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L'argomento dell'indispensabilità nella filosofia della matematica Nel suo fondamentale articolo del 1973, “Verità matematica,Paul Benacerraf ha presentato un problema che affronta tutti i resoconti della verità e della conoscenza matematica. Standard readings of mathematical claims entail the…
La Filosofia dell'Antropologia La Filosofia dell'Antropologia si riferisce alle prospettive filosofiche centrali che sono alla base, o hanno sostenuto, le scuole dominanti nel pensiero antropologico. It is distinct from Philosophical Anthropology which attempts to define…
Morality and Cognitive Science What do we know about how people make moral judgments? And what should moral philosophers do with this knowledge? This article addresses the cognitive science of moral judgment. It reviews important…
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788—1860) Arthur Schopenhauer has been dubbed the artist’s philosopher on account of the inspiration his aesthetics has provided to artists of all stripes. He is also known as the philosopher of pessimism, COME…
The Frankfurt School and Critical Theory The Frankfurt School, known more appropriately as Critical Theory, is a philosophical and sociological movement spread across many universities around the world. It was originally located at the Institute…
Sayyid Qutb (1906—1966) Sayyid Qutb was one of the leading Islamist ideological thinkers of the twentieth century. Living and working in Egypt, he turned to Islamism in his early forties after about two decades as…
Multiculturalism Cultural diversity has been present in societies for a very long time. In Ancient Greece, there were various small regions with different costumes, tradizioni, dialects and identities, Per esempio, those from Aetolia, Locris, Doris…
Omniscience and Divine Foreknowledge Omniscience is an attribute having to do with knowledge; it is the attribute of “having knowledge of everything.” Many philosophers consider omniscience to be an attribute possessed only by a divine…
The Geometrical Method The Geometrical Method is the style of proof (also called “demonstration”) that was used in Euclid’s proofs in geometry, and that was used in philosophy in Spinoza’s proofs in his Ethics. IL…
Olympe de Gouges (1748—1793) “Woman has the right to mount the scaffold; she must equally have the right to mount the rostrum” wrote Olympe de Gouges in 1791 in the best known of her writings…