Tag: "language"

How Does Language Work?

The following answers to the question of linguistic meaning each win a random book.
[Issue 90: May/June 2012: Question of the Month]

Film Socialisme

Sean Gittins has a different view of film, courtesy of Jean-Luc Godard.
[Issue 89: March/April 2012: Films]

Language-Using Apes

J’aime Wells is an ape talking about the possibility of apes talking.
[Issue 89: March/April 2012: Articles]

Encouraging Communication Through Imagination

Shudong Chen communicates about the importance of communication.
[Issue 89: March/April 2012: Articles]

Michael Dummett (1925-2011)

Menno Lievers tells us about the ideas and life of an influential British philosopher.
[Issue 89: March/April 2012: Obituary]

Consciousness, Freewill and Language

Michael Langford talks about the language we use to talk about the mind and brain.
[Issue 87: November/December 2011: Brains & Minds]

Spinning Narratives, Spinning Selves

Pauline O’Flynn tells stories of how our language makes our selves, with contributions from Arendt, Ngugi, Dennett and Merleau-Ponty.
[Issue 85: July/August 2011: Articles]

Okey Doke

Raymond Tallis is illocutionary about the young Wittgenstein’s perlocutions.
[Issue 80: August/September 2010: Tallis in Wonderland]

A Kripkean Argument For Goatism

Bill Capra demonstrates that the fact that everything is a goat can be shown by a simple argument which draws on elementary modal principles.
[Issue 79: June/July 2010: Articles]

Don’t Tell Him, Pike!

Raymond Tallis from the home front in the war of words.
[Issue 74: July/August 2009: Tallis in Wonderland]