BIOGRAPHIES

https://youtu.be/qaciMLybm3s Born about 412 BC in the Ionian Black Sea colony of Sinope, Diogenes was a founder of Cynic philosophy and by far the most famous of the Cynics—ascetics, who…

https://youtu.be/H7pYbaA1Gqs Born in Langres, Champagne, on October 5, 1713, Denis Diderot was educated at the local Jesuit college, which granted him a Master of Arts degree in philosophy in 1732.…

https://youtu.be/V2UDnW5htcA Active in the sixth or seventh century, Dharmakirti was born, of the Brahmin caste, in southern India and is central to epistemological thought in Buddhist philosophy. His Pramanavarttika is…

https://youtu.be/33ixOsdbUEg With William James and Charles Sanders Peirce, John Dewey was a founder of pragmatism, a uniquely American philosophy. Rejecting the traditional philosophical conception of thought as a function representing…

https://youtu.be/jfowR8sqC9Y René Descartes was known among his seventeenth-century contemporaries chiefly as a mathematician and only secondarily as a natural philosopher—who developed novel theories of physics and of biology—a philosopher of…

https://youtu.be/KqhFfvAFp4k Born on July 15, 1930, in the French Algiers suburb of El-Biar, Jacques Derrida founded the critical method known as “deconstruction,” which has been applied primarily to literary texts…

https://youtu.be/G-3CGl-3eyE His contemporaries—he was born about 460 BC in Abdera, Thrace—called him the “laughing philosopher” because, in ethics and politics, he placed great value on optimism and cheerfulness. Modern historians…

https://youtu.be/sAIa0A40-lY Born on March 6, 1917, in Springfield, Massachusetts, Donald Davidson was educated at Harvard University, primarily in literature and classics, graduating in 1939. He went on to earn a…

https://youtu.be/VlDvXfvNB1s Rabbi Hasdai Crescas, who led the Jewish community in fourteenth- and early fifteenthcentury Aragon, was revered as a great rabbinic authority. He wrote a philosophical polemic refuting Christian principles…

https://youtu.be/UqoXg8P6CWI Rooted in ancient Chinese religious, philosophical, and political traditions, Confucianism emerged as body of philosophical thought through the teachings of Confucius, who saw himself not as an original philosopher,…