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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...
Chinese Philosophy
Bryan W. Van Norden
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2011-08-26
Chinese Philosophy Introduction Chinese philosophy is every bit as ancient, as diverse, and as profound as all of Western philosophy. Confucia...
Cognitive Science, Philosophy of
Peter Mandik
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2011-06-29
Philosophy of Cognitive Science Introduction Cognitive science is an interdisciplinary study of the mind loosely united by the idea that the mi...
Coherentism
Jonathan L. Kvanvig
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
Coherentism Introduction Coherentism in epistemology is to be contrasted with coherentism in the theory of truth, which falls within the domain...
Color
Berit Brogaard
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
Color Introduction The nature of the colors—what they are like, whether they are instantiated by objects or are projected by our minds, and w...
Computational Science
Paul Humphreys
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2012-07-24
Computational Science Introduction Computational science is a recent addition to the stock of scientific methods. Many scientists and philosop...
Conditionals
Christopher Gauker
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2011-06-29
Conditionals Introduction In English, a conditional is a sentence of the form, “If p, then q” (or of a synonymous form). The part of the senten...
Confirmation
Franz Huber
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2011-06-29
Confirmation Introduction The term “confirmation” is used in epistemology and the philosophy of science whenever observational data and evidenc...
Connectionism
Kenneth Aizawa
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2011-06-29
Connectionism Introduction “Connectionism” in its most generic sense describes theories that postulate interconnected networks of simple neuron-...
Consciousness
Darragh Byrne
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
Consciousness Introduction The psychological phenomenon that many regard as the most perplexing is consciousness, or, very roughly defi...
Consequentialism, Ethical
Tim Mulgan
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2011-06-29
Ethical Consequentialism Introduction Consequentialism ties moral evaluation to the value of consequences or outcomes. In contemporary moral ph...
Constructive Empiricism
Paul Dicken
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2012-04-24
Constructive Empiricism Introduction Constructive empiricism is the view that (a) science aims to produce theories that are empirically adequat...
Contemporary African Philosophy
Thaddeus Metz
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2011-06-29
Contemporary African Philosophy Introduction Given a broad sense of “philosophy” as systematic rational reflection on fundamental issues beyond...
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