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Continental Rationalism Continental rationalism is a retrospective category used to group together certain philosophers working in continental Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries, en particulier, Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz, especially as they can be…
La réduction phénoménologique Il existe une expérience dans laquelle il nous est possible de venir au monde sans connaissances ni idées préconçues en main.; c'est l'expérience de l'étonnement. The “knowing” we…
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868—1963) O. E. B. Du Bois was an important American thinker: a poet, philosophe, economic historian, sociologist, and social critic. His work resists easy classification. This article focuses exclusively on…
Philosophie de la maladie mentale La philosophie de la maladie mentale est un domaine d'étude interdisciplinaire qui combine les points de vue et les méthodes de la philosophie de l'esprit., psychologie, neurosciences, and moral philosophy in order to analyze the…
Scientific Representation To many philosophers, our science is intended to represent reality. Par exemple, some philosophers of science would say Newton’s theory of gravity uses the theoretical terms ‘center of mass’ and ‘gravitational force’ in…
Calculs Lambda Calculs Lambda (λ-calcul) sont des systèmes formels décrivant les fonctions et l'application des fonctions. L'un d'eux, la version non typée, est souvent appelé le λ-calcul. Cette exposition adoptera cette convention. À la base,…
The Third Earl of Shaftesbury (1671—1713) Anthony Ashley Cooper, the Third Earl of Shaftesbury (1671-1713) was an English philosopher who profoundly influenced 18th century thought in Britain, France, and Germany. As a part of an…
Stoicism Stoicism originated as a Hellenistic philosophy, founded in Athens by Zeno of Citium (modern day Cyprus), c. 300 B.C.E. It was influenced by Socrates and the Cynics, and it engaged in vigorous debates with…
Moral Realism The moral realist contends that there are moral facts, so moral realism is a thesis in ontology, the study of what is. The ontological category “moral facts” includes both the descriptive moral judgment…
Design Arguments for the Existence of God Design arguments are empirical arguments for the existence of God. These arguments typically, mais pas toujours, proceed by attempting to identify various empirical features of the world that…