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Machiavelli, Niccolò
Cary J. Nederman
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2015-06-29
Niccolò MachiavelliIntroductionNiccolò Machiavelli (b. 1469–d. 1527) was a civil servant in the 1498 Florentine Republic who, after he lost his positi...
Martin Heidegger: Later Works
Tobias Keiling
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2021-10-27
Martin Heidegger: Later WorksIntroductionMartin Heidegger (b. 1889–d. 1976) is a central figure in 20th century philosophy. Especially in his early wo...
Martin Heidegger: Middle Works
Tobias Keiling
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2021-11-23
Martin Heidegger: Middle WorksIntroductionMartin Heidegger (b. 1889–d. 1976) is a central figure in 20th-century philosophy. Especially in his early w...
Marx, Karl
David Leopold
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2015-04-29
Karl MarxIntroductionKarl Marx (b. 1818–d. 1883) was born into a Jewish family living in the Rhineland region of Prussia. Marx’s father was a lawyer w...
Material Constitution
Daniel Z. Korman
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2019-01-15
Material ConstitutionIntroductionMaterial constitution is a relation that obtains between two material objects when one is made up of the other, as wh...
Mathematical Explanation
Paolo Mancosu, Christopher Pincock
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2012-08-29
Mathematical Explanation Introduction Mathematical explanations are explanations in which mathematics plays a crucial role. There is a rich hi...
Mathematical Pluralism
Justin Clarke-Doane, Joel David Hamkins
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2017-02-28
Mathematical PluralismIntroductionConsider the Parallel Postulate. This is true of Euclidean space, and false of, e.g., hyperbolic space. Moreover, th...
Mathematical Structuralism
Elaine Landry
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2016-05-26
Mathematical StructuralismIntroductionMathematical structuralism is the view that, in some sense, mathematics is about structures and their relations,...
Mathematics, Ontology of
Roy T. Cook
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2022-03-23
Ontology of MathematicsIntroductionOntology is the study of being. Thus, the study of the ontology of mathematics involves asking questions about whet...
Mathematics, Philosophy of
Otávio Bueno
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
Philosophy of Mathematics Introduction Philosophy of mathematics is arguably one of the oldest branches of philosophy, and one that bears sig...
Mathematics, Visual Thinking in
Jessica Carter
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2019-08-28
Visual Thinking in MathematicsIntroductionIn contemporary philosophy, “visual thinking in mathematics” refers to studies of the kinds and roles of vis...
McDowell, John
Tim Thornton
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2015-09-29
John Mcdowell Introduction John McDowell was born in Boksburg, South Africa, in 1942 and educated at University College of Rhodesia and Nyasal...
McTaggart, John
Emily Thomas
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2014-03-27
John McTaggart Introduction The Cambridge philosopher J. M. E. McTaggart (1866–1925) was a British idealist, best known to contemporary philos...
Meaning of Life, The
Thaddeus Metz
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
The Meaning of Life Introduction For millennia, thinkers have addressed the question of what, if anything, makes a life meaningful in some form...
Mechanisms in Science
Carl Craver, Beate Krickel
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2019-10-30
Mechanisms in ScienceIntroductionMany areas of science are animated by the search for mechanisms: experiments are designed to find them, explanations ...
Medically Assisted Dying
Robert Young
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2011-05-25
Medically Assisted DyingIntroductionAlthough a few noteworthy philosophical contributions were made in the middle of the last century to the debate ab...
Medicine, Contemporary Philosophy of
James Marcum
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2014-06-30
Contemporary Philosophy of Medicine Introduction Contemporary medicine is fragmented in terms of approaches to what it is or should be, as wel...
Medieval Logic
E. Jennifer Ashworth
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2015-06-29
Medieval Logic Introduction Medieval logic has wide geographical, linguistic, and chronological borders. Its origins are in ancient Greece, es...
Medieval Philosophy
John Marenbon
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2012-06-26
Medieval Philosophy Introduction Medieval philosophy includes the four branches of a single tradition, rooted principally in the Platonic-Aris...
Memory
Sven Bernecker, Aaron Bogart
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
Memory Introduction Remembering is a fundamental cognitive process, which is involved in virtually all other important cognitive functions, ...
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