Kant on Nature

January 8, 2016
Like Descartes, Kant recognised our inherent limitations to know the external world as opposed to the pure ideas produced by our own rational faculty. However, he is more optimistic than the French thinker regarding our intellectual ability to ‘mediate’ our experience...

An Original Voice in Contemporary Philosophy

December 28, 2015
The Christmas holidays are a time for rest but also an opportunity to recharge one’s intellectual batteries, by discovering new thinkers and exploring original theories. One philosopher is slowly gaining in stature in the philosophical world through his ambitious...

Philosophy and the Environment

December 21, 2015
All IB students will, no doubt, take a special interest in the discussions to take place at the COP21 Paris Conference on the consequences of climate change and the urgent decisions to be implemented by all nations in order to prevent any future ecological...

Aristotle and Descartes on Nature

December 16, 2015
Nature has been a key concept in Philosophy since Antiquity. Aristotle was the first thinker to prefer direct observation of natural phenomena to empty speculations on the possible influence of invisible deities on human destinies. For the author of History of...

The Three Postulates of Kant’s Ethical Theory

November 18, 2015
In his work Religion within The Limits of Reason Alone (1793), Kant founds all ethical theories – and not only his own – on three postulates or necessary, a priori conditions. The latter are not so much presented as theoretical dogmas as ‘reasonable’...