Vol. 197, No. 6, Special Issue on Knowledge, Virtue and Action: Eastern and Western Perspectives (June 2020), pp. 2433-2464 (32 pages) This paper defends a challenge, inspired by arguments drawn from ...

There is a common-sense view of language, which is held by Wittgenstein, Strawson Dummett, Searle, Putnam, Lewis, Wiggins, and others. According to this view a language consists of conventions, it is ...

Old rotten piano, 2011. (Photo by(Ullstein Bild / Getty Images) The philosopher Stanley Cavell, who was the author of some 19 books, passed away in 2018. Fifteen ...

Among philosophers of the 20th century, John Langshaw Austin is not a cultural celebrity like Heidegger, Russell, Sartre or Wittgenstein. But for a period after the Second World War, he was the ...

Nikhil Krishnan’s A Terribly Serious Adventure shows how Oxford’s “ordinary language” movement, pioneered by JL Austin and Gilbert Ryle, looked to words for answers. By Thomas Nagel The philosopher ...

Sir Peter Strawson, who died on Monday aged 86, was a leading light amongst the philosophers concentrated at Oxford during the 1950s and 1960s; though never as well-known to the general public as ...

Sebastian Brumfield Mejía recently graduated summa cum laude from Louisiana State University with a BA in Philosophy, Political Science, and Sociology. His research interests are in Critical Theory ...

The influence of World War II on philosophical thinking is the focus of today's discussion as Chris Harding explores the years when the University of Oxford hosted one of the most distinctive and ...