American philosopher and Wittgenstein's closest American disciple who contributed to epistemology, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of religion — defending a version of the ontological argument and critiquing the possibility of a private language.
Dream skepticism: we cannot verify during sleep that we are dreaming; ordinary language use of 'I was dreaming' does not presuppose that we know during sleep that we are dreaming. Ontological argument: defended a version of the argument in which God's existence, if possible, is necessary. Personal memoir of Wittgenstein.
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