The Stone Philosophy Links. The Stone is a forum for contemporary philosophers and other thinkers on issues both timely and timeless.
The Stone’s weekly briefing of notable philosophy-related issues and ideas from around the Web. A few weeks ago we linked to an article connecting Sartre’s insights about “authenticity” with recent work in cognitive science. This week, in an essay at The Chronicle of Higher Ed, David P. Was Wittgenstein Right? The Stone is a forum for contemporary philosophers and other thinkers on issues both timely and timeless.
The singular achievement of the controversial early 20th century philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein was to have discerned the true nature of Western philosophy — what is special about its problems, where they come from, how they should and should not be addressed, and what can and cannot be accomplished by grappling with them. The uniquely insightful answers provided to these meta-questions are what give his treatments of specific issues within the subject — concerning language, experience, knowledge, mathematics, art and religion among them — a power of illumination that cannot be found in the work of others.
Frail Pope Breaks Tradition and Resigns. Lapidary. A rural Thai gem cutter (1988 photograph) A jewellery worker in Sri Lanka (2006 photograph) A specialized form of lapidary work is the inlaying of marble and gemstones into a marble matrix, known in English as "pietra dura" for the hardstones like onyx, jasper and carnelian that are used, but called in Florence and Naples, where the technique was developed in the 16th century, opere di commessi.
The Medici Chapel at San Lorenzo in Florence is completely veneered with inlaid hard stones. JMC Interview Series - Prof. Thomas Pangle.