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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 ...

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...

Feminist Philosophy

Alessandra Tanesini

Subject: Philosophy »

Date Added: 2010-05-10

Feminist Philosophy Introduction Feminist perspectives in all academic disciplines are concerned with questions about the status of women. ...

Feyerabend, Paul

John Preston

Subject: Philosophy »

Date Added: 2012-07-24

Paul Feyerabend Introduction Paul Feyerabend (b. 1924–d. 1994), whose productive career lasted forty-five years, wrote on a plethora of philos...

Fiction

Peter Lamarque

Subject: Philosophy »

Date Added: 2010-05-10

Fiction Introduction Aspects of fiction or fictionality have long intrigued and puzzled philosophers across a surprisingly wide range of the ...

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