Emmanuel Kant: Métaphysique Emmanuel Kant (1724-1804) est l'un des philosophes les plus influents de l'histoire de la philosophie occidentale. Ses contributions à la métaphysique, épistémologie, éthique, et l'esthétique ont eu un impact profond sur presque tous les mouvements philosophiques qui l'ont suivi. Cet article se concentre sur sa métaphysique et son épistémologie dans l'une de ses œuvres les plus importantes., La critique de la raison pure. Une grande partie de la pensée de Kant

Paul Ricoeur (1913—2005) Paul Ricoeur was among the most impressive philosophers of the 20th century continental philosophers, both in the unusual breadth and depth of his philosophical scholarship and in the innovative nature of his thought. He was a prolific writer, and his work is essentially concerned with that grand theme of philosophy: le sens de la vie. Ricoeur’s “tensive” style focuses on the tensions running

John Dewey (1859—1952) John Dewey was a leading proponent of the American school of thought known as pragmatism, a view that rejected the dualistic epistemology and metaphysics of modern philosophy in favor of a naturalistic approach that viewed knowledge as arising from an active adaptation of the human organism to its environment. Sur cette vue, inquiry should not be understood as consisting of a mind

Pluralist Theories of Truth Truth pluralism (or ‘alethic’ pluralism) is a view about the nature of truth. D'une manière générale, the thought behind the view is that truth may require different treatments for different kinds of subject matter. En particulier, there is the prospect for it to be consistent to conceive of truth in a realist manner for discourse about the material world, while maintaining an

Charles Sanders Peirce: Architectonic Philosophy The subject matter of architectonic is the structure of all human knowledge. The purpose of providing an architectonic scheme is to classify different types of knowledge and explain the relationships that exist between these classifications. The architectonic system of C. S. Pierce (1839-1914) divides knowledge according to it status as a “science” and then explains the interrelation of these different scientific

Hegel: Social and Political Thought Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) is one of the greatest systematic thinkers in the history of Western philosophy. In addition to epitomizing German idealist philosophy, Hegel boldly claimed that his own system of philosophy represented an historical culmination of all previous philosophical thought. Hegel’s overall encyclopedic system is divided into the science of Logic, the philosophy of Nature, and the philosophy