Language, Life and Logic

I am reprinting here a recent Substack article of mine in which I try to articulate in a very concise way some ideas and intuitions I have ...

I recently set out some of my basic beliefs and assumptions about what there is and about what makes a person. "Biology and culture. ...

I talk here about my general goal in this series of podcasts of presenting and defending a form of individualism which takes seriously our...

[This piece was published at The Electric Agora earlier this year. Chomsky's ideas on linguistics are very polarising and even my quali...

A confusing and (arguably) confused article about time which appeared late last year at The Electric Agora prompted me to set out a few...

Terms like “pragmatism” as it applies to philosophy and the history of ideas – most isms really – are intrinsically vague and useful only ...

Lee Smolin is a respected physicist who has always had strong philosophical interests and convictions. He recently articulated his realist...

Much is written about shared narratives and their role in creating a common culture. But what is a culture? The idea of a common culture ...

In his youth, Wittgenstein worked with Bertrand Russell and then subsequently had dealings with the Vienna Circle before taking a rather dif...

Bertrand Russell and Ludwig Wittgenstein had many profound disagreements. They were, for example, diametrically opposed in their respective ...

Attempts to express a comprehensive personal view of the world are doomed to failure. Each of us has a view of the world; some such views ar...

Some people believe that all thoughts and concepts are language-based; others see language as playing a less crucial (or central or primary...