David Lewis (1941–2001) David Lewis was an American philosopher and one of the last generalists, in the sense that he was one of the last philosophers who contributed to the great majority of sub-fields of the discipline. He made central contributions in metaphysics, the philosophy of language, and the philosophy of mind. He also made important contributions in probabilistic and practical reasoning, Erkenntnistheorie, the philosophy

Charles Sanders Peirce: Architekturphilosophie Gegenstand der Architekturphilosophie ist die Struktur allen menschlichen Wissens. Der Zweck der Bereitstellung eines architektonischen Schemas besteht darin, verschiedene Arten von Wissen zu klassifizieren und die Beziehungen zu erklären, die zwischen diesen Klassifizierungen bestehen. Das architektonische System von C. S. Peirce (1839-1914) unterteilt das Wissen nach seinem Status als „Wissenschaft“ und erklärt dann die Wechselbeziehung dieser verschiedenen Wissenschaften

Mind and Multiple Realizability The claim that mental types are multiply realizable has played an important role in supporting antireductionism in philosophy of mind. The multiple-realizability thesis implies that mental types and physical types are correlated one-many not one-one. A mental state such as pain might be correlated with one type of physical state in a human and another type of physical state in, sagen,

Manbendra Nath Roy (1887—1954) M. N. Roy was a twentieth century Indian philosopher. He began his career as a militant political activist and left India in 1915 in search of arms for organizing an insurrection against British rule in India. Aber, Roy’s attempts to secure arms ended in a failure, and finally in June 1916, he landed in San Francisco, California. It was there that Roy,

Gustav Shpet (1879—1937) Shpet, a professor of philosophy at the University of Moscow, introduced Husserlian transcendental phenomenology into Russia. Zusätzlich, he wrote extensively on aesthetics, Hermeneutik, the history of Russian philosophy and the philosophy of language. During the Stalinist years in Russia he was condemned as being an idealist in philosophy and a counter-revolutionary in politics. The depth and breadth of his numerous studies stand