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Simone de Beauvoir (1908—1986) Simone de Beauvoir was one of the most preeminent French existentialist philosophers and writers. Working alongside other famous existentialists such as Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, de Beauvoir produced a…
David Hume: Imagination David Hume (1711–1776) approaches questions in epistemology, Metaphysik, ethics and aesthetics via questions about our minds. Zum Beispiel, before addressing the epistemological question of whether we have any justification for our beliefs…
Predicative and Impredicative Definitions The distinction between predicative and impredicative definitions is today widely regarded as an important watershed in logic and the philosophy of mathematics. A definition is said to be impredicative if it generalizes…
Josiah Royce (1855—1916): Overview Josiah Royce was one of the most influential philosophers of the period of classical American philosophy, the late nineteenth century through the early twentieth century. Although often identified as an exponent…
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Cicero: Academic Skepticism Cicero (106 to 43 B.C.E.) adopted the philosophical view of the Academic skeptics as a young man sometime in the 80’s. In 89/8, Philo of Larissa, the head of Plato’s Academy, fled…
Plotin: Tugendethik Dieser Artikel konzentriert sich auf die Tugendethik von Plotinus (204–270 n. Chr.) und seine Auswirkungen auf spätere Berichte über die Tugendethik, Besonders in Porphyr und Iambllichus. Plotinus’ ethical theory is discussed in relation…
Philosophie der Architektur Foto von SFMOMA von David Ohmer Die Beziehung zwischen Philosophie und Architektur ist fragend und propositional. It is about asking questions concerning the meaning of human habitation—what it means to live in…
The Language of Thought Hypothesis The language of thought hypothesis (LOTH) is the hypothesis that mental representation has a linguistic structure, or in other words, that thought takes place within a mental language. Die Hypothese…
Moralisches Glück Ein Fall von moralischem Glück liegt immer dann vor, wenn Glück einen moralischen Unterschied macht. The problem of moral luck arises from a clash between the apparently widely held intuition that cases of moral luck should…