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Tarski, Alfred
Mario Gomez-Torrente
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2014-03-27
Alfred Tarski Introduction Alfred Tarski (b. 1901–d. 1983) was a Polish American–mathematician, widely regarded as one of the greatest logicia...
Technology, Philosophy of
Jan Kyrre Berg Olsen Friis, Søren Riis, Evan Selinger, Stig Andur Pedersen
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
Philosophy of Technology Introduction Philosophy of technology is a rapidly growing branch of philosophy. Many philosophers now regard it as ...
Testimony, Epistemology of
Duncan Pritchard
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
Epistemology of TestimonyIntroductionIn the field of philosophy, testimony is defined as the intentional transfer of a belief from one person to anoth...
Theoretical Terms in Science
Holger Andreas
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2020-02-26
Theoretical Terms in ScienceIntroductionWhat is a theoretical term? This question can be answered in at least two different ways. First, a theoretical...
Thomas Aquinas' Philosophy of Religion
Paul O'Grady
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2015-08-31
Thomas Aquinas’s Philosophy of Religion Introduction Thomas Aquinas contributed to all the main areas of philosophy, but his work is especiall...
Thought Experiments
James Robert Brown, Michael T. Stuart
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2013-04-22
Thought ExperimentsIntroductionThought experiments are performed in the imagination. We set up some situation, we observe what happens, then we try to...
Time and Tense
Kristie Miller
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2012-08-29
Time and Tense Introduction The nature of the relationship between time and tense is a contested one. On the one hand, when philosophers ask a...
Time Travel
Alasdair Richmond
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2015-10-26
Time Travel Introduction Time travel is a philosophical growth industry, with many issues in metaphysics and elsewhere recently transformed by...
Toleration
Emanuela Ceva
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2013-05-28
Toleration Introduction The idea of toleration (or tolerance—the terms are mostly used interchangeably) plays a paramount role in liberal theor...
Torture
Seumas Miller
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2017-07-26
TortureIntroductionMost sustained philosophical analyses of torture are relatively recent and have been given impetus by the so-called War on Terror. ...
Transcendental Arguments
Gabriele Gava
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2017-11-29
Transcendental ArgumentsIntroductionAs generally understood, transcendental arguments are deductive arguments that aim to establish a certain claim A ...
Tropes
Anna-Sofia Maurin
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2013-07-24
TropesIntroductionTrope theory is the view that the world is (wholly or partly) constituted by so-called tropes, which are entities most often charact...
Trust
Judith Simon
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2013-07-24
TrustIntroductionImagine a world without trust. Without trust, even the simplest actions in our lifeworld would hardly ever happen: we would never ent...
Truth
Pascal Engel
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2011-06-29
Truth Introduction The problem of the nature of truth is Janus-faced. On the one hand, it seems to be so metaphysically profound that it is for...
Truth and the Aim of Belief
Davide Fassio
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2014-01-30
Truth and the Aim of BeliefIntroductionWith the claim that “belief aims at truth,” philosophers designate a specific feature of belief according to wh...
Truthmaking
Aaron M. Griffith
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2013-08-26
TruthmakingIntroductionThe notions of “truthmaking” and “truthmakers” are central to many attempts in contemporary metaphysics to come to grips with t...
Turing Test
Graham Oppy
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2017-10-25
Turing TestIntroduction“The Turing Test” is named for the brilliant English logician, mathematician, cryptographer, computer programmer, and computer ...
Two-Dimensional Semantics
Cara J. Spencer
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2011-06-29
Two-Dimensional Semantics Introduction Two-dimensional (2-D) modal logic provides a semantic framework for natural language expressions whose r...
Understanding
Stephen Grimm, Michael Hannon
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
UnderstandingIntroductionUnderstanding is a kind of cognitive accomplishment, and the objects of understanding—from people, to languages, to scientifi...
Uniqueness and Permissiveness in Epistemology
Luis Rosa
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2018-10-25
Uniqueness and Permissiveness in EpistemologyIntroductionPermissivism is roughly the view that different doxastic attitudes toward a given proposition...
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