Kennistheorie of epistemologie (Oudgrieks: ἐπιστήμη, epistēmē: kennis en λόγος, logos: leer), ook wel kentheorie, kennisleer, kenleer of criteriologie genaamd, is de tak van de filosofie die de aard, oorsprong, voorwaarden voor en reikwijdte van kennis en het weten onderzoekt. Het vakgebied is vooral vooraanstaand binnen de analytische filosofie, die verbanden legt met ...

Ethiek (Grieks: èthos, gewoonte of zedelijke handeling), moraalfilosofie, morele filosofie of moraalwetenschap is een tak van de filosofie die zich bezighoudt met de kritische bezinning over het juiste handelen. In algemene zin probeert ethiek de criteria vast te stellen om te kunnen beoordelen of een handeling als goed of fout kan worden gekwalificeerd, en om de motieven …

Death is the irreversible cessation of all biological functions that sustain an organism. For organisms with a brain, death can also be defined as the irreversible cessation of functioning of the whole brain, including brainstem, and brain death is sometimes used as a legal definition of death. The remains of a former organism normally begin to decompose shortly after death.

The underlying questions are whether we have control over our actions, and if so, what sort of control, and to what extent. These questions predate the early Greek stoics (for example, Chrysippus), and some modern philosophers lament the lack of progress over all these centuries.. On one hand, humans have a strong sense of freedom, which leads them to believe that they …

Herbert Paul Grice (13 March 1913 – 28 August 1988), usually publishing under the name H. P. Grice, H. Paul Grice, or Paul Grice, was a British philosopher of language.He is best known for his theory of implicature and the cooperative principle (with its namesake Gricean maxims), which became foundational concepts in the linguistic field of pragmatics.

Experience refers to conscious events in general, more specifically to perceptions, or to the practical knowledge and familiarity that is produced by these conscious processes. Understood as a conscious event in the widest sense, experience involves a subject to which various items are presented. In this sense, seeing a yellow bird on a branch presents the subject with the objects …

Persoonsidentiteit is het geheel van eigenschappen die een persoon op twee verschillende tijdstippen tot dezelfde persoon maken en onderscheiden van andere personen. Identiteit (ontleend uit het Latijnse identitas, de/hetzelfde zijn) als filosofisch begrip is het feit dat een subject een individu is dat zich onderscheidt van alle anderen (uniekheid of synchrone …

In logic, the term statement is variously understood to mean either: . a meaningful declarative sentence that is true or false, or; a proposition.Which is the assertion that is made by (i.e., the meaning of) a true or false declarative sentence.; In the latter case, a statement is distinct from a sentence in that a sentence is only one formulation of a statement, whereas there may be …

Life Early life. Schelling was born in the town of Leonberg in the Duchy of Württemberg (now Baden-Württemberg), the son of Joseph Friedrich Schelling and Gottliebin Marie. He attended the monastic school at Bebenhausen, near Tübingen, where his father was chaplain and an Orientalist professor. From 1783 to 1784 Schelling attended a Latin school in Nürtingen and …

Alfred North Whitehead was born in Ramsgate, Kent, England, in 1861. His father, Alfred Whitehead, became an Anglican minister after being headmaster of Chatham House Academy, a school for boys previously headed by Alfred's father, Thomas Whitehead. Whitehead himself recalled both of them as being very successful school masters, with his grandfather being the …