Tag: "philosophers & philosophy"

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]

David Lewis (1941-2001)

by Chris Bloor
[Issue 34: December 2001 / January 2002: Obituary]

Jezebel

Jezebel was a much-maligned woman, but Dane Gordon wonders if she really deserved such a bad name.
[Issue 33: September/October 2001: Feminisms]

Donald Davidson

Donald Davidson’s theories about mind and language have been incredibly influential in shaping modern analytic philosophy. Giancarlo Marchetti recently asked him about his life and his ideas.
[Issue 32: June/July 2001: Interview]

Elizabeth Anscombe

by Duncan Richter
[Issue 31: March/April 2001: Obituary]

Georg Hendrik von Wright

by Yujin Nagasawa
[Issue 31: March/April 2001: The Library of Living Philosophers]

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