Leonard Bloomfield (1887 – 1949) was a linguist who pioneered the development of structural linguistics in the United States during the 1930s and 1940s. He made important contributions to Indo-European linguistics, the description of Austronesian languages, and the...
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Albert Camus
Albert Camus (1913 – 1960) was a writer and thinker who wrote articles, novels, and short stories. He also directed plays, and was known for his political opinions. While he also hold a reputation as a philosopher, he never officially admitted to being one. Camus's...
Émile Zola
Émile-Édouard-Charles-Antoine Zola (1840 – 1902) was a French author who is best known for his novels. He was active in politics and was influential in the development of the French novel. He is known for his theories of naturalism, which explain his many novels about...
Thomas Albert Sebeok
Thomas Albert Sebeok is an American semiotician and linguist. It expands the field of semiotics to include non-man-made signal communication systems, introducing zoo- and biosemiotics. Biography He was born in Budapest on November 9, 1920. He left Hungary in 1936 to...
Louis Althusser
Louis Althusser is a contemporary French thinker who offers a structuralist interpretation of the Marxist perspective. His conception of ideology is perhaps his most important contribution to semiotics. Among the works of Louis Althusser are: For Marx (1977) Essays in...
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 – 1900) was a famous German scholar who wrote about important topics like philosophy and culture. He has been very influential in recent times, and many people think he is one of the most important thinkers of contemporary philosophy. He...
Jordan B. Peterson
Jordan Bernt Peterson, born 1962, is well-known for his work in psychology and for speaking out on important issues. He's also a professor at the University of Toronto, where he teaches classes on topics like personality and mental health. He became a well-known...
Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud (1856 – 1939) was a neurologist who developed the theory of psychoanalysis, which is based on the idea that thoughts and feelings can be explained by how the brain works. Freud was a very important thinker during his time, and he had a lot of influence...
Carl Gustav Jung
Carl Gustav Jung (1875 – 1961) was a Swiss psychologist who developed a new form of psychology called analytic psychology. This is in reaction to the work of fellow psychologist, Sigmund Freud. Jung was born into a family of scholars and pastors. Jung seemed destined...
Aristotle
In his Peri hermeneias, translated into Latin as De interpretatione, the ancient Greek philosopher and scholar Aristotle argued that "spoken signs are symbols of affections in the soul, and written signs are symbols of spoken sounds. And just as written signs are not...
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Edward Sapir
Edward Sapir (1884-1939) is one of the most renowned American linguists and anthropologists of his time. He is best known for his work on North American Indian languages. An influential founder of ethnolinguistics, he was also a leading developer of the American...
Parmenides
Parmenides, was a Greek philosopher of Elea, southern Italy, who founded Eleaticism, one of the main pre-Socratic schools of Greek thought. The general outlines of his teaching can be derived from what little remains of his principal work, a three-part verse...
Hippocrates
Hippocrates (460 BC – 370 BC) was a physician and philosopher who lived in ancient Greece. He is credited with helping to develop modern medicine and renowned as the father of medicine. There is some disagreement about the details of Hippocrates' life, and it's hard...
Galen Pergamum
Galen Pergamum (129 CE – 200 CE) was primarily a respected medical author, but his work has had a profound impact on the philosophical discourse of his time. He was a writer of logic, ethics, and philosophy, as well as a medical scientist, and wrote on a variety of...
Jean Piaget
Jean Piaget (1896 – 1980) was a Swiss psychologist who was the first to make a systematic study of the acquisition of understanding in children. Many people believe that he was the major figure in 20th-century developmental psychology. Piaget's early interests were in...
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A completely and truly free course on Semiology (Semiotics). Learn about the meaning of signs, how and why did the field emerged. What is the relationship between the street signs and the signs that we use every day - words.
