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Wittgenstein's Aesthetics
from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
(2014-7-31 9:14)
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[Revised entry by Garry Hagberg on July 30, 2014.
Changes to: Bibliography]
Given the extreme importance that Wittgenstein attached to the aesthetic dimension of life, it is in one sense surprising that he wrote so little on the subject. It is true that we have the notes assembled from his lectures on aesthetics given to a small group of...
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Evidence
from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
(2014-7-29 12:07)
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[Revised entry by Thomas Kelly on July 28, 2014.
Changes to: Main text, Bibliography, notes.html]
For my own part, I think that if one were looking for a single phrase to capture the stage to which philosophy has progressed, 'the study of evidence' would be a better choice than 'the study of language'. - A.J. Ayer, Philosophy in the Twentieth Century...
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18th Century German Philosophy Prior to Kant
from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
(2014-7-29 11:38)
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[Revised entry by Brigitte Sassen on July 28, 2014.
Changes to: Bibliography]
In Germany, the eighteenth century was the age of enlightenment, the age, that is, that called for the independence of reason. Although the ethos of this age found its clearest (and certainly its most famous) articulation towards the end of the century with Immanuel Kant and his...
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Copenhagen Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
(2014-7-25 10:31)
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[Revised entry by Jan Faye on July 24, 2014.
Changes to: Main text, Bibliography]
As the theory of the atom, quantum mechanics is perhaps the most successful theory in the history of science. It enables physicists, chemists, and technicians to calculate and predict the outcome of a vast number of experiments and to create new and advanced technology based on the insight into the behavior of atomic objects. But it is also a theory that challenges our imagination. It seems to violate...
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Giambattista Vico
from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
(2014-7-24 10:24)
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[Revised entry by Timothy Costelloe on July 23, 2014.
Changes to: Bibliography]
Giovanni Battista Vico (1668 - 1744) spent most of his professional life as Professor of Rhetoric at the University of Naples. He was trained in jurisprudence, but read widely in Classics, philology, and philosophy, all of which informed his highly original views on history,...
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Morality and Evolutionary Biology
from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
(2014-7-24 10:12)
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[Revised entry by William FitzPatrick on July 23, 2014.
Changes to: Main text, Bibliography, natural-teleology-ethics.html, notes.html]
A recent article in The Economist - sporting the provocative subtitle "Biology Invades a Field Philosophers Thought was Safely Theirs" - begins with the following rumination:...
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Abilities
from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
(2014-7-24 9:59)
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[Revised entry by John Maier on July 23, 2014.
Changes to: Main text, Bibliography]
In the accounts we give of one another, claims about our abilities appear to be indispensable. Some abilities are so widespread that many who have them take them for granted, such as the ability to walk, or to write one's name, or to tell a hawk from a...
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Port Royal Logic
from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
(2014-7-23 10:12)
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[New Entry by Jill Buroker on July 22, 2014.]
La Logique ou l'art de penser, better known as the Port-Royal Logic (hereinafter Logic), was the most influential logic text from Aristotle to the end of the nineteenth century. The authors were Antoine Arnauld and Pierre Nicole, philosophers and theologians associated with the Port-Royal Abbey, a center of the heretical Catholic Jansenist movement in...
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Francisco Suárez
from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
(2014-7-22 14:10)
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[New Entry by Christopher Shields and Daniel Schwartz on July 21, 2014.]
Francisco Suarez (1548 - 1617)[1] was a highly influential philosopher and theologian of the Second Scholastic (or "Early Modern Scholasticism"), that is, the revitalized philosophical and theological inquiry of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, conducted within the tradition shaped by Thomas Aquinas, Duns Scotus, and other medieval scholastics. While Suarez is commonly praised for his comprehensive, exhaustive,...
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Abhidharma
from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
(2014-7-22 12:50)
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[Revised entry by Noa Ronkin on July 21, 2014.
Changes to: Main text, Bibliography]
The first centuries afterŚākyamuni Buddha's death saw the rise of multiple schools of thought and teacher lineages within the Buddhist community as it spread throughout the Indian subcontinent. These new forms of scholarly monastic communities had distinct...
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