Property Concepts of property are used to describe the legal and ethical entitlements that particular people or groups have to use to manage particular resources. Beyond that most general definition of ‘property’ however, philosophical controversy reigns. Political and legal philosophers disagree on what types of entitlements are essential elements of property, and on the shape and nature of the resultant property entitlements. Infatti, philosophers even

Evidence The concept of evidence is crucial to epistemology and the philosophy of science. Nell'epistemologia, evidence is often taken to be relevant to justified belief, where the latter, a sua volta, is typically thought to be necessary for knowledge. Discutibilmente, Poi, an understanding of evidence is vital for appreciating the two dominant objects of epistemological concern, vale a dire, knowledge and justified belief. In the philosophy of

Reliabilism Reliabilism encompasses a broad range of epistemological theories that try to explain knowledge or justification in terms of the truth-conduciveness of the process by which an agent forms a true belief. Process reliabilism is the most common type of reliabilism. The simplest form of process reliabilism regarding knowledge of some proposition p implies that agent S knows that p if and only if S

John Dewey (1859-1952) John Dewey era uno dei principali sostenitori della scuola di pensiero americana nota come pragmatismo, una visione che rifiutava l'epistemologia dualistica e la metafisica della filosofia moderna a favore di un approccio naturalistico che considerava la conoscenza come derivante da un adattamento attivo dell'organismo umano al suo ambiente. Su questo punto di vista, L’indagine non dovrebbe essere intesa come consistente in una mente

Filosofia americana sulla natura selvaggia La natura selvaggia è stata definita in diversi modi, ma soprattutto nel Wilderness Act del 1964, che la descrive “in contrapposizione a quelle aree dove l’uomo e le sue stesse opere dominano il paesaggio… come un’area dove la terra e la sua comunità di vita sono svincolate dall’uomo, dove l’uomo stesso è un visitatore che non rimane”. L'idea di natura selvaggia

Anaximenes (d. 528 B.C.E.) According to the surviving sources on his life, Anaximenes flourished in the mid 6th century B.C.E. and died about 528. He is the third philosopher of the Milesian School of philosophy, so named because like Thales and Anaximander, Anaximenes was an inhabitant of Miletus, in Ionia (ancient Greece). Theophrastus notes that Anaximenes was an associate, and possibly a student, of Anaximander’s. Anaximenes