The Problem of Induction This article discusses the problem of induction, including its conceptual and historical perspectives from Hume to Reichenbach. Given the prominence of induction in everyday life as well as in science, we…
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Charles Sanders Peirce: Pragmatism
Charles Sanders Peirce: Pragmatism Pragmatism is a principle of inquiry and an account of meaning first proposed by C. S. Peirce in the 1870s. The crux of Peirce’s pragmatism is that for any statement to…
Anaximander (c. 610—546 B.C.E.)
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…
Haskell Brooks Curry (1900-1982)
Haskell Brooks Curry (1900-1982) Haskell Brooks Curry was a mathematical logician who developed a distinct philosophy of mathematics. Most of his work was technical: he was the major developer of combinatory logic, which nowadays plays…
Emmanuel Kant: Aesthetics
Emmanuel Kant: Aesthetics Immanuel Kant is an 18th century German philosopher whose work initated dramatic changes in the fields of epistemology, metafisica, etica, estetica, e teleologia. Like many Enlightenment thinkers, he holds our mental faculty…
Metaethics
Metaethics Metaethics is a branch of analytic philosophy that explores the status, foundations, and scope of moral values, proprietà, and words. Whereas the fields of applied ethics and normative theory focus on what is moral,…
Diritti e doveri dei genitori
Diritti e doveri dei genitori storicamente, i filosofi hanno avuto relativamente poco da dire sulla famiglia. Ciò è alquanto sorprendente, data la presenza pervasiva e l’influenza della famiglia sia sugli individui che sulla vita sociale….
Cynosarges
Cynosarges Una palestra vicino ad Atene e il luogo in cui insegnavano i filosofi cinici. Sommario Posizione, Strutture, and Layout of Cynosarges Bridge Heracleion Other Sanctuaries Gymnasium Palaistra Peripatos Groves History of the Use of Cynosarges References…
Justus Lipsius (1547—1606)
Justus Lipsius (1547—1606) Justus Lipsius, a Belgian classical philologist and Humanist, wrote a series of works designed to revive ancient Stoicism in a form that would be compatible with Christianity. The most famous of these…
D'Aquino: Metafisica
D'Aquino: Metafisica La metafisica è considerata da Tommaso d'Aquino come lo studio dell'essere in quanto essere, questo è, a study of the most fundamental aspects of being that constitute a being and without which it…