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Art criticism
To criticize a work of art is to make a judgment of its overall merit or demerit and to support that judgment by reference to features it possesses. ...
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Boltzmann, Ludwig Eduard (1844–1906)
Boltzmann is famous in both physics and philosophy for interpreting thermodynamics in terms of molecular movement as if the second or ‘entropy’ law were merely statistically valid. This ...
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Reichenbach, Hans (1891–1953)
Philosophy of science flourished in the twentieth century, partly as a result of extraordinary progress in the sciences themselves, but mainly because of the efforts of philosophers who ...
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Whewell, William (1794–1886)
William Whewell’s two seminal works, History of the Inductive Science, from the Earliest to the Present Time (1837) and The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences, Founded upon their ...
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Atomism, ancient
Ancient Greek atomism, starting with Leucippus and Democritus in the fifth century bc, arose as a response to problems of the continuum raised by Eleatic philosophers. In ...
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Information technology and ethics
Information technology ethics is the study of the ethical issues arising out of the use and development of electronic technologies. Its goal is to identify and formulate answers ...
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Nicholas of Cusa (1401–64)
Also called Nicolaus Cusanus, this German cardinal takes his distinguishing name from the city of his birth, Kues (or Cusa, in Latin), on the Moselle river between Koblenz ...
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Poincaré, Jules Henri (1854–1912)
Although primarily a mathematician, Henri Poincaré wrote and lectured extensively on astronomy, theoretical physics, philosophy of science and philosophy of mathematics at the turn of the century. In ...
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Descartes, René (1596–1650)
René Descartes, often called the father of modern philosophy, attempted to break with the philosophical traditions of his day and start philosophy anew. Rejecting the Aristotelian philosophy of ...
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Bachelard, Gaston (1884–1962)
One indication of the originality of Bachelard’s work is that he was famous for his writings both in the philosophy of science and on the poetic imagination. His ...
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General relativity, philosophical responses to
Much of the early philosophical attention given Einstein’s theory of gravitation was not uncontaminated by a grim post-war atmosphere conducive to public diversions, hysteria and national chauvinism. Most ...
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Alighieri, Dante (1265–1321)
Although Dante never received a systematic training in philosophy, he tackled some of the most controversial philosophical problems of his time. In his theory of science, he asked ...
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Comte, Isidore-Auguste-Marie-François-Xavier (1798–1857)
The French philosopher and social theorist Auguste Comte is known as the originator of sociology and ‘positivism’, a philosophical system by which he aimed to discover and perfect ...
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Vernadskii, Vladimir Ivanovich (1863–1945)
Vladimir Vernadskii was an earth scientist with broad scientific and philosophical interests. He made important contributions to mineralogy and crystallography, distinguished himself as one of the founders of ...
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Thought experiments
Thought experiments are strange: they have the power to present surprising results and can profoundly change the way we view the world, all without requiring us to examine ...
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Cumberland, Richard (1632–1718)
Richard Cumberland developed his ideas in response to Hobbes’ Leviathan. He introduced concepts of aggregate goodness (later used in utilitarianism), of benevolence (used in moral-sense theory), of moral ...
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Lichtenberg, Georg Christoph (1742–99)
Lichtenberg was a German mathematician, physicist and astronomer, a highly successful university teacher in the field of experimental physics and a prolific writer of essays on scientific and ...
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Spacetime
Spacetime is the four-dimensional manifold proposed by current physics as the arena for Nature’s show. Although Newtonian physics can very well be reformulated in a spacetime setting, the ...
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Berkeley, George (1685–1753)
George Berkeley, who was born in Ireland and who eventually became Bishop of Cloyne, is best known for three works that he published while still very young: An ...
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Natural philosophy, medieval
Medieval Latin natural philosophy falls into two main periods, before the rise of the universities (mainly in the twelfth century, when works were produced in connection with aristocratic ...
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