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January 12, 2010

Stephen Toulmin Dies - Philosopher who was a founding father of argumentation theory

Posted January 12th, 2010 by admin

Though Stephen Toulmin, who has died aged 87, was initially famous as one of the leading proponents of the “good reasons” approach in ethics, and went on to write about reasoning, science, philosophy of science and the history of ideas, he was ultimately better known in the US field of communication, and in computer science, than in philosophy. The Uses of Argument [...]

Spotlight: Simply Marx

Posted November 4th, 2007 by admin

The great German philosopher Karl Marx once said, “History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.” Marx, often referred to as the father of Communism, was also a political economist and a revolutionary. Born in 1818, Marx was home-schooled until his teen years. He was set to study law but his law studies went [...]