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Idealizations in Science
Ashley Graham Kennedy
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2014-05-29
Idealizations in Science Introduction Idealization, or the intentional misrepresentation of the empirical system that is being studied, is ubi...
Identity in Physics
Décio Krause, Jonas R. B. Arenhart
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2014-01-30
Identity in Physics Introduction Traditionally, the problem of identity is closely associated with the problem of individuality: What is it th...
Images
John Kulvicki
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2020-10-28
ImagesIntroductionNatural languages, numerals, formal languages, maps, diagrams, graphs, and pictures are all representations. Traditionally, philosop...
Imagination
Peter Lamarque
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
Imagination Introduction It is a commonplace to preface discussions of imagination with disclaimers about how unclear the concept is and how...
Imagination and Belief
Anna Ichino, Kengo Miyazono, Shen-yi Liao
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2016-09-28
Imagination and BeliefIntroductionThis bibliography focuses on recent debates about the relationship between imagination and belief in the philosophy ...
Impossible Worlds
Ira Kiourti
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2012-11-21
Impossible WorldsIntroductionImpossible worlds constitute an increasingly popular yet controversial topic in logic and metaphysics. The term “impossib...
Incommensurability in Science
Eric Oberheim, Paul Hoyningen-Huene
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2012-06-26
Incommensurability in Science Introduction In 1962 in independent, influential publications, Thomas S. Kuhn and Paul Feyerabend suggested the ...
Indian Philosophy
Shyam Ranganathan
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2011-08-26
Indian PhilosophyIntroductionThe label “Indian philosophy” refers to philosophy that originates from a cultural and linguistic sphere that in classica...
Indispensability of Mathematics
Sorin Bangu
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2014-03-27
Indispensability of Mathematics Introduction Philosophers speak of the “indispensability of mathematics” in association with a family of argum...
Inductive Reasoning
John M. Vickers
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2013-09-30
Inductive Reasoning Introduction Well into the 20th century, inductive reasoning and the concomitant problem of its justification concerned wh...
Infinitism
Peter Klein, John Turri
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2015-08-31
Infinitism Introduction Infinitism, along with foundationalism and coherentism, is a logically possible solution to the epistemic regress prob...
Instruments in Science
Joseph Pitt, Steven Mischler
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2015-04-29
Instruments in Science Introduction Historians of science and technology are well aware of the crucial role instruments play in their respecti...
Intellectual Humility
Casey Johnson, Hanna Gunn, Michael P. Lynch, Nathan Sheff
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2017-06-27
Intellectual HumilityIntroductionIntellectual humility is a concept in progress—philosophers and psychologists are in the process of defining and comi...
Intentionality, Collective
Marija Jankovic, Kirk Ludwig
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2020-09-24
Collective IntentionalityIntroductionCollective intentionality concerns the intentionality of groups or collectives. Intentionality is the property of...
Intuitions
Jonathan Ichikawa, Ernest Sosa
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
IntuitionsIntroductionPhilosophy often proceeds via appeals to intuition. In a prototypical instance, a theory is rejected on the basis of its counter...
James, William
Michael Slater
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2015-01-15
William JamesIntroductionWilliam James (b. 1842–d. 1910) was the most influential American philosopher and psychologist of the late 19th and early 20t...
Japanese Philosophy
Tomomi Asakura
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2018-07-24
Japanese PhilosophyIntroductionJapanese philosophy can be viewed, in a very simple way, as consisting of three historical phases: the classical though...
Kant and the Laws of Nature
Michela Massimi
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2016-08-30
Kant and the Laws of NatureIntroductionImmanuel Kant’s complex and nuanced view on the laws of nature has been at the center of renewed attention amon...
Kant, Immanuel: Aesthetics and Teleology
Paul Guyer
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2015-01-15
Immanuel Kant: Aesthetics and TeleologyIntroductionThe Critique of the Power of Judgment (Kritik der Urteilskraft), published in 1790, was the last of...
Kant, Immanuel: Ethics
Lara Denis
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2013-09-30
Immanuel Kant: EthicsIntroductionThe ethical theory of Immanuel Kant (b. 1724–d. 1804) exerted a powerful influence on the subsequent history of philo...
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