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- Roger Bacon (c. 1214 – 1294), was one of the most famous Franciscan ... by Bisley in Gloucestershire. His date of birth is equally uncertain ...10 KB (1,503 words) - 02:30, 16 December 2022
- and Neoplatonic philosopher, was a teacher of rhetoric in Rome until the ... Although he wrote on a variety of subjects, Victorinus is little-studied ...7 KB (1,028 words) - 03:46, 18 April 2024
- is an apparently true statement or group of statements that leads to a ... cannot all be true together. The recognition of ambiguities, equivocations ...14 KB (2,272 words) - 07:43, 18 November 2022
- A concept is a constituent of thought or generalized idea, that designates ... and expressing them with language. Theories of concepts are thus closely tied ...20 KB (3,052 words) - 02:41, 8 January 2024
- who lived and taught in the Greek city of Nicopolis almost four hundred ... us with a detailed and complete explanation of Stoic ethics, which is not ...11 KB (1,793 words) - 19:06, 13 February 2024
- The Cyrenaics were one of the two earliest Socratic schools of philosophy ... Several of Aristippus’ followers modified this doctrine by distinguishing ...9 KB (1,293 words) - 06:55, 12 January 2024
- as the “First Teacher”) because of his extensive commentaries ... ideal society based on a Neoplatonic concept of the Divine, in which the responsibility ...18 KB (2,709 words) - 07:20, 16 June 2023
- [[Image:Zeno.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Zeno of Citium]] Stoicism, one of the three major schools of Hellenistic philosphy ...21 KB (3,500 words) - 00:46, 26 February 2023
- was a German philosopher. He was a follower of Leibniz and Christian Wolff ... to the Pietist movement and had become one of its central institutions. His ...8 KB (1,198 words) - 09:10, 18 July 2023
- A definition is a statement of the meaning of a term, word or phrase ... Definitions have various kinds of features and can be distinguished ...17 KB (2,616 words) - 09:12, 28 January 2024
- and psychologist. He contributed to a number of different areas in philosophy ... A number of his ideas such as the concept of intentionality, which ...12 KB (1,636 words) - 05:17, 9 April 2024
- critic and university administrator, was one of the antirationalist Oxford ... Inspired by a careful study of Spinoza, Hampshire developed a detailed ...12 KB (1,807 words) - 21:06, 26 February 2023
- ; "orthodox") are technical terms used in Indian philosophy ... There are six orthodox schools (i.e. Veda accepting) of Hindu philosophy: ...8 KB (1,157 words) - 01:27, 11 November 2022
- after Weininger's suicide at the age of 23. Today, the book is often ... however, it continues to be held up as a great work of lasting genius ...11 KB (1,680 words) - 10:52, 11 March 2023
- The term natural philosophy, or the philosophy of nature (Latin, philosophia ... and G.W.F. Hegel, and championed the concept of an organic and dynamic physical ...13 KB (1,838 words) - 22:42, 28 March 2023
- Notions?" in History and Philosophy of Logic 7: 143-154. ... and David Hitchcock. History and Philosophy of Logic 23: 155-196. ...27 KB (4,019 words) - 20:34, 20 July 2023
- new scientific principles and Aristotelian logic of the twelfth century to ... Neckam wrote religious works on a variety of subjects, most of which ...12 KB (1,817 words) - 14:26, 18 July 2023
- wrote in, many areas: Epistemology, history of philosophy, moral philosophy ... Broad was born at Harlesden, a suburb of London, as the only child ...14 KB (2,184 words) - 19:14, 24 November 2023
- In the philosophy of Immanuel Kant, noumenon, thing in itself (German ... It is immediately apparent that Kant’s notion of the noumenon is ...9 KB (1,461 words) - 22:14, 16 November 2022
- 1911 – February 8, 1960) was a philosopher of language and the main figure ... accolades for his work in and leadership of intelligence services and his ...17 KB (2,638 words) - 06:11, 3 August 2022
- known as Saint Albert the Great and Albert of Cologne, was a Dominican friar ... at the Studium Generalein (Dominican House of Studies) in Cologne. A year ...14 KB (2,170 words) - 05:03, 17 June 2023
- States thereafter. He was a leading member of the Vienna Circle and probably ... I see him as the dominant figure in philosophy from the 1930s onward, ...27 KB (4,028 words) - 21:04, 21 December 2022
- was born in Liverpool. Jevons was one of three men to simultaneously ... his remarkable insights and understanding of a wide ranges of issues. Although ...23 KB (3,455 words) - 10:52, 12 May 2023
- developed by Edmund Husserl, to the field of ethics and established phenomenological ... his doctoral thesis, titled An Evaluation of the Possibility of Constructing ...14 KB (2,180 words) - 00:58, 9 November 2022
- German philosopher who made his mark on philosophy by coining the term nihilism ... Jacobi was born at Düsseldorf, the second son of a wealthy sugar ...10 KB (1,513 words) - 11:04, 11 April 2024
- Vyasaraja or Vyasaraayaru, is considered one of the three founders of Dvaita ... 1486-1498 C.E., before moving, at the behest of the king and ministers, to ...11 KB (1,714 words) - 21:53, 3 May 2023
- philosopher and commentator. A professor of philosophy at the University ... In 1518, at the request of Leo X, Nifo wrote a refutation of Pomponazzi ...8 KB (1,200 words) - 06:47, 16 June 2023
- observation statements, and judgments of perception have also been used ... A number of questions arose about such alleged protocol sentences: ...18 KB (2,743 words) - 08:18, 2 December 2022
- Ancient philosophy is philosophy in antiquity, or before the end of ... In the Western tradition, ancient philosophy was developed primarily ...16 KB (2,127 words) - 19:43, 26 July 2023
- Cartesianism is the school of philosophy based on the fundamental ... Though, contrary to Descartes' hopes, his philosophy was poorly ...11 KB (1,731 words) - 00:41, 29 November 2023
- him to have access to a greater scope of philosophies and theologies ... 'Scottus' has the authority of the early manuscripts until ...10 KB (1,486 words) - 15:09, 1 August 2022
- and logician during the second half of the nineteenth century. He ... Lotze combined the monads of Gottfried Leibniz's spheres of individual ...24 KB (3,658 words) - 16:57, 22 December 2022
- Abhinavagupta (fl. c. 975 - 1025) was one of India's great literary ... had attained enlightenment, is one of the great accomplishments in ...14 KB (2,124 words) - 04:48, 14 June 2023
- and was the first appointed professor of sociology in a British university ... England, into the prominent Anglican family of Rev. Reginald Hobhouse and ...12 KB (1,737 words) - 20:13, 25 October 2022
- Philosophy of mathematics is the branch of philosophy that studies ... :* What are the sources of mathematical subject matter? ...31 KB (4,571 words) - 04:15, 24 November 2022
- is known as the "father" of phenomenology, a major philosophical ... *Early Writings in the Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics, trans ...17 KB (2,508 words) - 18:15, 12 February 2024
- The term Indian philosophy may refer to any of several traditions ... All the schools of Indian philosophy are characterized by some common ...22 KB (3,133 words) - 22:02, 4 February 2023
- philosopher, and scientist. He was one of the major Islamic philosophers ... Avicenna is also well known for his medical work, The Canon of Medicine ...23 KB (3,644 words) - 07:16, 23 August 2023
- founded the Madhyamaka (Middle Way) school of Mahāyāna (Great Vehicle) ... major influence not only on the development of Mahayana Buddhist thought, ...14 KB (2,110 words) - 23:10, 10 November 2022
- A fact is an actual state of the world. For example, it is a fact ... A great deal of twentieth century moral theory sustained a sharp divide ...14 KB (2,156 words) - 12:33, 21 January 2023
- Arab philosopher and physician, a master of philosophy and Islamic law ... textbook throughout Europe until the advent of investigative science. He also ...19 KB (2,761 words) - 07:15, 23 August 2023
- by René Descartes, and it is a translation of Descartes' original French ... quot; as the primary characteristic of valid knowledge. He conducted ...12 KB (1,920 words) - 22:26, 7 January 2024
- 21, 1788), also known by the epithet Magus of the North, was a philosopher ... a religious conversion. His distrust of reason and the Enlightenment ...13 KB (1,935 words) - 14:40, 1 August 2022
- an important role in developing the use of statistical data as a tool ... Believing that ideology, the science of the origin and development ...12 KB (1,830 words) - 04:19, 9 November 2022
- The 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury (Anthony Ashley Cooper III) (1671 – ... paradoxical place in early modern philosophy. On one hand, he studied ...11 KB (1,695 words) - 05:22, 31 July 2023
- Samkhya, also Sankhya, (Sanskrit for "Enumeration") is one ... Since its philosophy regards the universe as consisting of two eternal ...12 KB (1,797 words) - 02:13, 23 December 2022
- Princeton, New Jersey) was a philosopher of science and a major figure ... Hempel was a major theorist of logical positivism, but, at later stage ...24 KB (3,610 words) - 19:18, 26 November 2023
- Knauth, was an American philosopher of art, a writer, and an educator ... but her doctrine has become an integral part of the "collective unconsciousness” ...17 KB (2,624 words) - 00:28, 27 February 2023
- region = Western Philosophy | era = 20th-century philosophy | color = #B0C4DE | image_name = | ...30 KB (4,587 words) - 06:50, 13 June 2023
- objective idealist philosopher. He was one of the most influential philosophers ... stroke. His own ideas on logic, philosophy of logic, and philosophy of ...24 KB (3,666 words) - 19:58, 7 September 2022
- *Philosophy of Logic. A concise and witty undergraduate treatment ... *1986 (1970). The Philosophy of Logic. Harvard Univ. Press. ...34 KB (5,037 words) - 15:37, 6 May 2023
- He wrote on numerous topics, including philosophy of history and aesthetics ... Croce offered his “philosophy of spirit” as a humanistic alternative ...15 KB (2,246 words) - 09:08, 27 September 2023
- Posidonius (or Poseidonus; Greek: Ποσειδώνιος) "of ... to admit that passions were an inherent part of human nature, rather than errors ...16 KB (2,426 words) - 05:44, 30 November 2022
- logician and Franciscan friar William of Ockham. Originally a tent ... The origins of what has come to be known as Ockham's razor are ...19 KB (2,872 words) - 23:50, 17 November 2022
- who founded the field known as the history of ideas. As a professor of philosophy ... that material objects exist independently of human perception of them, and ...10 KB (1,444 words) - 17:35, 16 August 2023
- oeuvre spans almost every scholarly subject of his time, each displayed and ... While the popularity of his philosophy was short-lived (though this ...17 KB (2,487 words) - 21:08, 10 December 2023
- and theologian who is considered one of the most important philosophers ... Pennsylvania, in 1897, as the son of a minister, Francis Cope Hartshorne ...20 KB (2,983 words) - 19:09, 4 December 2023
- is a theory that asserts that the nature of complex things is reduced to ... positivists attempted to achieve the unity of science ("unified science ...13 KB (1,960 words) - 02:59, 8 December 2022
- John Dewey (October 20, 1859 – June 1, 1952) is regarded as one ... Throughout most of his 92 years, Dewey was an internationally renowned ...20 KB (2,964 words) - 02:26, 9 February 2023
- be-ism") is the Jain doctrine of epistemological relativism ... Syādvāda is not only an extension of Anekānta ontology, but a separate ...19 KB (2,999 words) - 00:56, 21 April 2023
- Naturalism designates any of several philosophical stances that make ... Naturalism implies that all knowledge of the universe can be arrived ...17 KB (2,419 words) - 15:22, 11 November 2022
- African philosophy is a disputed term, used in different ways by different ... Surveys of the beliefs of hundreds of African peoples have shown that ...20 KB (3,143 words) - 06:07, 16 June 2023
- takes its defining inspiration from the work of Aristotle. Since Aristotle ... During the seventeenth century, modern philosophy began to develop ...18 KB (2,450 words) - 06:29, 12 August 2023
- was an influential liberal thinker of the nineteenth century. John ... greatest happiness for the greatest number of people, and distinguished among ...27 KB (4,047 words) - 07:56, 3 August 2022
- Carneades (c. 214 - 129 B.C.E.) was one of the most prominent Academic ... Ancient writers referred to Carneades as the founder of the “third” ...11 KB (1,736 words) - 00:29, 29 November 2023
- Kant to the epistemological approach of his philosophy. Kant presents ... at a synthesis between existing forms of idealism (affirming the reality ...14 KB (2,167 words) - 00:54, 2 May 2023
- He served as the U.S. Commissioner of Education, during which time ... In 1859, he became a principal in one of the public schools in St ...12 KB (1,673 words) - 20:42, 13 May 2023
- synonymous with or an essential attribute of God, and it characterizes other ... elaborate on the absolute, but, the idea of an ultimate principle drove ...15 KB (2,179 words) - 06:35, 14 June 2023
- 23 Oct. 2006] He was a leading proponent of the Zahiri school of Islamic ... Ibn Hazm reportedly produced four hundred works of which only 40 have ...15 KB (2,253 words) - 13:25, 4 February 2023
- The Logicians or School of Names (名家; Míngjiā; "School ... Chinese thinkers of the period were preoccupied with the use of terminology ...20 KB (2,994 words) - 17:21, 25 January 2023
- dogmatic skepticism as it is to other forms of dogmatism. The ultimate purpose ... by him were in existence in the gymnasium of Elis. Later, inspired by the ...12 KB (1,848 words) - 03:54, 7 December 2022
- Euclid (also referred to as Euclid of Alexandria) (Greek: ... Egypt, almost certainly during the reign of Ptolemy I (323 B.C.E.–283 ...21 KB (2,999 words) - 04:41, 22 March 2024
- – January 24, 1965) was a Russian philosopher, representative of ... concerned with theology than with the task of working out a system of metaphysics ...12 KB (1,405 words) - 04:12, 15 November 2022
- those universals really exist in some sense of "exist," either independently ... realism. It is basically with the spirit of nominalism that empiricism ...19 KB (2,997 words) - 02:38, 16 November 2022
- The question of being (Greek, τό ὄν, the present participle of ... Philosophers often suppose a certain sense of being as primary, and ...32 KB (4,866 words) - 10:28, 26 September 2023
- educator, and prolific writer, and one of the leading exponents of neo ... Cassirer played a mediating role between the two major traditions ...13 KB (1,820 words) - 19:34, 13 February 2024
- his philosophical methodology and theory of knowledge in sharp contrast ... Born to a bookseller and the daughter of a carriage maker, Vico attended ...17 KB (2,637 words) - 20:24, 14 December 2023
- physical chemistry, economics, and philosophy. He was a Fellow of the ... made significant contributions in the area of physical chemistry. Based on ...17 KB (2,500 words) - 10:38, 10 March 2023
- occasions. This is the infinite form of the verb "alama" ... God's omniscience is related to the issue of predestination, ...13 KB (2,067 words) - 00:37, 18 November 2022
- to complete); Aramaic (to study) is the part of the Talmud that contains rabbinical ... There are two recensions of the Gemara, one compiled by the scholars ...8 KB (1,227 words) - 06:37, 18 April 2024
- Continental philosophy, as the phrase is used today, refers to a set ... The term continental philosophy originated among English-speaking ...19 KB (2,642 words) - 02:47, 8 January 2024
- English moral philosopher who held the post of White's Professor of Moral ... Some of Hare's students, such as Brian McGuinness and Bernard ...14 KB (2,112 words) - 16:05, 7 December 2022
- philosopher, is widely considered the father of Neoplatonism. Plotinus' ... Much of our biographical information about Plotinus comes from Porphyry ...12 KB (1,813 words) - 08:05, 24 November 2022
- Thomism is the philosophical school that followed in the legacy of ... , Pope Pius X cautioned that the teachings of the Catholic Church cannot ...28 KB (4,356 words) - 22:59, 30 April 2023
- the Mathematical Seminar at the University of Vienna, Boltzmanngasse 5. Meeting ... The Vienna Circle (in German: der Wiener Kreis) was a group of philosophers ...34 KB (4,936 words) - 20:14, 3 May 2023
- philosopher, theologian and historian of science. His surname is pronounced ... Whewell’s philosophy of science included the claim that through ...22 KB (3,347 words) - 20:45, 13 May 2023
- B.C.E.) was a Greek philosopher, a student of Plato, and teacher of Alexander ... Aristotle's philosophy made a dramatic impact on both Western ...37 KB (5,500 words) - 06:30, 12 August 2023
- mutual incompatibility, real or apparent, of two laws. It is a term often ... The term antinomy is found in the works of Plutarch (46 – 127), ...15 KB (2,342 words) - 06:35, 31 July 2023
- Herakleitos) (c. 535 – 475 B.C.E.) is one of the most important pre-Socratic ... His words resemble those of a prophet, rather than those of a philosopher ...11 KB (1,556 words) - 09:50, 22 January 2024
- German philosopher, the main representative of nineteenth century German Idealism ... system practically unrivaled in the scope of its ambition. Hegel’s highly ...43 KB (6,642 words) - 07:00, 18 April 2024
- Edmund Husserl's formulation, the study of experience and the ways in ... This emphasis on the intentional structure of experience makes phenomenology ...26 KB (3,647 words) - 02:57, 24 November 2022
- also published a book on Plato's theory of ideas (or forms) that understands ... Ross also wrote books on Kant's ethics, each of Aristotle's ...12 KB (1,864 words) - 15:58, 7 May 2023
- in the early twentieth-century philosophies of William James and John Dewey ... Upon the rise of analytic philosophy after World War II, the classical ...38 KB (5,567 words) - 22:10, 30 November 2022
- early nineteenth centuries. It developed out of the work of Immanuel Kant in ... sensible contents derived from the object of cognition and the a priori ...23 KB (3,260 words) - 07:38, 24 January 2023
- Knowledge is evaluated and organized information with implications ... Knowledge can be studied from a variety of disciplinary perspectives ...16 KB (2,254 words) - 16:10, 15 October 2020
- The naturalistic fallacy is an alleged fallacy of moral reasoning ... been revised over the years in a sub-field of ethics known as “metaethics ...14 KB (2,113 words) - 04:22, 11 March 2023
- together with Confucius, is considered one of the two great moral teachers ... Mozi founded the school of Mohism and argued strongly against Confucianism ...15 KB (2,461 words) - 17:52, 10 November 2022
- , a Sanskrit word meaning "revered thought," is the name ... the "earlier" (pūrva) portions of the Vedas, the Samhitas and ...18 KB (2,750 words) - 18:03, 9 November 2022
- Neo-Kantianism designates the revived or modified types of Kantian ... The return to Kant of Neo-Kantianism in the second part of the nineteenth ...24 KB (3,466 words) - 16:16, 11 November 2022
- In epistemology and the philosophy of perception, phenomenalism is ... defined objects as logical constructs out of sense-data or ideas. ...13 KB (2,023 words) - 02:56, 24 November 2022
