Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679) was a prominent English political philosopher reputable for his political philosophy, a field he is often credited with being its founder. This entry brings into focus Hobbes’ materialist and […]
Paper penned for post-graduate studies, Religious Studies. Rationalism versus Empiricism, and Metaphysics on the Backfoot Much of Immanuel Kant’s (1724-1804) work was concerned with questions of the mind and metaphysics, particularly in […]
What follows are short definitions of 43 major philosophical doctrines that everyone would do well to become familiar with. Atheism – Atheism can include the following: Agnostic Atheism – An individual who […]
The philosophical branch of metaphysics asks a number of crucial questions that all thoughtful people would do well to engage. Metaphysics is ultimately the study of reality and the nature of existence, […]
What is a Properly Basic Belief? In philosophy a properly basic belief is a belief that is viewed as justified on the basis of experience or intuition or both. Such a belief […]
In metaphysics, the philosophical branch that deals with questions pertaining to the nature of reality, there is the term some times used called “metaphysical zombie,” (MZ) coined by professor David Chalmers. The […]
This essay seeks to briefly examine the concept of truth. It also examines relativism, some arguments proposed by relativists, as well as outline a few challenges a relativistic philosophy faces. What’s Truth? […]
There are three basic laws that all people use when they engage in rational discourse. These are [1] the Law of Identity, [2] the Law of Non-Contradiction, and [3] the Law of […]
The subject of consciousness has been a fertile landscape for a great deal of disagreement between philosophers specializing in the philosophy of mind and other philosophical disciplines. One philosopher of a more […]
Metaphysics, formed through a combination of the words Metá (which means transcendent over) and physiká (physics), is a lively branch of philosophy that specializes in the study of existence and the nature […]
