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echoes through the Western tradition on Overlooked Originators in Philosophy

Socrates' understanding of intellectual eros. -Diotima. (You're welcome!)

Eric Steinhart on Overlooked Originators in Philosophy

There's a good case that Iamblichus discovered the number zero. Pesic, P. (2004) Plato and zero. Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 25 (2), 1-18.

Eric Steinhart on Overlooked Originators in Philosophy

Leibniz's Law also occurs in Plotinus: “There can be only one first; for if there were another, the two would not differ in any way,

Nate Sheff on Overlooked Originators in Philosophy

I’m pretty sure Millikan invented Swampman in LTOBC before Davidson, but since she didn’t have all the superficial comic book details, Davidson gets the credit.

Tom Hurka on Overlooked Originators in Philosophy

Given all the Anscombe examples above, her "Modern Moral Philosophy" argument that obligation is meaningless without God was given earlier by Schopenhauer in On the […]

Kris on Overlooked Originators in Philosophy

Parfit's repugnant conclusion can be found in McTaggart; McTaggart even says that some will call the conclusion "repugnant". Some of his arguments about personal

Brian Skyrms on Overlooked Originators in Philosophy

Ruth Marcus was in a dispute with W. V. O. Quine and Kripke entered defending Marcus. There is a 3-way discussion that you can find. […]

GradStudent on Overlooked Originators in Philosophy

John Taurek's famous 1977 paper "Should the Numbers Count?" is typically credited with the idea that, in a scenario where you must choose between saving […]

Yet another French scholar on CNRS Commission Defends Roques in Response to Plagiarism Accusations / Update: Roques Dismissed from CNRS

The Marenbon commission report refers, on p. 1, to "the definition of ‘academic fraud’ formulated by the European Office of Research Integrity (..) and by […]

ACA on Overlooked Originators in Philosophy

Gilbert Harman ('intrinsic character of experience') and John Searle ('intentionality') having pioneered the intentionalist/representationalist outlook in the philosophy of perception in the 1980-90s and Anscombe's […]

Nicole Wyatt on Overlooked Originators in Philosophy

Part of what makes Descartes so egregious is that he is completely dismissive of his scholastic predecessors while simultaneously lifting ideas from them.

Lewis Powell on Overlooked Originators in Philosophy

Basically everyone has just been rediscovering the distinctions and views of the medieval period for hundreds of years now.

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