Thematic
Communication and intention
The classic attempt to understand communication in terms of the intentions of a person making an utterance was put forward by Paul Grice in 1957. Grice was concerned ...
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Thematic
Meaning and communication
The two fundamental facts about language are that we use it to mean things and we use it to communicate. So the philosophy of language tries to explain ...
Thematic
Projectivism
‘Projectivism’ is used of philosophies that agree with Hume that ‘the mind has a great propensity to spread itself on the world’, that what is in fact an ...
Thematic
Supervenience
Supervenience is used of the relationship between two kinds of properties that things may have. It refers to the way in which one kind of property may only ...
Biographical
Collingwood, Robin George (1889–1943)
Collingwood was the greatest British philosopher of history of the twentieth century. His experience as a practising historian of Roman Britain led him to believe that the besetting ...
Biographical
Nozick, Robert (1938–2002)
Although Robert Nozick published on an enormous range of topics, he is best known as a political philosopher, and especially for his powerful and entertaining statement of libertarianism. ...