Peter Rickman says you’re not the only one. A competitor on a BBC quiz show thought that Immanuel Kant was a football player. As a layman he can be forgiven; even if philosophy were more widely taught ...
Kant’s thought contributes in important respects to our globalised world: it paved the way for our contemporary understanding of human rights, the United Nations and human freedom. The Enlightenment ...
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Join the Department of Philosophy for its annual Lynne and James Spellman Lecture in the History of Philosophy, featuring professor Barbara Herman of UCLA at 3 p.m. Friday in the Graduate Education ...
philosopher Immanuel Kant and writer Jorge Luis Borges. In brief, they humbly accept the “irreconcilability of our cognition and the whole of the cosmos”. While understanding the fundamental ...
from Trinity Seminary; D. Phil in Philosophy was earned at the Center for Philosophy and the Conceptual Foundations of Science at Justus Liebig University (Giessen, Germany) with a doctoral thesis on ...
In the 19th century, the philosophers of the 18th-century Enlightenment began to have a dramatic effect on subsequent developments in philosophy. In particular, the works of Immanuel Kant gave rise to ...