Properties A stone, a bag of sugar and a guinea pig all weigh one kilogram. A lily, a cloud and a sample of copper sulphate are white. A statue, a dance and a mathematical equation…
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Roberto Nozick (1938—2002)
Roberto Nozick (1938—2002) A thinker with wide-ranging interests, Robert Nozick was one of the most important and influential political philosophers, along with John Rawls, in the Anglo-American analytic tradition. His first and most celebrated book,…
Bonaventura (1217/1221-1274)
Bonaventura (1217/1221-1274) Bonaventura (d. 1274) was a philosopher, a theologian, a prolific author of spiritual treatises, an influential prelate of the Medieval Church, the Minister General of the Franciscan Order, e, later in his life,…
Abstractionism in Mathematics
Abstractionism in Mathematics Abstractionism is a philosophical account of the ontology of mathematics according to which abstract objects are grounded in a process of abstraction (although not every view that places abstraction front and center…
John Wisdom (1904-1993)
John Wisdom (1904-1993) Between 1930 and 1956, John Wisdom set the tone in analytic philosophy in the United Kingdom. Nobody expressed this better than J. O. Urmson in his Philosophical Analysis: Its Development Between the…
17th Century Theories of Substance
17th Century Theories of Substance In contemporary, everyday language, the word “substance” tends to be a generic term used to refer to various kinds of material stuff (“We need to clean this sticky substance off…
Nasir al-Din Tusi (1201—1274)
Nasir al-Din Tusi (1201—1274) Nasir al-Din Tusi was the most celebrated scholar of the 13th century in Islamic lands. Thomas Aquinas and Roger Bacon were his contemporaries in the West. The ensemble of Tusi’s writings…
Minucio Felice (c. 2° e 3° cn. CE)
Minucio Felice (c. 2° e 3° cn. CE) Minucio Felice era un avvocato romano, retore, e apologista cristiano. Come Lattanzio, Minucio era un convertito al cristianesimo. La sua unica opera conosciuta, il dialogo Ottavio, is one…
Giovanni Locke: Filosofia politica
Giovanni Locke: Filosofia politica John Locke (1632-1704) presenta una figura intrigante nella storia della filosofia politica la cui brillantezza espositiva e l'ampiezza dell'attività accademica rimangono profondamente influenti. Locke proposed a radical conception of political…
La teoria-teoria dei concetti
La teoria-teoria dei concetti La teoria-teoria dei concetti è una visione di come sono strutturati i concetti, acquisito, e schierato. Concetti, come verranno qui compresi, are mental representations that are implicated in many of…