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War and Paradise, An Interview with Marcus Rossberg
Get PDFMarcus Rossberg has been in St Andrews since 2001, finished his PhD in March 2006, and is now a postdoctoral research fellow here. His interests lie in philosophy of mathematics, philosophical logic and metaphysics. Thanks to this, he had some illuminating advice on career prospects, as well as sharing his insight on the differences between continental and analytical philosophy and other battlefronts
A black Bonhoeffer?
Get PDFThis paper offers an assessment of the lifework of the African-American theologian and Civil Rights leader James H. Cone (1935–2018) by cataloguing parallels with the life and career of the German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945). Bonhoeffer\u27s experience of studying in the US and his opposition to the Nazis provides an interesting counterpoint to Cone\u27s development of a Black Theology that emerged from his struggles on behalf of the black community, his deep connection with spirituals and the blues, and his uncompromising commitment to following Christ
H.P. Grice and the Great Pragmatics Predicament
Get PDFH. P. Grice is widely accredited with the discovery of implicature, that which is not literally said by a sentence but is nonetheless conveyed when used in a conversational context, creating a theory which has had a tremendous influence on the study of pragmatics. However, in this essay I shall be arguing that beyond the very intuitive notion that implicature exists, the system that Grice constructs to explain and predict it in Logic and Conversation1 is incomplete in several devastating ways, which eventually leads to the need for its extensive refinement and additional elements to form a complete whole. It is often commented that Grice’s system is too vague to commit him to anything, however, Grice does make several definite claims and it is my aim to show that these cannot properly or fully characterise how implicature work
