Francesco Bacone (1561—1626) Sir Francis Bacon (later Lord Verulam and the Viscount St. Albans) was an English lawyer, statesman, essayist, storico, intellectual reformer, philosopher, and champion of modern science. Early in his career he claimed “all knowledge as his province” and afterwards dedicated himself to a wholesale revaluation and re-structuring of traditional learning. To take the place of the established tradition (a miscellany of Scholasticism,

David Hume (1711-1776) “Hume è la nostra politica, Hume è il nostro mestiere, Hume è la nostra filosofia, Hume è la nostra religione”. Questa affermazione del filosofo del diciannovesimo secolo James Hutchison Stirling riflette la posizione unica nel pensiero intellettuale detenuta dal filosofo scozzese David Hume. Parte della fama e dell’importanza di Hume è dovuta al suo approccio audacemente scettico a una serie di argomenti filosofici. Nell'epistemologia, ha messo in discussione le nozioni comuni

William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868—1963) W. E. B. Du Bois was an important American thinker: un poeta, philosopher, economic historian, sociologist, and social critic. His work resists easy classification. This article focuses exclusively on Du Bois’ contribution to philosophy; but the reader must keep in mind throughout that Du Bois is more than a philosopher; lo è, for many, a great social leader. Il suo

Guglielmo Giacomo (1842-1910) William James is considered by many to be the most insightful and stimulating of American philosophers, as well as the second of the three great pragmatists (the middle link between Charles Sanders Peirce and John Dewey). As a professor of psychology and of philosophy at Harvard University, he became the most famous living American psychologist and later the most famous living American

Disjunctivism Disjunctivism, as a theory of visual experience, claims that the mental states involved in a “good case” experience of veridical perception and a “bad case” experience of hallucination differ. They differ even in those cases in which the two experiences are indistinguishable for their subject. Consider the veridical perception of a bar stool and an indistinguishable hallucination; both of these experiences might be classed

Resurrection The term “resurrection” refers to the raising of someone from the dead. The resurrection of the dead brings to the forefront topics from the study of personal identity and philosophical anthropology. Per esempio, some people think that we have souls and that the souls play an important role in resurrection. Others claim that we do not have souls and that this is a reason