: Cambridge University Press 2004). Language: English