Intellectual History

Dan Herbatschek Søren Kierkegaard was a singular figure. Alongside Nietzsche, he stands as one of the two 19th-century roots of what would later grow into 20th-century existentialism. The two could not be more different—Kierkegaard...

Recognizing that it’s no easy task to pin down the essential features of science, let’s return to the story at hand. In Lecture Two we saw how a piece of Einstein’s general theory of...

Modern Physics' influence on Philosophy From 1900–1930, the greatest revolutions in physics since the 17th century had a manifold effect on philosophy: some thinkers came to take philosophy now to be the handmaiden of science;...

Kant' starting point David Hume, one of the most prominent members of the Scottish Enlightenment, was a multifaceted Enlightenment thinker. Based in Edinburgh, Hume was a cultivated, cosmopolitan intellectual, a frequenter of Paris salons. Once...