Propositional Logic Propositional logic, also known as sentential logic and statement logic, is the branch of logic that studies ways of joining and/or modifying entire propositions, statements or sentences to form more complicated propositions, statements or sentences, as well as the logical relationships and properties that are derived from these methods of combining or altering statements. In propositional logic, the simplest statements are considered as

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

Modern Chinese Philosophy The term “modern Chinese philosophy” is used here to denote various Chinese philosophical trends in the short period between the implementation of the constitutional “new policy” (1901) and the abolition of the traditional examination system (1905) in the late Qing (Ch'ing) dynasty and the rise and fall of the Republic of China in mainland China (1911-1949). As an ancient cultural entity, China

Gustav Chpet (1879-1937) Shpet, professeur de philosophie à l'Université de Moscou, introduit la phénoménologie transcendantale husserlienne en Russie. En plus, il a beaucoup écrit sur l'esthétique, herméneutiques, l'histoire de la philosophie russe et de la philosophie du langage. Pendant les années staliniennes en Russie, il a été condamné comme étant un idéaliste en philosophie et un contre-révolutionnaire en politique.. La profondeur et l'étendue de ses nombreuses études sont

Environmental Ethics The field of environmental ethics concerns human beings’ ethical relationship with the natural environment. While numerous philosophers have written on this topic throughout history, environmental ethics only developed into a specific philosophical discipline in the 1970s. This emergence was no doubt due to the increasing awareness in the 1960s of the effects that technology, industry, economic expansion and population growth were having on

Metaphysics of Science Metaphysics of Science is the philosophical study of key concepts that figure prominently in science and that, prima facie, stand in need of clarification. It is also concerned with the phenomena that correspond to these concepts. Exemplary topics within Metaphysics of Science include laws of nature, causalité, dispositions, natural kinds, possibility and necessity, explication, reduction, émergence, grounding, and space and time. Métaphysique