For Moscow, the Ukrainian question is first and foremost political and ideological, while the American president ignores history and ideology. He wants a 'deal,' because he believes that everything on ...

A serious accident during the launch of a new North Korean warship has been branded a "criminal act" by the country's leader. Kim Jong Un, who witnessed the failed launch of the destroyer, said the ...

If only we could swap bodies, we could see and feel the world as others do. This idea isn’t just a favourite Hollywood plot, but was also conjured up by 17th-century philosopher and physician John ...

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Alfred Jules Ayer (1910-89) was an empiricist philosopher in the British tradition of Locke, Berkeley and Hume, and did much to popularise logical positivism in the English-speaking world. There’s an ...

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John Locke (1632–1704) concerned himself primarily with society, where his views are often contrasted with those of Thomas Hobbes, and with epistemology, where he is usually placed alongside David ...

At the turn of the twentieth century, philosopher and psychologist William James arrived at a theory of truth and knowledge called radical empiricism. By contrast with the empiricism of John Locke and ...