Philosophy of language and linguistic theory examine the intricate relationship between language, meaning and the mind. This interdisciplinary field interrogates the ways in which words and ...

The philosophy of language has long engaged with questions concerning the nature, use, and interpretation of proper names. Central to this field are debates between referentialist and predicativist ...

Much research in psychology has focused on two capacities often thought to be uniquely human: the capacity for mentalizing and the capacity to use and understand language. I assume we all know more or ...

Gilbert Harman, the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, died at his home in Princeton on Nov. 13 after a long illness with Alzheimer’s. He was 83. Harman ...

What does it mean to be a person? The question may sound pat in an age so alert to the fluid nature of identity, but for the celebrated Austrian author and antifascist feminist Ingeborg Bachmann, ...

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 ...

Bing Shuo graduated from Wuhan University with a BA in Philosophy. He is primarily interested in some topics in philosophy of language, metaphysics and philosophy of science. Outside of philosophy, he ...

Philosophy often flourishes in the aftermath of wars, especially lost wars. Socrates served in the losing Athenian army in the Peloponnesian War; Thomas Hobbes wrote “Leviathan” while in exile in ...

No spoilers ahead, I promise. Logic, metaphysics, epistemology, morality and existentialism. This carefully selected list of subjects makeup the requirements of what the University of Connecticut ...