Jürgen Habermas (1929—) photo by Ziel Jürgen Habermas produced a large body of work over more than five decades. Sein Frühwerk widmete sich dem öffentlichen Raum, zur Modernisierung, and to critiques of trends…
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Locke: Wissen über die Außenwelt
Locke: Knowledge of the External World The problem of how we can know the existence and nature of the world external to our mind is one of the oldest and most difficult in philosophy. Der…
Nicholas Rescher (1928—)
Nicholas Rescher (1928—) Nicholas Rescher (1928- ) is a prominent representative of contemporary pragmatism, Aber, unlike most analytic thinkers, he managed to establish himself as a systematic philosopher. Besonders, he built a system of…
Reliabilism
Reliabilism Reliabilism encompasses a broad range of epistemological theories that try to explain knowledge or justification in terms of the truth-conduciveness of the process by which an agent forms a true belief. Process reliabilism is…
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling (1775–1854)
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling (1775–1854) F. W. J. von Schelling ist einer der großen deutschen Philosophen des späten 18. und frühen 19. Jahrhunderts. Some historians and scholars of philosophy have classified him…
Religious Language
Religious Language The term “religious language” refers to statements or claims made about God or gods. Here is a typical philosophical problem of religious language. If God is infinite, then words used to describe finite…
Søren Kierkegaard (1813—1855)
Søren Kierkegaard (1813—1855) Søren Kierkegaard is an outsider in the history of philosophy. His peculiar authorship comprises a baffling array of different narrative points of view and disciplinary subject matter, including aesthetic novels, works of…
Resurrection
Resurrection The term “resurrection” refers to the raising of someone from the dead. The resurrection of the dead brings to the forefront topics from the study of personal identity and philosophical anthropology. Zum Beispiel, manche…
James Frederick Ferrier (1808—1864)
James Frederick Ferrier (1808—1864) James Frederick Ferrier was a mid-nineteenth-century Scottish metaphysician who developed the first post-Hegelian system of idealism in Britain. Unlike the British Idealists in the latter half of the nineteenth century, Er…
Mou Zongsan (Mou Tsung-san) (1909–1995)
Mou Zongsan (Mou Tsung-san) (1909–1995) Mou Zongsan (Mou Tsung-san) ist ein anspruchsvolles und systematisches Beispiel eines modernen chinesischen Philosophen. Ein chinesischer Nationalist, Sein Ziel war es, die traditionelle chinesische Philosophie durch eine Begegnung mit der westlichen neu zu beleben (und…