Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815—1902) Elizabeth Cady Stanton was one of the most influential public figures in nineteenth-century America. She was one of the nation’s first feminist theorists and certainly one of its most productive activists. She was in the tradition of Abigail Adams, who implored her husband John to “remember the ladies” as he helped form the new American nation. Along with Susan B. Anthony,

Models The word “model” is highly ambiguous, and there is no uniform terminology used by either scientists or philosophers. Hier, a model is considered to be a representation of some object, Verhalten, or system that one wants to understand. This article presents the most common type of models found in science as well as the different relations—traditionally called “analogies”—between models and between a given model

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The Ethics of Economic Sanctions Economic sanctions involve the politically motivated withdrawal of customary trade or financial relations from a state, organisation or individual. They may be imposed by the United Nations, regional governmental organisations such as the European Union, or by states acting alone. Although economic sanctions have long been a feature of international relations, the end of the Cold War in the late

William Edward Burghardt DuBois (1868–1963) W. E. B. Du Bois war ein bedeutender amerikanischer Denker: ein Dichter, Philosoph, Wirtschaftshistoriker, Soziologe, und Gesellschaftskritiker. Seine Arbeit widersetzt sich einer einfachen Klassifizierung. Dieser Artikel konzentriert sich ausschließlich auf Du Bois‘ Beitrag zur Philosophie; Der Leser muss jedoch stets bedenken, dass Du Bois mehr als ein Philosoph ist; er ist, für viele, ein großartiger sozialer Anführer. Sein

The Bakhtin Circle The Bakhtin Circle was a 20th century school of Russian thought which centered on the work of Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin (1895-1975). The circle addressed philosophically the social and cultural issues posed by the Russian Revolution and its degeneration into the Stalin dictatorship. Their work focused on the centrality of questions of significance in social life in general and artistic creation in particular,