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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...
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 ...
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