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2 days ago · Philosophy. Philosophy ( φιλοσοφία, 'love of wisdom', in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, value, mind, and language. It is a rational and critical inquiry that reflects on its own methods and assumptions. Historically, many of the individual ...
4 days ago · Science is a rigorous, systematic endeavor that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the world.
5 days ago · Hume conceived of philosophy as the inductive, experimental science of human nature. Taking the scientific method of the English physicist Sir Isaac Newton as his model and building on the epistemology of the English philosopher John Locke, Hume tried to describe how the mind works in acquiring what is called knowledge.
- David Hume was born on May 7 [April 26, Old Style], 1711.
- David Hume died on August 25, 1776.
- David Hume’s philosophical works included A Treatise of Human Nature (1739–40), An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals (1751), An Enquiry C...
- David Hume is famous for the elegance of his prose, for his radical empiricism, for his skepticism of religion, for his critical account of causati...
4 days ago · Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy that examines the basic structure of reality. It is often characterized as first philosophy, implying that it is more fundamental than other forms of philosophical inquiry.
5 days ago · I contrast what professionals think of as core philosophy – typically metaphysics, epistemology, meta-ethics, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of language – with the areas of philosophy they mark as applied. The distinction comes with a difference in status. Applied philosophy is all very well, but it isn’t the real thing.
3 days ago · This course will introduce students to the philosophy of science by focusing on connections between science and philosophy. Students will examine the ontological status of theories, the social organization of science and interactions between these topics and epistemological questions. Offered: Spring only
3 days ago · PHIL 2130 - Introduction to Philosophy of Science. How does science stimulate philosophical thinking and how has philosophy influenced science? This broad range of interaction is studied with special attention given to the concepts of theory, observation, and scientific method.
