Tag: "language"

Closure: A Story of Everything by Hilary Lawson

Sam Nico provides closure on a new book by Hilary Lawson.
[Issue 37: August/September 2002: Books]

Money Talk

“Loan”? “Borrow”? “Growth”? “Seed money”? Michael Philips finds such talk hard to credit.
[Issue 36: June/July 2002: Articles]

After a decade teaching philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Simon Blackburn recently returned to Britain, to a professorship at Cambridge University. Filiz Peach caught up with him in London to ask him about his ideas and his priorities.
[Issue 35: March/April 2002: Interview]

A Womb of Words

Do babies drink in language with their mothers’ milk? Peter Benson surveys the startling semiotics of Julia Kristeva.
[Issue 34: December 2001 / January 2002: Articles]

What’s New in… Philosophy of Language

The 20th century saw the complex relationship between language, mind and world become absolutely central to philosophy. Steven Geisz guides us through the debates, the different positions and the latest thinking.
[Issue 33: September/October 2001: Overview]

Right by Definition

by Joel Marks
[Issue 31: March/April 2001: Moral Moments]

The Yuck Factor

Charles Fethe on the Wisdom of Repugnance.
[Issue 29: October/November 2000: Articles]

Cross-Dressing with Jacques and Judy

Peter Benson ponders the construction and deconstruction of our traditional notions about gender.
[Issue 28: August/September 2000: Articles]

Philosophical Viruses

Richard Taylor on how language can mislead us.
[Issue 27: June/July 2000: Articles]

Donald Davidson

by J. Hopkins
[Issue 25: Winter 1999/2000: The Library of Living Philosophers]