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A 1790 book by Immanuel Kant, the third in his Critical project, exploring the limits and conditions of knowledge. It discusses four types of reflective judgments: the agreeable, the beautiful, the sublime, and the good, and their relation to a sensus communis.
A philosophical distinction between subjectivity and objectivity is the degree to which something depends on a mind or can be confirmed independently of a mind. The article explores the history, definitions, and applications of this distinction in various fields of philosophy, such as epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, and religion.
A pure play company focuses solely on a particular product or activity, such as a coffee shop, a factory or an online retailer. Learn how to estimate the cost of equity capital of private companies using the pure play method, and how pure play foundries and e-retailers operate.
Subjectivism is the doctrine that reality is dependent on subjective experience or perception, and that there is no objective truth. Learn about the history, forms and applications of subjectivism in philosophy, ethics, probability and more.
Formalism is the study of art by analyzing and comparing form and style, rather than content, meaning, or context. Learn about the origin, definition, and types of formalism in art history, philosophy, and other disciplines.
Law of thought is a term for fundamental rules of rational discourse, often associated with three laws: identity, contradiction and excluded middle. The article traces the origin and development of these laws in philosophy, logic and mathematics, and discusses their applications and criticisms.
Pragmatism is a philosophical tradition that views language and thought as tools for prediction, problem solving, and action, rather than describing, representing, or mirroring reality. It originated in the United States in the 1870s with Peirce, James, and Dewey, and has various branches and applications in epistemology, logic, metaphysics, and more.
Behavioralism is a political science approach that emerged in the 1930s in the US and emphasized an objective, quantified study of political behavior. It was associated with the rise of the behavioral sciences and challenged the traditionalist and normative approaches.