“Language-games.” By Ian Ground.

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To deny the importance of vulgarity is to reject the revolutionary tradition… By Amber A’Lee Frost. (May 17, 2016)

In 1981, the US Department of Energy and the civil engineering company Bechtel Corp assembled a task force to help tackle the problem of how to warn future humans to stay away from radioactive nuclear waste sites thousands of years into the future. Perhaps the strangest solution came from the French author Françoise Bastide and the Italian semiologist Paolo Fabbri, who proposed genetically engineering cats to change colour in response to radiation, and creating a mythology of danger around those cats.

Where is your mind? Where does your thinking occur? Where are your beliefs? By Keith Frankish.

When Wittgenstein returned to philosophy, the idea that drove him beyond all others was that the nature of language had been misunderstood by philosophers. They were better conceived of as a part of the activity of life. As such, they were more like tools. It is the utility of handles that Wittgenstein insists on here: By Christopher Benfey.

Tim Crane reviews Ian Ground and F. A. Flowers III's "Portraits of Wittgenstein."

What the philosopher learned from his time in elementary-school classrooms. By Spencer Robins.