Filters
Availability
Topics
Periods
Regions
Religions
Contributor
Article Type
Status
A - Z

Search Results 1 - 25 of 73. Results contain 105 matches


content unlocked
Biographical

Kant, Immanuel (1724–1804)

Immanuel Kant was the paradigmatic philosopher of the European Enlightenment. He eradicated the last traces of the medieval worldview from modern philosophy, joined the key ideas of earlier ...

"kant-immanuel-1724-1804" appears most in:

content unlocked
Biographical

Kant, Immanuel (1724–1804)

REVISED

Immanuel Kant was the paradigmatic philosopher of the European Enlightenment. He eradicated the last traces of the medieval worldview from modern philosophy, joined the key ideas of earlier ...

"kant-immanuel-1724-1804" appears most in:

content unlocked
Overview

Biology, philosophy of

Biologists sometimes look perplexed when they are told of the existence of a subject called ‘The Philosophy of Biology’. What, they ask, is there to philosophise about in ...

content unlocked
Overview

Aesthetics

Aesthetics owes its name to Alexander Baumgarten who derived it from the Greek aisthanomai, which means perception by means of the senses (see Baumgarten, A.G.). As the ...

content unlocked
Thematic

German idealism

From the late eighteenth century until the middle of the nineteenth, German philosophy was dominated by the movement known as German idealism, which began as an attempt to ...

content unlocked
Playlist

Introduction to Philosophy

REP can be approached at so many different levels: philosophers at any stage can lose themselves in the interconnected web of entries. ...

content locked
Biographical

Otto, Rudolf (1869–1937)

Rudolf Otto, an early and leading student of religious experience, was a devout Christian thinker (part theologian, part philosopher, part phenomenologist of religious experience) who was strongly influenced ...

content locked
Biographical

Fries, Jacob Friedrich (1773–1843)

Fries was a German post-Kantian philosopher, active chiefly in Jena and Heidelberg. He was a personal as well as a philosophical enemy of Hegel. Fries’ version of Kantian ...

content unlocked
Biographical

Lange, Friedrich Albert (1828–75)

The German philosopher Friedrich Albert Lange was a pivotal figure in the nineteenth century, due to the publication of the extremely influential History of Materialism (1866). In ...

"kant-immanuel-1724-1804" appears most in:

content unlocked
content locked
Thematic

Weyr, František (1879–1951)

František (Franz) Weyr was Professor in Legal Philosophy and Public Law in Brno, Czechoslovakia, and a main author of the Czechoslovakian Constitution of 1920. His influence on Czechoslovakian ...

content locked
Thematic

Theology, political

The concept of political theology was the subject of important controversies in European, and especially German, philosophy, social science and jurisprudence in the twentieth century. After the First ...

content locked
Biographical

Boutroux, Émile (1845–1921)

The French philosopher Émile Boutroux wanted to reestablish metaphysics in the face of a growing tendency towards materialism, but without rejecting the natural sciences. He hoped to achieve ...

content locked
Biographical

Hartmann, Karl Robert Eduard von (1842–1906)

Eduard von Hartmann was born in Berlin and lived there for most of his life. He was a prolific writer of both scholarly and popular works on a ...

content locked
Biographical

Hartmann, Nicolai (1882–1950)

Nicolai Hartmann’s intellectual trajectory was similar to that of his contemporary, Heidegger. He abandoned his early Neo-Kantian concern with knowledge and its foundations in favour of ‘ontology’, a ...

content locked
Thematic

Unity of science

How should our scientific knowledge be organized? Is scientific knowledge unified and, if so, does it mirror a unity of the world as a whole? Or is it ...

content locked
Biographical

Le Doeuff, Michèle (1948–)

Michèle le Doeuff has created new possibilities for philosophical writing. By working between philosophy and Shakespearean drama, social history and personal letters, she demonstrates how philosophy’s concepts gather ...

content locked
Biographical

Trendelenburg, Friedrich Adolf (1802–72)

Trendelenburg was a philosopher, Aristotelian scholar and legal theorist who was known primarily because of his close critical analyses of Aristotle and his attempts to find a middle ...

content locked
Biographical

Bowne, Borden Parker (1847–1910)

Bowne was one of the most influential thinkers and writers of the American personalist school of philosophy. His position is theistic and idealistic, and finds in human persons ...

content locked
Biographical

Eberhard, Johann August (1739–1809)

A German philosopher and theologian, Eberhard was trained in the rationalist tradition of Christian Wolff, but was also influenced by the more empirical ‘popular philosophy’ of the Enlightenment. ...

content locked
Biographical

Kudriavtsev-Platonov, Viktor Dmitrievich (1828–91)

Calling his position ‘transcendental monism’, Kudriavtsev held that neither the material nor the ideal spheres can be reduced to the other, but together form a harmonious whole under ...

content locked
Biographical

Renouvier, Charles Bernard (1815–1903)

Charles Renouvier is the main representative of French Neo-Kantianism in the nineteenth century. Following Kant, he delimited the conditions for the legitimate exercise of the faculty of knowledge, ...

content locked

"kant-immanuel-1724-1804" appears most in:

content locked
Thematic

Introspection, psychology of

REVISED

Introspection is the process of directly examining one’s own conscious mental states and processes. Since the seventeenth century, there has been considerable disagreement on the scope, nature and ...

"kant-immanuel-1724-1804" appears most in:

content locked
content locked
content locked
Biographical

Vaihinger, Hans (1852–1933)

Hans Vaihinger was a German philosopher and historian of philosophy. Much of his work was a response to Kant’s philosophy, and he contributed to the revival of interest ...

content unlocked
Thematic

Deontological ethics

Deontology asserts that there are several distinct duties. Certain kinds of act are intrinsically right and other kinds intrinsically wrong. The rightness or wrongness of any particular act ...