Philosophy - A - Oxford Bibliographies
A Priori Knowledge
Albert Casullo
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2011-06-29
A Priori Knowledge Introduction Questions about the existence, nature, and scope of a priori knowledge have been central to both the historical...
Abortion
Michael Tooley
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2013-05-28
Abortion Introduction Questions concerning the moral and appropriate legal status of abortion are among the most important issues in applied e...
Action
Adrian Haddock
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2011-05-25
Action Introduction The philosophy of action shares with its topic a certain uncertainty of location. Is action located inside the mind or outs...
Aesthetics, Analytic Approaches to
Peter Lamarque
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
Analytic Approaches to Aesthetics Introduction Aesthetics is broadly that branch of philosophy concerned with fundamental questions about the n...
Aesthetics, Continental
Clive Cazeaux
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2011-08-26
Continental Aesthetics Introduction Aesthetics in the Continental tradition of philosophy offers some of the most stimulating and influential ...
Aesthetics, History of
Peter Lamarque
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2012-10-25
History of Aesthetics Introduction The first use of the term aesthetics in something like its modern sense is commonly attributed to Alexander...
Analytic/Synthetic Distinction
Gillian Russell
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2012-11-21
Analytic/Synthetic Distinction Introduction “The analytic/synthetic distinction” refers to a distinction between two kinds of truth. Synthetic...
Animal Rights
Mark Rowlands
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2012-12-19
Animal Rights Introduction The expression “animal rights” is employed in two different ways: one broad, the other narrow. When employed in the...
Anthropic Principle, The
Alasdair Richmond
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2011-08-26
The Anthropic Principle Introduction The enduringly controversial “anthropic principle” was baptized by Brandon Carter in 1974. Seeking a ba...
Applied Ethics
Thomas Søbirk Petersen, Jesper Ryberg
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
Applied Ethics Introduction Applied ethics is a branch of ethics devoted to the treatment of moral problems, practices, and policies in perso...
Assertion
Matthew Weiner
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2011-06-29
Assertion Introduction Assertion is one of the central kinds of speech act, typically carried out by the utterance of a declarative sentence, s...
Atheism
Matt McCormick
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
Atheism Introduction The term “atheist” describes a person who does not believe that God or a divine being exists. The sort of divine being t...
Bayesianism
Kenny Easwaran
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2013-05-28
Bayesianism Introduction Bayesianism is a set of related views in epistemology, statistics, philosophy of science, psychology, and any other s...
Beauty
Jennifer A. McMahon
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2012-08-29
Beauty Introduction Philosophical interest in beauty began with the earliest recorded philosophers. Beauty was deemed to be an essential ingre...
Belief
Pascal Engel
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
Belief Introduction The problem of the nature of belief lies at the crossing of a number of fields of philosophical inquiry: philosophy of mi...
Berkeley, George
Daniel Flage
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
George Berkeley Introduction George Berkeley (b. 1685–d. 1753) was an Irish philosopher best known for his contention that the physical wor...
British Idealism
Thom Brooks
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2011-06-29
British Idealism Introduction British idealism flourished in the late 19th century and early 20th centuries. It was a movement with a lasting i...
Buddhist Philosophy
William Edelglass
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2011-08-26
Buddhist Philosophy Introduction According to Buddhist traditions, ignorance is the root cause of the aversion and attachment that leads to su...
Causation
Jonathan L. Kvanvig, Trent Dougherty
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
Causation Introduction Causation is a notion that is put to work in metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, and even aesthetics. This bibliograp...
Chemistry, Philosophy of
William Mark Goodwin
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2011-06-29
Philosophy of Chemistry Introduction Certain episodes in the history of chemistry have been of recurring interest to philosophers. These includ...