Immanuel Kant: Metaphysik Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) ist einer der einflussreichsten Philosophen in der Geschichte der westlichen Philosophie. Seine Beiträge zur Metaphysik, Erkenntnistheorie, Ethik, und Ästhetik hatten einen tiefgreifenden Einfluss auf fast jede philosophische Bewegung, die ihm folgte. Dieser Artikel konzentriert sich auf seine Metaphysik und Erkenntnistheorie in einem seiner wichtigsten Werke, Die Kritik der reinen Vernunft. Ein großer Teil von Kants

Presocratics Presocratic philosophers are the Western thinkers preceding Socrates (c. 469-c. 399 B.C.E.) but including some thinkers who were roughly contemporary with Socrates, such as Protagoras (c. 490-c. 420 B.C.E.). The application of the term “philosophy” to the Presocratics is somewhat anachronistic, but is certainly different from how many people currently think of philosophy. The Presocratics were interested in a wide variety of topics, besonders

Coherentism in Epistemology Coherentism is a theory of epistemic justification. It implies that for a belief to be justified it must belong to a coherent system of beliefs. For a system of beliefs to be coherent, the beliefs that make up that system must “cohere” with one another. Typischerweise, this coherence is taken to involve three components: logical consistency, explanatory relations, and various inductive (non-explanatory)

Time Time is what clocks measure, Einstein once said. Information about time tells the durations of events, and when they occur, and which events happen before which others, so time plays a very significant role in the universe’s structure, including the structure of our personal lives. But there are many unresolved issues, both philosophical and scientific. Consider this issue upon which philosophers are deeply divided:

Design Arguments for the Existence of God Design arguments are empirical arguments for the existence of God. These arguments typically, though not always, proceed by attempting to identify various empirical features of the world that constitute evidence of intelligent design and inferring God’s existence as the best explanation for these features. Since the concepts of design and purpose are closely related, design arguments are also

Die Philosophie der Anthropologie Die Philosophie der Anthropologie bezieht sich auf die zentralen philosophischen Perspektiven, die zugrunde liegen, oder untermauert haben, die vorherrschenden Schulen im anthropologischen Denken. Sie unterscheidet sich von der Philosophischen Anthropologie, die versucht zu definieren und zu verstehen, was es bedeutet, ein Mensch zu sein. Dieser Artikel bietet einen Überblick über die bedeutendsten anthropologischen Schulen, die ihnen zugrunde liegenden Philosophien und die sie umgebenden philosophischen Debatten