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The philosophical view that only statements verifiable either logically or empirically would be cognitively meaningful.
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Gottlob Frege (1848-1925) was an important German mathematician, logician and philosopher who is generally considered the father of modern logic and analytic philosophy.
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For questions about the philosophical work of Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980), a French philosopher and novelist.
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For questions regarding the epistemological view opposing empiricism. Rationalism, traditionally associated with philosophers like Descartes, Leibniz and Spinoza, emphasizes reason, rather than experi…
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Edmund Gustav Albrecht Husserl (1859 – 1938) was a German philosopher associated with phenomenology.
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Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) was a German philosopher. In 1818 he wrote The World as Will and Representation.
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Albert Camus (1913-1960) was a French author who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1957. He is associated with existentialism and absurdism.
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A moral agent is something that is culpable for the outcome of actions taken. What this implies can be radically different depending upon the school of thought, metaphysical relationship held, as well…
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'Philosophy of History' shouldn't be confused with 'History of Philosophy'
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Bayesian reasoning is a probabilistic approach to inductive and abductive reasoning, based on Bayes' rule, that posits when one event implies a second event is likely, that given the second event occ…
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It was Nick Bostrom who coined the "simulation hypothesis" but the concept of a simulated universe touches upon many related ideas: from Descartes' "evil genius" to Edgar Allan Poe's "Dream within a d…
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