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For questions about the philosophical work of Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980), a French philosopher and novelist.
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Albert Camus (1913-1960) was a French author who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1957. He is associated with existentialism and absurdism.
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For questions regarding the epistemological view opposing empiricism. Rationalism, traditionally associated with philosophers like Descartes, Leibniz and Spinoza, emphasizes reason, rather than experi…
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Paul-Michel Foucault is a French philosopher that studied ethics, epistomology, and social constructs.
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A moral agent is something that is culpable for the outcome of actions taken. What this implies can be radically different depending upon the school of thought, metaphysical relationship held, as well…
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Gottlob Frege (1848-1925) was an important German mathematician, logician and philosopher who is generally considered the father of modern logic and analytic philosophy.
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Søren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813 – 1855) was a Danish philosopher and theologian associated with existentialism.
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Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) was a German philosopher. In 1818 he wrote The World as Will and Representation.
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deontology is a philosophical stance on ethics that people ought to act in regard to a duty to "the law" (or rules).
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Neurophilosophy is an approach to philosophy that uses the methodological techniques and empirically driven results of neuroscience to answer philosophical problems. Central to neurophilosophy are que…
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Gottfried Wilhelm (von) Leibniz (1646 - 1716) was a German philosopher, logician and mathematician. He is associated with rationalism and the calculus.
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It was Nick Bostrom who coined the "simulation hypothesis" but the concept of a simulated universe touches upon many related ideas: from Descartes' "evil genius" to Edgar Allan Poe's "Dream within a d…
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absurdism addresses the human struggle for meaning, purpose, and application of labels, in a universe that will not permit the application.
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