Rush Rhees

Rush Rhees
Rush Rhees, photographed by Michael Nedo
Born(1905-03-19)19 March 1905
Rochester, New York, United States
Died22 May 1989(1989-05-22) (aged 84)
Swansea, Wales
NationalityAmerican
Spouses
  • Jean Henderson
  • Margaret 'Peg' Britton
Era20th-century
RegionWestern philosophy
SchoolAnalytic philosophy

Rush Rhees (/rz/; 19 March 1905 – 22 May 1989) was an American philosopher. He is principally known as a student, friend, and literary executor of the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. With G. E. M. Anscombe he was co-editor of Wittgenstein's posthumous Philosophical Investigations (1953), and, with Anscombe and G. H. von Wright, he co-edited Wittgenstein's Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics (1956). He was solely responsible for the editing of Philosophical Grammar (1974) and Philosophical Remarks (1975). Rhees taught philosophy at Swansea University from 1940 until 1966, when he took early retirement to devote more time to editing Wittgenstein's works.