Philosophy - Oxford Bibliographies
A Priori Knowledge
Albert Casullo
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2011-06-29
A Priori Knowledge Introduction Questions about the existence, nature, and scope of a priori knowledge have been central to both the historical...
Abduction and Explanatory Reasoning
Igor Douven
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2019-01-15
Abduction and Explanatory ReasoningIntroductionThe term “abduction” originates in the work of the American pragmatist philosopher Charles Sanders Peir...
Ability
Evan Butts
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2018-10-25
AbilityIntroductionAbility attribution is a common and important feature of both everyday and theoretical discourse. People are given jobs, picked for...
Abortion
Michael Tooley
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2013-05-28
Abortion Introduction Questions concerning the moral and appropriate legal status of abortion are among the most important issues in applied e...
Abstract Objects
Mark Balaguer
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2019-01-15
Abstract ObjectsIntroductionAn abstract object is a non-physical, non-mental object that exists outside of space and time and is wholly unextended. Fo...
Action
Adrian Haddock
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2011-05-25
Action Introduction The philosophy of action shares with its topic a certain uncertainty of location. Is action located inside the mind or outs...
Addams, Jane
Maurice Hamington
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2021-08-25
Jane AddamsIntroductionJane Addams (b. 1860–d. 1935) is considered one of the founding figures in American pragmatist philosophy, social work, and soc...
Adorno, Theodor
Lambert Zuidervaart
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2014-05-29
Theodor Adorno Introduction Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno (b. 1903–d. 1969) was a leading philosopher and social critic in postwar Germany. The o...
Aesthetic Hedonism
Mohan Matthen, Zachary Weinstein
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2019-04-24
Aesthetic HedonismIntroductionHedonism is the view that pleasure is the only thing that has final, or non-derivative, value: other things are valuable...
Aesthetics, Analytic Approaches to
Peter Lamarque
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
Analytic Approaches to Aesthetics Introduction Aesthetics is broadly that branch of philosophy concerned with fundamental questions about the n...
Aesthetics, Continental
Clive Cazeaux
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2011-08-26
Continental AestheticsIntroductionAesthetics in the Continental tradition of philosophy offers some of the most stimulating and influential ideas abou...
Aesthetics, Environmental
Glenn Parsons, Allen Carlson
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2022-03-23
Environmental AestheticsIntroductionEnvironmental aesthetics is a subfield of philosophical aesthetics that emerged in the latter 20th century. Previo...
Aesthetics, History of
Peter Lamarque
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2012-10-25
History of Aesthetics Introduction The first use of the term aesthetics in something like its modern sense is commonly attributed to Alexander...
African Philosophy, Contemporary
Thaddeus Metz
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2011-06-29
Contemporary African Philosophy Introduction Given a broad sense of “philosophy” as systematic rational reflection on fundamental issues beyond...
Alexander, Samuel
Emily Thomas
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2014-02-25
Samuel Alexander Introduction Samuel Alexander (b. 1859–d. 1938) was one of the leading proponents of British emergentism, an early-20th-centu...
Analytic/Synthetic Distinction
Gillian Russell
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2012-11-21
Analytic/Synthetic Distinction Introduction “The analytic/synthetic distinction” refers to a distinction between two kinds of truth. Synthetic...
Anarchism, Philosophical
William A. Edmundson, Bas van der Vossen
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2013-07-24
Philosophical Anarchism ...
Animal Rights
Mark Rowlands
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2012-12-19
Animal Rights Introduction The expression “animal rights” is employed in two different ways: one broad, the other narrow. When employed in the...
Anscombe, G. E. M.
Rachael Wiseman
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2017-01-11
G. E. M. AnscombeIntroductionG. E. M. Anscombe (b. 1919–d. 2001) is widely recognized as one of the most brilliant philosophers of the 20th century. D...
Anthropic Principle, The
Alasdair Richmond
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2011-08-26
The Anthropic Principle Introduction The enduringly controversial “anthropic principle” was baptized by Brandon Carter in 1974. Seeking a ba...
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