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5 days ago · An early theory of emotional intelligence was introduced in 1990 by the American social psychologists Peter Salovey and John D. Mayer, who defined it as “a subset of social intelligence that involves the ability to monitor one’s own and others’ feelings and emotions, to discriminate among them and to use this information to guide one’s ...
4 days ago · psychology, scientific discipline that studies mental states and processes and behaviour in humans and other animals. The discipline of psychology is broadly divisible into two parts: a large profession of practitioners and a smaller but growing science of mind, brain, and social behaviour.
- Walter Mischel
2 days ago · Baruch ( de) Spinoza [b] (24 November 1632 – 21 February 1677), also known under his Latinized pen name Benedictus de Spinoza, was a Dutch philosopher of Portuguese-Jewish origin. As a forerunner of the Age of Enlightenment, Spinoza significantly influenced modern biblical criticism, 17th-century rationalism, and Dutch intellectual culture ...
- Benedictus de Spinoza
4 days ago · Analytic philosophy is a broad, contemporary movement or tradition within Western philosophy and especially anglophone philosophy focused on analysis. [a] [b] Analytic philosophy is characterized by a style of clarity of prose and rigor in arguments, making use of formal logic and mathematics, and, to a lesser degree, the natural sciences .
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2 days ago · PHIL - 348. Existentialism. 3 credit (s) The philosophy of 20th century Existentialism and its 19th century origins. Main figures include Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Marcel, Camus, Sartre, and Beauvoir. Typical questions pertain to freedom, death, responsibility, absurdity, and the meaning of existence in theistic and atheistic contexts ...
3 days ago · 1. Steven Pinker. One of the most current exponents of the evolutionary psychology . Pinker has talked about the way in which our genetics predispose us towards certain behaviors with a high adaptive value, and has also proposed the idea that language is a product of the evolution of our species carved by natural selection. 2.
1 day ago · Atheism advanced in many societies in the 20th century. Atheistic thought found recognition in a wide variety of other, broader philosophies, such as Marxism, logical positivism, existentialism, humanism and feminism, and the general scientific movement.
