General Articles: Brief Lives

Richard Rorty (1931-2007)

Alistair MacFarlane holds up a mirror to the life of the famous Pragmatist.
[Issue 100: January/February 2014]

Daphne Hampson on the man many consider to be the father of existentialism.
[Issue 99: November/December 2013]

Dale DeBakcsy delves into the secret origins of modern philosophy.
[Issue 98: September/October 2013]

Graeme Garrard on one of the few writers whose name has become an adjective.
[Issue 97: July/August 2013]

Alistair MacFarlane on how a poet’s daughter invented the concept of software.
[Issue 96: May/June 2013]

Alistair MacFarlane on a long life looking into language and logic.
[Issue 95: March/April 2013]

Alistair MacFarlane considers the being and times of the writer of Being and Time.
[Issue 94: January/February 2013]

Alistair MacFarlane considers the life and work of a profound physicist.
[Issue 93: November/December 2012]

Was he the greatest American philosopher? Alistair MacFarlane studies the signs.
[Issue 92: September/October 2012]

Alistair MacFarlane shows how the life of this logician reached beyond pure logic.
[Issue 91: July/August 2012]