Platone: The Timaeus There is nothing easy about the Timaeus. Its length, limited dramatic discourse, and arid subject-matter make for a dense and menacing work. But make no mistake, it is a menacing work of great subtly and depth. Cosmology has traditionally received the bulk of scholarly attention. No less important, Tuttavia, are the dialogue’s narrative elements, beginning with its characters. Socrates needs no introduction,

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 Eighty-Four, but many of his essays and other books have remained popular as well. His body of work provides one of the twentieth century’s most trenchant and widely recognized critiques

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 subject matter. In particolare, there is the prospect for it to be consistent to conceive of truth in a realist manner for discourse about the material world, while maintaining an

Epistemic Luck Epistemic luck is a generic notion used to describe any of a number of ways in which it can be accidental, coincidental, or fortuitous that a person has a true belief. Per esempio, one can form a true belief as a result of a lucky guess, as when one believes through guesswork that “C” is the right answer to a multiple-choice question and

The Infinite Working with the infinite is tricky business. Zeno’s paradoxes first alerted Western philosophers to this in 450 B.C.E. when he argued that a fast runner such as Achilles has an infinite number of places to reach during the pursuit of a slower runner. Da allora, there has been a struggle to understand how to use the notion of infinity in a coherent manner.

Luce Irigaray (1930—) Luce Irigaray è un'autrice di spicco del femminismo francese contemporaneo e della filosofia continentale. È una pensatrice interdisciplinare che lavora tra la filosofia, psicoanalisi, e linguistica. Originariamente allievo del famoso analista Jacques Lacan, L’allontanamento di Irigaray da Lacan in Lo speculum dell’altra donna, dove critica l'esclusione delle donne sia dalla filosofia che dalla teoria psicoanalitica, le è valso il riconoscimento come