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Monday Series: Objects of Philosophical Discourse: Deafness and Language in...

Welcome to yet another edition of this blog’s Monday Series. This series examines how philosophical interest in universal language amongst the early members of the Royal Society of London shaped both...

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By Speech and Signs Historian Lennard Davis has emphasized that the deaf person has historically served as an icon for complex intersections of subject, class, and the body.[1] This construction and...

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A Society’s Interest A fascination with language in the seventeenth century was spearheaded by philosophers participating in various linguistic projects, some of which questioned the origin of...

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De loquea John Wallis, by Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1701   While endeavours to create a universal language that was unambiguous and easy to learn were mainly directed toward the application of philosophical...

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