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Objectivity
Fred D'Agostino
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2019-04-24
ObjectivityIntroductionObjectivity has two aspects. It means, in the metaphysical sense, a correspondence between a statement and the way the world is...
Occasionalism
Walter Ott
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2014-01-30
OccasionalismIntroductionOccasionalism is the doctrine that God is the only true cause. What appear to be causes in the natural world—a lightning stri...
Olfaction
Clare Batty
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2017-02-28
OlfactionIntroductionHistorically, much of the philosophical discussion of perception has focused on vision. Since the turn of the 21st century, howev...
Ontological Dependence
Naomi Thompson
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2014-06-30
Ontological Dependence Introduction The notion that ontological dependence is intended to capture is that of a distinctively metaphysical depe...
Ontology of Art
Guy Rohrbaugh
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2016-09-28
Ontology of ArtIntroductionOntological questions are questions about existence: Which things are truly existent? Into which fundamental categories do ...
Ordinary Objects
Dana Goswick
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2016-07-27
Ordinary ObjectsIntroductionNothing is more familiar to us than the ordinary objects—such as dogs, computers, tables, and trees—that we interact with ...
Other Minds
Anita Avramides
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2011-08-26
Other MindsIntroductionThe problem of other minds has been a curiously neglected one in contemporary philosophy. The reasons for this are themselves a...
Pacifism
Andrew Fiala
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2015-10-26
PacifismIntroductionPacifism is a contested term. It is often defined narrowly as opposition to war, or more broadly understood as opposition to all v...
Pain
David Bain
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2015-08-31
Pain Introduction Philosophers think of pain less and less as a paradigmatic instance of mentality, for which they seek a general account, and...
Panpsychism
David Skrbina
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2016-11-28
PanpsychismIntroductionBroadly speaking, panpsychism is the view that everything has a mind, or at least some mindlike quality or aspect. Such a defin...
Particularism in Ethics
Peter Shiu-Hwa Tsu
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2018-03-28
Particularism in EthicsIntroductionParticularism has certainly cut much ice with the development of analytical ethics since the late 20th century. Its...
Pascal, Blaise
Desmond M. Clarke
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2014-03-27
Blaise Pascal Introduction During his relatively short life (b. 1623–d. 1662), Blaise Pascal published no works that would be classified as ph...
Paternalism
Gerald B. Dworkin
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2015-10-26
Paternalism Introduction The government requires people to contribute to a pension system (Social Security). It requires motorcyclists to wear...
Patriotism
Nenad Miscevic
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2019-11-26
PatriotismIntroductionPatriotism, love for or devotion to one’s country, as the dictionary definition has it, is a popular topic in the literature on ...
Peirce, Charles Sanders
Albert Atkin
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
Charles Sanders Peirce Introduction Charles Sanders Peirce (b. 1839–d. 1914) was a polymathic but influential thinker who is widely regarded...
Perception, Cognition, Action
Bence Nanay
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2016-11-28
Perception, Cognition, ActionIntroductionWhat mediates between perception and action? This question is as basic as it gets when it comes to understand...
Perception, The Problem of
Matthew Nudds
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2011-06-29
The Problem of Perception Introduction Sense perception provides (or seems to provide) a direct awareness of our environment and the things in i...
Perfectionism
Steven Wall
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2020-08-26
PerfectionismIntroductionThe term perfectionism in philosophy, unlike its more common usage in popular psychology, denotes a range of theoretical posi...
Persistence
Maureen B. Donnelly
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2017-02-28
PersistenceIntroductionAn object persists just in case it remains in the world over a stretch of time. Philosophers debate the proper account of persi...
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