Browsing: Philosophy of Language

Magritte places a realistic image of a pipe beside a written denial of its identity, transforming a familiar object into a philosophical problem of language, signs, seeing, and Representation.

Benedetto Croce developed an influential aesthetics based on the identity of intuition and expression, the unity of form and content, and the autonomy of art.

A historical portrait or manuscript representation accompanying an article on William of Ockham. The image relates to his nominalism, his distinction between individual realities and universal names, the principle known as Ockham’s Razor, and his influence on the transition from scholastic metaphysics towards modern logic and epistemology.