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Pages in category "Natural philosophers" The following 97 pages are in this category, out of 97 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Franz Aepinus;
Greek philosophers defined natural philosophy as the combination of beings living in the universe, ignoring things made by humans. [2] The other definition refers to human nature. [2] In the 14th and 15th centuries, natural philosophy was one of many branches of philosophy, but was not a specialized field of study.
In philosophy, naturalism is the idea that only natural laws and forces (as opposed to supernatural ones) operate in the universe. [1] In its primary sense, [ 2 ] it is also known as ontological naturalism , metaphysical naturalism , pure naturalism , philosophical naturalism and antisupernaturalism .
Peter Singer (born 1946) Moral philosopher on animal liberation, effective altruism. Bruno Latour (1947-2022) French Philosopher, anthropologist, sociologist. Camille Paglia (born 1947). Martha Nussbaum (born 1947). Political philosopher. Hans-Hermann Hoppe (born 1949). Slavoj Žižek (born 1949). German Idealism, Marxism and Lacanian ...
Aristotle's "natural philosophy" spans a wide range of natural phenomena including those now covered by physics, biology and other natural sciences. [61] In Aristotle's terminology, "natural philosophy" is a branch of philosophy examining the phenomena of the natural world, and includes fields that would be regarded today as physics, biology ...
This is a list of lists of philosophers, organized by subarea, nationality, religion, and time period. Lists of philosophers by subfield. List of aestheticians;
Naturphilosophie attempted to comprehend nature in its totality and to outline its general theoretical structure, thus attempting to lay the foundations for the natural sciences. In developing their theories, the German Naturphilosophen found their inspiration in the natural philosophy of the Ancient Greek Ionian philosophers.
Beginning in eighteenth-century historiography, [1] many came to regard him as the first philosopher in the Greek tradition, breaking from the prior use of mythology to explain the world and instead using natural philosophy. He is thus otherwise referred to as the first to have engaged in mathematics, science, and deductive reasoning. [2]