SUMMARY: At the beginning of the 20th century, philosophical thought was transformed by the discovery of the "new logic", i.e. mathematical or symbolic logic. With this novum organum, philosophers ...

Hans Jonas (1903-1993) is one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century. Born in a German Jewish community in the Rhineland, Jonas' mentors included Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger and ...

Analytic philosopher; argued philosophy should be conducted with the rigour of science; masterful logician. Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) - Analytic philosopher; philosophical problems are primarily ...

Tracing the transformation of moral philosophy through the friendships of four utterly unique women who gathered around Oxford in the mid-20th century requires getting those four people into a room ...

When Aristotle's view is properly understood, Roark argues, it is immune to devastating objections against the possibility of temporal passage articulated by McTaggart and other 20th-century ...

It's a philosophical viewpoint associated with 19th and 20th-century philosophers like Søren Kierkegaard and Friedrich Nietzsche. The novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky often includes themes of ...