Storia dell'amore Cos'è l'amore? Tutti desideriamo avere la risposta a una delle domande più universali, misterioso, e fenomeni onnipervadenti su questo pianeta. E anche se forse abbiamo un sentimento speciale e un’intuizione intuitiva che l’amore “è legato a tutto il resto, ma le cose vicine sono più affini delle cose lontane,” come ha detto Waldo Tobler, non abbiamo ancora trovato e offerto

Vienna Circle The Vienna Circle is a group of philosophers who gathered around Moritz Schlick, after his coming in Vienna in 1922. They organized a philosophical association, named Verein Ernst Mach (Ernst Mach Association). Tuttavia, meetings on philosophy of science and epistemology began as early as 1907, promoted by Frank, Hahn and Neurath, who later arranged to bring Schlick at the University of Vienna. Among

Thick Concepts A term expresses a thick concept if it expresses a specific evaluative concept that is also substantially descriptive. It is a matter of debate how this rough account should be unpacked, but examples can help to convey the basic idea. Thick concepts are often illustrated with virtue concepts like courageous and generous, action concepts like murder and betray, epistemic concepts like dogmatic and

Aristotele (384 B.C.E.—322 B.C.E.) Aristotle is a towering figure in ancient Greek philosophy, who made important contributions to logic, criticism, retorica, fisica, biologia, psicologia, mathematics, metafisica, etica, and politics. He was a student of Plato for twenty years but is famous for rejecting Plato’s theory of forms. He was more empirically minded than both Plato and Plato’s teacher, Socrate. A prolific writer, lecturer, and polymath, Aristotle radically

Willard Van Orman Quine: Philosophy of Science W. V. O. Quine (1908-2000) did not conceive of philosophy as an activity separate from the general province of empirical science. His interest in science is not best described as a philosophy of science but as a set of reflections on the nature of science that is pursued with the same empirical spirit that animates scientific inquiry. Quine’s