Philosophy - Oxford Bibliographies
Communitarianism
Elizabeth Frazer
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2017-07-26
CommunitarianismIntroductionCommunitarianism, like other “isms,” is relational—worked out and articulated in distinction from rival philosophical posi...
Computational Science
Paul Humphreys
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2012-07-24
Computational Science Introduction Computational science is a recent addition to the stock of scientific methods. Many scientists and philosop...
Computer Science, Philosophy of
Raymond Turner
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2019-05-29
Philosophy of Computer ScienceIntroductionThe subject matter of computer science encompasses a large number of different activities that range from ab...
Comte, Auguste
Michel Bourdeau
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2014-09-29
Auguste Comte Introduction Auguste Comte (b. 1798–d. 1857) is the founder of positivist philosophy: he coined the term positivism, a word he u...
Concepts
Kevan Edwards
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2013-09-30
Concepts Introduction Debates about the nature of concepts are sufficiently fraught that it is difficult to give an uncontroversial characteri...
Conceptual Role Semantics
Arvid Båve
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2015-09-29
Conceptual Role SemanticsIntroductionThis article treats of a family of theories variously known also as “inferentialism,” “inferential/functional/cog...
Conditionals
Christopher Gauker
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2011-06-29
Conditionals Introduction In English, a conditional is a sentence of the form, “If p, then q” (or of a synonymous form). The part of the senten...
Confirmation
Justin Dallmann, Franz Huber
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2011-06-29
ConfirmationIntroductionThe term confirmation is used in epistemology and the philosophy of science whenever observational data and other information ...
Confucius
Eric L. Hutton
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2015-08-31
ConfuciusIntroduction“Confucius” is the Latinized version of the Chinese term Kongfuzi 孔夫子, which is a more elaborate version of the more common term ...
Connectionism
Kenneth Aizawa
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2011-06-29
ConnectionismIntroduction“Connectionism” in its most generic sense describes theories that postulate interconnected networks of simple neuron-like inf...
Consciousness
Darragh Byrne
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
Consciousness Introduction The psychological phenomenon that many regard as the most perplexing is consciousness, or, very roughly defi...
Constructive Empiricism
Paul Dicken
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2012-04-24
Constructive Empiricism Introduction Constructive empiricism is the view that (a) science aims to produce theories that are empirically adequat...
Contemporary Hylomorphism
Andrew Bailey, Shane Maxwell Wilkins
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2018-02-22
Contemporary HylomorphismIntroductionAristotle famously held that objects are comprised of matter and form. That is the central doctrine of hylomorphi...
Contextualism
Tim Black
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2011-06-29
Contextualism Introduction According to contextualism in epistemology, the truth-value of knowledge attributions (“S knows that p”) and knowled...
Contrastivism
Nathan Cockram, Adam Morton
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2017-06-27
ContrastivismIntroductionIn the history of epistemology, there are many suggestions for separating what we can or do know with what we cannot or do no...
Cook Wilson, John
Guy Longworth
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2019-01-15
John Cook WilsonIntroductionJohn Cook Wilson (b. 1849–d. 1915) was Wykeham Professor of Logic at the University of Oxford. He made a number of contrib...
Cosmology, Philosophy of
Craig Fox, Marie Gueguen, Adam Koberinski, Chris Smeenk
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2019-08-28
Philosophy of CosmologyIntroductionPhysical cosmology, the study of the large-scale structure of the universe and its evolution, has become a central ...
Critical Theory
Claudio Corradetti
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2018-08-28
Critical TheoryIntroductionCritical theory is a philosophical movement that developed from the Frankfurt School, initially hosted at the Institute of ...
Culture and Cognition
Mirko Farina
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2016-11-28
Culture and CognitionIntroductionCulture is, notoriously, an intractably large and complex phenomenon, and any attempt to define it is ultimately doom...
Daoism and Philosophy
Jung Lee
Subject: Philosophy »
Date Added: 2018-01-11
Daoism and PhilosophyIntroductionAlong with Confucianism, Daoism represents one of the major indigenous philosophical and religious traditions of Chin...
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