Prior to the start of the Scientific Revolution in the 17th century and the practice of the scientific method, magical thinking almost entirely ruled human civilization.

The term German idealism broadly refers to the philosophical movement founded by Kant and critically developed by Fichte, ...

There’s a conservative turn happening in literary studies, although it hasn’t received much public attention. Those involved certainly haven’t banded together under a banner ...

It takes courage and competence to excel in a field that connects two knowledge domains traditionally reserved for ...

According to this method, everyone belongs to a “season,” and a “subseason,” determined by the coloring of their skin and ...

People sometimes claim that philosophy is a ‘dead’ area of study ... through a philosophical process of questioning and reasoning. Empiricism is not the same road, and should not be applied when ...

Pioneered by a bunch of brilliant philosophers – Descarte, Comte, Kant, Lock, Bentham , to name a few- doubt and empiricism became ... delineation of western philosophy that informs the West ...

It is on analogy to them that all further positing of objects takes place” (‘Two Dogmas of Empiricism’, The Philosophical Review 60, 1951). Unfortunately, Quine unhelpfully concludes from this that ...

Sociology has the tendency either to be a narrow empiricism oblivious of its own theoretical foundations ... Sociology too is super-structure, in the sense just explicated with regard to philosophy.

The questions that arise at the intersection of family life, societal pressures, and psychological struggles may be answered ...