Philosophy - B - Oxford Bibliographies
Bacon, Francis
David Simpson
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2015-03-10
Francis Bacon Introduction Francis Bacon (b. 1561–d. 1626) is one of a select company of philosophers whose works have attracted the critical ...
Bayesianism
Kenny Easwaran
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2013-05-28
BayesianismIntroductionBayesianism is a set of related views in epistemology, statistics, philosophy of science, psychology, and any other subject tha...
Beauty
Jennifer A. McMahon
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2012-08-29
BeautyIntroductionPhilosophical interest in beauty began with the earliest recorded philosophers. Beauty was deemed to be an essential ingredient in a...
Belief
Pascal Engel
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
Belief Introduction The problem of the nature of belief lies at the crossing of a number of fields of philosophical inquiry: philosophy of mi...
Bergson, Henri
Wahida Khandker
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2015-04-29
Henri Bergson Introduction Henri Bergson was one of the last philosophers belonging to the school of thinkers known as the French Spiritualist...
Berkeley, George
Daniel Flage, Kenneth Pearce
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
George BerkeleyIntroductionGeorge Berkeley (b. 1685–d. 1753) was an Irish philosopher best known for his defense of immaterialism, the thesis that per...
Biology, Philosophy of
Grant Ramsey, Hugh Desmond
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2017-04-27
Philosophy of BiologyIntroductionPhilosophy of biology is a branch of philosophy of science that centers on philosophical issues concerning biology. W...
Bolzano, Bernard
Sandra Lapointe
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2015-05-29
Bernard Bolzano Introduction Bernard Bolzano’s (b. 1781–d. 1848) originality and numerous anticipatory insights have deserved him a unique pos...
Boredom, Philosophy of
Andreas Elpidorou, Josefa Ros Velasco
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2021-08-25
Philosophy of BoredomIntroductionEven the most cursory of glances at the history of boredom reveals that boredom has been a topic of immense discussio...
British Idealism
Thom Brooks
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2011-06-29
British Idealism Introduction British idealism flourished in the late 19th century and early 20th centuries. It was a movement with a lasting ...
Buber, Martin
Samuel Brody
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2017-07-26
Martin BuberIntroductionAlthough Martin Buber (b. 1878–d. 1965) ranks in the top tier of 20th-century Jewish thinkers, his relationship to philosophy ...
Buddhist Philosophy
William Edelglass
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2011-08-26
Buddhist Philosophy Introduction According to Buddhist traditions, ignorance is the root cause of the aversion and attachment that leads to su...
Burge, Tyler
Brad Majors
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2018-03-28
Tyler BurgeIntroductionBurge’s work does not lend itself to simple summary. Two aims nevertheless seem overarching. The first runs from his earliest w...
Business Ethics
Jeffrey Moriarty
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2019-07-31
Business EthicsIntroduction“Business” has two meanings. A “business” is an entity that offers a good or service for sale, typically with the goal of m...
Camus, Albert
David Simpson
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2016-08-30
Albert CamusIntroductionThe identity of Albert Camus (b. 1913–d. 1960) as a philosopher is ambiguous, and his own relation to philosophy was ambivalen...
Canterbury, Anselm of
Thomas Williams
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2021-01-12
Anselm of CanterburyIntroductionAnselm of Canterbury (b. 1033–d. 1109) is the most enduringly influential philosopher-theologian of the Latin West bet...
Carnap, Rudolf
A.W. Carus
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2015-03-10
Rudolf Carnap Introduction Rudolf Carnap (b. 1891–d. 1970) was acknowledged as the principal philosophical spokesman for the movement known as...
Causation
Jonathan L. Kvanvig, Trent Dougherty
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
Causation Introduction Causation is a notion that is put to work in metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, and even aesthetics. This bibliograp...
Cavendish, Margaret
Deborah Boyle
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2018-09-25
Margaret CavendishIntroductionMargaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (b. 1623–d. 1673), published at least six works of natural philosophy under her...
Certainty
Ali Hasan
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2017-05-24
CertaintyIntroductionNo single concept or kind of state underlies all the ordinary uses of the term certain and its cognates. First, we can distinguis...
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