What is language? What is beauty? Who gets to decide? Philosophers have grappled with these questions for centuries, and they've generated a pile of long (and often tortured) books in their efforts to ...

Ideas are a little submerged by biography – and soft furnishings – in this account of how Elizabeth Anscombe, Iris Murdoch, Mary Midgley and Philippa Foot sought to refute logical positivism in ...

IN preparing this new edition of Aristotle's Metaphysics, Prof. Ross has performed an arduous and a valuable service. From many points of view the Metaphysics may be regarded as the hardest nut which ...

From left: Iris Murdoch, Mary Midgley (née Scrutton), Elizabeth Anscombe and Philippa Foot (née Bosanquet).Credit...The Fellows and the Principal of Somerville College. Anscombe: The Fellows and the ...