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Contemporary philosophy is the present period in the history of Western philosophy beginning at the early 20th century with the increasing professionalization of the discipline and the rise of analytic and continental philosophy.
- 20th-century philosophy
20th-century philosophy covers thinkers who wrote and...
- History of philosophy
20th century. Philosophy in the 20th century is usually...
- 20th-century French philosophy
20th-century French philosophy is a strand of contemporary...
- 20th-century philosophy
Nov 8, 2002 · First published Fri Nov 8, 2002; substantive revision Wed Oct 20, 2021. Considered by some to be the greatest philosopher of the 20th century, Ludwig Wittgenstein played a central, if controversial, role in mid-20th-century analytic philosophy. He continues to influence, and incur debate in, current philosophical thought in topics as diverse as ...
Article Summary. Although it is difficult to generalize, twentieth-century philosophy has a number of broadly characteristic and widely shared concerns. These include the ambition to clarify the nature and foundations of scientific knowledge; a concern with questions of meaning or sense in abeyance of assured theological or metaphysical ...
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Nov 13, 1997 · Karl Popper. Karl Popper is generally regarded as one of the greatest philosophers of science of the twentieth century. He was also a social and political philosopher of considerable stature, a self-professed critical-rationalist, a dedicated opponent of all forms of scepticism and relativism in science and in human affairs generally and a ...
