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Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy 
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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/    Analysis - The historical development and conceptual structure of philosophical analysis; by Michael Beaney. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/analysis/ 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/ Alcmaeon - Life and work of early Greek medical writer and philosopher-scientist; by Carl Huffman. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/alcmaeon/ 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/ 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/ 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/ 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/ Saadya [Saadiah] - Life and work of Saadya Gaon (Saadya ben Joseph, known in Arabic as Sa'id ‘ibn Yusuf al-Fayyûmî, 10th century theologian, philosopher and rabbi; by Sarah Pessin. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/saadya/ Eliminative Materialism - The view that some or all of the mental states posited by common-sense do not actually exist; by William Ramsey. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/materialism-eliminative/ Scientific Explanation - Philosophical theories about the nature of explanation in science; by James Woodward. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/scientific-explanation/ Arthur Schopenhauer - Life and work of 19th century German philosopher; by Robert Wicks. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/schopenhauer/ Mereology - The theory of parthood relations: of the relations of part to whole and the relations of part to part within a whole; by Achille Varzi. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/mereology/ Consequentialism - The view that normative properties depend only on consequences; by Walter Sinnott-Armstrong. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/consequentialism/ The Free Rider Problem - Philosophical issues related to collective action; by Russell Hardin. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/free-rider/ Speusippus - Life and work of Speusippus of Athens, son of Plato's sister Potone and head of the Academy; by Russell Dancy. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/speusippus/ Biological Altruism - Discussion of how altruistic behavior by organisms fits with the theory of evolution; by Samir Okasha. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/altruism-biological/ Plato's Middle Period Metaphysics and Epistemology - Discussion of Plato's views on metaphysics and the theory of knowledge, including his theory of forms; by Allan Silverman. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/plato-metaphysics/ Giambattista Vico - Life and work of 18th century Italian philosopher; by Timothy Costelloe. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/vico/ Biodiversity - Discussion of philosophical issues related to biological diversity; by Daniel P. Faith. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/biodiversity/ Roman Ingarden - Life and work of Polish phenomenologist, ontologist and aesthetician; by Amie Thomasson. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ingarden/ Punishment - Philosophical justifications of punishment; by Hugo Adam Bedau. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/punishment/ Sovereignty - Modern notion of political authority of supreme authority within a territory; by Dan Philpott. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/sovereignty/ Aesthetic Judgment - Philosophical theories about judgments of taste; by Nick Zangwill. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aesthetic-judgment/ Archytas - Life and work of fourth century BC Greek mathematician, political leader and philosopher; by Carl Huffman. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/archytas/ Jonathan Edwards - Life and work of 18th century American philosophical theologian; by William Wainwright. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/edwards/ Bayes' Theorem - Discussion of a formula to calculate conditional probabilities which figures in subjectivist approaches to epistemology; by James Joyce. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/bayes-theorem/ Plotinus - Life and work of this founder of Neoplatonism; by Lloyd Gerson. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/plotinus/ The Computational Theory of Mind - The philosophical theopry that the mind is, or functions like, a computer; by Steven Horst. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/computational-mind/ The Moral Status of Animals - Philosophical theories about the difference between animals and humans responsible for the moral status of humans. By Lori Gruen. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/moral-animal/ Qualia: The Knowledge Argument - Aims to establish that conscious experience involves non-physical properties. It is one of the most discussed arguments against physicalism; by Martine Nida-Rümelin. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qualia-knowledge/ Fuzzy Logic - Survey of logical systems with a continuum of truth values; by Petr Hajek. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/logic-fuzzy/ Libertarianism - Theory about the permissibility of non-consensual force violating property rights in external things and oneself; by Peter Vallentyne. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/libertarianism/ Paul-Henri Thiry, Baron d'Holbach - Life and work of French Enlightenment philosoher; by Michael LeBuffe. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/holbach/ Philosophy of Childhood - The philosophy of childhood takes up philosophically interesting questions about childhood, about conceptions people have of childhood and attitudes they have toward children; by Gareth Matthews. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/childhood/ The Problem of Evil - Does the world contain undesirable states of affairs that provide the basis for an argument that makes it unreasonable for anyone to believe in the existence of God?; by Michael Tooley. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/evil/ Logic and games - Survey of game-theoretical approaches to logic; by Wilfrid Hodges. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/logic-games/ William Penbygull - Life and work of 15th Century Oxford Realist philosopher; by Alessandro Conti. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/penbygull/ Robert Alyngton - Life and work of 14th Century British philosopher, follower of Wyclif and Burley; by Alessandro Conti. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/alyngton/ Robert Holkot - Life and Work of Robert Holcot, 14th Century English philosopher and theologian; by Hester Gelber. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/holkot/ Charles Hartshorne - Life and work of 20th Century metaphysician and philosopher of religion; by Dan Dombrowski. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hartshorne/ Abstract Objects - Survey of attempts to draw the distinction between concrete and abstract objects; by Gideon Rosen. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/abstract-objects/ Automated Reasoning - Survey of automated deduction and theorem proving; by Frederic Portoraro. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/reasoning-automated/ Bayesian Epistemology - Epistemological movement based on Bayesian confirmation and decision theory; by William Talbott. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/epistemology-bayesian/ 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/ Being and Becoming in Modern Physics - Discusses implications of general relativity for the philosophy of time; by Steven Savitt. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/spacetime-bebecome/ Truthlikeness - Discussion of notion of verisimilitude, closeness to truth; by Graham Oddie. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/truthlikeness/ Naturalized Epistemology - The view that epistemology is of one piece with natural science; by Richard Feldman. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/epistemology-naturalized/ Baruch Spinoza - Life and work of 17th century Dutch Rationalist philosopher; by Steven Nadler. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/spinoza/ Scottish Philosophy in the Eighteenth Century - Survey of Scottish Enlightenment philosophers, including Francis Hutcheson, Henry Home (Lord Kames), and George Campbell; by lexander Broadie. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/scottish-18th/ Charles Sanders Peirce - Life and work of 19th century American logician and philosopher; by Robert Burch. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/peirce/ Descartes' Ontological Argument - Discussion of René Descartes ontological proof of the existence of God; by Lawrence Nolan. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/descartes-ontological/ Moral Particularism - The claim that there are no defensible moral principles; by Jonathan Dancy. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/moral-particularism/ 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/ 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/ Interpretation and Coherence in Legal Reasoning - Survey of theories on legal reasoning; by Julie Dickson. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/legal-reas-interpret/ 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/ 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/ Aristotle's Ethics - Discussion of Aristotle's ethical views; by Richard Kraut. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aristotle-ethics/ 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/ Philosophy of Statistical Mechanics - By Lawrence Sklar. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/statphys-statmech/ René Descartes' Life and Works - Life and work of 17th century French philosopher; by Kurt Smith. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/descartes-works/ Integrity - Discussion of integrity as a virtue term; by Damian Cox, Marguerite La Caze, and Michael Levine. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/integrity/ 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/ The Unity of Consciousness - History and philosophical accounts of unity of consciousness; by Andrew Brook. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/consciousness-unity/ Equality - Survey of social and political equality; by Stefan Gosepath. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/equality/ Francis of Marchia - Life and work of 14th century French theologian; by Christopher Schabel. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/francis-marchia/ Robert Desgabets - Life and work of 17th century Cartesian philosopher; by Patricia Easton. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/desgabets/ Social Epistemology - Survey of views on the social dimension of knowledge; by Alvin Goldman. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/epistemology-social/ David Hume - Life and work of 18th century Scottish philosopher; by William Edward Morris. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hume/ 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/ Physicalism - Discussion of the thesis that everything is physical; by Daniel Stoljar. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/physicalism/ 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/ Richard Rorty - Life and work of 20th century American philosopher; by Bjørn Ramberg. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/rorty/ 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/ Albert of Saxony - Life and work of 14th century German logician and philosopher; by Joël Biard. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/albert-saxony/ Dante Alighieri - Life and work of 13th century Italian poet and philosopher; by Winthrop Wetherbee. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/dante/ Semantic Challenges to Realism - Realism and the representation problem; by Drew Khlentzos. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/realism-sem-challenge/ 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/ 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/ 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/ Curry's Paradox - Discussion of a semantic paradox due to Haskell B. Curry; by J. C. Beall. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/curry-paradox/ Moral Responsibility - Historical survey of the concept of moral responsibility; by Andrew Eshleman. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/moral-responsibility/ Disjunction - Theory and history of the binary connective 'or'; by Ray Jennings. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/disjunction/ Legal Punishment - Justifications of legal punishment; by Antony Duff. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/legal-punishment/ Intertheory Relations in Physics - Discussion of theory reduction in science; by Robert Batterman. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/physics-interrelate/ William Whewell - Life and work of 19th century British philosopher; by Laura J. Snyder. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/whewell/ The Modern History of Computing - Historical survey from Babbage onward; by B. Jack Copeland. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/computing-history/ 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/ Feminist History of Philosophy - Survey of feminist writing on the philosophical canon; by Charlotte Witt. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/feminism-femhist/ Aristotle's Metaphysics - Aristotle's notions of category and substance; by S. Marc Cohen. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aristotle-metaphysics/ Classical Logic - Introduction to classical logic, including completeness and Löwenheim-Skolem theorems; by Stewart Shapiro. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/logic-classical/ The Medieval Problem of Universals - By Gyula Klima. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/universals-medieval/ William James - Life and work of 19th century American philosopher; by Russell Goodman. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/james/ Thomas Reid - Life and work of 18th century Scottish philosopher; by Gideon Yaffe. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/reid/ The Experience and Perception of Time - By Robin Le Poidevin. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/time-experience/ Incompatibilist (Nondeterministic) Theories of Free Will - By Randolph Clarke. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/incompatibilism-theories/ Feminist Epistemology and Philosophy of Science - By Elizabeth Anderson. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/feminism-epistemology/ 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/ Salomon Maimon - Life and work of contemporary and critic of Kant; by Peter Thielke and Yitzhak Melamed. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/maimon/ 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/ Formal Learning Theory - Discusses mathematical approaches to normative epistemology; by Oliver Schulte. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/learning-formal/ 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/ 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/ 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/ George Santayana - Life and work of early 20th century Spanish-born American philosopher; by Herman Saatkamp. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/santayana/ Hobbes's Moral and Political Philosophy - Survey of work of Thomas Hobbes; by Sharon A. Lloyd. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hobbes-moral/ Cosmopolitanism - The view that all human beings belong to a single community; by Pauline Kleingeld and Eric Brown. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/cosmopolitanism/ Collapse Theories - Survey of the dynamical reduction program; by Giancarlo Ghirardi. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qm-collapse/ Bruno Bauer - Life and work of 19th century German philosopher; by Douglas Moggach. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/bauer/ Justice as a Virtue - Survey of justice as a virtue from Plato to Rawls; by Michael Slote. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/justice-virtue/ 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/ 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/ 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/ Action - Theories about intentional action and agency; by George Wilson. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/action/ 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/ Impartiality - Survey of views on moral impartiality; by Troy Jollimore. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/impartiality/ 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/ Process Philosophy - View that puts processes at the center of metaphysics; by Nicholas Rescher. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/process-philosophy/ 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/ Mally's Deontic Logic - Discussion of Ernst Mally's logic of obligation; by Gert-Jan Lokhorst. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/mally-deontic/ Social Dimensions of Scientific Knowledge - Discusses the impact of social relations and values on scientific research; by Helen Longino. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/scientific-knowledge-social/ Descartes' Modal Metaphysics - Interpretations of René Descartes' ontology of necessities and possibilities; by David Cunning. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/descartes-modal/ Moral Dilemmas - Discusses cases of conflicting moral requirements; by Terrance McConnell. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/moral-dilemmas/ Friedrich Daniel Schleiermacher - Life and work of the 18th century German philosopher; by Michael Forster. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/schleiermacher/ The Definition of Morality - Discussion of various descriptive and normative definitions of the term; Bernard Gert. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/morality-definition/ 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/ Events - Survey of philosophical views on the character and status of events; by Roberto Casati and Achille Varzi. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/events/ 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/ 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/ Philosophy for Children - Discusses introduction of philosophy into the school curriculum; by Michael Pritchard. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/children/ Aristotle's Rhetoric - Discussion of one of Aristotle's major works; by Christof Rapp. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aristotle-rhetoric/ 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/ 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 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/ John Buridan - Life and work of late Medieval philosopher; by Jack Zupko. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/buridan/ Philosophy and Christian Theology - Discussion of philosophical implications of Christian theological views; by Michael Murray. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/christiantheology-philosophy/ 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/ Privacy - Survey of philosophical views about privacy; by Judith DeCew. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/privacy/ Desert - Moral issues of desert (punishment, success) and justice; by Owen McLeod. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/desert/ 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/ 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/ Omnipotence - The theistic thesis that God has maximal power; by Joshua Hoffman and Gary Rosenkrantz. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/omnipotence/ 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/ Death - Discussion of philosophical issues about death; by Steven Luper. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/death/ Nicolas Malebranche - Life and work of French Cartesian philosopher; by Tad Schmaltz. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/malebranche/ Personal Autonomy - Survey of philosophical theories about what it is to govern oneself; by Sarah Buss. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/personal-autonomy/ Alan M. Turing - Life and work of philosopher and mathematician Alan Mathison Turing; by Andrew Hodges. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/turing/ 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/ Scientific Realism - The thesis that science discovers truths about a theory-independent reality; by Richard Boyd. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/scientific-realism/ Moral Skepticism - Survey of forms of scepticism about moral knowledge; Walter Sinnott-Armstrong. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/skepticism-moral/ Globalization - Social theory and philosophy issues in globalization; by William Scheuerman. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/globalization/ Consciousness and Intentionality - Discussion of the connection between phenomenal consciousness and intentionality; by Charles Siewert. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/consciousness-intentionality/ Max Stirner - Life and work of German philosopher of egoism; by David Leopold. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/max-stirner/ Johann Georg Hamann - Life and work of this German Enlightenment philosopher; by Gwen Griffith-Dickson. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hamann/ Immutability - The doctrine that God cannot undergo real change; by Brian Leftow. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/immutability/ Theological Voluntarism - Survey of divine command theory; by Mark Murphy. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/voluntarism-theological/ Confucius - The life and work of the Chinese philosopher and educator; by Jeffrey Riegel. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/confucius/ Species - Philosophical theories on what makes a species; by Marc Ereshefsky. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/species/ The Mathematics of Boolean Algebra - Survey of the algebra of two-valued logic; by J. Donald Monk. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/boolalg-math/ Realism - Survey of realism and anti-realism in various forms; by Alexander Miller. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/realism/ Set Theory - Survey of the mathematical theory of the infinite; by Thomas Jech. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/set-theory/ Naturalism in Legal Philosophy - Discusses naturalistic theses in the philosophy of law; by Brian Leiter. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/lawphil-naturalism/ 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/ Pyrrho - The life and work of the founder of Pyrrhonism; by Richard Bett. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pyrrho/ Homosexuality - Philosophical issues in homosexuality and queer theory; by Brent Pickett. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/homosexuality/ 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/ 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/ Egalitarianism - The view that people should get the same or be treated the same; by Richard Arneson. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/egalitarianism/ Personal Identity - How does a person stay the same person over time? By Eric T. Olson. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/identity-personal/ John Locke - Influential 17th century British political philosopher. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/locke/ 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/ 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/ 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/ 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/ 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/ Contemporary Approaches to the Social Contract - By Fred D'Agostino. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/contractarianism-contemporary/ Ancient Skepticism - Two movements in ancient philosophy, Pyrrhonism, and Academic Skepticism. By Leo Groarke. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/skepticism-ancient/ The Epistemology of Religion - By Peter Forrest. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/religion-epistemology/ Historicist Theories of Rationality - By Carl Matheson of the University of Manitoba. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/rationality-historicist/ 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/ 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/ 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/ Reichenbach's Common Cause Principle - By Frank Arntzenius of Rutgers. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/physics-Rpcc/ Experiments in Physics - By Allan Franklin, University of Colorado. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/physics-experiment/ The St. Petersburg Paradox - By Robert M. Martin, Dalhousie University. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/paradox-stpetersburg/ The Philosophy of Neuroscience - By John Bickle and Peter Mandik. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/neuroscience/ Inconsistent Mathematics - By Chris Mortensen, University of Adelaide. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/mathematics-inconsistent/ Constructive Mathematics - By Douglas Bridges from Waikato University. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/mathematics-constructive/ Indispensability Arguments in the Philosophy of Mathematics - By Mark Colyvan, University of Tasmania. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/mathphil-indis/ Substructural Logics - By Greg Restall of Macquarie University. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/logic-substructural/ Informal Logic - By Leo Groarke, Wilfrid Laurier University. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/logic-informal/ Paraconsistent Logic - By Graham Priest and Koji Tanaka. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/logic-paraconsistent/ Relevance Logic - By Edwin D. Mares, Victoria University of Wellington. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/logic-relevance/ Leibniz on the Problem of Evil - By Michael J. Murray, Franklin & Marshall College. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/leibniz-evil/ Leibniz's Philosophy of Mind - By Mark Kulstad and Laurence Carlin. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/leibniz-mind/ Public Justification - By Fred D'Agostino, University of New England, Australia. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/justification-public/ Distributive Justice - By Julian Lamont, University of Queensland. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/justice-distributive/ Folk Psychology as a Theory - By Ian Ravenscroft, the Flinders University of South Australia. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/folkpsych-theory/ Folk Psychology as Mental Simulation - By Robert M. Gordon, University of Missouri. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/folkpsych-simulation/ Feminist Perspectives on the Self - By Diana Meyers of the University of Connecticut. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/feminism-self/ Feminist Ethics - By Rosemarie Tong, Davidson College. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/feminism-ethics/ Virtue Epistemology - By John Greco of Fordham. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/epistemology-virtue/ Voluntary Euthanasia - By Robert Young, La Trobe University. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/euthanasia-voluntary/ Representational Theories of Consciousness - By William Lycan, University of North Carolina. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/consciousness-representational/ Contractarianism - By Ann E. Cudd, University of Kansas. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/contractarianism/ Frege's Logic, Theorem, and Foundations for Arithmetic - By Edward N. Zalta of Stanford University. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/frege-logic/ Teleological Notions in Biology - By Colin Allen of Texas A & M. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/teleology-biology/ Behaviorism - By George Graham of University of Alabama at Birmingham. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/behaviorism/ Actualism - The thesis that there are no merely possible entities; by Christopher Menzel. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/actualism/ Many-Valued Logic - Survey article on multiple-valued logics, by Siegfried Gottwaldof of Leipzig University. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/logic-manyvalued/ 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/ Medieval Theories of Modality - By Simo Knuuttila of the University of Helsinki. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/modality-medieval/ 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/ 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/ Holism and Nonseparability in Physics - Comprehensive article by Richard Healey of the University of Arizona. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/physics-holism/ Nineteenth Century Geometry - By Roberto Torretti, Universidad de Chile. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/geometry-19th/ 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/ 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/ Properties - Entry in the Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy by Chris Swoyer. Principally concerned with existence and identity conditions. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/properties/ Medieval Theories of Practical Reason - From the Stanford Encyclopedia, by Anthony Celano. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/practical-reason-med 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/ Logical Form - Introduction to logical form, surface and deep meaning. By Paul M. Pietroski, University of Maryland. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/logical-form/ 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/ Divine Illumination - Augustine's doctrine described by Robert Pasnau of the University of Colorado. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/illumination/ Medieval Theories of Analogy - By E. Jennifer Ashworth of the University of Waterloo. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/analogy-medieval/ 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/ 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/ 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/ 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/ 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/ War - Article on the ethics of war and peace, the Just War theory, and pacifism. From the Stanford Encyclopedia, by Brian D. Orend. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/war/ 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/ 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/ 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 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/ 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/ Saint Augustine - By Michael Mendelson of Lehigh University. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/augustine/ 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/ Descartes' Epistemology - By Lex Newman of the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/descartes-epistemology/ Cosmology and Theology - Deals with the cosmological argument. By John Leslie of the University of Guelph. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/cosmology-theology/ Animal Consciousness - By Colin Allen of Texas A & M, addressing the qualitative or phenomenological nature of experience. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/consciousness-animal/ 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 de - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/causation-probabilistic/ Causal Processes - Bertrand Russell, Wesley Salmon, and conserved quantities. By Phil Dowe of the University of Tasmania. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/causation-process/ 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/ Aristotle's Political Theory - By Fred D. Miller, Jr of Bowling Green State University. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aristotle-politics/ Artifact - By Risto Hilpinen of the University of Miami. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/artifact/ Thomas Aquinas - Biographical and expository essay, by Ralph McInerny. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aquinas/ Turing Machine - Article on Turing Machines from the Stanford Encyclopedia. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/turing-machine/ Thought Experiments - By James Robert Brown, University of Toronto. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/thought-experiment/ Stoicism - Stoicism was one of the new philosophical movements of the Hellenistic period. By Dirk Baltzly. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/stoicism/ Qualia - Qualia are introspectively accessible, phenomenal aspects of our mental lives. By Michael Tye. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qualia/ Private Language - By Stewart Candlish from the University of Western Australia. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/private-language/ Prisoner's Dilemma - By Steven T. Kuhn of Georgetown University. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/prisoner-dilemma/ Principia Mathematica - Entry by A.D. Irvine discussing Russell and Whitehead's treatise. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/principia-mathematica/ Karl Popper - By Stephen Thornton from the University of Limerick. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/popper/ 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/ Pantheism - Definition of Pantheism by Michael P. Levine of the University of Western Australia. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pantheism/ 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 be - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/original-position/ 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/ 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/ Friedrich Nietzsche - Robert Wicks, University of Auckland. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/nietzsche/ Mental Imagery - By Nigel Thomas of Leeds University. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/mental-imagery/ 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/ Maritain, Jacques - By William Sweet of St. Francis Xavier University. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/maritain/ Arthur Prior - Detailed biographical article by B. Jack Copeland of the University of Canterbury. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/prior/ Liberalism - Gerald F. Gaus outlines the general philosophical theory of liberalism. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/liberalism/ The Language of Thought Hypothesis - By Murat Aydede, surveying the arguments for and against the proposition that thoughts are expressed in a mental language. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/language-thought/ The Identity of Indiscernibles - Peter Forrest introduces the principle of analytic ontology formulated by Leibniz, stating that no two distinct substances exactly resemble each other. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/identity-indiscernible/ Søren Kierkegaard - Essay about Kierkegaard's life, work, and philosophy by William McDonald. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/kierkegaard/ Holes - Short article by Roberto Casati of the École Polytechnique and Achille C. Varzi of Columbia. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/holes/ Hegel, G. W. F. - Paul Redding of the University of Sydney. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hegel/ 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/ Gottlob Frege - Edward N. Zalta of the Metaphysics Research Lab. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/frege/ Paul Feyerabend - Biographical and expository essay by John Preston of Reading University. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/feyerabend/ 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/ Donald Davidson - Jeff Malpas of the University of Tasmania. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/davidson/ 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/ Color - Metaphysical and epistemological accounts of color. By Barry Maund of the University of Western Australia. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/color/ Cognitive Science - The study of mind and intelligence. By Paul Thagard of the University of Waterloo. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/cognitive-science/ 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/ Logical Constructions - Bernard Linsky, University of Alberta. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/logical-construction/ Bradley, F. H. - By Stewart Candlish of the University of Western Australia. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/bradley/ Bosanquet, Bernard - William Sweet of St. Francis Xavier University introduces the absolute idealist. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/bosanquet/ Church-Turing Thesis - Jack Copeland of the University of Canterbury, New Zealand outlines this frequently misunderstood thesis. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/church-turing/ |
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