BIOGRAPHIES

https://youtu.be/_1T1MblWr4Y Born Abba Mari ibn Kaspi about 1280 in Arles, Provence, Joseph Kaspi was a rabbinical author who wrote numerous commentaries on the Old Testament. In these, he drew upon…

https://youtu.be/_ikpDMg9g2g Kant brought eighteenth-century Western philosophy to a new height of ambition. He saw his task, as a philosopher, to answer three essential questions: “What can I know? What should…

https://youtu.be/JWa4omwvH8U One of the most original and approachable of philosophers, William James was instrumental in founding and establishing Pragmatism, which embraces language and thought as the means of problem solving…

https://youtu.be/WeIL5eORemg Samuel ben Judah ibn Tibbon was born about 1150 in Lunel, in the Languedoc region of what is today France. Best known as a translator of rabbinic literature from…

https://youtu.be/D0RcxqRk28M Born between 1089 and 1092 in Tudela, Spain, Abraham Ibn Ezra claimed Córdoba as his birthplace. Other than these conflicting facts, little is known of Ibn Ezra’s family, although…

https://youtu.be/a9UBKbQIO6s Born in Prossnitz, Moravia (today part of the Czech Republic) on April 8, 1859, Edmund Gustav Albrecht Husserl is widely considered the father of modern phenomenology, the philosophical effort…

https://youtu.be/nsOitIZ-pjo The Scots philosopher David Hume was among the towering intellects of the eighteenth century and drew both admiration and condemnation—but always great interest—for his relentlessly skeptical approach to the…

https://youtu.be/GzfYY6GaEy4 Product of the seventeenth-century Enlightenment, Thomas Hobbes is justly remembered as the founder of modern political philosophy. In an eloquent and systematic manner, he defined all the principal issues…

https://youtu.be/EwMOxGoG9w4 Although identified primarily as a mathematician who made several fundamental breakthroughs in the field, David Hilbert’s work in proof theory and other aspects of mathematical logic have given him…

https://youtu.be/HD57VEWWup0 A native of Ephesus, a major city on the Ionian coast of Asia Minor, Heraclitus was born about 535 BC. His controlling philosophical tenet was the unity of experience…