Philosophy - Oxford Bibliographies
Applied Ethics
Thomas Søbirk Petersen, Jesper Ryberg
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
Applied EthicsIntroductionApplied ethics is a branch of ethics devoted to the treatment of moral problems, practices, and policies in personal life, p...
Aquinas, Thomas
Christina Van Dyke
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2016-07-27
Thomas AquinasIntroductionThomas Aquinas (b. 1224/5–d. 1274) is the single most influential philosopher and theologian of the Middle Ages. Although be...
Argument Mapping
Michael Hoffmann
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2018-02-22
Argument MappingIntroductionThe term “argument mapping” needs to be clarified with regard to both of its components because “argument” as well as “map...
Art and Emotion
Filippo Contesi
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2018-11-29
Art and EmotionIntroductionThe study of the arts in philosophy has often concentrated on the role that emotions (and affective responses more generall...
Art and Knowledge
James O. Young
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2013-06-25
Art and KnowledgeIntroductionA long-standing debate in philosophy of art concerns the question of whether art is a source of knowledge. The debate can...
Art and Morality
Andrea Sauchelli
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2013-08-26
Art and Morality Introduction A great number of works of art, it is commonly claimed, are aesthetically valuable. Some philosophers have even ...
Artifacts
Maarten Franssen
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2013-06-25
Artifacts Introduction Leaving Aristotle aside, philosophical interest in artifacts as a general class of entities is recent and largely restr...
Assertion
Matthew Weiner
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2011-06-29
Assertion Introduction Assertion is one of the central kinds of speech act, typically carried out by the utterance of a declarative sentence, s...
Atheism
Matt McCormick
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
Atheism Introduction The term “atheist” describes a person who does not believe that God or a divine being exists. The sort of divine being t...
Augustine
Giovanni Catapano
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2021-09-22
AugustineIntroductionAugustine of Hippo (Thagaste, b. 354–Hippo, d. 430 ce) brings the very person of the thinker onto the philosophical scene for the...
Aurelius, Marcus
John Sellars
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2015-07-28
Marcus Aurelius Introduction The Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius (b. 121–d. 180) was the author of a series of philosophical reflections that ar...
Austin, J. L.
Guy Longworth
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2014-04-28
J. L. Austin Introduction John Langshaw Austin (b. 1911–d. 1960) was White’s Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Oxford. He mad...
Autonomy
James Stacey Taylor
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2013-09-30
Autonomy Introduction In recent years the concept of autonomy has risen to prominence both in action theory and moral philosophy. The term “au...
Bacon, Francis
David Simpson
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2015-03-10
Francis Bacon Introduction Francis Bacon (b. 1561–d. 1626) is one of a select company of philosophers whose works have attracted the critical ...
Bayesianism
Kenny Easwaran
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2013-05-28
BayesianismIntroductionBayesianism is a set of related views in epistemology, statistics, philosophy of science, psychology, and any other subject tha...
Beauty
Jennifer A. McMahon
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2012-08-29
BeautyIntroductionPhilosophical interest in beauty began with the earliest recorded philosophers. Beauty was deemed to be an essential ingredient in a...
Belief
Pascal Engel
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
Belief Introduction The problem of the nature of belief lies at the crossing of a number of fields of philosophical inquiry: philosophy of mi...
Bergson, Henri
Wahida Khandker
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2015-04-29
Henri BergsonIntroductionHenri Bergson was one of the last philosophers belonging to the school of thinkers known as the French Spiritualists. His phi...
Berkeley, George
Daniel Flage, Kenneth Pearce
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
George BerkeleyIntroductionGeorge Berkeley (b. 1685–d. 1753) was an Irish philosopher best known for his defense of immaterialism, the thesis that per...
Biology, Philosophy of
Grant Ramsey, Hugh Desmond
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2017-04-27
Philosophy of BiologyIntroductionPhilosophy of biology is a branch of philosophy of science that centers on philosophical issues concerning biology. W...
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