Feng Youlan (Fung Yu-lan, 1895—1990) Feng Youlan (romanized as Fung Yu-lan) was a representative of modern Chinese philosophy. Throughout his long and turbulent life, he consistently engaged the problem of reconciling traditional Chinese thought with the methods and concerns of modern Western philosophy. Raised by a modernist family who nonetheless gave him a traditional Confucian education, Feng pursued two great goals during his career: rewriting

Cicéron: Academic Skepticism Cicero (106 to 43 B.C.E.) adopted the philosophical view of the Academic skeptics as a young man sometime in the 80’s. In 89/8, Philo of Larissa, the head of Plato’s Academy, fled from Athens to Rome for political reasons. While at Rome, Cicero attended Philo’s public lectures and began to study philosophy with him. Cicero also studied with the most prominent representatives

Philosophie de la médecine Alors que la philosophie et la médecine, à commencer par les anciens Grecs, jouit d’une longue histoire d’interactions mutuellement bénéfiques, la professionnalisation de la « philosophie de la médecine » est un événement du XIXe siècle. L’un des premiers ouvrages universitaires sur la philosophie de la médecine en termes modernes fut l’Essai sur la philosophie de la science médicale d’Elisha Bartlett., publié en 1844. Du milieu à la fin du XXe siècle,

Humor The philosophical study of humor has been focused on the development of a satisfactory definition of humor, which until recently has been treated as roughly co-extensive with laughter. The main task is to develop an adequate theory of just what humor is. According to the standard analysis, humor theories can be classified into three neatly identifiable groups:incongruity, superiority, and relief theories. Incongruity theory is

Nicolas Malebranche: Religion Nicolas Malebranche (1638-1715) était un philosophe français et un rationaliste de tradition cartésienne. Mais il était aussi prêtre oratorien de l'Église catholique.. Les thèmes religieux imprègnent ses œuvres, et à plusieurs endroits il affirme clairement son intention d'écrire de la philosophie en tant que catholique. Ces thèmes religieux sont importants pour comprendre sa philosophie. En tant que rationaliste, Malebranche accorde une grande importance à

The Problem of the Criterion The Problem of the Criterion is considered by many to be a fundamental problem of epistemology. En fait, Chisholm (1973, 1) claims that the Problem of the Criterion is “one of the most important and one of the most difficult of all the problems of philosophy.” A popular form of the Problem of the Criterion can be raised by asking