Mayr, Goodman, Althusser, Lewontin, Hull Added; Aristotle, Hume, Bergson, and Others Updated
Here is what I’ve done since the last update: Ernst Mayr, Nelson Goodman, Louis Althusser, Richard Lewontin, and David Hull are added. Sentences are added/edited for Aristotle (2), David Hume, Henri Bergson, Michel Foucault, Richard Rorty, Richard Dawkins (2), and Daniel Dennett. Dozens of new connections are drawn. As I said in the previous post, I took a short...
Read moreSmart, Hirsch, Parfit, Hofstadter Added; Locke, Bentham, Carnap, Mackie, and Others Updated
Here is what I’ve done since the last update (when we were still able to go outside without masks and gloves): John Jamieson Carswell Smart, Eli Hirsch, Derek Parfit, and Douglas Hofstadter are added. John Mackie got a substantive revision with 15 new sentences. Sentences are added/edited for Aristotle, Epicurus, Saint Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Thomas Hobbes, René Descartes, John Locke...
Read moreProtagoras, Tarski, Thomson, Churchlands, Clark Added; Plato, Descartes, Lewis, and Others Updated
Here is what I’ve done since the last update: Protagoras, Alfred Tarski, Judith Jarvis Thomson, Paul & Patricia Churchland, and Andy Clark are added. Sentences are added/edited for Plato (4), René Descartes (2), David Hume, Gottlob Frege, Wilfred Sellars, Donald Davidson, John Searle, Thomas Nagel, Saul Kripke, David Lewis (2), Daniel Dennett, David Chalmers. Dozens of new connections are...
Read moreEubulides, Paley, Brentano, Bradley, Santayana, McTaggart Added; Aristotle, Mill, Frege, Russell, and Others Updated
Here is what I’ve done since the last update: Eubulides, William Paley, Franz Brentano, Francis Herbert Bradley, George Santayana, and John Ellis McTaggart are added. Bertrand Russell got a substantive revision with 18 new sentences. New sentences are added for Zeno of Elea, Aristotle (2), Thomas Aquinas, Thomas Hobbes, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, John Stuart Mill (3), Gottlob Frege (2), Edmund...
Read moreGödel, Deleuze, Gettier, Goldman Added; Leibniz, Camus, Putnam, and Others Updated
Here is what I’ve done in the last three months: Kurt Gödel, Gilles Deleuze, Edmund Gettier, and Alvin Goldman are added. New sentences are added for Aristotle (2), Thomas Aquinas, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (7), Friedrich Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud, Edmund Husserl, Henri Bergson, Bertrand Russell (2), Frank Ramsey, Albert Camus (4), Willard Van Orman Quine, Sir Peter Strawson, Michel Foucault, Hilary...
Read moreMachiavelli and Singer Added; Quine, Foot, and Nagel Updated
Here is a list of what I’ve done since the last update in November: Niccolò Machiavelli and Peter Singer are added. Lots of new sentences are added for Willard Van Orman Quine (8), Philippa Foot (13), and Thomas Nagel (5). These were more extensive updates compared to the regular sentence additions mentioned in the previous update posts: I focused...
Read moreConway, Hutcheson, Saussure, Lacan, Irigaray, Butler, Chalmers
Happy World Philosophy Day! Here are the latest additions: Anne Conway, Francis Hutcheson, Ferdinand de Saussure, Jacques Lacan, Luce Irigaray, Judith Butler, and David Chalmers are added. (You can use the alphabetical Index in the Menu to jump to these names.) New sentences are added to Aristotle, Spinoza, Leibniz, Bentham, Mill, Rawls, and Nozick. Dozens of new connections are drawn. Small design...
Read moreFreud, Bataille, Adorno, Arendt, Lyotard, Baudrillard, and Other News
Following the last update, our project has received great attention over the past few weeks, with tweets by Daniel Dennett, Oxford Philosophy, Sean Carroll, and features by Open Culture, Daily Nous, Magnet, among others. Here are the changes in content since the last update: Sigmund Freud, Georges Bataille, Theodor Adorno, Hannah Arendt, Jean-François Lyotard, and Jean Baudrillard made their...
Read more48 New Philosophers and 5 New Interface Features
I’m proud to announce a huge upgrade, both in content and in interaction design. I’ve been reading the whole summer to add 48 new philosophers and 317 new sentences to the mix (mostly from Thomas Baldwin’s Contemporary Philosophy: Philosophy in English Since 1945) nearly doubling the amount of content, and Hüseyin Kuşçu has implemented many functions we had envisaged...
Read moreFirst Version Published
First version published with these philosophers: Thales Anaximander Anaximenes Pythagoras Xenophanes Heraclitus Parmenides Empedocles Leucippus & Democritus Zeno of Elea Socrates Plato Aristotle Diogenes Pyrrho Epicurus Stoics (Zeno of Citium et al.) Timon of Phlius Plotinus Saint Augustine John Scotus Erigena Saint Anselm Thomas Aquinas William of Ockham Francis Bacon Thomas Hobbes René Descartes Benedict Spinoza John Locke Gottfried...
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