At a Summit of the Americas last spring, Hugo Chavez, the frequently anti-American president of Venezuela, gave President Obama a copy of Open Veins of Latin America. First published in 1971, the book ...

The biblical view of history stands in sharp contrast to all philosophical approaches to the problem of the meaning of history. It supplies the necessary elements which they lack. And it resolves the ...

Consider the paradox of the end: we set ourselves a goal and make great efforts to achieve it. Doing so is often strenuous, but gives life direction, purpose and meaning. We see the goal as valuable, ...

A number of theorists hold that literal, linguistic meaning is determined by the cognitive mechanism that underpins semantie competence. Borg and Larson and Segal defend a version of the view on which ...