NAME OF QOUTE/S IDEAS/THEORIES BOOK/S and/or

PHILOSOPHER WORK/S
James Frederick “EPISTEMOLOGY” INSTITUTE OF
Ferrier METAPHYSICS:
The theory of
knowing and being
Plato Ideas are inherent in the Idealism The Dialogue
human mind Innatism The Republic
Socrates “we are pregnant with ideas” ; Intellectualism
“knowledge is virtue” Myopic Method of
knowing
Aristotle “ the truth is immanent , Realism Nicomachean Ethics
existing in the world of matter Geocentric Theory Organon
and experience”;
“the truth is the conformity of
the mind and thing” ;
“Everything tends to fall
towards the earth, therefore
earth must be the center of the
universe”
Aquinas “Universals are fundamentally Moderate Realism Summa Theologica
in the object, and formally in Correspondence Summa
the mind” ; “There is nothing in Theory
the mind without passing thru Scholasticism
senses”
Augustine of ““When I speak the truth, I do Divine Illumination The Confession
Hippos not teach someone who sees The city of God
these truths. For he is taught
not by my words but by the
things themselves made
manifest within when God
discloses them.”; “truth is
revealed by god through the
human mind”
Anselm of “I believe so that I may Scholasticism
Canterbury understand.”; “Credo ut
intelligam.”; “philosophy is
handmaid of theology”
Ptolemy The universe is a set of nested Geocentric Theory Almagest
spheres, of which one sphere,
the Earth, is stationary at its
center. The others revolve
around the Earth which, in the
order from it, are the Moon,
Mercury, Venus,
the Sun, Mars, Jupiter and
Saturn
Nicolaus Heliocentric Theory On the Revolution of
Copernicus Celestial Bodies
Glileo Galilie "Philosophy is written in this Heliocentric Theory Dialogue
 grand book, the universe. It is Concerning the Two
written in the language of Chief World
mathematics, and its Systems
characters are triangles,
circles, and other geometric
figures.”; “The church is the
authority in faith
and morals, but not in
science.”

Francis Bacon “knowledge is power”; Empiricism Novum Organum

Idols of the Mind The New Atlantis

Rene Descrates “I think therefore I exist”; Rationalism Discourse on

Method
Meditation on First
Philosophy
Principles of
Philosophy

Gottfried Wilhelm Optimism A Philosopher’s

Von Leibniz Monism Creed
Discourse on
Metaphysics
Theodicy
Monadology

Benedict Spinoza Monism Ethics by

Pantheism Geometrical
Determinism Demonstrations
On the Improvement
of Understanding
Theologico-Political
Treatise

John Locke “Knowledge begins from Empiricism Essay Concerning

experience by the senses”; Human
“Substance is that we know Understanding
not what.” Of the Conduct of
Understanding
Two Treatises on
Government
A Letter on
Toleration

David Hume “All knowledge may be Skepticism An Inquiry

doubted”; “We know nothing Concerning Human
about the world, but only know Understanding
the state of our own A Treatise on
consciousness.” Human Nature
 A History of England

George Berkeley “To be is to be perceived” Idealism A Treatise

(Objective Concerning the
Idealism) Principle of
Human Knowledge
Three Dialogues
between Hylas and
Philonius
An Essay Towards a
New Theory of
Vision

Immanuel Kant “The mind determines the Transcedental Critique of Pure

world as it is experienced by Idealism Reason
the senses.”; "All the interests Synthetic A Priori Critique of Practical
of my reason, speculative as Knowledge Reason
well as practical, combine in Coherence Theory Critique of
the three following questions: Judgment
1. What can I know?
2. What ought I to do?
3. What may I hope?”

Charles Sanders “A thing is true if it solves the Pragmatism The Fixation of

Peirce relevant problems of human Belief
life.” How to Make Our
Ideas Clear
What Pragmatism
Is?

William James “Thoughts applied to Pragmatism Pragmatism

actual practice”; “You shall Will to Believe
know them by their fruits.”; The Meaning of
“The end justifies the means.” Truth
Principles of
Psychology

John Dewey Pragmatism Thought and Its

Instrumentalism Subject Matter
Logic: The Theory of
Inquiry
Knowing and the
Known
Education and the
Society
Education and
Democracy