Apology An apology is the act of declaring one’s regret, remords, or sorrow for having insulted, échoué, injured, harmed or wronged another. Some apologies are interpersonal (between individuals, c'est, between friends, family members, colleagues, lovers, neighbours, or strangers). Other apologies are collective (by one group to another group or by a group to an individual). Plus généralement, apologies can be offered “one to one,”

Locke: Ethics The major writings of John Locke (1632–1704) are among the most important texts for understanding some of the central currents in epistemology, métaphysique, politique, religion, and pedagogy in the late 17th and early 18th century in Western Europe. His magnum opus, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689) is the undeniable starting point for the study of empiricism in the early modern period. Locke’s

Charles Sanders Peirce: Pragmatisme Le pragmatisme est un principe d'enquête et une explication du sens proposé pour la première fois par C.. S. Peirce dans les années 1870. Le point crucial du pragmatisme de Peirce est que pour qu’une déclaration ait un sens, il doit avoir des repères pratiques. Peirce considérait l'explication pragmatique du sens comme une méthode permettant d'éclaircir la métaphysique et de faciliter la recherche scientifique.. Cela a conduit de nombreuses personnes à

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) Nietzsche était un philosophe allemand, essayiste, et critique culturel. Ses écrits sur la vérité, moralité, langue, esthétique, théorie culturelle, histoire, nihilisme, pouvoir, conscience, et le sens de l'existence ont exercé une énorme influence sur la philosophie occidentale et l'histoire intellectuelle. Nietzsche parlait de « la mort de Dieu,» et prévoyait la dissolution de la religion traditionnelle et de la métaphysique. Certains interprètes de Nietzsche pensent qu'il a embrassé le nihilisme,

Epistemic Justification We often believe what we are told by our parents, amis, doctors, and news reporters. We often believe what we see, goût, and smell. We hold beliefs about the past, the present, and the future. Do we have a right to hold any of these beliefs? Are any supported by evidence? Should we continue to hold them, or should we discard some? Ces

Poincaré’s Philosophy of Mathematics Jules Henri Poincaré was an important French mathematician, scientist, and philosopher in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century who was especially known for his conventionalist philosophy. Most of his publishing was in analysis, topology, probability, mechanics and mathematical physics. His overall philosophy of mathematics is Kantian because he believes that intuition provides a foundation for all of mathematics, including geometry.