Tag: Biography

What were the psychological characteristics of this dictator? There are reports on the subject. If someone asks us for the names of some of the people who have caused the most deaths throughout modern history, it is easy for the name of Adolf Hitler to come to mind .  This Austrian-born German military and politician,

This English thinker formulated the theory of speech acts. The philosophy of language is one of the most interesting currents born in modern philosophy and one of its great representatives is the protagonist of this article. John Langshaw Austin is perhaps the greatest of the philosophers of language along with John Searle, Noam Chomsky, and

A great research psychologist who devoted much of his life to studying facial expressions. Paul Ekman has been a pioneer in the study of human emotions and their relationship to facial expressions, as well as being known and noted for being among the 100 most influential psychologists of the century. During his almost 40 years

This controversial researcher applied the idea of ​​”survival of the fittest” to social analysis. Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) was an English philosopher and sociologist who made a strong case for liberalism from the perspective of Social Darwinism. His theories greatly influenced the economy and theories of government of the 20th century. We will see below a

The case of Louis: trapped in time because of a rare psychological disorder. It has happened to all of us at some point in our lives: having the feeling that we have already seen, heard or done something that is happening. In exactly the same way, and in the same place. All traced, as if

One of the historical figures that arouse the most contrary opinions due to the dominance he imposed. Iósif Vissariónovich Dzhugashvili, better known as Iósif Stalin  (1879 – 1953) is certainly the most important political figure in the entire history of the Slavic people, of the Russian ethnic group more specifically. Many will not know that

Lewontin is one of the most controversial evolutionary biologists, a strong opponent of genetic determinism. Richard Lewontin is known within his field, evolutionary biology, as a controversial character. He is a staunch opponent of genetic determinism, but he is still one of the greatest geneticists of the second half of the 20th century. He is

Who was Mikhail Bakhtin and what was his life and intellectual legacy in linguistics? Let’s see. Mikhail Bakhtin’s name is not well known. In fact, he himself did not wish to become famous and always surrounded himself by an aura of mystery and anonymity, either by his own will and desire or because the political

Wolff is one of the most important German philosophers in history. Let’s see why. Christian Wolff (1679-1754) was a rationalist German philosopher and mathematician, who stood out in the historical context of the Enlightenment, a movement both cultural and intellectual, especially active in Germany, France and England. This movement was committed to knowledge and its

A review of the life of this French thinker so influential in feminism. Simone de Beauvoir is one of the great minds of the 20th century. A great thinker, novelist and, although she did not recognize it, a feminist, her fight for women’s rights has meant a before and after to achieve gender equality. His