Themed Articles

The Structure of Musical Revolutions

Edward Slowik investigates Kuhn’s philosophy of science through an analogy.
[Issue 59: January/February 2007]

Don’t Panic! It’s the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

Mathias Brochhausen envisages Wittgenstein Hitchhiking around the Galaxy.
[Issue 58: November/December 2006]

Tractatus 7.1: Translation and Silence

Peter Caws considers how much is lost in translation.
[Issue 58: November/December 2006]

The Private Language Argument

Richard Floyd explains a notorious example of Wittgenstein’s public thought.
[Issue 58: November/December 2006]

Mark Jago looks at Wittgenstein’s first theory of language, in the Tractatus. One of the conclusions of this theory is that the theory in the Tractatus is nonsense…
[Issue 58: November/December 2006]

Wittgenstein: A Wonderful Life

Tim Madigan on logic, language and mysticism in the life of one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century.
[Issue 58: November/December 2006]

The Wittgenstein Archive

Bob Plant and Peter Baumann relate some lesser-known anecdotes about the great man and his acolytes.
[Issue 58: November/December 2006]

Rules, Language & Reality

George Wrisley considers how some of Wittgenstein’s later ideas on language relate to reality.
[Issue 58: November/December 2006]

Performance Is The Thing

Dzifa Benson is compelled to consider the nature of performance.
[Issue 57: September/October 2006]

Dasein And The Arts

So how do you apply philosophical principles to think about art? An example can be derived from an unlikely source. Reneh Karamians uses Heidegger’s philosophy as an illustration of how to understand aesthetic experience.
[Issue 57: September/October 2006]

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