Events Events are particular happenings, occurrences or changes, such as Rob’s drinking the strong espresso at noon, the 1864 re-election of Abraham Lincoln in the US, et ainsi de suite. At least at first blush, events all seem to have something in common, metaphysically speaking, and some philosophers have inquired into what this common nature is. The main aim of a theory of events is to

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. Ils diffèrent même dans les cas où les deux expériences ne peuvent être distinguées par leur sujet.. Considérez la perception véridique d'un tabouret de bar et une hallucination indiscernable; ces deux expériences pourraient être classées

Edward Caird (1835—1908) A Scottish philosopher of the latter half of the nineteenth century, Edward Caird was one of the key figures of the idealist movement that dominated British philosophy from 1870 until the mid 1920s. Best known for his studies of Kant and Hegel, he argued that “Kantian philosophy is only a first stage, though of course a necessary stage, in the transition of philosophy

The Yablo Paradox The Yablo Paradox implies there is no way to coherently assign a truth value to any of the sentences in the countably infinite sequence of sentences, each of the form, “All of the subsequent sentences are false.” Specifically, the Yablo Paradox arises when we consider the following infinite sequence of sentences: The Yablo sequence of sentences seem paradoxical in the

David Hume: Imagination David Hume (1711–1776) approaches questions in epistemology, métaphysique, ethics and aesthetics via questions about our minds. Par exemple, before addressing the epistemological question of whether we have any justification for our beliefs about unobserved states of affairs, Hume asks which of our cognitive faculties is responsible for these beliefs. Before addressing the metaphysical question, What is causal necessity (or necessary connexion)? , il

George Herbert Mead (1863-1931) George Herbert Mead est une figure majeure de l'histoire de la philosophie américaine, l'un des fondateurs du pragmatisme avec Peirce, James, Touffes, et Dewey. Il a publié de nombreux articles au cours de sa vie et, suite à sa mort, plusieurs de ses étudiants ont produit quatre livres en son nom à partir des publications inédites de Mead. (et même inachevé) notes et manuscrits, à partir des notes des élèves, and from