The death of Cyril Barrett in Dublin on December 30 diminishes in equal measure the company of the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits), of which he was a member, and the community of English-language ...

The Georg Henrik von Wright Lecture is intended as a recurring event with the purpose of promoting research and debate relating to the philosophical work of Georg Henrik von Wright. It is funded by a ...

Philosophers have had nothing like the influence in Ireland that their fellows have in other EU countries. Compare, for example, the widely acknowledged philosophical education of Emmanuel Macron by ...

In the rarefied world of Wittgenstein scholarship it is little short of astonishing: an untapped, lost archive of original material which provides fresh insights into the utterly brilliant but ...

OF ALL THE innovations that sprang from the trenches of the first world war—the zip, the tea bag, the tank—the “Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus” must be among the most elegant and humane. When the ...

Ludwig Wittgenstein is acknowledged as a major philosopher of the 20th century. I often came across references to his friendship with an Irish doctor, Maurice Drury, of whom I knew nothing. Happily, ...

Karl Marx dedicated his life to the cause of revolutionary socialism, while Ludwig Wittgenstein generally stayed away from politics. Marx had a background in Hegelian philosophy, while Wittgenstein ...

Georg Henrik von Wright, who has died aged 87, was one of the most eminent philosophers of the second half of the 20th century, and a distinguished essayist and cultural critic. His philosophical ...