American Wilderness Philosophy Wilderness has been defined in diverse ways, but most famously in the Wilderness Act of 1964, which describes it “in contrast with those areas where man and his own works dominate the landscape … as an area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain.” The idea of wilderness

Leibniz: Métaphysique modale Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) a constitué la fin naturelle de la tradition rationaliste sur le continent européen, qui comprenait Descartes, Spinoza, et Malebranche. Sa philosophie fut l'une des influences majeures de Kant.. Bien que Leibniz ait de nombreux intérêts philosophiques et intellectuels, il était sans doute plus soucieux de concilier la liberté requise pour la responsabilité morale et le déterminisme qui semblait impliquer

Existentialism Existentialism is a catch-all term for those philosophers who consider the nature of the human condition as a key philosophical problem and who share the view that this problem is best addressed through ontology. This very broad definition will be clarified by discussing seven key themes that existentialist thinkers address. Those philosophers considered existentialists are mostly from the continent of Europe, and date from

Théorie propositionntielle de la vérité Les théoriciens propositionnels affirment que des phrases telles que « C'est vrai » sont des prosentences qui fonctionnent de manière analogue à leurs cousins ​​​​plus connus : les pronoms.. Par exemple, tout comme nous pourrions utiliser le pronom « il » à la place de « James » pour transformer « James est allé au supermarché » en « Il est allé au supermarché ».," Nous pourrions donc utiliser l'opérateur de formation de prosentence " est vrai " pour transformer " La neige est blanche ".

Art and Epistemology The relationship between art and epistemology has been forever tenuous and fraught with much debate. It seems fairly obvious that we gain something meaningful from experiences and interactions with works of art. It does not seem so obvious whether or not the experiences we have with art can produce propositional knowledge that is constituted by true justified belief. In what follows I