Mozi (Mo-tzu, c. 400s—300s B.C.E.) Mo Di (Mo Ti), better known as Mozi (Mo-tzu) or “Master Mo,” was a Chinese thinker active from the late 5th to the early 4th centuries B.C.E. He is best remembered for being the first major intellectual rival to Confucius and his followers. Mozi’s teaching is summed up in ten theses extensively argued for in the text that bears his

Edmond Husserl: Intentionality and Intentional Content Edmund Husserl (1859—1938) was an influential thinker of the first half of the twentieth century. His philosophy was heavily influenced by the works of Franz Brentano and Bernard Bolzano, and was also influenced in various ways by interaction with contemporaries such as Alexius Meinong, Kasimir Twardowski, and Gottlob Frege. In his own right, Husserl is considered the founder of

Lao Tseu (Lao-tseu, fl. 6ème CN. avant notre ère) Laozi est le nom d'un légendaire philosophe taoïste, le titre alternatif du premier texte chinois mieux connu en Occident sous le nom de Daodejing, et le surnom d'une divinité du panthéon du « taoïsme religieux » organisé qui est apparu au cours de la dernière dynastie Han. (25-220 de notre ère). Laozi est la romanisation pinyin des caractères chinois qui signifient « Vieux

The Brain in a Vat Argument The Brain in a Vat thought-experiment is most commonly used to illustrate global or Cartesian skepticism. You are told to imagine the possibility that at this very moment you are actually a brain hooked up to a sophisticated computer program that can perfectly simulate experiences of the outside world. Here is the skeptical argument. If you cannot now be

L'applicabilité des mathématiques L'applicabilité des mathématiques peut se situer n'importe où sur un spectre allant du complètement trivial au complètement mystérieux.. À un extrême, les mathématiques sont utilisées en dehors des mathématiques dans des cas qui vont des calculs quotidiens comme la tentative d'équilibrer son chéquier à la modélisation abstraite la plus exigeante de particules subatomiques.. Les techniques qui sous-tendent ces applications sont parfaitement claires pour ceux

Anaximander (c. 610—546 B.C.E.) Anaximander was the author of the first surviving lines of Western philosophy. He speculated and argued about “the Boundless” as the origin of all that is. He also worked on the fields of what we now call geography and biology. De plus, Anaximander was the first speculative astronomer. He originated the world-picture of the open universe, which replaced the closed universe of