What constitutes the meaning of a linguistic expression: the mental states of the language user or external factors? Locke appears to assume the simple thesis that words primarily signify the ideas ...

The philosophical question of the identity of a person has not been posed precisely enough. Contrary to the term’s use in everyday life, and even within philosophy, the identity of a person is not ...

Ralph Cudworth’s (1617-1688) True Intellectual System of the Universe is considered the high point of philosophical production by the Cambridge Platonists. In this work, Cudworth compresses all of ...

Is it rational to believe in God or other supernatural powers? Are there good epistemic reasons for holding religious convictions? In searching for an answer to one of religion’s most important ...

The identity of a person has to be analyzed in terms of three questions: What determines the entity of a person? What has to happen so that a person from yesterday is ‘identical’ to the person of ...

Einflussreich, vieldiskutiert und heftig umstritten - der Philosoph, der das Sein wieder ins Zentrum des Denkens rückte. Text aus der Reihe 'Grundwissen Philosophie' mit Seitenzählung der ...

Dieses eBook: 'Götzen-Dämmerung oder Wie man mit dem Hammer philosophiert (Vollständige Ausgabe)' ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig ...

One building block is placed on top of another one, an atom of sodium combines with an atom of chlorine. Do new things result in each case? Or, to put it more generally, under what conditions do ...

Leibniz concealed from his contemporaries his project for a scientia generalis, which was to compress all the knowledge of his time into an encyclopedia. With only a few correspondents, he tried to ...

In den Kant-Forschungen werden sowohl historisch als auch systematisch orientierte Arbeiten zur Philosophie Immanuel Kants veröffentlicht. Die Bände stellen Funde unbekannter oder verschollen ...