The Incommensurability of Scientific Theories (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Winter 2013 Edition)https://plato.sydney.edu.au/archives/win2013/entries/incommensurability/
by two influential philosophers of science: Thomas Kuhn and Paul Feyerabend. They appeared to be challenging the rationality of natural science and were called in Nature , “
Rudolf Otto -- Fear and Tremendumhttps://friesian.com/otto.htm
to be sure, most philosophers of religion have difficulty, sometimes astonishing difficulty, focusing on actual religions in their own terms -- while philosophers often happen to
Camus' Hero of the Absurdhttps://friesian.com/gonzalez.htm
manner that positivist philosophers have so often undertaken. Yet this personal and autobiographical stake in a work of literature is an aspect of the creative process that ought
Chapter Ihttps://nekhbet.com/popper/chapter-01.html
inevitably seem, to the philosophers who read him, to be maintaining something extremely implausible. Such a writer must make that impression, in fact, unless the way he writes ef
Logos Virtual Library: Nietzsche: The Antichristhttp://www.logoslibrary.org/nietzsche/antichrist.html
by this sign we are philosophers, we Hyperboreans!? 8 It is necessary to say just whom we regard as our antagonists: theologians and all who have any theological blood in their ve
Comte's classification of the sciences (IEKO)https://www.isko.org/cyclo/comte
could expel “the philosophers, moralists and metaphysicians” from educational programs for their unscientific explanations of human behaviour ( Saint-Simon [1802] 1832
Auguste Comte is ostensibly the world's most famous classifier of the sciences in modern history. His whole life was dedicated to establishing a classification that conformed to t
Computation isn't Consciousness: The Chinese Room Experimenthttps://lukesmith.neocities.org/vids/chinese_room
than analytic philosophers, and therefore there is a clear divide between viewing consciousness as just merely being awake and having certain degrees of brain activity, and nebulo
A brief refutation of materialist atheismhttp://www.amnation.com/vfr/archives/010080.html
the same as what the philosophers call “naturalism,” is irrational. For example, if non-physical entities really existed, they would not be detectable with your senses
Alan Roebuck writes: Dear materialist atheists: While some of you, including some who participate at VFR, are content to allow...
Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, Essay 1http://johnstoniatexts.x10host.com/nietzsche/beyondgoodandevil1html.html
ON THE PREJUDICES OF PHILOSOPHERS 1 The will to truth, which is still going to tempt us to many a daring exploit, that celebrated truthfulness of which all philosoph
History of Usury Prohibitionhttp://www.alastairmcintosh.com/articles/1998_usury.htm
added ancient Western philosophers and politicians, as well as various modern socio-economic reformers. It is the objective of this paper to outline briefly the history of
Ramsey on Universalshttps://www.hist-analytic.com/Ramseyonuniversals.htm
by Mr. Russell that philosophers are very liable to be misled by the subject-predicate constructions of our language. They have supposed that all propositions must be of a subject
Robert Heinlein, The Libertarian in the Lifeboathttps://friesian.com/heinlein.htm
and especially of their philosophers, such as Ayn Rand (1905-1982), Murray Rothbard (1926-1995), and Robert Nozick (1938-2002) -- the latter's Anarchy, the State, and Utopia [1974
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