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Isaac Newton Isaac Newton was the English mathematician and physicist whose fundamental work revolutionized the study of the physical world. He was not a philosopher in the real sense of the word, but he was a great mind. One we can not ignore. His achievements had a great influence......Read More

Posted on: 2008-01-06 17:42:47 | Rating:

| Views: 169 | Comments: 0 | Tags: A new look at the world

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René Descartes Newton was 8 when he died, but like Newton he already was busy with discovering a kind of laws of nature. He was a mathematician and he discovered the laws of refraction in optics. This is a significant observation.....the great minds of those days looked at the......Read More

Posted on: 2008-01-08 17:49:49 | Rating:

| Views: 50 | Comments: 0 | Tags: I think...but do I exist?

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Descartes: The Mind-Body Problem Descartes was the first philosopher, who explicitely stated that man is a combination of two seperate things: a body, an entity that has extension and a mind, a substance that has no extension. But didnt we have a mind before Descartes? Yes and no.......Read More

Posted on: 2008-01-10 18:33:50 | Rating:

| Views: 39 | Comments: 0 | Tags: Today: the best discussion ever

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Antoine Arnauld Antoine Arnauld, 16 years younger than Descartes, was not an philosopher who introduced real new ideas, but he was a brillant mind and debater. One thing he is famous for is his book "Logique ou l'art de penser" (logic or the art of thinking). Let's......Read More

Posted on: 2008-01-13 18:40:00 | Rating:

| Views: 56 | Comments: 0 | Tags: logic mind and matter

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Nicolas Malebranche Malebranche was a priest. Thus the existence of god wasnt questioned. and that leads to real peculiar theories. In 1664 he was ordained as priest and in the same year he ran into a copy of Descartes' Traité de l'homme..Treatise on Man. It offers......Read More

Posted on: 2008-01-15 17:36:33 | Rating:

| Views: 50 | Comments: 0 | Tags: do we really need a god ???

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Benedict Spinoza Spinoza....at first I thought...wow..that is going to be an interesting one. Dont forget, it has been at least 30 years ago that I paid attention to this philosopher. And now I have to dig into the literature again to prepare for a lecture. And what did I find? ......Read More

Posted on: 2008-01-17 17:44:42 | Rating:

| Views: 55 | Comments: 0 | Tags: Spinoza: Nature = God

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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Leibnitz was a German philosopher, scientist, mathematician, historian and diplomate. He was the son of a professor in Leipzig and had access to a large library. He was a precocious child, a Mr. Clever at young age. He was not permitted to present himself......Read More

Posted on: 2008-01-20 19:10:44 | Rating:

| Views: 50 | Comments: 0 | Tags: A fundamental discussion

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John Locke I am inclined to say that John Lock e was a kind of common sense philosopher. What I mean is, he just what was going on in his mind and try to describe it. He knew men like Newton and Boyle, observed their scientific approach of nature and I guess, Locke was......Read More

Posted on: 2008-01-22 18:34:53 | Rating:

| Views: 59 | Comments: 0 | Tags: a fine philosophical discussion today

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David Hume For ages they did nothing and now around 1650 - 1750 they are observing, experimenting, analysing, defining laws of nature, come up with mathematical laws of movement, calculate the movement of planets in a heliocentric universe... What is going on? There is a......Read More

Posted on: 2008-01-25 11:52:52 | Rating:

| Views: 46 | Comments: 0 | Tags: A non philosophical discussion (^_^)

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David Hume Ok, my friends, I have got things under controle again more or less, so let's resume our Enquiry concerning the Human Understanding, guided by David Hume. As we saw in the former lecture Hume follows the same analysis of mind as John Locke: primary sensations and then ideas......Read More