BIOGRAPHIES

https://youtu.be/ZPQaCLtzovk Auguste Comte established positivism, a pervasive philosophical movement from the mid nineteenth century into the early twentieth, when it was dethroned by the advent of logical positivism, or neopositivism.…

https://youtu.be/ZbvtSzsRF9A Although best known as a Roman orator, lawyer, and statesman, renowned as a champion of the Roman republic in opposition to the establishment of an empire, Cicero was a…

https://youtu.be/e6wlKYfvf5g Born in Washington, DC, June 14, 1903, Alonzo Church was a mathematical logician, whoapplied formal logic to mathematics. He was instrumental in creating theoretical computer science, including contributing to…

https://youtu.be/PqCD663Ndbk Ernst Cassirer began as a philosophical idealist in the tradition of Kant and aimed to create an idealistic philosophy of science. As his thought evolved, however, his philosophy came…

https://youtu.be/yV-XAdFNsQ4 For a time, Rudolf Carnap was among the most famous philosophers of the twentieth century. He was a member of the so-called Vienna Circle of the 1920s and 1930s,…

https://youtu.be/1gAhxN8B3go With Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus is perhaps the most famous, even iconic, exponent of existentialist philosophy. And yet, he always rejected the label “existentialism” and preferred “absurdism.” His absurdism…

https://youtu.be/1p2oRaVktbk Martin Buber was a polymath, whose interests encompassed literary translation, political activism, Zionism, Jewish mysticism, biblical study, art, politics, and philosophy, including social philosophy, religious phenomenology, and philosophical anthropology.…

https://youtu.be/UscFXDPAKFw George Boole was born on November 2, 1815 in Lincoln, England, into the family of a shoemaker, who had an avocational interest in technology and science. His family’s modest…

https://youtu.be/PIOyML8OjBY Born on February 4, 1906, in Breslau, one of eight children of psychiatrist and neurologist Karl Bonhoeffer, Dietrich Bonhoeffer earned both an undergraduate degree and the equivalent of a…

https://youtu.be/kPSD773mD6c Boethius is believed to have been born the year after the “barbarian” Odoacer overthrew the last emperor of the Western Roman Empire and proclaimed himself King of Italy. Thus,…