History of Philosophy
Descartes' famous first principle. For him, we can doubt absolutely everything except for this.
What is "I think, therefore I am"?
The main professor at UT who teaches philosophy of the arts and existentialism.
Who is Kathleen Higgins?
Who is Thomas Hobbes?
This philosopher offered a skeptical conclusion about causation: that we can not know that one event causes another, only that we constantly perceive them occurring in conjunction.
Who is David Hume?
The name of the first term in a hypothetical proposition (if P, then Q).
What is the antecedent?
The Plato dialogue where Socrates teaches math to a slave boy.
What is Meno?
The reading room on the third floor of Waggener Hall is named after this professor of philosophy.
Who is Albert P. Brogan?
The political philosophy which asserts that class struggle is the driving force of history.
What is Marxism?
The most famous paper written by Thomas Nagel. It deals with the explanatory gap between features of subjective experience and objective concepts.
What is What Is It Like to Be a Bat?
What is platonism?
The argument from first causes is an example of this type of argument for God's existence.
What is a cosmological argument?
This professor of metaphysics and logic wrote an article called "Could the Grounds's Grounding the Grounded Ground the Grounded?"
Who is Jon Litland?
The English philosopher who came up with the trolley problem in her 1967 article "The Problem of Abortion and the Doctrine of the Double Effect."
For Thomas Kuhn, the type of change in theory and methodology which constitutes a scientific revolution. This is said to occur after enough anomalies are observed which can not be explained by normal science.
What is a paradigm shift?
The book by Wittgenstein in which the first line is "The world is everything that is the case."
What is Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus?
The ancient Chinese philosophical and religious tradition which famously involves ideas of cultivation, virtue, and harmony with nature.
What is Taoism?
This famous filmmaker, who directed The Grand Budapest Hotel, graduated from UT Austin with a bachelor's degree in philosophy.
Who is Wes Anderson?
Phenomenology is a field which traditionally looks for universal features of:
What is subjective experience?
The name of the type of dualism in the philosophy of mind which takes mental states to be a separate type of entity with no power to influence physical events; consciousness here is often compared to steam emitting from an engine.
What is epiphenomenalism?
What are possible worlds?
The treatise in which Aristotle discussed modality, using the example of a sea battle.
What is On Interpretation?
The late professor of philosophy and business at UT whose blurb is on the back of the famous Oxford University Press edition of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit.
Who is Robert C. Solomon?
The philosopher and anthropologist who wrote Politics of Nature and is famous for co-developing actor-network theory.
Who is Bruno Latour?
In the first edition of the Critique of Pure Reason, Kant argues that three syntheses make possible all representation of the world in a knowing subject: the synthesis of the unity of apperception, the synthesis of reproduction in imagination, and:
What is the synthesis of recognition in the concept?
The statement of Godel's first incompleteness theorem.
What is "In any consistent formal system F within which a certain amount of arithmetic can be carried out, there are statements of the language of F which can neither be proved nor disproved in F."