Scientific Representation To many philosophers, our science is intended to represent reality. Zum Beispiel, some philosophers of science would say Newton’s theory of gravity uses the theoretical terms ‘center of mass’ and ‘gravitational force’ in order to represent how a solar system of planets behaves—the changing positions and velocities of the planets but not their color changes. Aber, it is very difficult to give a

Daoistische Philosophie zusammen mit Konfuzianismus, „Daoismus“ (manchmal auch „Taoismus“ genannt) ist eine der beiden großen indigenen philosophischen Traditionen Chinas. Als englischer Begriff, Daoismus entspricht sowohl Daojia („Dao-Familie“ oder „Schule des Dao“), eine frühe Han-Dynastie (c. 100er Jahre v. Chr.) Begriff, der sogenannte „philosophische“ Texte und Denker wie Laozi und Zhuangzi beschreibt, und Daojiao („Lehre des Dao“), was verschiedene beschreibt

Open Theism Open Theism is the thesis that, because God loves us and desires that we freely choose to reciprocate His love, He has made His knowledge of, and plans for, the future conditional upon our actions. Though omniscient, God does not know what we will freely do in the future. Though omnipotent, He has chosen to invite us to freely collaborate with Him in

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 the most common type of reliabilism. The simplest form of process reliabilism regarding knowledge of some proposition p implies that agent S knows that p if and only if S

Marcus Aurelius (121–180 n. Chr.) Die Philosophie des römischen Kaisers Marcus Aurelius findet sich in einer Sammlung persönlicher Schriften, die als Meditationen bekannt sind. Diese spiegeln den Einfluss des Stoizismus wider, insbesondere, Die Philosophie des Epiktet, der Stoiker. Die Meditationen können als eine Reihe praktischer philosophischer Übungen gelesen werden, im Anschluss an die drei Studienthemen von Epictetus, Entwickelt, um es zu verdauen und in die Praxis umzusetzen

Environmental Ethics The field of environmental ethics concerns human beings’ ethical relationship with the natural environment. While numerous philosophers have written on this topic throughout history, environmental ethics only developed into a specific philosophical discipline in the 1970s. This emergence was no doubt due to the increasing awareness in the 1960s of the effects that technology, industry, economic expansion and population growth were having on