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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...
Chemistry, Philosophy of
William Mark Goodwin
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2011-06-29
Philosophy of Chemistry Introduction Certain episodes in the history of chemistry have been of recurring interest to philosophers. These includ...
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 Ability
Evan Butts
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2014-09-29
Cognitive Ability Introduction Cognitive abilities are treated largely as a special class of abilities in general. Thus, any overall account o...
Cognitive Phenomenology
Michelle Montague
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2017-01-11
Cognitive PhenomenologyIntroductionThe debate about cognitive phenomenology is part of a much larger debate about how to give an adequate characteriza...
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...
Communitarianism
Elizabeth Frazer
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2017-07-26
CommunitarianismIntroductionCommunitarianism, like other “isms,” is relational—worked out and articulated in distinction from rival philosophical posi...
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...
Computer Science, Philosophy of
Raymond Turner
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2019-05-29
Philosophy of Computer ScienceIntroductionThe subject matter of computer science encompasses a large number of different activities that range from ab...
Comte, Auguste
Michel Bourdeau
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2014-09-29
Auguste Comte Introduction Auguste Comte (b. 1798–d. 1857) is the founder of positivist philosophy: he coined the term positivism, a word he u...
Concepts
Kevan Edwards
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2013-09-30
Concepts Introduction Debates about the nature of concepts are sufficiently fraught that it is difficult to give an uncontroversial characteri...
Conceptual Role Semantics
Arvid Båve
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2015-09-29
Conceptual Role SemanticsIntroductionThis article treats of a family of theories variously known also as “inferentialism,” “inferential/functional/cog...
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...
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