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Daoism and Philosophy
Jung Lee
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2018-01-11
Daoism and PhilosophyIntroductionAlong with Confucianism, Daoism represents one of the major indigenous philosophical and religious traditions of Chin...
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...
de Beauvoir, Simone
Edward Fullbrook, Margaret Simons
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2015-08-31
Simone de BeauvoirIntroductionSimone de Beauvoir (b. 9 January 1908–d. 14 April 1986) contributed to shaping the philosophical movement of French exis...
de Montaigne, Michel
Manuel Bermúdez Vázquez
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2015-06-29
Michel De Montaigne Introduction Michel de Montaigne (b. 1533–d. 1592) was a French essayist, generally regarded as one of the most influentia...
Death
Steven Luper
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2010-11-01
DeathIntroductionThis article concerns contemporary philosophical discussions of death. The philosophy of death attempts to determine what it is for p...
Decision Theory
Paul Weirich
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2013-05-28
Decision TheoryIntroductionDecision theory is multidisciplinary and treats all aspects of choice. It is the foundation of the behavioral and social sc...
Deleuze, Gilles
Henry Somers-Hall
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2013-08-26
Gilles Deleuze Introduction Gilles Deleuze (b. 1925–d. 1995) is rapidly gaining recognition as one of the great European philosophers of the 2...
Democracy
Thom Brooks
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2014-01-13
Democracy Introduction Democracy is widely understood to be the best form of government. This is where agreement ends. There remains much disa...
Depiction
Ben Blumson
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2017-06-27
DepictionIntroductionHow do pictures represent? A traditional answer is that whereas a word is connected to what it represents via an arbitrary conven...
Derrida, Jacques
Jack Reynolds, Peter Gratton
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2014-01-13
Jacques Derrida Introduction Jacques Derrida (b. 1930–d. 2004) was one of the most famous philosophers of the 20th century, and he has remaine...
Descartes, René
Justin Skirry
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
René DescartesIntroductionThere is no doubt that Descartes is one of the most influential and perhaps one of the most misunderstood philosophers of th...
Descartes, René: Sensory Representations
Raffaella De Rosa
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2015-07-28
René Descartes: Sensory Representations Introduction René Descartes, throughout his whole body of philosophical and scientific work, portrays ...
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....
Dewey, John
John R. Shook
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2019-05-29
John DeweyIntroductionJohn Dewey (b. 1859–d. 1952) was America’s foremost philosopher and public intellectual during the first half of the 20th centur...
Dialetheism
Zach Weber
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2016-06-28
DialetheismIntroductionA contradiction is any sentence of the form “P and not P,” a sentence together with its negation. Dialetheism is the thesis tha...
Disability
David Wasserman
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2016-08-30
DisabilityIntroductionThis article concerns modern philosophical writing on disability. Disability has become a subject of sustained philosophical int...
Disagreement, Epistemology of
Jennifer Lackey
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2010-11-01
Epistemology of Disagreement Introduction The epistemology of disagreement is a fairly young though extremely fertile area of inquiry in philo...
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) ...
Dispositions
Jennifer McKitrick
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2011-06-29
Dispositions Introduction Many philosophers consider dispositions (a.k.a. powers, capacities, tendencies, etc.) to be a major ontological categ...
Doing and Allowing
Fiona Woollard
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2016-05-26
Doing and AllowingIntroductionAccording to common-sense morality, the difference between doing and allowing harm matters morally. Doing harm can be wr...
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