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Qualia
Clare Batty
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2011-06-29
Qualia Introduction You wake up to the sounds of the birds chirping. You open up the curtains and take in the colors of the flowering trees out...
Quietism
Stelios Virvidakis, Vasso Kindi
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2013-02-26
Quietism Introduction Quietism in contemporary analytic philosophy is the view or stance that entails avoidance of substantive philosophical t...
Quine, W. V. O.
Gary Kemp
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2012-11-21
W. V. O. QuineIntroductionWillard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908–d. 2000) was the main agenda setter in post–World War II philosophy of language and related...
Race
Angelo Corlett
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2011-08-26
Race Introduction The concept of race is of great importance to moral, social, political, and legal philosophy, as well as the history of philo...
Racist Jokes
Claire Horisk
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2018-04-26
Racist JokesIntroductionRacist jokes are usefully understood as one kind of offensive joke, with the broader category including sexist and ethnic joke...
Rationalism
Kurt Smith
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2016-01-21
RationalismIntroduction“Rationalism” denotes a family of philosophical views that have emerged over the past two millennia. Many of the views have in ...
Rationality
Patrick Rysiew
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2012-11-21
Rationality Introduction “Rationality” is among our central and most widely used evaluative notions. That humans are “rational animals” is a p...
Rawls, John: Moral and Political Philosophy
Jon Mandle
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2015-09-29
John Rawls: Moral and Political PhilosophyIntroductionJohn Rawls (b. 1921–d. 2002) was the leading Anglo-American political philosopher of the second ...
Realism and Anti-Realism
Sven Rosenkranz
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2013-03-19
Realism and Anti-Realism Introduction The realism/anti-realism divide has its proper place in metaphysics, but it also has important implicati...
Realization
Umut Baysan
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2015-10-26
RealizationIntroduction“Realization” is a technical term used by philosophers of mind, philosophers of science, and metaphysicians to denote some depe...
Reasons in Epistemology
Kurt Sylvan
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2014-04-28
Reasons in Epistemology Introduction Reasons attract great interest in new literature on the foundations of epistemic normativity. This follow...
Reductionism in Biology
Sahotra Sarkar, Alan Love, William Wimsatt
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2018-01-11
Reductionism in BiologyIntroductionReductionism concerns a set of ontological and epistemological claims, and methodological strictures based on them,...
Reference, Theory of
Heimir Geirsson
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2011-06-29
Theory of ReferenceIntroductionReference and issues surrounding reference have played a large role in analytic philosophy. The basic question is simpl...
Reid, Thomas
Terence Cuneo
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2011-07-27
Thomas Reid Introduction Along with his contemporaries Francis Hutcheson, David Hume, and Adam Smith, Thomas Reid (b. 1710–d. 1796) was one of ...
Relativism
Paul O'Grady
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2012-09-20
Relativism Introduction That people disagree about fundamental issues—such as the nature of reality, the scope of knowledge, or what moral cod...
Reliabilism
Erik J. Olsson
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2016-06-28
ReliabilismIntroductionOn one characterization of “reliabilism,” the term refers to any epistemological theory that emphasizes the reliability of some...
Religion, Philosophy of
Jonathan L. Kvanvig
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
Philosophy of Religion Introduction The philosophy of religion became a recognizable subdiscipline in philosophy in the mid- to late 20th cen...
Religious Belief, Epistemology of
Duncan Pritchard
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
Epistemology of Religious BeliefIntroductionInterest in the epistemology of religion has experienced a resurgence since the late 1980s, prompted for t...
Religious Experience
Keith E. Yandell
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2013-09-30
Religious Experience Introduction There is no general agreement about what “religion” means. Nonetheless, in constructing a bibliography on re...
Religious Pluralism
Victoria S. Harrison
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2020-07-29
Religious PluralismIntroductionWithin the philosophy of religion, theories of religious pluralism are models that provide a philosophical account of r...
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