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1. Philosophy / C. History of Philosophy / 2. Ancient Philosophy / a. Ancient chronology
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11445
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347: death of Plato
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11454
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343: Aristotle becomes tutor to 13 year old Alexander (the Great)
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11456
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335: Arisotle founded his school at the Lyceum in Athens
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11459
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330 (roughly): Chuang Tzu wrote his Taoist book
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11465
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322: Aristotle retired to Chalcis, and died there
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11468
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307 (roughly): Epicurus founded his school at the Garden in Athens
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11470
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301 (roughly): Zeno of Citium founded Stoicism at the Stoa Poikile in Athens
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11483
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261: Cleanthes replaced Zeno as head of the Stoa
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11486
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229 (roughly): Chrysippus replaced Cleanthes has head of the Stoa
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11492
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157 (roughly): Carneades became head of the Academy
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11509
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85: most philosophical activity moves to Alexandria
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11513
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78: Cicero visited the stoic school on Rhodes
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11516
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60 (roughly): Lucretius wrote his Latin poem on epicureanism
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11528
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65: Seneca forced to commit suicide by Nero
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11531
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80: the discourses of the stoic Epictetus are written down
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11535
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170 (roughly): Marcus Aurelius wrote his private stoic meditations
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11537
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-200 (roughly): Sextus Empiricus wrote a series of books on scepticism
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11541
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263: Porphyry began to study with Plotinus in Rome
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11545
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310: Christianity became the official religion of the Roman empire
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11549
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387: Ambrose converts Augustine to Christianity
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11555
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523: Boethius imprisoned at Pavia, and begins to write
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11557
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529: the emperor Justinian closes all the philosophy schools in Athens
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11461
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323 (roughly): Euclid wrote 'Elements', summarising all of geometry
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11390
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1000 (roughly): Upanishads written (in Sanskrit); religious and philosophical texts
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11391
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750 (roughly): the Book of Genesis written by Hebrew writers
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11392
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586: eclipse of the sun on the coast of modern Turkey was predicted by Thales of Miletus
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11395
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570: Anaximander flourished in Miletus
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11396
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563: the Buddha born in northern India
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11398
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540: Lao Tzu wrote 'Tao Te Ching', the basis of Taoism
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11400
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529: Pythagoras created his secretive community at Croton in Sicily
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11403
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500: Heraclitus flourishes at Ephesus, in modern Turkey
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11404
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496: Confucius travels widely, persuading rulers to be more moral
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11408
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472: Empedocles persuades his city (Acragas in Sicily) to become a democracy
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11412
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450 (roughly): Parmenides and Zeno visit Athens from Italy
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11414
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445: Protagoras helps write laws for the new colony of Thurii
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11417
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436 (roughly): Anaxagoras is tried for impiety, and expelled from Athens
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11421
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427: Gorgias visited Athens as ambassador for Leontini
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11425
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399: Socrates executed (with Plato absent through ill health)
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11433
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387 (roughly): Aristippus the Elder founder a hedonist school at Cyrene
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11432
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387 (roughly): Plato returned to Athens, and founded the Academy
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11440
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367: the teenaged Aristotle came to study at the Academy
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11443
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360 (roughly): Diogenes of Sinope lives in a barrel in central Athens
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1. Philosophy / C. History of Philosophy / 3. Earlier European Philosophy / a. Earlier European chronology
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11558
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622 (roughly): Mohammed writes the Koran
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11559
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642: Arabs close the philosophy schools in Alexandria
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11560
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910 (roughly): Al-Farabi wrote Arabic commentaries on Aristotle
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11562
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1015 (roughly): Ibn Sina (Avicenna) writes a book on Aristotle
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11564
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1090: Anselm publishes his proof of the existence of God
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11566
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1115: Abelard is the chief logic teacher in Paris
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11573
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1166: Ibn Rushd (Averroes) wrote extensive commentaries on Aristotle
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11581
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1266: Aquinas began writing 'Summa Theologica'
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11586
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1280: after his death, the teaching of Aquinas becomes official Dominican doctrine
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11591
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1328: William of Ockham decides the Pope is a heretic, and moves to Munich
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17916
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1347: the Church persecutes philosophical heresies
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11593
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1470: Marsilio Ficino founds a Platonic Academy in Florence
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11596
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1513: Machiavelli wrote 'The Prince'
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11599
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1543: Copernicus publishes his heliocentric view of the solar system
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11601
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1580: Montaigne publishes his essays
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11607
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1600: Giordano Bruno was burned at the stake in Rome
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1. Philosophy / C. History of Philosophy / 4. Later European Philosophy / a. Later European chronology
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11613
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1619: Descartes's famous day of meditation inside a stove
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11614
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1620: Bacon publishes 'Novum Organum'
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11619
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1633: Galileo convicted of heresy by the Inquisition
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11623
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1641: Descartes publishes his 'Meditations'
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11626
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1650: death of Descartes, in Stockholm
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11627
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1651: Hobbes publishes 'Leviathan'
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11633
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1662: the Port Royal Logic is published
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11634
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1665: Spinoza writes his 'Ethics'
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11643
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1676: Leibniz settled as librarian to the Duke of Brunswick
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11649
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1687: Newton publishes his 'Principia Mathematica'
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11652
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1690: Locke publishes his 'Essay'
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11654
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1697: Bayle publishes his 'Dictionary'
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11659
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1713: Berkeley publishes his 'Three Dialogues'
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11666
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1734: Voltaire publishes his 'Philosophical Letters'
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11667
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1739: Hume publishes his 'Treatise'
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11675
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1762: Rousseau publishes his 'Social Contract'
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11682
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1781: Kant publishes his 'Critique of Pure Reason'
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11683
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1785: Reid publishes his essays defending common sense
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11687
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1798: the French Revolution
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11694
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1807: Hegel publishes his 'Phenomenology of Spirit'
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11701
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1818: Schopenhauer publishes his 'World as Will and Idea'
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11710
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1840: Kierkegaard is writing extensively in Copenhagen
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11713
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1843: Mill publishes his 'System of Logic'
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11715
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1848: Marx and Engels publis the Communist Manifesto
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11717
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1859: Darwin publishes his 'Origin of the Species'
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11721
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1861: Mill publishes 'Utilitarianism'
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11724
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1867: Marx begins publishing 'Das Kapital'
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1. Philosophy / C. History of Philosophy / 5. Modern Philosophy / a. Modern philosophy chronology
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17907
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1879: Frege invents predicate logic
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17909
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1892: Frege's essay 'Sense and Reference'
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17908
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1884: Frege publishes his 'Foundations of Arithmetic'
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11735
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1885: Nietzsche completed 'Thus Spake Zarathustra'
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17911
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1888: Dedekind publishes axioms for arithmetic
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11740
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1890: James published 'Principles of Psychology'
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11742
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1895 (roughly): Freud developed theories of the unconscious
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11745
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1900: Husserl began developing Phenomenology
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11746
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1903: Moore published 'Principia Ethica'
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11747
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1904: Dewey became professor at Columbia University
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17910
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1908: Zermelo publishes axioms for set theory
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11752
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1910: Russell and Whitehead begin publishing 'Principia Mathematica'
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11756
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1912: Russell meets Wittgenstein in Cambridge
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11762
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1921: Wittgenstein's 'Tractatus' published
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11765
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1927: Heidegger's 'Being and Time' published
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11768
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1930: Frank Ramsey dies at 27
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11770
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1931: Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems
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11773
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1933: Tarski's theory of truth
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11783
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1942: Camus published 'The Myth of Sisyphus'
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11784
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1943: Sartre's 'Being and Nothingness'
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11787
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1945: Merleau-Ponty's 'Phenomenology of Perception'
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17918
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1947: Carnap published 'Meaning and Necessity'
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11794
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1950: Quine's essay 'Two Dogmas of Empiricism'
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17917
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1953: Wittgenstein's 'Philosophical Investigations'
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17919
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1956: Place proposed mind-brain identity
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11804
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1962: Kuhn's 'Structure of Scientific Revolutions'
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17921
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1967: Putnam proposed functionalism of the mind
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11808
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1971: Rawls's 'A Theory of Justice'
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11810
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1972: Kripke publishes 'Naming and Necessity'
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11813
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1975: Singer publishes 'Animal Rights'
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17920
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1975: Putnam published his Twin Earth example
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11820
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1986: David Lewis publishes 'On the Plurality of Worlds'
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11733
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1879: Peirce taught for five years at Johns Hopkins University
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