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Fondamentalisme Le fondationnalisme épistémique est une vision de la structure appropriée de ses connaissances ou de ses croyances justifiées.. Certaines croyances sont connues ou fondées à croire uniquement parce que d’autres croyances sont connues ou fondées à croire.. Par exemple,…
Desiderius Erasmus (1468?—1536) Desiderius Erasmus was one of the leading activists and thinkers of the European Renaissance. His main activity was to write letters to the leading statesmen, humanists, printers, and theologians of the first…
Meaning and Communication Communication is crucial for us as human beings. Much of what we know or believe we learn through hearing or seeing what others say or express, and part of what makes us…
Ethics and Self-Deception Self-deception has captured the interest of philosophers, psychologists, and other students of human nature. Philosophers of mind and action have worked towards developing an account of self-deception and, in so doing, un…
Thomas S. Kuhn (1922—1996) Thomas Samuel Kuhn, although trained as a physicist at Harvard University, became an historian and philosopher of science through the support of Harvard’s president, James Conant. In 1962, Kuhn’s renowned The…
Cognitive Relativism Cognitive relativism asserts the relativity of truth. Because of the close connections between the concept of truth and concepts such as knowledge, rationality, et justification, cognitive relativism is often taken to encompass, ou…
Fictionalism in the Philosophy of Mathematics The distinctive character of fictionalism about any discourse is (À) recognition of some valuable purpose to that discourse, et (b) the claim that that purpose can be served even…
Éthique et contrastivisme Une théorie contrastive d'un concept soutient que le concept en question ne s'applique ou ne s'applique pas par rapport à un ensemble d'alternatives.. Contrastivism has been applied to a wide range…
Wilfrid Sellars: Philosophy of Mind The twentieth century philosophy of mind of Wilfrid Sellars (1912 – 1989) retains much from the traditional, Cartesian perspective. It endorses a realm of inner, private episodes of which we may…
Punishment Punishment involves the deliberate infliction of suffering on a supposed or actual offender for an offense such as a moral or legal transgression. Since punishment involves inflicting a pain or deprivation similar to that…