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Reid, Thomas
Terence Cueno
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2011-07-27
Thomas Reid Introduction Along with his contemporaries Francis Hutcheson, David Hume, and Adam Smith, Thomas Reid (b. 1710–d. 1796) was one of ...
Relativism
Paul O’Grady
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2012-09-20
Relativism Introduction That people disagree about fundamental issues—such as the nature of reality, the scope of knowledge, or what moral cod...
Religion, Philosophy of
Jonathan L. Kvanvig
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
Philosophy of Religion Introduction The philosophy of religion became a recognizable subdiscipline in philosophy in the mid- to late 20th cen...
Religious Belief, Epistemology of
Duncan Pritchard
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
Epistemology of Religious Belief Introduction There has been a resurgence of interest in the epistemology of religion in the last twenty-fi...
Rights
Rowan Cruft
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2011-06-29
Rights Introduction The concept of a right is central to contemporary moral, political, and legal debates. It is therefore perhaps surprising t...
Rule-Following
Martin Kusch
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
Rule-Following Introduction “Rule-following” is best thought of as a title for a number of closely intertwined philosophical questions: What is...
Science and Religion
J. Brian Pitts
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2013-01-28
Science and Religion Introduction The science–religion interaction spans so many fields, years, sources, etc., that a comprehensive view is no...
Scientific Progress
Ilkka Niiniluoto
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2012-08-29
Scientific Progress Introduction Science is the systematic pursuit of new knowledge by using critical methods of inquiry. Scientists constitut...
Scientific Revolutions
Thomas Nickles
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2012-07-24
Scientific Revolutions Introduction Scientific revolutions and the problem of understanding deep scientific change became central topics in ph...
Self-Knowledge
Quassim Cassam
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
Self-Knowledge Introduction Questions about the nature, scope, and sources of self-knowledge have exercised epistemologists and philosophers...
Sellars, Wilfrid
Michael P. Wolf, Jeremy Randel Koons
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
Wilfrid Sellars Introduction Wilfrid Sellars (1912–1989) did some of the most interesting and challenging work in Western philosophy in the...
Semantic Externalism
Sandy Goldberg
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
Semantic Externalism Introduction Semantic externalism is the view that (some) semantic properties of a subject’s words and/or thoughts depend ...
Semantic Minimalism
Agustin Vicente, Fernando Martínez Manrique
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2010-11-01
Semantic Minimalism Introduction Semantic minimalism is primarily a position about the semantic content of sentences. It is defined by the ...
Skepticism, Contemporary
Duncan Pritchard
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
Contemporary Skepticism Introduction The problem of skepticism is one of the key topics in philosophy, both in terms of the history of the ...
Skepticism, History of
Baron Reed
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2011-06-29
History of Skepticism Introduction The skeptical tradition originated in the Hellenistic period of ancient philosophy. After mostly lying dorma...
Social Epistemology
Alvin I. Goldman, Thomas Blanchard
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2012-10-25
Social Epistemology Introduction Until recently the orientation of both historical and contemporary epistemology has been heavily individualis...
Space and Time
Alasdair Richmond
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
Space and Time Introduction The nature of space and time has provided a focus for sustained philosophical debate for centuries and has inspir...
Supervenience
Jesper Kallestrup
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2011-06-29
Supervenience Introduction Supervenience is a topic-neutral, dependency relation that typically holds between facts or sets of properties. For ...
Technology, Philosophy of
Jan Kyrre Berg Olsen Friis, Søren Riis, Evan Selinger, Stig Andur Pedersen
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
Philosophy of Technology Introduction Philosophy of technology is a rapidly growing branch of philosophy. Many philosophers now regard it as ...
Testimony, Epistemology of
J. Adam Carter, Duncan Pritchard
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
Epistemology of Testimony Introduction In the field of philosophy, testimony is defined as the intentional transfer of a belief from one person...
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