Philosophy - Oxford Bibliographies
Chinese Philosophy
Bryan W. Van Norden
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2011-08-26
Chinese Philosophy Introduction Chinese philosophy is every bit as ancient, as diverse, and as profound as all of Western philosophy. Confucia...
Cognitive Science, Philosophy of
Peter Mandik
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2011-06-29
Philosophy of Cognitive Science Introduction Cognitive science is an interdisciplinary study of the mind loosely united by the idea that the mi...
Coherentism
Jonathan L. Kvanvig
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
Coherentism Introduction Coherentism in epistemology is to be contrasted with coherentism in the theory of truth, which falls within the domain...
Color
Berit Brogaard
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
Color Introduction The nature of the colors—what they are like, whether they are instantiated by objects or are projected by our minds, and w...
Computational Science
Paul Humphreys
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2012-07-24
Computational Science Introduction Computational science is a recent addition to the stock of scientific methods. Many scientists and philosop...
Conditionals
Christopher Gauker
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2011-06-29
Conditionals Introduction In English, a conditional is a sentence of the form, “If p, then q” (or of a synonymous form). The part of the senten...
Confirmation
Franz Huber
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2011-06-29
Confirmation Introduction The term “confirmation” is used in epistemology and the philosophy of science whenever observational data and evidenc...
Connectionism
Kenneth Aizawa
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2011-06-29
Connectionism Introduction “Connectionism” in its most generic sense describes theories that postulate interconnected networks of simple neuron-...
Consciousness
Darragh Byrne
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
Consciousness Introduction The psychological phenomenon that many regard as the most perplexing is consciousness, or, very roughly defi...
Consequentialism, Ethical
Tim Mulgan
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2011-06-29
Ethical Consequentialism Introduction Consequentialism ties moral evaluation to the value of consequences or outcomes. In contemporary moral ph...
Constructive Empiricism
Paul Dicken
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2012-04-24
Constructive Empiricism Introduction Constructive empiricism is the view that (a) science aims to produce theories that are empirically adequat...
Contemporary African Philosophy
Thaddeus Metz
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2011-06-29
Contemporary African Philosophy Introduction Given a broad sense of “philosophy” as systematic rational reflection on fundamental issues beyond...
Contextualism
Tim Black
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2011-06-29
Contextualism Introduction According to contextualism in epistemology, the truth-value of knowledge attributions (“S knows that p”) and knowled...
Davidson, Donald
Kirk Ludwig
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2011-08-26
Donald Davidson Introduction Donald Herbert Davidson (b. 1917–d. 2003) was one of the most influential analytic philosophers of the second hal...
Death
Steven Luper
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2010-11-01
Death Introduction This entry concerns contemporary philosophical discussions of death. The philosophy of death attempts to determine what ...
Decision Theory
Paul Weirich
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2013-05-28
Decision Theory Introduction Decision theory is multidisciplinary and treats all aspects of choice. It is the foundation of the behavioral and...
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) ...
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