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General Articles: Brief Lives

Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527)

Graeme Garrard on one of the few writers whose name has become an adjective.
[Issue 97: July/August 2013]

Ada Lovelace (1815-1852)

Alistair MacFarlane on how a poet’s daughter invented the concept of software.
[Issue 96: May/June 2013]

W.V.O. Quine (1908-2000)

Alistair MacFarlane on a long life looking into language and logic.
[Issue 95: March/April 2013]

Martin Heidegger (1889-1976)

Alistair MacFarlane considers the being and times of the writer of Being and Time.
[Issue 94: January/February 2013]

Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

Alistair MacFarlane considers the life and work of a profound physicist.
[Issue 93: November/December 2012]

C.S. Peirce (1839-1914)

Was he the greatest American philosopher? Alistair MacFarlane studies the signs.
[Issue 92: September/October 2012]

Kurt Gödel (1906-1978)

Alistair MacFarlane shows how the life of this logician reached beyond pure logic.
[Issue 91: July/August 2012]

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)

Graeme Garrard observes the life of a paradoxical revolutionary hero.
[Issue 90: May/June 2012]

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)

Alistair MacFarlane reveals paradoxes in the long life of the third Earl Russell.
[Issue 89: March/April 2012]

Sir Karl Popper (1902-1994)

Alistair MacFarlane observes the logic of Karl Popper’s discoveries.
[Issue 88: January/February 2012]

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