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Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite (fl. 500 C.E.) Dionysius is the author of three long treatises (The Divine Names, The Celestial Hierarchy, and The Ecclesiastical Hierarchy) one short treatise (The Mystical Theology) and ten letters expounding various…
Aristotele: Poetics The Poetics of Aristotle (384-322 a.E.V.) is a much-disdained book. So unpoetic a soul as Aristotle’s has no business speaking about such a topic, much less telling poets how to go about their…
Filosofia della Medicina Mentre filosofia e medicina, a cominciare dagli antichi greci, goduto di una lunga storia di interazioni reciprocamente vantaggiose, la professionalizzazione della “filosofia della medicina” è un evento del XIX secolo. One of the first…
Pluralist Theories of Truth Truth pluralism (or ‘alethic’ pluralism) is a view about the nature of truth. Broadly speaking, the thought behind the view is that truth may require different treatments for different kinds of…
Mental Causation The term “mental causation” applies to causal transactions involving mental events or states, such as beliefs, desideri, feelings, and perceptions. Tipicamente, the term is used to refer to cases where a mental state…
Dio e il tempo Qualsiasi visione teistica del mondo include una certa nozione di come Dio è correlato alle strutture dell'universo, compreso spazio e tempo. The question of God’s relation to time has…
Bertrand Russell: Metaphysics Metaphysics is not a school or tradition but rather a sub-discipline within philosophy, as are ethics, logic and epistemology. Like many philosophical terms, “metaphysics” can be understood in a variety of ways,…
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906—1945) For Bonhoeffer, the foundation of ethical behaviour lay in how the reality of the world and the reality of God were reconciled in the reality of Christ. Both in his thinking and…
Charles Sanders Peirce: Logic Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) was an accomplished scientist, philosopher, and mathematician, who considered himself primarily a logician. His contributions to the development of modern logic at the turn of the 20th…
George Orwell (1903—1950) Eric Arthur Blair, better known by his pen name George Orwell, was a British essayist, journalist, and novelist. Orwell is most famous for his dystopian works of fiction, Animal Farm and Nineteen…