Tag: "philosophers & philosophy"

Bill Stott’s Cartoon

by Bill Stott
[Issue 92: September/October 2012: Cartoon]

Philosophers by Steve Pyke

Constantine Sandis looks philosophically at Steve Pyke’s photos of philosophers.
[Issue 92: September/October 2012: Books]

Kurt Gödel (1906-1978)

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

P.K.F. Robinson (1908-2012)

Michael O’Connor reports on the Diagonalist English philosopher sadly crushed to death by his ‘Philosophical House’.
[Issue 90: May/June 2012: Humour]

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)

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

Michael Dummett (1925-2011)

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

Sir Karl Popper (1902-1994)

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

Alexander McCall Smith is a former professor of medical law and now a popular novelist. Patricia Cleveland-Peck asks him about his interest in philosophy.
[Issue 87: November/December 2011: Interview]

Dilthey: Selected Writings

Rebecca Hansen reviews a book of selected translations from Wilhelm Dilthey.
[Issue 87: November/December 2011: Books]

Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947)

Alistair MacFarlane on the best-known advocate of Process Philosophy.
[Issue 86: September/October 2011: Brief Lives]

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