Plato (428-27 - 348-47 BC) was a major Greek thinker in Ancient Philosophy, a student of Socrates, founder of the first Academy, and with his student Aristotle and the most important modern philosopher Kant, is still considered one of the singularly important philosophers of all time. Some thirty-five “Socratic” dialogues...

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Eastern Philosophy is a diverse body of approaches to life and philosophizing, particularly centered on understanding the process of the Universe and its endless becoming. In Western Culture, the term “Eastern Philosophy” refers very broadly to the various philosophies of “the East”, namely Asia, including China, India, Japan, Korea, Tibet, and other nations. ...

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Baruch Benedict de Spinoza (24 Nov 1632 - 21 Feb 1677) was a Dutch philosopher from a Portuguese Jewish family, whose controversial metaphysical ideas led to cherem (or removal) against him from Jewish Society, and his works were banned by the Vatican. Despite his considerable scientific aptitude, the breadth and importance of Spinoza's work...

The Matrix Series consists of the films and animated shorts: The Matrix (1999), The Animatrix (2003), The Matrix Reloaded (2003), The Matrix Revolutions (2003), and The Matrix Resurrections (2021), as well as the video games and other literature, all produced, or written and directed by the Wachowski Siblings. The Matrix “Universe” is a complex...

American Indian Philosophy is based on the tribal histories, cultures, Languages, and traditions of the early peoples of “The Americas” originating before colonization, histories which are still active today. Many key philosophical traditions developed across the very broad geographical area of the Americas, from Alaska to Patagonia,...

David Hume (7 May 1711 - 25 Aug 1776, and pronounced: “Hyoom”) was a Scottish philosopher, a key essayist in the Enlightenment, and most known for his subtle argument against “Causality” using “Induction”. Hume's six-volume History of England (1754 - 1762) was very popular well into the Nineteenth Century. Influenced by the “Empiricism”...

Semiotics is a broad field closely related to Logic, Linguistics, and the Philosophy of Language which is the study of activity and processes involving Signs as Communications with Meanings. The term “Semiosis” was introduced by Charles Sanders Peirce in a Theory of Sign Relations which described a logical process of...

Dynamism is term of Philosophy and Science coined by Gottfried Leibniz and developed into a full system of Reality and Cosmology. Dynamism describes that what exists are simple Elements, or for Leibniz, “Monads”, groups of Essences which have are Forces. Interactions between...

The Creative Commons (CC, at CreativeCommons.org) is a non-profit organization devoted to expanding the range of creative work available for others legally to build upon and share. The organization has released a number of easy to understand Creative Commons Licenses using simple graphics and labels defining or...

Gilles Louis René Deleuze (18 January 1925 - 4 November 1995, and pronounced: “Deluzz”) was a French philosopher who, from the early 1950s until his death in 1995, wrote on Philosophy, Literature, Film, and Fine Art. Two of his most popular works were the volumes of Capitalism and Schizophrenia, Anti-Oedipus (1972) and A Thousand Plateaus (1980),...

African Philosophy is the study of the Human Experience, Reality, and Knowledge from the traditional cultures of Sub-Saharan Africa. Modern Northern Africa by contrast is too strongly influenced by the overlapping Middle-Eastern Religions to be included here as Philosophy. In traditional African Philosophy,...

Paul-Michel Foucault (15 October 1926 - 25 June 1984, and pronounced: “Fookoh”) was a French philosopher who was also a professor, literary critic, and political activist. Foucault's theories primarily addressed the relationships between social and political Power as contrasted with traditional studies of Knowledge, Existence, or Liberty,...

Open Source computer software is that whose “source code”, the code which generates the software's system or purpose, is either in the Public Domain or, more commonly, is copyright-protected by one or more persons or entities and licensed to anyone according to an Open Source License. This usually grants permission to use and redistribute the software, as well as to modify its source code and distribute modified...

Aesthetics (or Philosophy of Art) is a branch of Philosophy focused on the definition of Art in general and how we relate to what is Beautiful to us individually. The word Aesthetics was first used by the German philosopher Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten, and later Immanuel Kant, whose work on the Aesthetic and...

Logic (λόγος in Greek, logos, “thought”) is the most fundamental of all the Sciences and a major branch of Philosophy. Logic is the primary proof and method of what supports Physics, Mathematics, and Language, leading to Arithmetic, Geometry, Set Theory, and Computation, as well as Grammar, Philology, Linguistics, and Philosophy...

Timeless is a concept which describes something as being without a beginning or end, or at least seeming that way. It is an eternal or everlasting quality we find in some things. It is the “timeless beauty” of great designs, films, and fashion models. Timeless can refer to being unrestricted to a particular Time, or being independent within Time itself, as in Time Travel. Creative works which have been named...

Cybernetics is the study of Communication and Control Theory, typically involving regulatory feedback in living Organisms, Machines, Organizations, and their combinations. For example, it includes the study of computer-controlled Machines such as Automata and Robots, along with the study of sociotechnical systems. The term Cybernetics stems from the Ancient Greek Κυβερνήτης (kybernetes, steersman, governor,...

PseudoPhilosophy is any idea or system that masquerades itself as Philosophy while significantly failing to meet even basic intellectual standards. The term is frequently pejorative, and most applications of it are quite contentious. The term bears the same relationship to Philosophy that PseudoScience bears to Science, or Anti-Matter to Matter. PseudoPhilosophy is simply “Bullshit”, in the common vernacular. The...

There are many definitions of Complexity, therefore many natural, artificial and abstract objects or networks can be considered to be complex systems, and their study (complexity science) is highly interdisciplinary. Examples of complex systems include ant-hills, ants themselves, economies, nervous systems, cells and living things, including human beings, as well as modern energy or telecommunication...

John Bordley Rawls (21 Feb 1921 - 24 Nov 2002), a Harvard University professor, was a leading American figure in Moral Philosophy. Rawls' A Theory of Justice (1971) is considered a primary text in political and ethical reasoning, and he earned a Schock Prize for Logic and Philosophy, and a National Humanities Medal presented by U.S. President Bill Clinton in...

How many students have relied on false information from Pseudopedia? Is the fact that it's a Wiki relevant to the question?“Pseudopedia”, “The Pseudopedia”, is an open-content information website, whose co-founder claims is the “sum of all human knowledge”, or at least, that it should become that sum. Since 2003, The Pseudopedia has immensely popularized the concepts of “Wiki” and free information in the public...

The Philosophy of Language is a specialization of Epistemology, which is a major branch of Philosophy. The Philosophy of Language is about understanding how Language relates to the Mind and Society. How the source and structure of Language affects or influences our thinking, and how we use Language to control and interact...