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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...
Contextualism
Tim Black
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2011-06-29
Contextualism Introduction According to contextualism in epistemology, the truth-value of knowledge attributions (“S knows that p”) and knowled...
Davidson, Donald
Kirk Ludwig
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2011-08-26
Donald Davidson Introduction Donald Herbert Davidson (b. 1917–d. 2003) was one of the most influential analytic philosophers of the second hal...
Death
Steven Luper
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2010-11-01
Death Introduction This entry concerns contemporary philosophical discussions of death. The philosophy of death attempts to determine what ...
Decision Theory
Paul Weirich
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2013-05-28
Decision Theory Introduction Decision theory is multidisciplinary and treats all aspects of choice. It is the foundation of the behavioral and...
Descartes, René
Justin Skirry
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
René Descartes Introduction There is no doubt that Descartes is one of the most influential and perhaps one of the most misunderstood philoso...
Descriptions
Berit Brogaard
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
Descriptions Introduction Descriptions are commonly thought to be phrases of the form “an F,” “the F,” “F’s,” “the F’s,” and NP’s “F” (e.g....
Disagreement, Epistemology of
Jennifer Lackey
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2010-11-01
Epistemology of Disagreement IntroductionThe epistemology of disagreement is a fairly young though extremely fertile area of inquiry in philosophy. In...
Disjunctivism
Berit Brogaard
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
Disjunctivism Introduction Disjunctivism—with respect to bodily or mental states or reasons of kind S—is the view that S-states (or reasons) ...
Dispositions
Jennifer McKitrick
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2011-06-29
Dispositions Introduction Many philosophers consider dispositions (a.k.a. powers, capacities, tendencies, etc.) to be a major ontological categ...
Emotion
Michael Brady
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
Emotion Introduction Emotions occupy a central place in our lives and are increasingly the object of philosophical attention. It is not easy, h...
Epistemic Justification
Peter Graham
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2011-06-29
Epistemic Justification Introduction The theory of epistemic justification is one of the central topics in epistemology, and thus in philosophy...
Epistemic Philosophy of Logic
Joe Salerno
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2011-06-29
Epistemic Philosophy of Logic Introduction Epistemic logic is the study of the principles of inference and the formal semantics of knowledge, b...
Epistemology
Jeremy Fantl, Matthew McGrath, Ernest Sosa
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
Epistemology Introduction Much epistemological work in the Western tradition focuses on the nature of knowledge—its sources, significance, and ...
Ethical Intuitionism
Robert Cowan
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2012-11-21
Ethical Intuitionism Introduction Ethical intuitionism is the meta-ethical view that normal ethical agents have at least some non-inferentiall...
Evidence
Trent Dougherty
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
Evidence Introduction This entry will focus on contemporary discussions concerning what items of evidence are and when items constitute evi...
Evidential Support Relation In Epistemology, The
Ryan Byerly
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2012-12-19
The Evidential Support Relation in Epistemology Introduction Just when does a person’s evidence support a proposition? This question is at the...
Experimental Philosophy
Wesley Buckwalter, Joshua Knobe, Shaun Nichols, N. Ángel Pinillos, Philip Robbins, Hagop Sarkissian, Chris Weigel, Jonathan M. Weinberg
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2012-10-25
Experimental Philosophy Introduction Experimental philosophy is a new movement that uses systematic experimental studies to shed light on phil...
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