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A prominent question in meta-philosophy is that of whether or not philosophical progress occurs and more so, whether such progress in philosophy is even possible. It has even been disputed, most notably by Ludwig Wittgenstein, whether genuine philosophical problems actually exist.
Quaestiones quaedam philosophicae (Certain philosophical questions) is the name given to a set of notes that Isaac Newton kept for himself during his earlier years in Cambridge. They concern questions in the natural philosophy of the day that interested him. Apart from the light it throws on the formation of his own agenda for research, the ...
This question has been written about by philosophers since at least the ancient Parmenides (c. 515 BC). [1] [2]"Why is there anything at all?" or "Why is there something rather than nothing?" is a question about the reason for basic existence which has been raised or commented on by a range of philosophers and physicists, including Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, [3] Ludwig Wittgenstein, [4] and ...
Unanswerable questions may not have solutions, but they sure give our minds one heck of a workout. That's what makes them equally fun and frustrating to ponder. Trying to come up with joke answers ...
Pages in category "Philosophical problems" ... Vertiginous question; ... This page was last edited on 5 February 2023, ...
Arthur Eddington, Philosophy of Physical Science, 1939; Werner Heisenberg, Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science, 1958; Adolf Grünbaum, Philosophical Problems of Space and Time, 1963/1973; John Stewart Bell, "On the Einstein–Podolsky–Rosen Paradox", 1964; Rudolf Carnap, Philosophical Foundations of Physics, 1966
American philosophical theologian. David Hartley (1705–1757). Julien La Mettrie (1709–1751). Materialist, genetic determinist. Thomas Reid (1710–1796). Member of Scottish Enlightenment, founder of Scottish Common Sense philosophy. David Hume (1711–1776). Empiricist, skeptic. Jean–Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778). Social contract ...
Their objection might be sufficient were the subject concerned merely some "question in philosophy", but not "here, where everything is at stake". In "a matter where they themselves, their eternity, their all are concerned", [ 26 ] they can manage no better than "a superficial reflection" ("une reflexion légère") and, thinking they have ...