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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 Mythopoeic Society - The Horn of Rohan

https://www.mythsoc.org/horn-of-rohan.htm

linguists, philosophers, theologians, ethnologists, sociologists, and all other scholars interested in the following areas: 1. Mythopoeia and new mythology in literature - mythic

Legal Positivism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Spring 2009 Edition)

https://plato.stanford.edu/Archives/spr2009/entries/legal-positivism/

analytically inclined philosophers of law, it is also the subject of competing interpretations together with persistent criticisms and misunderstandings. 1. Development and Influe

Logos Virtual Library: Nietzsche: The Antichrist

http://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

Thomas Hobbes: Leviathan

https://constitution.org/2-Authors/th/leviatha.htm

at all, from deceived philosophers and deceived, or deceiving, Schoolmen. CHAPTER IV OF SPEECH THE INVENTION of printing, though ingenious, compared with the invention of letters

When a Fallacy is Not a Fallacy

https://arcaneknowledge.org/philtheo/fallacy.htm

classical and medieval philosophers, which is why most of these fallacies have Latin names. Traditional Western philosophy, however, recognized that logical deduction or dialectic

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

John Stuart Mill, The Utility of Religion

http://www.laits.utexas.edu/poltheory/mill/three/utilrelig.html

of, as sceptical philosophers are sometimes inclined to believe. It is not enough to aver, in general terms, that there never can be any conflict between truth and utility; that i

REFLECTIONS ON ISLAM. The unknown roots. Myth versus enlightenment.

https://wichm.home.xs4all.nl/islam.html

and philosophy. Muslim philosophers had islamatised Greek philosophical traditions. Aristotle can still not be studied without reference to Ibn S?n? (Avicenna,d.1037) and Ibn Rush
A psychological approach to Islam, its myth and vague origins, its glory and decline.

A brief refutation of materialist atheism

http://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 1

http://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

Robert Heinlein, The Libertarian in the Lifeboat

https://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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