Artificial Intelligence Artificial intelligence (AI) would be the possession of intelligence, or the exercise of thought, by machines such as computers. Philosophiquement, the main AI question is “Can there be such?" ou, as Alan Turing…
Catégorie de navigationWiki Philosophie
George Edward Moore (1873—1958)
George Edward Moore (1873—1958) g. E. Moore was a highly influential British philosopher of the early twentieth century. His career was spent mainly at Cambridge University, where he taught alongside Bertrand Russell and, later, Louis…
Theories of Religious Diversity
Theories of Religious Diversity Religious diversity is the fact that there are significant differences in religious belief and practice. It has always been recognized by people outside the smallest and most isolated communities. Mais depuis…
Philosophie analytique
Philosophie analytique L'école de philosophie analytique a dominé la philosophie académique dans diverses régions, notamment la Grande-Bretagne et les États-Unis, depuis le début du XXe siècle. It originated around the turn of the twentieth…
Bernard Lonergan (1904—1984)
Bernard Lonergan (1904—1984) When we try to reconcile opposing moral opinions we usually appeal to shared ethical principles. Yet often enough the principles themselves are opposed. We may then try to reconcile opposing principles by…
Pierre Bayle (1647–1706)
Pierre Bayle (1647–1706) Pierre Bayle was a seventeenth-century French skeptical philosopher and historian. He is best known for his encyclopedic work The Historical and Critical Dictionary (1697, 1st edition; 1702, 2ème édition), a work which…
Le Lycée
Le lycée Le lycée était un gymnase près d’Athènes et le site d’une école philosophique fondée par Aristote. Emplacement de la table des matières, Ouvrages, and Layout of the Lyceum Apodyterion Dromoi and Peripatoi Gymnasium Building…
Georges Berkeley (1685—1753)
Georges Berkeley (1685—1753) George Berkeley was one of the three most famous British Empiricists. (The other two are John Locke and David Hume.) Berkeley is best known for his early works on vision (An Essay towards a New…
Disjonctivisme
Disjonctivisme Disjonctivisme, comme théorie de l'expérience visuelle, affirme que les états mentaux impliqués dans une expérience de « bon cas » de perception véridique et dans un « mauvais cas » d’hallucination diffèrent. They differ even in those…
Theological Determinism
Theological Determinism Theological determinism is the view that God determines every event that occurs in the history of the world. While there is much debate about which prominent historical figures were theological determinists, St. Augustin,…