Read an encyclopedia entry about a group English philosophers whose ideas were centered around the work of Plato.

Read selected writings by Irish economist Richard Cantillon. Features "An Essay on Commerce in General, Part One."

Study the writings of this nineteenth-century American businessman/economist. Includes an extract from his 1851 "Harmony of Interests."

Access details about the C20th German logical positivist who theorized that the questions of philosophy are related to the limits of language.

Learn about the Greek skeptic who was banished from Rome by the Senate for his heretical ideas on the inconclusiveness of knowledge and truth.

Peruse works by German economic philosopher Gustav Cassel, with "The Rate of Interest, The Bank Rate, and the Stabilization of Prices."

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Read Josiah Child's 17th-century economic musings in "Brief Observations Concerning Trade and Interest of Money."

Fact sheet introduces the well-known Liverpool philosopher of religion, Stephen Clark. Link to a hand-full of his published articles.

Read a brief encyclopedia entry for Cleathes, a Stoic philosopher and disciple of Zeno of Citium.

Biography of the C19th German-Jewish Neo-Kantian identifies the correlation he saw between Jewish theology and Kant's ethical idealism.

Identify sensationalism as the cardinal theory advanced by C18th French thinker, and his legacy to the future study of psychology.

Learn about the C18th French thinker, AKA Marie Jean Antoine Nicholas de Caritat, who advocated the Revolution and ideas of human perfectability.

Provides a profile of the Earl of Shaftesbury and his morality theories. Connect to the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

Sketch of the C19th French teacher and thinker who borrowed elements from materialism, idealism, mysticism, and skepticism to form eclecticism.

Listen to tapes of William Lane Craig's debates or find copies of his philosophical articles at this home page. Also see his curriculum vitae.

Consider whether the Italian thinker and statesman's theory that aesthetics are superior to the sciences derived from his opposition to fascism.

Read a few choice biographical items about the C17th Cambridge Platonist and teacher.

Discover the utilitarian beliefs propounded by the English theologian and critic of Hobbes' hedonism.