Q&A Elizabeth Diller

First appeared in the Boston Globe.

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2007/02/18/qa_with_elizabeth_diller

  

Elizabeth Diller, of the architecture firm Diller, Scofidio + Renfro, is known in Boston for her role in designing the new home of the Institute of Contemporary Art on Boston Harbor. But in keeping with Diller's refusal to sharply divide art from architecture, the building does more than admirably house and showcase contemporary art; it also exemplifies it.

John Searle Q&A

First appeared in the Boston Globe

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2007/02/04/qa_john_searle/

By Harvey Blume

"IN PHILOSOPHY," JOHN SEARLE told me, "the name of the game is disagreement." Searle, who has taught philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, since 1959, shows no inclination to duck dispute. In The New York Review of Books, for example, where he functions as a sort of philosopher in residence, you can regularly find him at fierce loggerheads with a variety of contemporary thinkers -- including Steven Pinker, Daniel Dennett, Ray Kurzweil, and Noam Chomsky -- over questions of mind, consciousness, and language.