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Intellectual history (also the history of ideas) is the study of the history of human thought and of intellectuals, people who conceptualize, discuss, write about, and concern themselves with ideas. The investigative premise of intellectual history is that ideas do not develop in isolation from the thinkers who conceptualize and apply those ...
Lascaux cave paintings from France. Prehistory covers human intellectual history before the invention of writing. The first identified cultures are from the Upper Paleolithic era, evidenced by regional patterns in artefacts such as cave art, Venus figurines, and stone tools. [4]
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The list starts in order with the first ten books: the I Ching (an ancient Chinese divination text), the Hebrew Bible (a version of which serves as the "Old Testament" of the Christian Bible), the Iliad and Odyssey, the Upanishads (a collection of ancient Indian philosophical texts), the Tao Te Ching, the Avesta, the Analects, the History of ...
The Journal of the History of Ideas is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering intellectual history, conceptual history, and the history of ideas, including the histories of philosophy, literature and the arts, natural and social sciences, religion, and political thought.
Political philosophy, Philosophy of Social Science, and Intellectual History. John Searle (born 1932). Direct realism. Alvin Plantinga (born 1932). Reformed epistemology, Philosophy of Religion. Jerry Fodor (1935–2017). Alain Badiou (born 1937). Thomas Nagel (born 1937). Qualia theory. Robert Nozick (1938–2002). Libertarian. Tom Regan (1938 ...
Historians engaged in the study of Intellectual history. ... Pages in category "Intellectual historians" The following 109 pages are in this category, out of 109 ...
A Watt steam engine in Madrid.The development of the steam engine propelled the Industrial Revolution in Britain and the world. The steam engine was created to pump water from coal mines, enabling them to be deepened beyond groundwater levels.