Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947) Alfred North Whitehead era un notevole matematico, logico, educatore e filosofo. La sconcertante complessità del pensiero di Whitehead, unito alla straordinaria qualità letteraria della sua scrittura, hanno cospirato per creare Whitehead (in un detto spesso ripetuto) uno dei filosofi più citati ma meno letti nel canone occidentale. Mentre è ampiamente riconosciuto per la sua collaborazione con Bertrand Russell sui Principia

Pluralismo religioso Pluralismo religioso, interpretato in senso lato, è una risposta alla diversità delle credenze religiose, pratiche, e tradizioni che esistono sia nel mondo contemporaneo che nel corso della storia. I termini “pluralismo” e “pluralista” possono, a seconda del contesto o della destinazione d'uso, significano qualsiasi cosa, dal semplice fatto della diversità religiosa a un particolare tipo di approccio filosofico o teologico a tale diversità, uno solitamente caratterizzato da

Sablé, Madeleine de Souvré, Marquise De (1598—1678) A prominent salonnière in seventeenth-century Paris, Madame de Sablé has long occupied the background of early modern French philosophy. She has survived in intellectual history as the patron of La Rochefoucauld, as the hostess of a theological salon, and as the correspondent of Blaise Pascal and Antoine Arnauld. These ancillary roles have obscured her original contributions to moral

Françoise d’Aubigné, marquise de Maintenon (1635—1719) The second wife of King Louis XIV of France, Madame de Maintenon has long fascinated historians and novelists by her improbable life. Born into an impoverished, criminal family, Maintenon conquered salon society as the wife of the poet Paul Scarron. During her salon years, she studied the philosophical currents of the period, notably libertinism and Cartesianism. Maintenon then conquered court society

Proper Functionalism ‘Proper Functionalism’ refers to a family of epistemological views according to which whether a belief (or some other doxastic state) was formed by way of properly functioning cognitive faculties plays a crucial role in whether it has a certain kind of positive epistemic status (such as being an item of knowledge, or a justified belief). Alvin Plantinga’s proper functionalist theory of knowledge has

Berlin Circle The Berlin Circle was a group of philosophers and scientists who gathered round Hans Reichenbach in late 1920s. Among its other members, were K. Grelling, C. G. Hempel, D. Hilbert, R. von Mises. The Berlin Circle’s name was Die Gesellschaft für Empirische Philosophie (Society for Empirical Philosophy). It joined up with the Vienna Circle; together they published the journal Erkenntnis that was edited