Philosophy and philosophers: An introduction to western philosophy

Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy

logical possibility, be two things which had exactly the same predicates, in the narrow sense in which we have been using the word “predicate.” How does our axiom look when we pass beyond predicates in this narrow sense? In the actual world there seems no way of doubting its empirical truth as regards particulars, owing to spatio-temporal differentiation: no two particulars have exactly the sam...

Introduction to Philosophy

There are many different kinds of philosophy. For example, there is Indian philosophy (which has its roots in the ancient body of oral tradition known as the Veda), Islamic philosophy, Japanese philosophy and Chinese philosophy. However, none of these have had any real influence on the scientific tradition in which cognitive science has grown up. That scientific tradition is Western science and...

Philosophy of Science : An Introduction

How to Escape Irrelevance: Performance Philosophy, Public Philosophy and Borderless Philosophy

 Carlo Cellucci has rightly pointed out that contemporary professional academic philosophy has a serious problem of irrelevance. Performance philosophy and public philosophy are two recent attempts to solve that problem and radically transform professional academic philosophy into what I call real philosophy. Nevertheless, performance philosophy and public philosophy have some prima facie probl...

Philosophy of Science: Introduction