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MYSTERIOUS: Ludwig wittgenstein - What They Never Told You

Quote of the day by Ludwig Wittgenstein: 'The real question of life after death isn't whether or not it exists, but...' and why forever won't fix us

Philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein challenged the preoccupation with life after death, suggesting that eternal existence does not address the fundamental questions of life’s meaning. His reflections emerged amidst the chaos of World War One. In contemporary discussions on digital immortality, this crucial insight often gets overshadowed; authentic meaning resides in fully…

The Times of India

The bilingual stage

To imagine a language is to imagine a vivid form of life, Ludwig Wittgenstein once argued persuasively in his Philosophical Investigations. Whether you agree with him or not, what Wittgenstein observed -- the interrelation between language and life -- has, without a rupture, been one of the most intensive socio-historical…

Bangkok Post

After a paralyzing stroke, a South Korean pianist recreates himself as a one-handed performer

In 2012, South Korean pianist Lee Hun suffered a major stroke that left him with a right-sided paralysis

The Independent UK

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‘It’s wanting to know that makes us matter’: how Tom Stoppard made us all philosophers

Tom Stoppard, who has died at 88, was one of the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful playwrights of our age. He won his first Tony Award for Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead in 1968, and his last for Leopoldstadt in 2023.

The Conversation

Researchers have invented a new system of logic that could boost critical thinking and AI

The rigid structures of language we once clung to with certainty are cracking. Take gender, nationality or religion: these concepts no longer sit comfortably in the stiff linguistic boxes of the last century. Simultaneously, the rise of AI presses upon us the need to understand how words relate to meaning…

The Conversation

Best biographies of all time to add to your 2024 reading list

Intricate, academic explorations of lives and careers past

Evening Standard

Print your own tickets, treat your own illnesses – welcome to DIY Britain

Adverts telling us to take services into our own hands are trying to maintain the delusion that we still have a functioning society, says academic philosopher Tom Whyman

The Guardian - UK

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Friday essay: how women writers helped me find my voice after divorce

When my 25-year marriage broke down in 2017, I did what I always do in my life, especially in times of crisis. I turned to books. Specifically, to books by women.

The Conversation

A World Cup of political symbolism in silence

They call soccer the beautiful game, and spectacular moments from its greatest showcase, the World Cup, linger in the mind’s eye like jewels.

Tribune News Service

Saul Kripke obituary

Influential American philosopher whose 1980 book Naming and Necessity challenged ideas about the identity of mind and brain

The Guardian - UK

Wittgenstein tried to solve all the problems of philosophy in his Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus – but he didn't quite succeed

How is it that false statements, such as “horses have eight legs”, can be just as meaningful as true statements, such as “horses have four legs”?

The Conversation

Private Notebooks 1914-1916 by Ludwig Wittgenstein review – sex and logic

Translated into English for the first time, these diaries provide a glimpse into the innermost thoughts of a great philosopher

The Guardian - UK

Metaphysical Animals: How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to Life – review

Ideas get a little lost in biography in Clare Mac Cumhaill and Rachael Wiseman’s account of how four women shifted the discussion around logical positivism

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