BIOGRAPHIES

https://youtu.be/37TI2KOGwrc Born about 495 BC in Elea, Zeno of Elea was a Pre-Socratic philosopher known for his paradoxes. Aristotle further credits him with inventing the dialectic. No less a figure…

https://youtu.be/Kx4jNFEqhsA Zeno of Citium was born in Citium, Cyprus, about 334 BC, and is considered the founder of Stoicism, a philosophy he taught in Athens from around 300 BC until…

https://youtu.be/fp5bkUdKexk Born about 570 BC in Colophon, Ancient Greece, Xenophanes was a poet, epistemologist, metaphysician, and theologian. He is best known for his criticism of anthropomorphism in religion and for…

https://youtu.be/9oDEznW7bKo One of the giants of twentieth-century philosophy, particularly in its analytic dimension, Ludwig Wittgenstein has had an enduring impact on work in logic and language as well as on…

https://youtu.be/4pBr55OhfDg Philosopher, historian, poet, dramatist, novelist, wit, and advocate of freedom of speech and religion, Voltaire was the embodiment of the Enlightenment. He was born François-Marie Arouet in Paris on…

https://youtu.be/DjM0KVQhPRI Born on August 4, 1834 in Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire, John Venn was a British mathematician, logician, and philosopher. He is most widely remembered for developing the Venn diagram,…

https://youtu.be/zg9FXrx7Jec Alan Mathison Turing framed the theory of modern computing with both his “Turing machine” thought experiment and his pioneering work on artificial intelligence. The paradigm-shifting technological impact of this…

https://youtu.be/KZKd-yQwiNA Second only to his friend and quasi-patron Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau was a founding figure in the Transcendentalist movement, the American translation of the German Romanticism of…

https://youtu.be/JzNT7NNFWQ4 Throughout centuries of Western letters, science, and philosophy, the name of Thales appears with astounding persistence. He is seen as having innovated thought itself, essentially beginning the replacement of…

https://youtu.be/ie8vBFbQtsM The most radical philosopher of the seventeenth century, Baruch Spinoza strikes modern readers as almost stunningly modern. In his own day, his philosophy was sometimes labeled “Spinozism” and described…