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Plato
Timothy Chappell
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
Plato Introduction In the words of Alfred North Whitehead’s famous overstatement of the case: “The safest general characterization of the E...
Political Obligation
Ned Dobos
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2012-06-26
Political Obligation Introduction There are good, prudential reasons to obey the law. The prospect of punishment, not to mention loss of reput...
Political Philosophy
Keith Hyams, Igor Shoikhedbrod
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2011-06-29
Political Philosophy Introduction Political philosophy is that branch of philosophy concerned with political morality and associated concepts. ...
Practical Reason
Jussi Suikkanen
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2011-05-25
Practical Reason Introduction Practical reason is the mental faculty that enables agents to deliberate about what they ought to do and to act o...
Pragmatics
Mitchell S. Green
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2011-06-29
Pragmatics Introduction Pragmatics is a branch of the philosophy of language as well as a field of linguistics. Pragmatics is to be distinguish...
Pragmatism
Albert Atkin
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
Pragmatism Introduction Pragmatism is, broadly, an approach to philosophy that clusters loosely around a set of themes and a common tradition...
Psychology, Philosophy of
José Luis Bermúdez, Brandon Towl
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2011-08-26
Philosophy of Psychology Introduction The philosophy of psychology is, broadly, the investigation of the philosophical foundations of psycho...
Punishment
Thom Brooks
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2011-06-29
Punishment Introduction The punishment of criminals is a topic of long-standing philosophical interest since the ancient Greeks. This interest ...
Qualia
Clare E. Batty
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2011-06-29
Qualia Introduction You wake up to the sounds of the birds chirping. You open up the curtains and take in the colors of the flowering trees out...
Quietism
Stelios Virvidakis, Vasso Kindi
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2013-02-26
Quietism Introduction Quietism in contemporary analytic philosophy is the view or stance that entails avoidance of substantive philosophical t...
Quine, W.V.O.
Gary Kemp
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2012-11-21
W. V. O. Quine Introduction Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908–d. 2000) was the main agenda setter in post–World War II philosophy of language a...
Race
Angelo Corlett
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2011-08-26
Race Introduction The concept of race is of great importance to moral, social, political, and legal philosophy, as well as the history of philo...
Rationality
Patrick Rysiew
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2012-11-21
Rationality Introduction “Rationality” is among our central and most widely used evaluative notions. That humans are “rational animals” is a p...
Realism and Anti-Realism
Sven Rosenkranz
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2013-03-19
Realism and Anti-Realism Introduction The realism/anti-realism divide has its proper place in metaphysics, but it also has important implicati...
Reference, Theory of
Heimir Geirsson
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2011-06-29
Theory of Reference Introduction Reference and issues surrounding reference have played a large role in analytic philosophy. The basic question...
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...
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