Hans Reichenbach (1891—1953) Hans Reichenbach was a leading philosopher of science, a founder of the Berlin circle, and a proponent of logical positivism (also known as neopositivism or logical empiricism). He is known for his philosophical investigations of Einstein’s theory of relativity, meccanica quantistica, the theory of probability, the nature of space and time, the character of physical laws, and conventionalism in physical science. He was

S. Louis Hegelians The common name given to a group of amateur philosophers founded and led by William Torrey Harris (1835-1909) and Henry Conrad Brokmeyer (1828-1906). Harris, a New Englander born in Connecticut and educated at Yale, first became acquainted with idealism through the Transcendentalists, mainly from his attendance in 1857 at the Orphic Seer’s Conversations of Amos Bronson Alcott (1799-1888). The experience inspired Harris

Hunhu/Ubuntu in the Traditional Thought of Southern Africa The term Ubuntu/Botho/Hunhu is a Zulu/Xhosa/Ndebele/Sesotho/Shona word referring to the moral attribute of a person, who is known in the Bantu languages as Munhu (Among the Shona of Zimbabwe), Umuntu (Among the Ndebele of Zimbabwe and the Zulu/Xhosa of South Africa) and Muthu (Among the Tswana of Botswana) and Omundu (Among the Herero of Namibia) to name

Agenti vincolati alle risorse Gli agenti vincolati alle risorse sono persone che hanno limitazioni nell'elaborazione delle informazioni. Tutte le persone e gli altri agenti cognitivi dotati di corpi sono tali da essere trasduttori sensoriali (come i loro occhi e le orecchie) hanno capacità risolutive e discriminatorie limitate; la loro velocità e potenza di elaborazione delle informazioni è limitata da una certa soglia; e la loro memoria e il loro ricordo sono in qualche modo imperfetti. Mentre questi fatti generali

Albert Camus (1913—1960) Albert Camus was a French-Algerian journalist, playwright, novelist, philosophical essayist, and Nobel laureate. Though he was neither by advanced training nor profession a philosopher, he nevertheless made important, forceful contributions to a wide range of issues in moral philosophy in his novels, reviews, articles, saggi, and speeches—from terrorism and political violence to suicide and the death penalty. He is often described as