The plain-speaking philosophers
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.
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Thomas Nagel
Thomas Nagel is an American philosopher and professor emeritus at New York University. He is the author of The View from Nowhere and Mind and Cosmos, among other books.
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