Causation The question, “What is causation?” may sound like a trivial question—it is as sure as common knowledge can ever be that some things cause another, that there are causes and they necessitate certain effects. We say that we know that what caused the president’s death was an assassin’s shot. But when asked why, we will most certainly reply that it is because the latter

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.

Miracoli Il termine “miracolo” è usato in modo molto ampio nel linguaggio comune. Una rapida rassegna delle notizie può far emergere notizie come quella di un “Miracolo di Natale”.,” grazie al quale la costa del golfo del Texas venne ricoperta di neve da una rara tempesta. Parliamo di farmaci miracolosi, o di bambini miracolosi, e anche alcuni prodotti per la casa pretendono di essere miracolosi. Discussione filosofica

Emmanuel Kant: Aesthetics Immanuel Kant is an 18th century German philosopher whose work initated dramatic changes in the fields of epistemology, metafisica, etica, estetica, e teleologia. Like many Enlightenment thinkers, he holds our mental faculty of reason in high esteem; he believes that it is our reason that invests the world we experience with structure. In his works on aesthetics and teleology, he argues that