Tag: "philosophers & philosophy"

Alice in Blunderland

Peter Rickman travels through the looking glass in search of some of philosophy’s pitfalls.
[Issue 37: August/September 2002: Fiction]

Jennifer Hornsby is a philosopher based at London’s Birkbeck College, whose interests range from feminism to philosophy of mind. Giancarlo Marchetti talked with her recently at a conference in Italy.
[Issue 36: June/July 2002: Interview]

What Can You Do With Philosophy, Anyway?

Jeremiah Conway says that philosophy is profoundly useless but incredibly worthwhile.
[Issue 36: June/July 2002: Articles]

Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900-2002)

by Anja Steinbauer
[Issue 36: June/July 2002: Obituary]

Robert Nozick (1938-2002)

by Anja Steinbauer
[Issue 35: March/April 2002: Obituary]

Simone Weil by Francine du Plessix Gray

When the brilliant, tragic Simone Weil died in 1943, she was only 34, but her ideas still inspire. Martin Andic ponders a new biography by Francine du Plessix Gray.
[Issue 35: March/April 2002: Books]

R.M. Hare (1919-2002)

by Piers Benn
[Issue 35: March/April 2002: Obituary]

Simon Blackburn

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]

The Uses and Abuses of Philosophical Biographies

Tim Madigan on the Lives of the Great Saints (not!).
[Issue 35: March/April 2002: Articles]

Sir Michael Dummett

by Karen Green
[Issue 34: December 2001 / January 2002: The Library of Living Philosophers]

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