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Metaphilosophy What is philosophy? What is philosophy for? How should philosophy be done? These are metaphilosophical questions, metaphilosophy being the study of the nature of philosophy. Contemporary metaphilosophies within the Western philosophical tradition can be…
Paradigm Case Arguments From time to time philosophers and scientists have made sensational, provocative claims that certain things do not exist or never happen that, in everyday life, we unquestioningly take for granted as existing…
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712—1778) Jean-Jacques Rousseau was one of the most influential thinkers during the Enlightenment in eighteenth century Europe. His first major philosophical work, A Discourse on the Sciences and Arts, was the winning response…
Eduard Hanslick (1825–1904) Eduard Hanslick was a Prague-born Austrian aesthetic theorist, music critic, and the first professor of aesthetics and history of music at the University of Vienna, who is commonly considered the founder of…
Friedrich Nietzsche: Filosofia della storia Nietzsche era ben immerso nei suoi metodi contemporanei e nei dibattiti di filosofia della storia, che ha portato nella sua filosofia in modi essenziali. Un tempo un prodigio della filologia classica, Nietzsche’s…
Prosentential Theory of Truth Prosentential theorists claim that sentences such as “That is true” are prosentences that function analogously to their better known cousins—pronouns. Per esempio, just as we might use the pronoun ‘he’ in…
Social and Political Recognition Acts of recognition infuse many aspects of our lives such as receiving a round of applause from a rapt audience, being spotted in a crowded street by a long-forgotten friend, having…
Empedocles (c. 492—432 B.C.E.) Empedocles (of Acagras in Sicily) was a philosopher and poet: one of the most important of the philosophers working before Socrates (the Presocratics), and a poet of outstanding ability and of…
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) Elizabeth Cady Stanton fu una delle figure pubbliche più influenti nell'America del diciannovesimo secolo. È stata una delle prime teoriche femministe della nazione e sicuramente una delle sue attiviste più produttive….
Consciousness Explaining the nature of consciousness is one of the most important and perplexing areas of philosophy, but the concept is notoriously ambiguous. The abstract noun “consciousness” is not frequently used by itself in the…