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May 20, 2010 · Immanuel Kant. Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) is the central figure in modern philosophy. He synthesized early modern rationalism and empiricism, set the terms for much of nineteenth and twentieth century philosophy, and continues to exercise a significant influence today in metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, political philosophy, aesthetics, and ...
Oct 31, 2022 · Stanford has decided to suspend the Tree for walking out onto the field last game with a sign reading 'Stanford Hates Fun'. Tree socials will be inactive for the next few months. See y'all soon. 🌲. — Stanford Tree 🌲 (@DaStanfordTree) October 31, 2022. What exactly could have prompted this, you ask?
So I decided I needed to research the history of school discipline, and I found that it splintered off and evolved out of California’s prison history. I layered this historical analysis with a detailed study of one urban high school, interviewing former students from three decades: the 1980’s, 1990’s, and 2000’s.
I remember in the early 2010s, when I was in the Georgia basketball band and our womens team played Stanford in a tourney, the band was extremely over-the-top aggressively insulting. They had looked up people in our band on Facebook for personalized insults about peoples lives. Definitely gave stalker creeps and didn’t come off as funny.
Nov 25, 2002 · McTaggart’s Argument. In a famous paper published in 1908, J.M.E. McTaggart argued that there is in fact no such thing as time, and that the appearance of a temporal order to the world is a mere appearance. Other philosophers before and since (including, especially, F.H. Bradley) have argued for the same conclusion.
Oct 8, 2000 · Aristotle’s Metaphysics. First published Sun Oct 8, 2000; substantive revision Sat Nov 21, 2020. The first major work in the history of philosophy to bear the title “Metaphysics” was the treatise by Aristotle that we have come to know by that name. But Aristotle himself did not use that title or even describe his field of study as ...
Sep 10, 2004 · George Berkeley. George Berkeley, Bishop of Cloyne, was one of the great philosophers of the early modern period. He was a brilliant critic of his predecessors, particularly Descartes, Malebranche, and Locke. He was a talented metaphysician famous for defending idealism, that is, the view that reality consists exclusively of minds and their ideas.
