Beginning of Modern Science & Modern Philosophyhttps://friesian.com/hist-2.htm
of theology," modern philosophers have often thought of their discipline as little more than the "handmaiden of science." Even for those who haven't thought that, the shadow of sc
Social Epistemology (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Fall 2008 Edition)https://plato.sydney.edu.au/archives/fall2008/entries/epistemology-social/
to find historical philosophers who made at least brief forays into the social dimensions of knowledge or rational belief. In his dialogue Charmides , Plato posed the question of
David Hume: Of the Original Contracthttps://dhspriory.org/kenny/PhilTexts/Hume/OriginalContract.htm
in the people. But philosophers, who have embraced a party (if that benot a contradiction in terms), are not contented with these concessions. Theyassert, not only that government
JR's Freethought Pagehttp://www.skeptic.ca/Home_Page.htm
Would The Enlightenment Philosophers Say? : Ersatz Democracy: Acton's Maxim & the Anarchist Principle : Hierarchy, Business, Poli
The Kant-Friesian Theory of Religion, Rudolf Ottohttps://friesian.com/numinos.htm
rigorous enough for philosophers) and is too easily misunderstood and dismissed as describing some kind of mysticism . Even in the history of religion, Otto's own analysis often d
Colour is objective mindhttps://mats-winther.github.io/objcolour.htm
or sense-data, which philosophers have wrecked their brains over for decades (cf. Stanford Encyc., here ). It is essentially an Idealist conception referring to the introspectivel
Critique is directed against lingering philosophical Idealism and its counterpart, namely rationalistic physicalism.
Polynomic Theory of Value, Pleasure, Virtues of Franklin and Woodenhttps://friesian.com/poly-1.htm
not aware of historical philosophers (before Schiller) offering such a theory, despite the common aphorism that "The road to hell is paved with good intentions," which suggests so
Transformation Mechanisms: A Critique of the Political Economy of Growthhttps://content.csbs.utah.edu/~ehrbar/diss/salem.htm
the challenge made by philosophers of science to both inductive [58] and falsificationist [59] approaches to empirical testing has produced no secure procedure, in which such vali
Classical Epistemologyhttps://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/help/classic.htm
continues among French philosophers right up to the present day. France has given the world its greatest mathematicians, not just Descartes but Lagrange, Poisson, Galois, Lefevbre
A draft sketch of the history of epistemology from Galileo to Marx, bringing out the relationship between knowledge and value
Meaning and the Problem of Universalshttps://friesian.com/universl.htm
quite a few academic philosophers, may not realize that he is using a metaphysical principle when he does. That Heinlein has missed the implication of Postivist doctrine that meta
The Cult of Scientific Management by John Taylor Gattohttps://archive.lewrockwell.com/gatto/gatto-uhae-9.html
heiresses, scientists, philosophers, bombazines, gazebos, trust-fund babies, and successful men and women of affairs became the most potent force in the creation of the modern wel
The Scottish Enlightenment and Presbyterianism by Murray N. Rothbardhttps://archive.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/rothbard262.html
intellectuals, philosophers, and economists of 18th-century Scotland were intimately connected with the fortunes and the institutions of the establishment moderate wing of the Chu
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