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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 ...
Fictionalism
David Liggins
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2012-05-23
Fictionalism Introduction The term “fictionalism” is defined in many different ways. The most common definition is along these lines: fictiona...
Fictionalism in the Philosophy of Mathematics
Mark Balaguer
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2012-08-29
Fictionalism in the Philosophy of Mathematics Introduction Fictionalism (about mathematics) is best thought of as a reaction to platonism (abo...
Film, Philosophy of
Katherine Thomson-Jones
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2012-07-24
Philosophy of Film Introduction For almost as long as there have been films, there have been philosophical theories about their art status, in...
Formal Epistemology
Jeffrey Helzner, Vincent F. Hendricks
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2011-08-26
Formal Epistemology Introduction Formal epistemology is a fairly recent field of study in philosophy dating back to the end of the 20th cent...
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