John Maier

Friendships and rivalries in the golden age of Oxford philosophy

Nikhil Krishnan provides many amusing vignettes of Isaiah Berlin, A.J. Ayer, Gilbert Ryle and others in the heyday of linguistic philosophy

Gilbert Ryle reputedly said that Rex Whistler’s portrait of him made him look like ‘a drowned German general’. [Bridgeman Images]

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