Anthony Gottlieb studied philosophy at the University of Cambridge and was Executive Editor of The Economist from 1997 to 2006. A former fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, his writing has appeared i...

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In 1921, he’d solved all the fundamental problems of philosophy – then he tore it all up

Wittgenstein argued that words have meaning “only in the stream of life.” Philosophical problems arise when “language goes on holiday.”

The philosopher sought freedom from the bewitchment of language.

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In 1931, at the age of forty-one, Ludwig Wittgenstein mused in his diary that perhaps his name would live on only as the end point of Western philosophy—“like the name of the one who burnt down the…

Gottfried Leibniz made conceptual advances that lie behind our digital world. Yet for centuries he was mocked for a misstep.

Henri Bergson enjoyed a cult following on both sides of the Atlantic in the early 20th century. A new biography explains what the fuss was about.