New Entry by Jean-Philippe Deranty on June 26, 2009.] Many of the philosophers commonly described as "existentialist" have made original and decisive contributions to aesthetic thinking. In most cases, a substantial involvement in artistic practice (as novelists, playwrights or musicians)

Revised entry by Paul Vincent Spade and Stephen Read on June 26, 2009. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography, Internet resources, notes.html] The medieval name for paradoxes like the famous Liar Paradox ("This proposition is false") was "insolubles" or insolubilia.[1] From

Revised entry by Jean De Groot on June 27, 2009. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography, notes.html] Chauncey Wright was an American philosopher of science of the second half of the nineteenth century and an early proponent of Darwinism in the

Revised entry by Edward Slowik on June 27, 2009. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] While Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650) is well-known as one of the founders of modern philosophy, his influential role in the development of modern physics has