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May 20, 2024 · On June 6-7, the APS and the Academy of Natural Sciences will host a conference exploring the ways humans have imagined, depicted, and constructed representations and knowledge about the natural world over time.
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3 days ago · One of the 20th century's most influential philosophers of science, Popper is known for his rejection of the classical inductivist views on the scientific method in favour of empirical falsification.
4 days ago · Analytic philosophy, a loosely related set of approaches to philosophical problems, dominant in Anglo-American philosophy from the early 20th century, that emphasizes the study of language and the logical analysis of concepts. Although most work in analytic philosophy has been done in Great Britain.
May 22, 2024 · Philosophers born in the 20th century (and others important in the history of philosophy) listed alphabetically: Note: This list has a minimal criterion for inclusion and the relevance to philosophy of some individuals on the list is disputed.
5 days ago · What emerged from the Wingspread conference was chastened way of doing American intellectual history. The study of the thought of high-canonical figures still mattered, but not as a way of understanding the ‘American mind’ but as a way of charting the ‘discourse of intellectuals’.
May 16, 2024 · Wilfrid Sellars was an American philosopher best known for his critique of traditional philosophical conceptions of mind and knowledge and for his uncompromising effort to explain how human reason and thought can be reconciled with the vision of nature found in science.
3 days ago · Heidegger is often considered to be among the most important and influential philosophers of the 20th century by many observers.
