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Metaphilosophy What is philosophy? What is philosophy for? How should philosophy be done? These are metaphilosophical questions, metaphilosophy being the study of the nature of philosophy. Contemporary metaphilosophies within the Western philosophical tradition can be…
Paradigm Case Arguments From time to time philosophers and scientists have made sensational, provocative claims that certain things do not exist or never happen that, in everyday life, we unquestioningly take for granted as existing…
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712—1778) Jean-Jacques Rousseau was one of the most influential thinkers during the Enlightenment in eighteenth century Europe. His first major philosophical work, A Discourse on the Sciences and Arts, was the winning response…
Eduard Hanslick (1825–1904) Eduard Hanslick war ein in Prag geborener österreichischer Ästhetiktheoretiker, Musikkritiker, und der erste Professor für Ästhetik und Musikgeschichte an der Universität Wien, who is commonly considered the founder of…
Friedrich Nietzsche: Geschichtsphilosophie Nietzsche war mit seinen zeitgenössischen Methoden und Debatten der Geschichtsphilosophie bestens vertraut, was sich in wesentlichen Punkten auf seine Philosophie übertrug. Einst ein Wunderkind der klassischen Philologie, Nietzsche’s…
Prosententialtheorie der Wahrheit Prosententialtheoretiker behaupten, dass Sätze wie „Das ist wahr“ Prosätze sind, die analog zu ihren bekannteren Cousins – Pronomen – funktionieren. Zum Beispiel, just as we might use the pronoun ‘he’ in…
Social and Political Recognition Acts of recognition infuse many aspects of our lives such as receiving a round of applause from a rapt audience, being spotted in a crowded street by a long-forgotten friend, having…
Empedocles (c. 492—432 B.C.E.) Empedocles (of Acagras in Sicily) was a philosopher and poet: one of the most important of the philosophers working before Socrates (the Presocratics), and a poet of outstanding ability and of…
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815—1902) Elizabeth Cady Stanton was one of the most influential public figures in nineteenth-century America. She was one of the nation’s first feminist theorists and certainly one of its most productive activists….
Consciousness Explaining the nature of consciousness is one of the most important and perplexing areas of philosophy, but the concept is notoriously ambiguous. The abstract noun “consciousness” is not frequently used by itself in the…