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Sartre, Jean-Paul
Christian Skirke
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2014-04-28
Jean-Paul Sartre Introduction Jean-Paul Sartre (b. 1905–d. 1980) was one of the most influential public intellectuals of the 20th century, and...
Schopenhauer, Arthur
Dale Jacquette
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2014-10-28
Arthur Schopenhauer Introduction Arthur Schopenhauer (b. 1788–d. 1860) was a private scholar and philosopher. Although Schopenhauer was largel...
Science and Religion
J. Brian Pitts
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2013-01-28
Science and Religion Introduction The science–religion interaction spans so many fields, years, sources, etc., that a comprehensive view is no...
Science, Theoretical Virtues in
Samuel Schindler
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2020-07-29
Theoretical Virtues in ScienceIntroductionA theoretical virtue in science is a property of a scientific theory that is considered desirable. Standard ...
Scientific Explanation
Joseph Pitt, Steven Mischler
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2017-03-30
Scientific ExplanationIntroductionThe modern search for an adequate general theory of explanation is an outgrowth of the logical positivist’s agenda: ...
Scientific Progress
Ilkka Niiniluoto
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2012-08-29
Scientific Progress Introduction Science is the systematic pursuit of new knowledge by using critical methods of inquiry. Scientists constitut...
Scientific Realism
Juha Saatsi
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2013-09-30
Scientific Realism Introduction The scientific realism debate concerns the nature of scientific knowledge. Scientific realists advocate a posi...
Scientific Representation
Mauricio Suárez
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2014-01-13
Scientific Representation Introduction Scientific representation is a booming field nowadays within the philosophy of science, with many paper...
Scientific Revolutions
Thomas Nickles
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2012-07-24
Scientific Revolutions Introduction Scientific revolutions and the problem of understanding deep scientific change became central topics in ph...
Scotus, Duns
Giorgio Pini
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2017-02-28
Duns ScotusIntroductionJohn Duns Scotus (b. c. 1265/1266–d. 1308) was a major medieval philosopher and theologian whose brilliance and originality is ...
Self-Knowledge
Quassim Cassam
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
Self-Knowledge Introduction In philosophy, self-knowledge usually means one of two things: knowledge of one’s particular mental states or know...
Sellars, Wilfrid
Michael P. Wolf, Jeremy Randel Koons
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
Wilfrid SellarsIntroductionWilfrid Sellars (b. 1912–d. 1989) did some of the most interesting and challenging work in Western philosophy in the 20th c...
Semantic Externalism
Sandy Goldberg
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
Semantic Externalism Introduction Semantic externalism is the view that (some) semantic properties of a subject’s words and/or thoughts depend ...
Semantic Minimalism
Agustin Vicente, Fernando Martínez Manrique
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2010-11-01
Semantic MinimalismIntroductionSemantic minimalism is primarily a position about the semantic content of sentences. It is defined by the thesis that s...
Semiotics
Marc Champagne
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2014-02-25
Semiotics Introduction Semiotics (sometimes spelled “semeiotic”) is the name first given by John Locke, and later reprised by Charles S. Peirc...
Seneca
Ermanno Malaspina, Jula Wildberger, Veronica Revello
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2015-05-29
SenecaIntroductionThe Stoic Seneca (b. c. 4 bce–d. 65 ce), mentor to Emperor Nero and one of the wealthiest men of his time, has been studied as the b...
Senses, The
Keith A. Wilson, Fiona Macpherson
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2018-05-24
The SensesIntroductionPhilosophers and scientists have studied sensory perception and, in particular, vision for many years. Increasingly, however, th...
Sensitivity Principle in Epistemology
Guido Melchior
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2020-04-22
Sensitivity Principle in EpistemologyIntroductionSensitivity is a modal epistemic principle. Modal knowledge accounts are externalist in nature and cl...
Singular Thought
Michael Murez, François Recanati, Felipe Carvalho
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2014-01-13
Singular Thought Introduction In February 2013, an inhabitant of Chelyabinsk, Russia, looks up and sees a meteor hurtling through the sky. He ...
Situated Cognition
Robert D. Rupert
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2018-10-25
Situated CognitionIntroductionSince the mid-1950s, cognition has been the focus of intensive scientific and philosophical study. The emergence of this...
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