Gottlob Frege: Language Gottlob Frege (1848-1925) is most celebrated today for his contributions to mathematical logic and the philosophy of language. The first section below considers why a philosophical investigation of language mattered at all for Frege, the mathematician, and why it should have mattered to him. Gleichzeitig, the considerations may serve to illustrate some general motivations that were behind the development of

Hellenistic Astrology Hellenistic and Late Antiquity astrologers built their craft upon Babylonian (and to a lesser extent Egyptian) astrological traditions, and developed their theoretical and technical doctrines using a combination of Stoic, Middle Platonic and Neopythagorean thought. Astrology offered fulfillment of a desire to systematically know where an individual stands in relation to the cosmos in a time of rapid political and social changes. Various

Fallacies A fallacy is a kind of error in reasoning. The list of fallacies below contains 231 names of the most common fallacies, and it provides brief explanations and examples of each of them. Fallacious arguments should not be persuasive, but they too often are. Fallacies may be created unintentionally, or they may be created intentionally in order to deceive other people. The vast majority

Richard Rorty (1931—2007) Richard Rorty was an important American philosopher of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century who blended expertise in philosophy and comparative literature into a perspective called “The New Pragmatism” or “neopragmatism.” Rejecting the Platonist tradition at an early age, Rorty was initially attracted to analytic philosophy. As his views matured he came to believe that this tradition suffered in its own

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. Einige Historiker und Philosophiewissenschaftler haben ihn als deutschen Idealisten eingestuft, zusammen mit J. G. Fichte und G. W. F. Hegel. Solche Klassifizierungen verschleiern die Bedeutung und Einzigartigkeit von Schellings Platz in der Geschichte, anstatt sie zu beleuchten