Insert Article
Related articles
|
 |
 |
 |
Webmasters: Add your website here:
Readers: Edit |
Discuss Listings
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Online philosophy reference work, articles are authored and updated by experts in the field. Edited by Edward Zalta. http://plato.stanford.edu/
Maritain, Jacques By William Sweet of St. Francis Xavier University. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/maritain/
Miracles Exploring Hume's argument and the religious significance. By Michael P. Levine of the University of Western Australia. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/miracles/
Mental Imagery By Nigel Thomas of Leeds University. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/mental-imagery/
Friedrich Nietzsche Robert Wicks, University of Auckland. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/nietzsche/
Karl Leonhard Reinhold Life and work of 19th century Austrian philosopher; by Dan Breazeale. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/karl-reinhold/
Adorno, Theodor Life and work of 20th century German philosopher and critical theorist; by Lambert Zuidervaart. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/adorno/
Laws of Nature Philosophical theories about what it is to be a law; by John W. Carroll. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/laws-of-nature/
Reflective Equilibrium The result of a process of reflection on an area of (moral) inquiry, a notion figuring prominently in Rawls' Theory of Justice; by Norman Daniels. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/reflective-equilibrium/
Episteme and Techne Discussion of the distinction between knowledge and craft, or art in ancient philosophy; by Richard Parry. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/episteme-techne/
Alcmaeon Life and work of early Greek medical writer and philosopher-scientist; by Carl Huffman. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/alcmaeon/
The Turing Test Proposal due to Alan Turing for a criterion of the presence of mind or consciousness; by Graham Oppy and David Dowe. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/turing-test/
Analysis The historical development and conceptual structure of philosophical analysis; by Michael Beaney. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/analysis/
Hilbert's Program In 1921, David Hilbert made a proposal for a formalist foundation of mathematics, for which a finitary consistency proof should establish the security of mathematics. By Richard Zach. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hilbert-program/
Church-Turing Thesis Jack Copeland of the University of Canterbury, New Zealand outlines this frequently misunderstood thesis. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/church-turing/
Bosanquet, Bernard William Sweet of St. Francis Xavier University introduces the absolute idealist. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/bosanquet/
Bradley, F. H. By Stewart Candlish of the University of Western Australia. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/bradley/
Logical Constructions Bernard Linsky, University of Alberta. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/logical-construction/
Category Theory Jean-Pierre Marquis of the University of Montreal introduces the general mathematical theory of structures and systems of structures. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/category-theory/
Cognitive Science The study of mind and intelligence. By Paul Thagard of the University of Waterloo. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/cognitive-science/
Color Metaphysical and epistemological accounts of color. By Barry Maund of the University of Western Australia. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/color/
Connectionism Movement in cognitive science which hopes to explain human intellectual abilities using artificial neural networks. By James W. Garson of the University of Houston. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/connectionism/
Donald Davidson Jeff Malpas of the University of Tamania. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/davidson/
Dialetheism Dialeth(e)ism is the view that there are true contradictions. By Graham Priest of the University of Queensland. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/dialetheism/
Existence By Barry Miller. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/existence/
Paul Feyerabend Biographical and expository essay by John Preston of Reading University. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/feyerabend/
Gottlob Frege Edward N. Zalta of the Metaphysics Research Lab. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/frege/
Game Theory Von Neumann and Morgensterns mathematical theory of bargaining, introduced by Don Ross University of Cape Town. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/game-theory/
Hegel, G. W. F. Paul Redding of the University of Sydney. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hegel/
Multiple Realizability John Bickle discusses the contention that a given mental kind (property, state, event) is realized by distinct physical kinds. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/multiple-realizability/
Ontological Arguments Ontological arguments are arguments, for the conclusion that God exists, from premisses which are supposed to derive from some source other than observation of the world. From the Stanford Encyclopedia, by Graham Oppy. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ontological-arguments/
Stoicism Stoicism was one of the new philosophical movements of the Hellenistic period. By Dirk Baltzly. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/stoicism/
Thought Experiments By James Robert Brown, University of Toronto. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/thought-experiment/
Tropes An article describing tropes by John Bacon. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/tropes/
Turing Machine Article on Turing Machines from the Stanford Encyclopedia. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/turing-machine/
Vagueness By Roy Sorensen. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/vagueness/
Alfred North Whitehead By A. D. Irvine. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/whitehead/
Thomas Aquinas Biographical and expository essay, by Ralph McInerny. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aquinas/
Artifact By Risto Hilpinen of the University of Miami. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/artifact/
Aristotle's Political Theory By Fred D. Miller, Jr of Bowling Green State University. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aristotle-politics/
Medieval Theories of Conscience The ability to act on the determinations of conscience is tied to the development of the moral virtues, which in turn refines the functions of conscience. By Doug Langston of the University of South Florida. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/conscience-medieval/
Causal Processes Bertrand Russell, Wesley Salmon, and conserved quantities. By Phil Dowe of the University of Tasmania. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/causation-process/
Probabilistic Causation "Probabilistic Causation" designates a group of philosophical theories that aim to characterize the relationship between cause and effect using the tools of probability theory. A primary motivation for the development of such theories is the desire for a theory of causation that does not presuppose physical determinism. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/causation-probabilistic/
Animal Consciousness By Colin Allen of Texas A & M, addressing the qualitative or phenomenological nature of experience. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/consciousness-animal/
Cosmology and Theology Deals with the cosmological argument. By John Leslie of the University of Guelph. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/cosmology-theology/
Descartes' Epistemology By Lex Newman of the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/descartes-epistemology/
Mental Representation According to the Representational Theory of Mind, psychological states are to be understood as relations between agents and mental representations. By David Pitt, CUNY. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/mental-representation/
Saint Augustine By Michael Mendelson of Lehigh University. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/augustine/
Aristotle's Logic Survey of Aristotle's logical work, focus on the "Organon," syllogistic, and dialectic. From the Stanford Encyclopedia, by Robin Smith. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aristotle-logic/
Modal Logic Originally the study of deductive behavior of the expressions `it is necessary that' and `it is possible that', now also includes logics for belief, tense, the deontic (moral) expressions. By James W. Garson, University of Houston. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/logic-modal/
Original Position The original position is a hypothetical situation in which rational calculators, acting as agents or trustees for the interests of concrete individuals, are pictured as choosing those principles of social relations under which their principals would do best. From the Stanford Encyclopedia, by Fred D'Agostino. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/original-position/
Pantheism Definition of Pantheism by Michael P. Levine of the University of Western Australia. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pantheism/
Pascal's wager An argument due to Blaise Pascal for believing, or for at least taking steps to believe, in God. From the Stanford Encyclopedia, by Alan Hájek. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pascal-wager/
Karl Popper By Stephen Thornton from the University of Limerick. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/popper/
Principia Mathematica Entry by A.D. Irvine discussing Russell and Whitehead's treatise. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/principia-mathematica/
Prisoner's Dilemma By Steven T. Kuhn of Georgetown University. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/prisoner-dilemma/
Private Language By Stewart Candlish from the University of Western Australia. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/private-language/
Qualia Qualia are introspectively accessible, phenomenal aspects of our mental lives. By Michael Tye. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qualia/
Russell, Bertrand By A. D. Irvine. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/russell/
Time Travel and Modern Physics Survey of philosophical woories about inconsistencies inherent in the idea of time travel in the context of modern physics. From the Stanford Encyclopedia, by Tim Maudlin. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/time-travel-phys/
Foundationalist Theories of Epistemic Justification Survey of theories according to which knowledge and justified belief rest ultimately on a foundation of noninferential knowledge or justified belief. By Richard Fumerton of the University of Iowa. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/justep-foundational
Divine Illumination Augustine's doctrine described by Robert Pasnau of the University of Colorado. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/illumination/
Peter John Olivi Life and work of one of the most original and interesting philosophers of the later Middle Ages. From the Stanford Encyclopedia, by Robert Pasnau. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/olivi/
Logical Form Introduction to logical form, surface and deep meaning. By Paul M. Pietroski, University of Maryland. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/logical-form/
Measurement in Quantum Theory Study of the details and some of the implications of the measurement problem. By Henry Krips of the University of Pittsburgh. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qt-measurement/
Medieval Theories of Practical Reason From the Stanford Encyclopedia, by Anthony Celano. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/practical-reason-med
Properties Entry in the Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy by Chris Swoyer. Principally concerned with existence and identity conditions. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/properties/
Intuitionistic Logic The principles L. E. J. Brouwer used in developing his intuitionistic mathematics. By Joan R. Moschovakis, UCLA. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/logic-intuitionistic/
Richard the Sophister Richardus Sophista was an English philosopher/logician who studied at Oxford most likely sometime during the second quarter of the thirteenth century. From the Stanford Encyclopedia, by Paul Streveler. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/richard-sophister/
Nineteenth Century Geometry By Roberto Torretti, Universidad de Chile. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/geometry-19th/
Holism and Nonseparability in Physics Comprehensive article by Richard Healey of the University of Arizona. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/physics-holism/
Propositional Attitude Reports Explores semantic accounts of propositional attitude reports, and some of the theories developed to deal with Frege's puzzle. From the Stanford Encyclopedia, by Thomas J. McKay. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/prop-attitude-reports/
Identity and Individuality in Quantum Theory Assesses the metaphysical implications of quantum theory by considering the impact of the theory on our understanding of objects as individuals with well defined identity conditions. By Steven French of Leeds University. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qt-idind/
War Article on the ethics of war and peace, the Just War theory, and pacificsm. From the Stanford Encyclopedia, by Brian D. Orend. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/war/
Infinitary Logic Infinitary Logic is a branch of formal logic where finitary formulae are replaced by potentially infinitary mathematical entities. By John L. Bell. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/logic-infinitary/
William Godwin Article on the life and work of the founder of philosophical anarchism. From the Stanford Encyclopedia, by Mark Philp. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/godwin/
The Identity Theory of Mind Evaluates the theory that holds that states and processes of the mind are identical to states and processes of the brain. By J. J. C. Smart of Monash. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/mind-identity/
Aristotle's Psychology Recounts the principal and distinctive claims of Aristotle's psychological writings, especially "De Anima." By Christopher Shields of the University of Colorado. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aristotle-psychology/
Temporal Logic The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on the subject, with a detailed description, application areas and a bibliography. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/logic-temporal/
Epiphenomenalism Discusses the view that mental events are caused by physical events in the brain, but have no effects upon any physical events. From the Stanford Encyclopedia, by William S. Robinson. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/epiphenomenalism/
The Hole Argument The hole argument is an attempt to illustrate how spacetime substantivalism causes errors in a large class of spacetime theories. By John D. Norton of the University of Pittsburgh. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/spacetime-holearg/
Contractarianism By Ann E. Cudd, University of Kansas. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/contractarianism/
Representational Theories of Consciousness By William Lycan, University of North Carolina. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/consciousness-representational/
Voluntary Euthanasia By Robert Young, La Trobe University. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/euthanasia-voluntary/
Virtue Epistemology By John Greco of Fordham. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/epistemology-virtue/
Feminist Ethics By Rosemarie Tong, Davidson College. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/feminism-ethics/
Feminist Perspectives on the Self By Diana Meyers of the University of Connecticut. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/feminism-self/
Folk Psychology as Mental Simulation By Robert M. Gordon, University of Missouri. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/folkpsych-simulation/
Folk Psychology as a Theory By Ian Ravenscroft, the Flinders University of South Australia. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/folkpsych-theory/
Distributive Justice By Julian Lamont, University of Queensland. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/justice-distributive/
Public Justification By Fred D'Agostino, University of New England, Australia. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/justification-public/
Medieval Theories of Modality By Simo Knuuttila of the University of Helsinki. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/modality-medieval/
Philip the Chancellor Life and work of this 13th-century philosopher, theologian, and lyric poet. From the Stanford Encyclopedia, by Colleen McCluskey. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/philip-chancellor/
Saint Anselm By Thomas Williams, University of Iowa. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/anselm/
Many-Valued Logic Survey article on multiple-valued logics, by Siegfried Gottwaldof of Leipzig University. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/logic-manyvalued/
Actualism The thesis that there are no merely possible entities; by Christopher Menzel. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/actualism/
Behaviorism By George Graham of University of Alabama at Birmingham. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/behaviorism/
Teleological Notions in Biology By Colin Allen of Texas A & M. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/teleology-biology/
Frege's Logic, Theorem, and Foundations for Arithmetic By Edward N. Zalta of Stanford University. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/frege-logic/
Leibniz's Philosophy of Mind By Mark Kulstad and Laurence Carlin. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/leibniz-mind/
Leibniz on the Problem of Evil By Michael J. Murray, Franklin & Marshall College. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/leibniz-evil/
The St. Petersburg Paradox By Robert M. Martin, Dalhousie University. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/paradox-stpetersburg/
Peirce's Logic By Eric M. Hammer of Stanford. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/peirce-logic/
Experiments in Physics By Allan Franklin, University of Colorado. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/physics-experiment/
Reichenbach's Common Cause Principle By Frank Arntzenius of Rutgers. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/physics-Rpcc/
Singular Propositions Propositions about a particular object or individual in virtue of having the object or individual as a constituent of the proposition. By G. W. Fitch. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/propositions-singular/
Structured Propositions To say that propositions are structured is to say that they are complex entities, entities having parts or constituents. By Jeffrey C. King. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/propositions-structured/
Everett's Relative-State Formulation of Quantum Mechanics Describes Everett's attempt to solve the measurement problem by dropping the collapse dynamics from the standard von Neumann-Dirac theory of quantum mechanics. By Jeffrey A. Barrett. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qm-everett/
Historicist Theories of Rationality By Carl Matheson of the University of Manitoba. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/rationality-historicist/
The Epistemology of Religion By Peter Forrest. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/religion-epistemology/
Ancient Skepticism Two movements in ancient philosophy, Pyrrhonism, and Academic Skepticism. By Leo Groarke. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/skepticism-ancient/
Contemporary Approaches to the Social Contract By Fred D'Agostino. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/contractarianism-contemporary/
Relevance Logic By Edwin D. Mares, Victoria University of Wellington. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/logic-relevance/
Paraconsistent Logic By Graham Priest and Koji Tanaka. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/logic-paraconsistent/
Informal Logic By Leo Groarke, Wilfrid Laurier University. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/logic-informal/
Substructural Logics By Greg Restall of Macquarie University. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/logic-substructural/
Indispensability Arguments in the Philosophy of Mathematics By Mark Colyvan, University of Tasmania. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/mathphil-indis/
Constructive Mathematics By Douglas Bridges from Waikato University. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/mathematics-constructive/
Inconsistent Mathematics By Chris Mortensen, University of Adelaide. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/mathematics-inconsistent/
The Philosophy of Neuroscience By John Bickle and Peter Mandik. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/neuroscience/
Medieval Theories of Analogy By E. Jennifer Ashworth of the University of Waterloo. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/analogy-medieval/
Supertasks Introduced by Jon Pérez Laraudogoitia from the University of the Basque Country. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/spacetime-supertasks/
Conventionality of Simultaneity By Allen I. Janis, University of Pittsburgh. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/spacetime-convensimul/
Homosexuality Philosophical issues in homosexuality and queer theory; by Brent Pickett. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/homosexuality/
Pyrrho The life and work of the founder of Pyrrhonism; by Richard Bett. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pyrrho/
Identity Politics History of the political activity and theorizing founded in the shared experiences of injustice of members of certain social groups; by Cressida Heyes. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/identity-politics/
Naturalism in Legal Philosophy Discusses naturalistic theses in the philosophy of law; by Brian Leiter. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/lawphil-naturalism/
Set Theory Survey of the mathematical theory of the infinite; by Thomas Jech. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/set-theory/
Realism Survey of realism and anti-realism in various forms; by Alexander Miller. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/realism/
The Mathematics of Boolean Algebra Survey of the algebra of two-valued logic; by J. Donald Monk. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/boolalg-math/
Species Philosophical theories on what makes a species; by Marc Ereshefsky. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/species/
Confucius The life and work of the Chinese philosopher and educatory; by Jeffrey Riegel. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/confucius/
Theological Voluntarism Survey of divine command theory; by Mark Murphy. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/voluntarism-theological/
Coherence Theory of Truth The truth of any (true) proposition consists in its coherence with some specified set of propositions. By James O. Young. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/truth-coherence/
Deflationary Theory of Truth According to the deflationary theory of truth, to assert that a statement is true is just to assert the statement itself. By Daniel Stoljar. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/truth-deflationary/
Identity Theory of Truth When a truth-bearer is true, there is a truth-maker with which it is identical and the truth of the former consists in its identity with the latter. By Stewart Candlish. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/truth-identity/
Revision Theory of Truth Theory developed to analyze paradoxes that appear to show that common-sense beliefs about truth are inconsistent. By Eric M. Hammer. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/truth-revision/
John Locke Influential 17th century British political philosopher. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/locke/
Personal Identity How does a person stay the same person over time? By Eric T. Olson. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/identity-personal/
Egalitarianism The view that people should get the same or be treated the same; by Richard Arneson. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/egalitarianism/
William of Ockham Occam (1287-1347) was one of the most important philosophers of the Middle Ages. By Paul Vincent Spade. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ockham/
Timon of Phlius Timon (c. 320-230 BC) was the younger contemporary and leading disciple of Pyrrho; by Richard Bett. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/timon-phlius/
Immutability The doctrine that God cannot undergo real change; by Brian Leftow. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/immutability/
Johann Georg Hamann Life and work of this German Enlightenment philosopher; by Gwen Griffith-Dickson. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hamann/
Death Discussion of philosophical issues about death; by Steven Luper. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/death/
The Biological Notion of Self and Non-self History and discussion of the notion of the immune self; by Alfred Tauber. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/biology-self/
Omnipotence The theistic thesis that God has maximal power; by Joshua Hoffman and Gary Rosenkrantz. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/omnipotence/
Cosmology: Methodological Debates 1932-48 Discusses philosophical views about cosmology in the 1930s and 1940s; by George Gale. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/cosmology-30s/
Doing vs. Allowing Harm Views on the moral difference between doing harm and allowing harm; by Frances Howard-Snyder. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/doing-allowing/
Desert Moral issues of desert (punishment, success) and justice; by Owen McLeod. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/desert/
Privacy Survey of philosophical views about privacy; by Judith DeCew. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/privacy/
Modal Fictionalism Survey of the view that claims of necessity and possibility are to be construed as fictional claims; by Daniel Nolan. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/fictionalism-modal/
Philosophy and Christian Theology Discussion of philosophical implications of Christian theological views; by Michael Murray. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/christiantheology-philosophy/
John Buridan Life and work of late Medieval philosopher; by Jack Zupko. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/buridan/
The Correspondence Theory of Truth The thesis that propositions are made true in virtue of corresponding to facts; by Marian David. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/truth-correspondence/
Max Stirner Life and work of German philosopher of egoism; by David Leopold. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/max-stirner/
Consciousness and Intentionality Discussion of the connection between phenomenal consciousness and intentionality; by Charles Siewert. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/consciousness-intentionality/
Globalization Social theory and philosophy issues in globalization; by William Scheuerman. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/globalization/
Moral Skepticism Survey of forms of scepticism about moral knowledge; Walter Sinnott-Armstrong. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/skepticism-moral/
Scientific Realism The thesis that science discovers truths about a theory-independent reality; by Richard Boyd. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/scientific-realism/
Environmental Ethics Branch of ethics dealing with the moral relationship of humans to the environment; by Andrew Brennan and Yeuk-Sze Lo. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ethics-environmental/
Alan M. Turing Life and work of philosopher and mathematician Alan Mathison Turing; by Andrew Hodges. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/turing/
The Epsilon Calculus Discussion of David Hilbert's development of this type of logical formalism with emphasis on proof-theoretic methods; by Jeremy Avigad and Richard Zach. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/epsilon-calculus/
Thomas of Erfurt Life and work of medieval philosopher and member of the Modists; by Jack Zupko. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/erfurt/
The Definition of Morality Discussion of various descriptive and normative definitions of the term; Bernard Gert. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/morality-definition/
Friedrich Daniel Schleiermacher Life and work of the 18th century German philosopher; by Michael Forster. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/schleiermacher/
Moral Dilemmas Discusses cases of conflicting moral requirements; by Terrance McConnell. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/moral-dilemmas/
Descartes' Modal Metaphysics Interpretations of René Descartes' ontology of necessities and possibilities; by David Cunning. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/descartes-modal/
Social Dimensions of Scientific Knowledge Discussess the impact of social relations and values on scientific research; by Helen Longino. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/scientific-knowledge-social/
Mally's Deontic Logic Discussion of Ernst Mally's logic of obligation; by Gert-Jan Lokhorst. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/mally-deontic/
Finitism in Geometry Approaches to geometry that do not presuppose an infinity of points; by Jean-Paul van Bendegem. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/geometry-finitism/
Process Philosophy View that puts processes at the center of metaphysics; by Nicholas Rescher. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/process-philosophy/
Space and Time: Inertial Frames Frames of reference relative to which motion and rest are measured; by Robert DiSalle. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/spacetime-iframes/
Impartiality Survey of views on moral impartiality; by Troy Jollimore. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/impartiality/
The Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics Interpretation of quantum mechanics due to Hugh Everett according to which many universes exist in parallel at the same space and time; by Lev Vaidman. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qm-manyworlds/
Action Theories about intentional action and agency; by George Wilson. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/action/
The Copenhagen Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics First interpretation of quantum mechanics due to Nields Bohr; by Jan Faye. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qm-copenhagen/
Aristotle's Rhetoric Discussion of one of Aristotle's major works; by Christof Rapp. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aristotle-rhetoric/
Philosophy for Children Discusses introduction of philosophy into the school curriculum; by Michael Pritchard. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/children/
Zeno's Paradoxes Discusses the paradoxes of Zeno of Elea, e.g., Achilles and the Tortoise; by Nick Huggett. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/paradox-zeno/
Determinates vs. Determinables A distinction introduced by W. E. Johnson to apply, e.g., to red and colored; by David H. Sanford. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/determinate-determinables/
Events Survey of philosophical views on the character and status of events; by Roberto Casati and Achille Varzi. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/events/
Relative Identity The view that there are objects which are the same F yet not the same G; by Harry Deutsch. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/identity-relative/
Personal Autonomy Survey of philosophical theories about what it is to govern oneself; by Sarah Buss. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/personal-autonomy/
Lord Shaftesbury [Anthony Ashley Cooper, Third Earl of Shaftesbury] Life and work of 18th century English philosopher; by Michael Gill. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/shaftesbury/
Harriet Taylor Mill Life and work of 19th century English philosopher and proponent of women's rights; by Dale E. Miller. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/harriet-mill/
Relational Quantum Mechanics An interpretation of quantum theory which discards the notions of absolute state of a system, absolute value of its physical quantities, or absolute event; by Federico Laudisa and Carlo Rovelli. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qm-relational/
Quantum Logic and Quantum Probability How quantum mechanics can be regarded as a non-classical probabilistic calculus; by Alexander Wilce. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qt-quantlog/
Formal Learning Theory Discusses mathematical approaches to normative epistemology; by Oliver Schulte. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/learning-formal/
Scottish Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century Survey of the work of William Hamilton, James Frederick Ferrier, and Alexander Bain; by Gordon Graham. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/scottish-19th/
Salomon Maimon Life and work of contemporary and critic of Kant; by Peter Thielke and Yitzhak Melamed. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/maimon/
Robert Boyle Life and work of 17th century Irish philosopher and physicist; by J. J. McIntosh, University of Calgary. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/boyle/
Feminist Epistemology and Philosophy of Science By Elizabeth Anderson. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/feminism-epistemology/
Incompatibilist (Nondeterministic) Theories of Free Will By Randolph Clarke. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/incompatibilism-theories/
The Experience and Perception of Time By Robin Le Poidevin. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/time-experience/
Thomas Reid Life and work of 18th century Scottish philosopher; by Gideon Yaffe. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/reid/
William James Life and work of 19th century American philosopher; by Russell Goodman. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/james/
18th Century German Philosophy Prior to Kant Survey of work of, among others, Christian Thomasius and Christian Wolff; by Brigitte Sassen. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/18thGerman-preKant/
Justice as a Virtue Survey of justice as a virtue from Plato to Rawls; by Michael Slote. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/justice-virtue/
Bruno Bauer Life and work of 19th century German philosopher; by Douglas Moggach. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/bauer/
Collapse Theories Survey of the dynamical reduction program; by Giancarlo Ghirardi. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qm-collapse/
Cosmopolitanism The view that all human beings belong to a single community; by Pauline Kleingeld and Eric Brown. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/cosmopolitanism/
Hobbes's Moral and Political Philosophy Survey of work of Thomas Hobbes; by Sharon A. Lloyd. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hobbes-moral/
George Santayana Life and work of early 20th century Spanish-born American philosopher; by Herman Saatkamp. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/santayana/
Medieval Theories of Properties of Terms The theories of proprietates terminorum was the basis of medieval semantic theory; by Stephen Read. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/medieval-terms/
The Kochen-Specker Theorem By Carsten Held. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/kochen-specker/
The Medieval Problem of Universals By Gyula Klima. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/universals-medieval/
Legal Punishment Justifications of legal punishment; by Antony Duff. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/legal-punishment/
Disjunction Theory and history of the binary connective 'or'; by Ray Jennings. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/disjunction/
Moral Responsibility Historical survey of the concept of moral responsibility; by Andrew Eshleman. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/moral-responsibility/
Curry's Paradox Discussion of a semantic paradox due to Haskell B. Curry; by J. C. Beall. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/curry-paradox/
Counterfactual Theories of Causation Discussion of analysis of causal statements in terms of counterfactual conditionals; by Peter Menzies. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/causation-counterfactual/
Constitutionalism Philosophical survey of the idea that government should be limited in its powers by law; by Wil Waluchow. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/constitutionalism/
Evolutionary Epistemology Survey of naturalistic epistemology which emphasizes importance of natural selection; by Michael Bradie and William Harms http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/epistemology-evolutionary/
Semantic Challenges to Realism Realism and the representation problem; by Drew Khlentzos. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/realism-sem-challenge/
Dante Alighieri Life and work of 13th century Italian poet and philosopher; by Winthrop Wetherbee. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/dante/
Albert of Saxony Life and work of 14th century German logician and philosopher; by Joël Biard. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/albert-saxony/
Classical Logic Introduction to classical logic, including completeness and Löwenheim-Skolem theorems; by Stewart Shapiro. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/logic-classical/
Aristotle's Metaphysics Aristotle's notions of category and substance; by S. Marc Cohen. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aristotle-metaphysics/
Feminist History of Philosophy Survey of feminist writing on the philosophical canon; by Charlotte Witt. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/feminism-femhist/
Brentano's Theory of Judgement Discussion of Franz Brentano's foundation for logic and epistemology; by Johannes Brandl. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/brentano-judgement/
Quantum Mechanics Survey by Jenann Ismael. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qm/
The Modern History of Computing Historical survey from Babbage onward; by B. Jack Copeland. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/computing-history/
William Whewell Life and work of 19th century British philosopher; by Laura J. Snyder. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/whewell/
Intertheory Relations in Physics Discussion of theory reduction in science; by Robert Batterman. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/physics-interrelate/
Benjamin Peirce Life and work of 19th century mathematician and philosopher of mathematics; by Ivor Grattan-Guinness and Alison Walsh. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/peirce-benjamin/
Richard Rorty Life and work of 20th century American philosopher; by Bjørn Ramberg. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/rorty/
The Unity of Consciousness History and philosophical accounts of unity of consciousness; by Andrew Brook. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/consciousness-unity/
Higher-order Theories of Consciousness Theories which explain conscious states by their relations to higher-order representations of them; by Peter Carruthers. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/consciousness-higher/
Integrity Discussion of integrity as a virtue term; by Damian Cox, Marguerite La Caze, and Michael Levine. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/integrity/
René Descartes' Life and Works Life and work of 17th century French philosopher; by Kurt Smith. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/descartes-works/
Philosophy of Statistical Mechanics By Lawrence Sklar. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/statphys-statmech/
Peter of Spain (Petrus Hispanus) Life and work of 13th century logician and author of the Tractatus; by Joke Spruyt. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/peter-spain/
Aristotle's Ethics Discussion of Aristotle's ethical views; by Richard Kraut. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aristotle-ethics/
Panpsychism The doctrine that mind is a fundamental feature of the world which exists throughout the universe; by William Seager. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/panpsychism/
On The Nature of Law Survey of theories on the conditions of legal validity including natural law theories and legal positivism; by Andrei Marmor. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/lawphil-nature/
Interpretation and Coherence in Legal Reasoning Survey of theories on legal reasoning; by Julie Dickson. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/legal-reas-interpret/
Medieval Theories of Relations Survey of medieval views concerning the nature and ontological status of relations; by Jeffrey Brower. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/relations-medieval/
John Duns Scotus In-depth article on the life, work, and thought of John Duns Scotus. By Thomas Williams. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/duns-scotus/
The Analysis of Knowledge Survey of analyses of the concept of knowledge, including justified true belief and the Gettier problem; by Matthias Steup. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/knowledge-analysis/
Physicalism Discussion of the thesis that everything is physical; by Daniel Stoljar. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/physicalism/
John Austin Life and work of 19th century British legal philosopher and founder of legal positivism; by Brian Bix. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/austin-john/
David Hume Life and work of 18th century Scottish philosopher; by William Edward Morris. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hume/
Social Epistemology Survey of views on the social dimension of knowledge; by Alvin Goldman. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/epistemology-social/
Robert Desgabets Life and work of 17th century Cartesian philosopher; by Patricia Easton. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/desgabets/
Moral Particularism The claim that there are no defensible moral principles; by Jonathan Dancy. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/moral-particularism/
Descartes' Ontological Argument Discussion of René Descartes ontological proof of the existence of God; by Lawrence Nolan. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/descartes-ontological/
Epistemological Problems of Perception Discussion of how sense experience justifies or warrants beliefs about the physical world; by Lawrence BonJour. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/perception-episprob/
Bayesian Epistemology Epistemological movement based on Bayesian confirmation and decision theory; by William Talbott. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/epistemology-bayesian/
Automated Reasoning Survey of automated deduction and theorem proving; by Frederic Portoraro. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/reasoning-automated/
Abstract Objects Survey of attempts to draw the distinction between concrete and abstract objects; by Gideon Rosen. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/abstract-objects/
Charles Hartshorne Life and work of 20th Century metaphysician and philosopher of religion; by Dan Dombrowski. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hartshorne/
Robert Holkot Life and Work of Robert Holcot, 14th Century English philosopher and theologian; by Hester Gelber. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/holkot/
Robert Alyngton Life and work of 14th Century British philosopher, follower of Wyclif and Burley; by Alessandro Conti. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/alyngton/
William Penbygull Life and work of 15th Century Oxford Realist philosopher; by Alessandro Conti. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/penbygull/
|
|
|