Culture Clash: Philosophy-Phenomenalism-Science-Leo Strausshttps://www.culture-clash.net/pages/philosophy/philos_articles/ph5rigorous.html
regarded as such by the philosophers. In our age on the other hand politics has in fact become universal. Unrest in what is loosely, not to say demagogically, called the ghetto of
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 , “
The Project Gutenberg eBook of A General View of Positivism, by Auguste Comte.https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/53799/pg53799-images.html
in a century; and philosophers have seldom had justice done them until some generations have passed. The difficulties presented by the scientific form of Comte’s works have been o
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951)https://friesian.com/wittgen.htm
by professional philosophers. But that is just the point. In Twentieth Century philosophy, the pointless and the empty are regarded as the pinnacle of wisdom. When obscure, hermet
George Smith, "In Defense of Rational Anarchism"http://anthonyflood.com/smithrationalanarchism.htm
that it was these two philosophers of sovereignty who, more than anyone else, separated sovereignty from its religious roots in the divine right of kings, gave it a secular founda
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
Philosophical Problems with Calculushttps://friesian.com/calculus.htm
I would say that the philosophers should pay more attention to 0/0 first , since that is where the trouble starts. TAKING A DERIVATIVE I. y = 3x 2 + 4x + 5 Given an equation, wher
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
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