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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...
Thought Experiments
James Robert Brown
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2013-04-22
Thought Experiments Introduction Thought experiments are performed in the imagination. We set up some situation, we observe what happens, then...
Time and Tense
Kristie Miller
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2012-08-29
Time and Tense Introduction The nature of the relationship between time and tense is a contested one. On the one hand, when philosophers ask a...
Toleration
Emanuela Ceva
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2013-05-28
Toleration Introduction The idea of toleration (or tolerance—the terms are mostly used interchangeably) plays a paramount role in liberal theor...
Truth
Pascal Engel
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2011-06-29
Truth Introduction The problem of the nature of truth is Janus-faced. On the one hand, it seems to be so metaphysically profound that it is for...
Two-Dimensional Semantics
Cara J. Spencer
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2011-06-29
Two-Dimensional Semantics Introduction Two-dimensional (2-D) modal logic provides a semantic framework for natural language expressions whose r...
Understanding
Stephen Grimm
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
Understanding Introduction Understanding is a kind of cognitive accomplishment, and the objects of understanding—from people, to languages, to ...
Vagueness
Carl Ehrett
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2011-06-29
Vagueness Introduction Much, or perhaps all, of natural language is vague: the concepts expressed in natural language seem to have unclear boun...
Virtue Epistemology
John Turri, Ernest Sosa
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
Virtue Epistemology Introduction Virtue epistemologists deploy the resources of virtue theory to explain epistemological properties and concept...
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