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Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) Created: Monday, April 30, 2012 Updated: Monday, May 07, 2012
Jean-Paul Sartre was the founder of the existentialist movement and one of the most prominent philosophers of twentieth century. Born in Paris in 1905, he lived most of his life in France and took ..
Epicurus (341-270B.C.) Created: Monday, April 30, 2012 Updated: Monday, April 30, 2012
Epicurus was a defendant of ancient atomism, the view according to which all that there is to spatio-temporal reality are indivisible parts of matter ad void. Those indivisible parts are not percei..
Best Friendship Quotes Created: Monday, April 30, 2012 Updated: Monday, April 30, 2012
What is friendship? How many types of friendship can we recognize and in what degree shall we seek each of them? Several of the greatest philosophers have addressed those questions and neighboring ..
Most Obscure Philosophy Quotes Created: Sunday, April 29, 2012 Updated: Monday, April 30, 2012
Philosophers are not always known for their simplicity. Even to make a simple point, a reader may be taken for some convolute route. Here are some notable favorite examples, from classic philosophe..
The Philosophy of Humor Created: Sunday, April 29, 2012 Updated: Sunday, April 29, 2012
What is humor and how is it used among humans to enhance or hinder their relationships? Plenty of philosophers have asked this question, trying to come up with a theory of humor that could also sep..
Best Philosophy Jokes Created: Sunday, April 29, 2012 Updated: Sunday, April 29, 2012
There are plenty of hilarious philosophy jokes out there, some of which could easily be incorporated as teaching materials, both for children and adults. Here is a little guide to them, which I loo..
Chuck Norris and Philosophy Created: Sunday, April 29, 2012 Updated: Sunday, April 29, 2012
The eccentric figure of Chuck Norris, the American martial artist and actor born on March 10 1940, has spurred considerable attention by philosophers. The great deal of
"Meditations on First Philosophy" Created: Friday, October 28, 2011 Updated: Sunday, April 29, 2012
Descartes’s major work, the
Descartes's Proofs of God's Existence Created: Sunday, April 29, 2012 Updated: Sunday, April 29, 2012
René Descartes (1596-1650) famously produced some original arguments to prove God’s existence. The arguments played a key role in his Meditations on First Philosophy, as they allowed him..
Best Online Philosophy Sources III: Bibliographies Created: Sunday, March 18, 2012 Updated: Sunday, March 18, 2012
You have to start a research in philosophy, but don’t know where to start from? Luckily, there are plenty of place on the net that can help you. Here is a guide to them.
The Idea of Nature Created: Sunday, March 18, 2012 Updated: Sunday, March 18, 2012
The idea of nature is one of the most widely employed in philosophy, and by the same token one of the most ill-defined. Authors such as Aristotle and relied on the concept of nature to explain the ..
Best Online Philosophy Sources II: Blogs Created: Sunday, March 18, 2012 Updated: Sunday, March 18, 2012
What are the best philosophy blogs? What sorts of philosophy blogs are out there? The net has revolutionized the way philosophy is disseminated and discussed; philosophy radios abound and recently ..
Best Online Philosophy Sources IV: Journals Created: Sunday, March 18, 2012 Updated: Sunday, March 18, 2012
The advent of internet has had a tremendous effect not only for the dissemination of new forms of philosophical content such as philosophy radios and TVs, philosophy blogs, encyclopedias and biblio..
Best Online Philosophy Sources I: Encyclopedias, Radios, and TVs Created: Saturday, March 17, 2012 Updated: Sunday, March 18, 2012
Since the advent of internet, philosophy sources on the web have grown steadily both in number and varieties. Nowadays, having an online profile and being up to date with regard to the latest debat..
Truth Created: Saturday, March 17, 2012 Updated: Saturday, March 17, 2012
Truth is a topic of major significance within any philosophy branch. Virtually every philosophers has to come to terms, in one way or another, with the nature of truth. Because of this, the array o..
Philosophy of Science Created: Saturday, January 28, 2012 Updated: Saturday, March 17, 2012
Philosophy of science is a branch of philosophy whose importance has extensively grown over the past century, in connection to the raising prestige and influence of disciplines such as physics, che..
Zeno of Elea Created: Wednesday, December 21, 2011 Updated: Saturday, March 17, 2012
Zeno’s philosophy is one of the clearest examples of the power accorded to rational argumentation by Ancient Greek philosophers: by reasoning alone (hence without relying on any specific obse..
Persistence of Things in Time Created: Saturday, March 17, 2012 Updated: Saturday, March 17, 2012
How is it that something persists in time? How can one and the same thing be found at different times, with different properties, and yet be identical throughout the change? Take for example a cher..
Past, Present, and Future Created: Saturday, March 17, 2012 Updated: Saturday, March 17, 2012
Time is a central and classical theme in philosophy. It can be taken up from several angles, including epistemology (how do we know of the existence of a past or a future?), phenomenology (the time..
Professor Hendricks's Picture Scandal Created: Sunday, February 26, 2012 Updated: Sunday, February 26, 2012
On February 22, 2012, the Feminist Philosophers’ blog and the Hey, Lady! blog called attention over a series of questionable pictures that professor Vincent F. Hendricks had published on the ..
The Philosophy of Sex and Gender Created: Sunday, February 26, 2012 Updated: Sunday, February 26, 2012
Is it customary to divide human beings among male and female, men and women; yet, this dimorphism proves to be also ill-taken, for instance when it comes to intersex (e.g. hermaphrodite) or transge..
Problems for Realism Created: Saturday, February 25, 2012 Updated: Sunday, February 26, 2012
Nominalism and Realism are the two most distinguished positions in western metaphysics dealing with the fundamental categories of reality. From the millenary debate between supporters of those two ..
How to Pick a Philosophy Undergraduate Program Created: Sunday, February 26, 2012 Updated: Sunday, February 26, 2012
You are thinking about possibly majoring in philosophy and are scouting for some of the best programs in the U.S.? Chances are that, if you are after a major in philosophy, you have been exposed to..
Nominalism and Realism Created: Saturday, February 25, 2012 Updated: Sunday, February 26, 2012
Nominalism and Realism are the two most distinguished positions in western metaphysics dealing with the fundamental structure of reality. According to realists claim that all entities divide up int..
Logic Created: Saturday, January 28, 2012 Updated: Sunday, February 26, 2012
Logic is one of the most important and oldest branches of philosophy and its subject matter falls at the core of philosophizing. Logic studies patterns of reasoning dividing them into those that are
Voltaire Created: Friday, January 27, 2012 Updated: Sunday, February 26, 2012
Voltaire was the pen name of François-Marie Arouet, a central figure in the seventeen-hundreds intellectual movement known as the Enlightenment. Voltaire’s writings are most famous for t..
Alternatives to Nominalism and Realism Created: Sunday, February 26, 2012 Updated: Sunday, February 26, 2012
Nominalism and Realism are the two most distinguished positions in western metaphysics dealing with the fundamental categories of reality. From the millenary debate between supporters of those two ..
Best Philosophy Graduate Programs Created: Sunday, February 26, 2012 Updated: Sunday, February 26, 2012
The choice of a philosophy graduate program can be extremely difficult. In the U.S.A. alone, there are over one hundred of well-established departments granting graduate degrees (M.A., M.Phil., or ..
Problems for Nominalism Created: Saturday, February 25, 2012 Updated: Saturday, February 25, 2012
Nominalism and Realism are the two most distinguished positions in western metaphysics dealing with the fundamental categories of reality. From the millenary debate between supporters of those two ..
Philosophy of Language Created: Saturday, January 28, 2012 Updated: Saturday, February 25, 2012
Philosophy of language takes central place in contemporary philosophizing and its dealt in quite different manners in the analytic and continental traditions (roughly, the modern-day Anglo-Saxon an..
Why Major in Philosophy? Created: Friday, September 16, 2011 Updated: Saturday, January 28, 2012
Philosophy is one of the most spontaneous and profound activities humans can pursue; but, what can you do with a major in philosophy? Here are eleven reasons to choose the examined life .
René Descartes Created: Tuesday, March 01, 2011 Updated: Saturday, January 28, 2012
“The first modern philosopher” – that’s probably the most common caption of René Descartes. He revolutionized scientific methodology and set it on new grounds; establis..

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