BIOGRAPHIES

https://youtu.be/jUdkCVGeA3o Remarkably little is known of Leucippus, who is generally credited with having founded atomism in Greek philosophy. Except for this historical distinction, there is little evidence to show how…

https://youtu.be/ZsXdUd5xxJU One of the signature minds of the Enlightenment, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz is celebrated as the man who cofounded calculus with Isaac Newton, albeit independently from him. He is also…

https://youtu.be/NLHtI0oucmQ Laozi is not a proper name but an honorific meaning “Old Master.” It is applied to a semi historical, semi-legendary, or perhaps wholly legendary philosopher credited as the founder…

https://youtu.be/yjKVQiY_iiU Trained as a physicist, Thomas Kuhn became a philosopher of science, producing his best known work in 1962, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, which, among other things, put the…

https://youtu.be/_b13EypmsZg Saul Aaron Kripke was born on November 13, 1940, in Bay Shore, New York. His father was a rabbi, and his mother a writer of Jewish educational books for…

https://youtu.be/X4j6Pq_PlbQ Born in Málága, Andalusia, in 1021 or 1022, Solomon Ibn Gabirol was a poet and Neoplatonic Jewish philosopher. Until well into the nineteenth century, he was known only by…

https://youtu.be/9WhSI-AW_IM A Spanish Jew, Judah Halevi (Yehuda Halevi) was a physician, poet, and philosopher. His most enduring fame is as Hebrew poet, and much of what he composed in the…

https://youtu.be/mddgVe1TVuc Gorgias, with Protagoras, represents the first generation of Sophists, Pre-Socratic philosophers who used philosophy and rhetoric to acquire valid knowledge. Gorgias was born about 483 BC in Leontinoi, an…

https://youtu.be/iGcA7a-sfZo A polymath active in the realms of literature—including poetry, fiction, and drama —diplomacy, government administration, and science (“natural philosophy”), Goethe created a career not easily categorized. By volume and…

https://youtu.be/i2J2tdNlyt0 Mathematician and analytic philosopher Kurt Gödel stands as the third in a triumvirate of history’s great logicians, alongside Aristotle and Gottlob Frege. Among twentieth-century analytical philosophers, his peers in…