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Her research interests include the philosophy of science and the history of science.She holds her Professorship in the Philosophy of Science at the Université libre de Bruxelles [3] and received the grand prize for philosophy from the Académie Française in 1993. [4]
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful is a 1757 treatise (2nd edition 1759) on aesthetics written by Edmund Burke.It was the first complete philosophical exposition for separating the beautiful and the sublime into their own respective rational categories.
Philosophy is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, value, mind, and language.It is a rational and critical inquiry that reflects on its methods and assumptions.
Lo que el tiempo nos dejó (English: What time left us) is a 2010 Argentine TV miniseries of six telefilms about key events of the History of Argentina during the 20th century. They were produced by historian Felipe Pigna. The viewpoint of the stories is not on the events themselves, but on regular people related to them. [1]
Existentialism is a family of philosophical views and inquiry that study existence from the individual's perspective and explore the human struggle to lead an authentic life despite the apparent absurdity or incomprehensibility of the universe.
In philosophy, a theory of everything (ToE) is an ultimate, all-encompassing explanation or description of nature or reality. [1] [2] [3] Adopting the term from physics, where the search for a theory of everything is ongoing, philosophers have discussed the viability of the concept and analyzed its properties and implications.
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (French: Surveiller et punir : Naissance de la prison) is a 1975 book by French philosopher Michel Foucault. It is an analysis of the social and theoretical mechanisms behind the changes that occurred in Western penal systems during the modern age based on historical documents from France.
Strictly speaking, the philosophy of literature is a branch of aesthetics, the branch of philosophy that deals with the question, "What is art"?Much of aesthetic philosophy has traditionally focused on the plastic arts or music, however, at the expense of the verbal arts.