Authors

Author: "Alistair MacFarlane"

Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968)

Alistair MacFarlane appreciates the life of an infamous art prophet.
[Issue 108: June/July 2015: Brief Lives]

William James (1842-1910)

Alistair MacFarlane takes a pragmatic look at the life of an American genius.
[Issue 105: November/December 2014: Brief Lives]

Richard Rorty (1931-2007)

Alistair MacFarlane holds up a mirror to the life of the famous Pragmatist.
[Issue 100: January/February 2014: Brief Lives]

Information, Knowledge & Intelligence

Alistair MacFarlane considers the differences between these crucial concepts, and the implications for how we think about computers.
[Issue 98: September/October 2013: Articles]

Ada Lovelace (1815-1852)

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

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

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

Martin Heidegger (1889-1976)

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

Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

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

C.S. Peirce (1839-1914)

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

Kurt Gödel (1906-1978)

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