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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...
Personal Identity
Eric Olson
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2011-06-29
Personal IdentityIntroductionThe term “personal identity” means different things to different people. Psychologists use it to refer to a person’s self...
Phenomenal Concepts
Andreas Elpidorou
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2015-01-15
Phenomenal Concepts Introduction Phenomenal concepts are the concepts that we deploy when—but arguably not only when—we introspectively examin...
Phenomenal Conservatism
Luca Moretti
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2015-04-29
Phenomenal Conservatism Introduction Phenomenal conservatism (PC) is the epistemological view according to which, roughly, the way things seem...
Phenomenology
Shaun Gallagher
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2011-06-29
PhenomenologyIntroductionPhenomenology is a philosophical tradition originating in the 20th century with the work of Edmund Husserl (b. 1859–d. 1938) ...
Philosophy for Children
Philip Cam
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2019-01-15
Philosophy for ChildrenIntroductionPhilosophy for Children is an educational movement that was originally associated with the Institute for the Advanc...
Photography, Analytic Philosophy of
Scott Walden
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2020-07-29
Analytic Philosophy of PhotographyIntroductionThe literature on the analytic philosophy of photography is related to, but distinct from, the literatur...
Physicalism
Andrew Melnyk
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2015-04-29
PhysicalismIntroductionIn the sense relevant to this article, physicalism (or materialism; the two terms are used interchangeably in the literature) i...
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