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He founded Mind, the first ever journal of psychology and analytical philosophy, and was the leading figure in establishing and applying the scientific method to psychology. Bain was the inaugural Regius Chair in Logic and Professor of Logic at the University of Aberdeen , where he also held Professorships in Moral Philosophy and English ...
The work of Theodor Lipps, a Munich-based research psychologist, played an important role in the early development of the concept of art psychology in the early decade of the twentieth century. [citation needed] His most important contribution in this respect was his attempt to theorize the question of Einfuehlung or "empathy", a term that was ...
Christine Tappolet is a philosopher, academic, and author.She is a Full Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the Université de Montréal, and has authored and edited several books including, Emotions, Values, and Agency, and Philosophy of Emotion: A Contemporary Introduction.
In moral philosophy, consequentialism is a class of normative, teleological ethical theories that holds that the consequences of one's conduct are the ultimate basis for judgement about the rightness or wrongness of that conduct. Thus, from a consequentialist standpoint, a morally right act (including omission from acting) is one that will ...
Influenced by the growth of analytic philosophy and logical positivism in the 20th century, the theory was stated vividly by A. J. Ayer in his 1936 book Language, Truth and Logic, [5] but its development owes more to C. L. Stevenson. [6] Emotivism can be considered a form of non-cognitivism or expressivism.
Frances Myrna Kamm (/ k æ m /) is an American philosopher specializing in normative and applied ethics.Kamm is currently the Henry Rutgers University Professor of Philosophy and Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. [1]
La Psychologie de l'Art (The Psychology of Art) is a work of art history by André Malraux. The book offers an explication of Malraux's philosophy of art via the history of Western painting . It was originally published in three volumes: The Imaginary Museum (1947); The Artistic Creation (1948); and Aftermath of the Absolute (1949).
[6] [7] He became a leading theorist in Anglo-American philosophy of law, and a political radical whose ideas influenced the development of welfarism. He advocated individual and economic freedoms , the separation of church and state , freedom of expression , equal rights for women, the right to divorce, and (in an unpublished essay) the ...