Philosophical Thought of the Twentieth Century
  • Wheatley
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    There was a lot of groundbreaking philosophy that came about it the twentieth century. I'm interested in seeing discussions surrounding the new philosophies of the 1900 hundreds.

    Things that come to mind are:

    Existentialism: (such as Sartre and Camus),
    The linguistic turn: (Wittgenstein, Ryle, Austin),
    Continental philosophy: (Deleuze, Lyotard, Heidegger)
    New logic: (Russel, Frege, Ayer)
    Others: (Popper)

    I'm sure there a lot to discuss when it comes to 20th century philosophy. I'm hoping for a clean and constructive discussion about 20th century thought.

    Toughs and comments are welcome.
    Carry on!
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  • javi2541997
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    ↪Wheatley


    I think Sir Karl Popper was a key philosopher in XXth century. According to him:
    It is imagination and creativity, not induction, that generates real scientific theories, which is how Einstein could study the universe with no more than a piece of chalk.
    Popper wanted to change how Philosophy of Science was understood back then. Popper realized that science advances instead by deductive falsification through a process of "conjectures and refutations."

    I guess you would like these links:
    Criticism of Karl Popper in Martin Gardner's Are Universes Thicker Than Blackberries?
    Sir Karl Popper (1902-1994)
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  • Wheatley
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    ↪javi2541997

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  • Wheatley
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    Sir Karl Popper — javi2541997
    I love BBC4:


    I happen to like Karl Popper's philosophy of science:
    https://youtu.be/ztmvtKLuR7I
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  • javi2541997
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    I happen to like Karl Popper's philosophy of science:
    https://youtu.be/ztmvtKLuR7I     — Wheatley

    I am glad you liked Karl Popper. He was an extraordinary man. Here in this context, I also recommend to you another philosopher and teacher: Leonard Nelson. He was the teacher of Popper. He was described as a person with an outstanding personality. Nelson was one of the founders of the proceedings of the Freisian school.
    Check him out: Leonard Nelson
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  • 180 Proof
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    I would add to the list of significant 20th century 'innovations'

    • fallibilism (e.g. C.S. Peirce-J. Dewey, K. Popper-P. Feyerabend, S. Haack, D. Deutsch)

    • absurdism (e.g. P.W. Zapffe, A. Camus, C. Rosset, ... Absurdist Fiction)

    • immanentism (e.g. G. Deleuze, Q. Meillassoux, R. Brassier, ... naturalism, digital ontology ... pandeism)

    • eudaimonism (re: "the Aretaic turn" e.g. G.E.M. Anscombe, P. Foot, (I. Murdoch), A. MacIntyre, R. Hursthouse, M. Nussbaum, A. Sen)

    • 'ecologism' (e.g. A. Næss, F. Guattari, P. Singer, D. Abram, E.F. Schumacher, H. Daly, M. Bookchin ... deep ecology, ecological economics, ecopolitics, eco-socialism)
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