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- Robert Kane: The Philosopher Who Defended Free Will in a Scientific Age
Robert Hilary Kane was born on November 25, 1938, in Boston, Massachusetts, and became one of the most important contemporary defenders of libertarian free will. He grew up in Maynard, Massachusetts, and studied philosophy at the College of the Holy Cross, where he received his bachelor’s degree in 1960. He also studied at the University… Read more: Robert Kane: The Philosopher Who Defended Free Will in a Scientific Age - Roderick Chisholm: The Philosopher Who Defended Knowledge, Persons, and the Inner Life
Roderick Milton Chisholm was born on November 27, 1916, in North Attleboro, Massachusetts, and became one of the most important American philosophers of the twentieth century. His work reached across epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, and the theory of action. Unlike philosophers who became famous for one doctrine or one book,… Read more: Roderick Chisholm: The Philosopher Who Defended Knowledge, Persons, and the Inner Life - Road Rage: Why Driving Turns Ordinary Anger Into Dangerous Aggression
Road rage is one of the clearest examples of how quickly ordinary frustration can become dangerous aggression. A person who may be polite in a grocery store or calm at work can suddenly shout, tailgate, gesture, honk, block another driver, or chase a car down the road. Driving places people inside powerful machines, moving at… Read more: Road Rage: Why Driving Turns Ordinary Anger Into Dangerous Aggression - David Lewis: The Philosopher Who Made Possible Worlds Real
David Kellogg Lewis was born on September 28, 1941, in Oberlin, Ohio, and became one of the most influential analytic philosophers of the late twentieth century. His work reshaped metaphysics, philosophy of language, logic, philosophy of mind, decision theory, ethics, and epistemology. Lewis was famous for defending strange-sounding views with extraordinary precision. He did not… Read more: David Lewis: The Philosopher Who Made Possible Worlds Real - Alfred North Whitehead: The Philosopher of Process, Creativity, and Living Thought
Alfred North Whitehead was born on February 15, 1861, in Ramsgate, Kent, England, into a family shaped by education, religion, and public service. His father was an Anglican clergyman and schoolmaster, and Whitehead grew up in an atmosphere where discipline, learning, and moral seriousness were taken for granted. He entered Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1880,… Read more: Alfred North Whitehead: The Philosopher of Process, Creativity, and Living Thought - Willard Van Orman Quine: The Philosopher Who Rebuilt Empiricism From the Ground Up
Willard Van Orman Quine was born on June 25, 1908, in Akron, Ohio, and became one of the most influential analytic philosophers of the twentieth century. Known professionally as W. V. Quine, he worked at the intersection of logic, language, ontology, epistemology, and the philosophy of science. His writing was often technical, but the questions… Read more: Willard Van Orman Quine: The Philosopher Who Rebuilt Empiricism From the Ground Up - Jerome Bruner: The Psychologist Who Made Learning a Science of Meaning
Jerome Seymour Bruner was born on October 1, 1915, in New York City, and became one of the most influential psychologists of the twentieth century. His career helped transform psychology from a science focused mainly on behavior into a science of mind, meaning, learning, and culture. Bruner was born blind because of cataracts, and his… Read more: Jerome Bruner: The Psychologist Who Made Learning a Science of Meaning - Herbert Simon: The Thinker Who Redefined Rationality, Organizations, and Artificial Intelligence
Herbert Alexander Simon was born on June 15, 1916, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and became one of the rare modern thinkers whose work changed several fields at once. He was trained in political science, honored with the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, helped found artificial intelligence, shaped cognitive psychology, and influenced organization theory, computer science,… Read more: Herbert Simon: The Thinker Who Redefined Rationality, Organizations, and Artificial Intelligence - Harry Harlow: The Psychologist Who Forced Science to Study Love
Harry Frederick Harlow was born Harry Frederick Israel on October 31, 1905, in Fairfield, Iowa. He became one of the most famous and controversial psychologists of the twentieth century, known for experiments that changed how scientists, physicians, and parents understood affection, attachment, and early emotional development. Harlow’s work entered psychology at a time when love… Read more: Harry Harlow: The Psychologist Who Forced Science to Study Love - Occult Philosophy: Hidden Knowledge, Magic, and the Search for Invisible Order
Occult philosophy is the study of hidden forces, symbolic correspondences, spiritual laws, and unseen dimensions of reality. The word “occult” comes from the Latin occultus, meaning hidden, concealed, or secret. In its older sense, occult knowledge did not simply mean dark magic or superstition. It referred to knowledge of things believed to be hidden beneath… Read more: Occult Philosophy: Hidden Knowledge, Magic, and the Search for Invisible Order