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Period: Sep 30, 1543 to
THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION
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Baruch Spinoza's contribution
Baruch Spinoza's Ethics, dealing with God, the mind and the emotions, is published shortly after his death -
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
In his Science of Knowledge Johann Gottlieb Fichte contrasts the I, or Ego, and its opposing non-I, or non-Ego -
The Varieties of Religious Experience
US philosopher William James publishes his influential book The Varieties of Religious Experience.James believed that the study of the origin of an object or an idea does not play a role in the study of its value. He asserted that existential judgment, or the scientific examination of an object's origin, is a separate matter from that object's value. -
Jean-Paul Sartre
French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre expounds his theory of existentialism in Being and Nothingness ('L'Être et le néant') -
Future Philosophy
Columbia philosophers form new philosophy combining past philosophies
