Peter Strawson News Today

An intriguing new history of Oxford philosophers tells the story of a cloistered world giving out under pressure from an intransigent reality.

Though it is startling to think of it now, analytic philosophy was once considered a promising subject for satire on mainstream television. When Beyond the Fringe was broadcast in 1964, the viewing public could apparently be relied upon to recognise the archetype of the post-Wittgensteinian linguistic philosopher being impersonated by Jonathan Miller and Alan Bennett.

Nikhil Krishnan’s A Terribly Serious Adventure shows how Oxford’s “ordinary language” movement, pioneered by JL Austin and Gilbert Ryle, looked to words for answers.

In his book A Terribly Serious Adventure, Nikhil Krishnan shines a light on the 'ordinary language' philosophers who shook up their field

The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on why we should express resentment when we are wronged.

Unthinkable: Scott Hershovitz advocates raising children who ‘we can resent’

Leading African Philosopher Dies, Aged 90 • Socrates Jazz Opera Opens Off Broadway • Hegel Museum Installs Escape Room — News reports by Anja Steinbauer