Thomas S. Kuhn (1922—1996) Thomas Samuel Kuhn, although trained as a physicist at Harvard University, became an historian and philosopher of science through the support of Harvard’s president, James Conant. In 1962, Kuhn’s renowned The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Structure) helped to inaugurate a revolution—the 1960s historiographic revolution—by providing a new image of science. For Kuhn, scientific revolutions involved paradigm shifts that punctuated periods of

Margaret Cavendish (1623—1673) Margaret Lucas Cavendish, the Duchess of Newcastle, était un philosophe, poet, playwright and essayist. Her philosophical writings were concerned mostly with issues of metaphysics and natural philosophy, but also extended to social and political concerns. Like Hobbes and Descartes, she rejected what she took to be the occult explanations of the Scholastics. Against Descartes, cependant, she rejected dualism and incorporeal substance of

Le pragmatisme féministe Le pragmatisme féministe est une tradition philosophique, qui s'appuie sur les idées et les pratiques féministes et pragmatistes. Il s’agit fondamentalement d’élargir la pensée philosophique à travers l’activisme et l’expérience vécue., et suppose que les idées féministes et pragmatistes sont mutuellement bénéfiques pour les causes libératrices. Le pragmatisme féministe souligne la nécessité de corriger les fausses distinctions, ou dualismes, car cela aboutit généralement au dénigrement d'un opposant par

Philosophy of Architecture photo of SFMOMA by David Ohmer The relation between philosophy and architecture is interrogative and propositional. It is about asking questions concerning the meaning of human habitation—what it means to live in built environs—and about evaluating plans and design projects where human flourishing and social progress can best occur—in what kinds of buildings, interior spaces and urban precincts. The following sets of

Vasubandhu (fl. 4th or 5th cn. C.E.) Vasubandhu was a prominent Buddhist teacher and one of the most important figures in the development of Mahyna Buddhism in India. Though he is particularly admired by later Buddhists as co-founder of the Yogcra school along with his half brother Asanga, his pre-Yogcra works, such as the Abhidharmakosha and his auto-commentary (Abhidharmakoshabhshya) on it, are considered masterpieces. Il

Nominalisme mathématique Le nominalisme mathématique peut être décrit comme l'idée selon laquelle les entités mathématiques – les entités telles que les nombres, ensembles, fonctions, et les groupes – n'existent pas. Toutefois, indiquant que la vue nécessite une certaine prudence. Bien que le point de vue opposé (que les objets mathématiques existent) peut sembler une affirmation métaphysique quelque peu exotique, il est généralement motivé par l'idée que les objets mathématiques doivent exister pour que des affirmations mathématiques soient possibles.