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      • Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) is the central figure in modern philosophy. He synthesized early modern rationalism and empiricism, set the terms for much of nineteenth and twentieth century philosophy, and continues to exercise a significant influence today in metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, political philosophy, aesthetics, and other fields.
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  2. Dec 3, 1997 · René Descartes (1596–1650) is widely regarded as a key figure in the founding of modern philosophy. His noteworthy contributions extend to mathematics and physics. This entry focuses on his philosophical contributions to the theory of knowledge.

  3. May 20, 2010 · Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) is the central figure in modern philosophy. He synthesized early modern rationalism and empiricism, set the terms for much of nineteenth and twentieth century philosophy, and continues to exercise a significant influence today in metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, political philosophy, aesthetics, and other fields.

  4. Feb 26, 2001 · The problem with ancient philosophy was its reliance on “hypotheses”—claims based on speculation and invention rather than experience and observation. By the time Hume began to write the Treatise three years later, he had immersed himself in the works of the modern philosophers, but found them disturbing, not least because they made the ...

  5. Oct 11, 2021 · Edmund Gettiers famous 1963 paper, “Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?”, popularized the claim that the definition of knowledge as justified true belief had been widely accepted throughout the history of philosophy. [26]

  6. Apr 20, 2023 · Abstract. This chapter reconstructs Kant’s argument for a Eurocentric history of philosophy. He holds that true philosophy could only have started with the Greeks and that the “Orientals,” in particular, are incapable of philosophizing. This conclusion builds on four premises.

  7. Jul 5, 2013 · Georg Gustav Fülleborn (17691803) seems to be the first historian of philosophy to conceive the discipline history of philosophy as problem-based. 20 In his “Verzeichniss einiger philosophischen Modethematum” (1799), he signposted four problems that had been dealt with by various past philosophers: I.

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