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Romantic epistemology emerged from the Romantic challenge to both the static, materialist views of the Enlightenment (Hobbes) and the contrary idealist stream (Hume) when it came to studying life. Romanticism needed to develop a new theory of knowledge that went beyond the method of inertial science, derived from the study of inert nature ...
The roots of the classical philosophy of love go back to Plato's Symposium. [3] Plato's Symposium digs deeper into the idea of love and bringing different interpretations and points of view in order to define love. [4] Plato singles out three main threads of love that have continued to influence the philosophies of love that followed.
Works of Love (Danish: Kjerlighedens Gjerninger) is a book by Søren Kierkegaard, written in 1847. It is one of the works which he published under his own name, as opposed to his more famous "pseudonymous" works.
Epistemology is the branch of philosophy that examines the nature, origin, and limits of knowledge.Also called "theory of knowledge", it explores different types of knowledge, such as propositional knowledge about facts, practical knowledge in the form of skills, and knowledge by acquaintance as a familiarity through experience.
Epistemology of the Closet has proven to be influential on geographical research of sexuality. [4] The concept of the closet and its epistemic effects have been examined by scholars from a range of disciplines, including geography, and used to understand the functioning of sexual relations in a wide range of geographic settings.
Bernard Joseph Francis Lonergan was born on 17 December 1904 in Buckingham, Quebec, Canada.After four years at Loyola College (Montreal), he entered the Upper Canada (English) province of the Society of Jesus in 1922 and made his profession of vows on the Feast of St Ignatius of Loyola, 31 July 1924. [14]
Jennifer Lackey is an American academic; she is the Wayne and Elizabeth Jones Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University. [1] [2] Lackey is known for her research in epistemology, [3] especially on testimony, [4] [5] disagreement, [6] memory, [7] the norms of assertion, and virtue epistemology.
Linda Martín Alcoff is a Panamanian American philosopher and professor of philosophy at Hunter College, City University of New York.Alcoff specializes in social epistemology, feminist philosophy, philosophy of race, decolonial theory and continental philosophy, especially the work of Michel Foucault. [1]