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3 days ago · John Dewey, American philosopher and educator who was a cofounder of the philosophical movement known as pragmatism, a pioneer in functional psychology, an innovative theorist of democracy, and a leader of the progressive movement in education in the United States.
- Instrumentalism
John Dewey - Pragmatism, Education, Philosopher: Dewey...
- John Searle
John Searle (born July 31, 1932, Denver, Colorado, U.S.) is...
- Jonathan Edwards
Jonathan Edwards (born October 5, 1703, East Windsor,...
- G. Stanley Hall
G. Stanley Hall (born February 1, 1844, Ashfield,...
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John Dewey, (born Oct. 20, 1859, Burlington, Vt., U.S.—died...
- Justice
Justice, In philosophy, the concept of a proper proportion...
- Instrumentalism
3 days ago · The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (IEP) (ISSN 2161-0002) was founded in 1995 to provide open access to detailed, scholarly, peer-reviewed information on key topics and philosophers in all areas of philosophy.
4 days ago · Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy Provides open access to detailed, scholarly, peer-reviewed information on key topics and philosophers in all areas of philosophy. Oxfordshire Public Library Service: Reference Online
5 days ago · Justice, In philosophy, the concept of a proper proportion between a person’s deserts (what is merited) and the good and bad things that befall or are allotted to him or her. Aristotle’s discussion of the virtue of justice has been the starting point for almost all Western accounts.
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1 day ago · His works also contain discussions in aesthetics, political philosophy, theology, cosmology, epistemology, and the philosophy of language. His school fostered research not just in philosophy narrowly conceived but in a wide range of endeavours that today would be called mathematical or scientific.
- Plato was a philosopher during the 5th century BCE. He was a student of Socrates and later taught Aristotle. He founded the Academy, an academic pr...
- Plato’s most famous work is the Republic, which details a wise society run by a philosopher. He is also famous for his dialogues (early, middle, an...
- Plato is one of history's most influential philosophers. His contributions range across numerous philosophical subfields, including (but not limite...
- Plato was born in 428/427 BCE to a noble family and died in 348/347 BCE. He lived primarily in Athens, Greece. Plato’s birth occurred near the end...
- Plato did not have children, and it is assumed based on textual evidence that he never married. He did have a number of siblings, however: three br...
1 day ago · It was followed in 1644 by Principia Philosophiae (Principles of Philosophy), a kind of synthesis of the Discourse on the Method and Meditations on First Philosophy. In 1643, Cartesian philosophy was condemned at the University of Utrecht , and Descartes was obliged to flee to the Hague, settling in Egmond-Binnen .
2 days ago · The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy says of Peirce that although "long considered an eccentric figure whose contribution to pragmatism was to provide its name and whose importance was as an influence upon James and Dewey, Peirce's significance in his own right is now largely accepted."
