...more refined philosophical theories of how language works, such as Wittgenstein’s early “propositionalist” account of language (see Wittgenstein 1922; cf. Meyer 1995, 216-217). Lakoff and Johnson isolate this metaphor to...
Eric D. Meyer is a semi-retired fence-builder and former English professor who writes book reviews for philosophy journals like Dialogue, Symposium, Philosophy in Review, and Marxism and Philosophy Review of...
...is an independent scholar based in Minneapolis. Her research interests focus on the history and philosophy of mathematics. Nathan Eric Dickman Nathan Eric Dickman (PhD, The University of Iowa) is...
This series, Philosophy in the Contemporary World, is aimed at exploring the various ways philosophy can be used to discuss issues of relevance to our society. There are no methodological,...
This series, Philosophy in the Contemporary World, is aimed at exploring the various ways philosophy can be used to discuss issues of relevance to our society. There are no methodological,...
...give one example, I regard Stephanie Meyer’s Twilight tetralogy as a brilliant exercise in thinking about what an afterlife could look like. Meyer is a practicing Mormon, and Mormon views...
