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Faith, Conceptions of
Kirk Lougheed, Perry Hendricks
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2021-08-25
Conceptions of FaithIntroductionThis entry focuses on the recent resurgence of discussion of faith in contemporary analytic philosophy of religion. On...
Fatalism
Patrick Todd
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2014-01-13
Fatalism Introduction In contemporary philosophy, arguments for “fatalism” are arguments for the conclusion that no human actions are free. Su...
Feminist Philosophy
Alessandra Tanesini
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
Feminist Philosophy Introduction Feminist perspectives in all academic disciplines are concerned with questions about the status of women. Fem...
Feyerabend, Paul
John Preston
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2012-07-24
Paul FeyerabendIntroductionPaul Feyerabend (b. 1924–d. 1994), whose productive career lasted forty-five years, wrote on a plethora of philosophical is...
Fichte, Johann Gottlieb
Isabelle Thomas-Fogiel
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2018-07-24
Johann Gottlieb FichteIntroductionJohann Gottlieb Fichte (b. 1762–d. 1814) is the first representative of what has been called “German idealism.” He p...
Fiction
Peter Lamarque
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
Fiction Introduction Aspects of fiction or fictionality have long intrigued and puzzled philosophers across a surprisingly wide range of the ...
Fictionalism
David Liggins
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2012-05-23
FictionalismIntroductionThe term “fictionalism” is defined in many different ways. The most common definition is along these lines: fictionalism about...
Fictionalism in the Philosophy of Mathematics
Mark Balaguer
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2012-08-29
Fictionalism in the Philosophy of MathematicsIntroductionFictionalism (about mathematics) is best thought of as a reaction to platonism (about mathema...
Film, Philosophy of
Katherine Thomson-Jones
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2012-07-24
Philosophy of Film Introduction For almost as long as there have been films, there have been philosophical theories about their art status, in...
Foot, Philippa
Evgenia Mylonaki
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2019-02-27
Philippa FootIntroductionPhilippa Foot (b. 1920–d. 2010) is one of the leading philosophers of 20th-century analytic philosophy. Her two collections o...
Foreknowledge
Stephanie Rennick
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2017-02-28
ForeknowledgeIntroductionForeknowledge transcends traditional discipline boundaries: discussion of it appears in philosophy of religion, time, action,...
Forgiveness
Paul Hughes
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2016-10-27
ForgivenessIntroductionThere is by now an enormous, and growing, philosophical literature on forgiveness. Since at least Downie 1965 (cited under Forg...
Formal Epistemology
Jeffrey Helzner, Vincent F. Hendricks
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2011-08-26
Formal Epistemology Introduction Formal epistemology is a fairly recent field of study in philosophy dating back to the end of the 20th cent...
Foucault, Michel
Michael A. Peters, Marek Tesar, Kirsten Locke
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2014-01-30
Michel Foucault Introduction Michel Foucault was born in Poitiers in 1926 and died of AIDS in 1984 at the age of 57. In his short life span Fo...
Free Will
Kevin Timpe
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
Free Will Introduction Free will is a perennial issue in philosophy, both in terms of the history of philosophy and in contemporary discussio...
Frege, Gottlob
Michael Beaney
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2014-09-29
Gottlob Frege Introduction Gottlob Frege (b. 1848–d. 1925) was a German mathematician, logician, and philosopher who is generally regarded as ...
Gadamer, Hans-Georg
Robert Dostal
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2015-09-29
Hans-Georg Gadamer Introduction Hans-Georg Gadamer (b. 1900–d. 2002) is known primarily for establishing philosophical hermeneutics as an impo...
Geometry, Epistemology of
Joshua Eisenthal, Lydia Patton
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2020-03-25
Epistemology of GeometryIntroductionFrom Euclid to Einstein, geometry has continually shown itself to be a remarkably rich area of philosophical inqui...
God and Possible Worlds
Klaas J. Kraay, Aylish Chantler, Kirk Lougheed
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2014-11-25
God and Possible Worlds Introduction This article surveys some contemporary literature in analytic philosophy of religion bearing on the relat...
God, Arguments for the Existence of
Graham Oppy
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2012-05-23
Arguments for the Existence of GodIntroductionPhilosophical discussion of arguments for the existence of God appeared to have become extinct during th...
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