Modern philosophy will determine the scope of one's use of "modern philosophy." How much of Renaissance intellectual history is part of modern philosophy is disputed: the Early Renaissance is often considered less modern and more medieval compared to the later High Renaissance. By the 17th and 18th centuries the major figures in philosophy of mind, epistemology, and metaphysics were roughly divided into two main groups. The "Rationalists," mostly in France and Germany, argued all knowledge must begin from certain "innate ideas" in the mind. Major rationalists were Descartes, Baruch Spinoza, Gottfried Leibniz, and Nicolas Malebranche. The "Empiricists," by contrast, held that knowledge
Georg Kohler (philosopher) and gives interviews to newspapers and online publications, such as Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Blick and Tages-Anzeiger. Kohler was married to Tagesschau spokeswoman and journalist Dominique Rub Kohler. She died on 15 August 2013. Georg Kohler (philosopher) Georg Kohler (born in Konolfingen, Bern, Switzerland in 1945) is a Swiss Philosopher. He is a professor emeritus of Political Philosophy at University of Zurich. He is also a publicist and an author. He has written books on political philosophy and modern day Swiss politics and also collaborated with other writers including Hermann Lübbe. Kohler's early education was in grammar schools. He then studied