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The fifth conference of the Italian network for the philosophy of mathematics runs from 9 to 11 September at the University of Bologna. Three headings: applicability, ontology and reasoning. One keynote goes straight at the field's oldest problem: do mathematical objects have a nature?
Marking a century in print, the journal returns to an article it published a quarter of a century ago: Bernard Williams's 'Philosophy as a Humanistic Discipline'.
The French philosopher received an honorary doctorate from Leiden University on 9 February 2026. Her public lecture the following day started from Derrida's idea of the 'unconditional university' and asked what has become of it.
Catherine Malabou
The author of After Virtue died in 2025 at the age of 96. His thesis that the modern moral vocabulary is a heap of unintelligible fragments is still being argued over.
Alasdair MacIntyre
The Bulgarian-born French thinker turned 85 on 24 June. Kristeva, who visited Bulgaria in May, works with concepts that move between linguistics, psychoanalysis and feminism.
Julia Kristeva
The mathematician, physicist and thinker Blaise Pascal died on 19 August 1662 at the age of thirty-nine. What survived was the notes for an unfinished book: the Pensées.
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Immanuel Kant looks for the measure of moral rightness not in consequences but in the principle of the act. The three formulations of the categorical imperative, and why they are still argued about.
The French philosopher who defined 'the postmodern condition' and announced the end of grand narratives was born on 10 August 1924.
The allegory of the cave in Book VII of the Republic sets out the difference between knowledge and appearance. Why it is invoked so often in arguments about screens, algorithms and information.
