Bernhard Bozen: Philosophie des mathematischen Wissens In Bernard Bolzanos Theorie des mathematischen Wissens, Eigenschaften wie Analytizität und logische Konsequenz werden auf der Grundlage eines Substitutionsverfahrens definiert, das mit einer Konzeption der logischen Form einhergeht, die zeitgenössische Behandlungen wie die von Quine und Tarski vorwegnahm. Drei Ergebnisse sind besonders interessant: die Ausarbeitung einer Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung, die Definition von (schmal und

Ancient Greek Philosophy From Thales, who is often considered the first Western philosopher, to the Stoics and Skeptics, ancient Greek philosophy opened the doors to a particular way of thinking that provided the roots for the Western intellectual tradition. Hier, there is often an explicit preference for the life of reason and rational thought. We find proto-scientific explanations of the natural world in the Milesian

Ethics and Care-Worker Migration Cited as one of the most pressing issues of our times, health care worker migration is now occurring at unprecedented rates. In the post-colonial era, as many developing countries began to develop and expand their health services and to educate their citizens to staff them, more educated workers left for wealthier countries, often those of the colonists or ones that shared

Aristoteles (384 v. u. Z. – 322 v. u. Z.) Aristotle is a towering figure in ancient Greek philosophy, who made important contributions to logic, criticism, Rhetorik, Physik, Biologie, Psychologie, mathematics, Metaphysik, Ethik, und Politik. He was a student of Plato for twenty years but is famous for rejecting Plato’s theory of forms. He was more empirically minded than both Plato and Plato’s teacher, Sokrates. A prolific writer, Dozent, and polymath, Aristotle radically

Religious Disagreement The domain of religious inquiry is characterized by pervasive and seemingly intractable disagreement. Whatever stance one takes on central religious questions—for example, whether God exists, what the nature of God might be, whether the world has a purpose, whether there is life beyond death—one will stand opposed to a large contingent of highly informed and intelligent thinkers. The fact of extensive religious disagreement