Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- Online philosophy reference work, articles are authored and updated by experts in the field. Edited by Edward Zalta.
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Hilbert's Program - In 1921, David Hilbert made a proposal for a formalist foundation of mathematics, for which a finitary consistency proof should establish the security of mathematics. By Richard Zach. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hilbert-program/
Analysis - The historical development and conceptual structure of philosophical analysis; by Michael Beaney. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/analysis/
The Turing Test - Proposal due to Alan Turing for a criterion of the presence of mind or consciousness; by Graham Oppy and David Dowe. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/turing-test/
Alcmaeon - Life and work of early Greek medical writer and philosopher-scientist; by Carl Huffman. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/alcmaeon/
Episteme and Techne - Discussion of the distinction between knowledge and craft, or art in ancient philosophy; by Richard Parry. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/episteme-techne/
Reflective Equilibrium - The result of a process of reflection on an area of (moral) inquiry, a notion figuring prominently in Rawls' Theory of Justice; by Norman Daniels. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/reflective-equilibrium/
Laws of Nature - Philosophical theories about what it is to be a law; by John W. Carroll. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/laws-of-nature/
Karl Leonhard Reinhold - Life and work of 19th century Austrian philosopher; by Dan Breazeale. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/karl-reinhold/
Adorno, Theodor - Life and work of 20th century German philosopher and critical theorist; by Lambert Zuidervaart. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/adorno/
Saadya [Saadiah] - Life and work of Saadya Gaon (Saadya ben Joseph, known in Arabic as Sa'id ‘ibn Yusuf al-Fayyûmî, 10th century theologian, philosopher and rabbi; by Sarah Pessin. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/saadya/
Eliminative Materialism - The view that some or all of the mental states posited by common-sense do not actually exist; by William Ramsey. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/materialism-eliminative/
Scientific Explanation - Philosophical theories about the nature of explanation in science; by James Woodward. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/scientific-explanation/
Arthur Schopenhauer - Life and work of 19th century German philosopher; by Robert Wicks. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/schopenhauer/
Mereology - The theory of parthood relations: of the relations of part to whole and the relations of part to part within a whole; by Achille Varzi. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/mereology/
Consequentialism - The view that normative properties depend only on consequences; by Walter Sinnott-Armstrong. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/consequentialism/
The Free Rider Problem - Philosophical issues related to collective action; by Russell Hardin. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/free-rider/
Speusippus - Life and work of Speusippus of Athens, son of Plato's sister Potone and head of the Academy; by Russell Dancy. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/speusippus/
Biological Altruism - Discussion of how altruistic behavior by organisms fits with the theory of evolution; by Samir Okasha. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/altruism-biological/
Plato's Middle Period Metaphysics and Epistemology - Discussion of Plato's views on metaphysics and the theory of knowledge, including his theory of forms; by Allan Silverman. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/plato-metaphysics/
Giambattista Vico - Life and work of 18th century Italian philosopher; by Timothy Costelloe. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/vico/
Biodiversity - Discussion of philosophical issues related to biological diversity; by Daniel P. Faith. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/biodiversity/
Roman Ingarden - Life and work of Polish phenomenologist, ontologist and aesthetician; by Amie Thomasson. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ingarden/
Punishment - Philosophical justifications of punishment; by Hugo Adam Bedau. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/punishment/
Sovereignty - Modern notion of political authority of supreme authority within a territory; by Dan Philpott. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/sovereignty/
Aesthetic Judgment - Philosophical theories about judgments of taste; by Nick Zangwill. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aesthetic-judgment/
Archytas - Life and work of fourth century BC Greek mathematician, political leader and philosopher; by Carl Huffman. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/archytas/
Jonathan Edwards - Life and work of 18th century American philosophical theologian; by William Wainwright. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/edwards/
Bayes' Theorem - Discussion of a formula to calculate conditional probabilities which figures in subjectivist approaches to epistemology; by James Joyce. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/bayes-theorem/
Plotinus - Life and work of this founder of Neoplatonism; by Lloyd Gerson. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/plotinus/
The Computational Theory of Mind - The philosophical theopry that the mind is, or functions like, a computer; by Steven Horst. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/computational-mind/
The Moral Status of Animals - Philosophical theories about the difference between animals and humans responsible for the moral status of humans. By Lori Gruen. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/moral-animal/
Qualia: The Knowledge Argument - Aims to establish that conscious experience involves non-physical properties. It is one of the most discussed arguments against physicalism; by Martine Nida-Rümelin. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qualia-knowledge/
Fuzzy Logic - Survey of logical systems with a continuum of truth values; by Petr Hajek. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/logic-fuzzy/
Libertarianism - Theory about the permissibility of non-consensual force violating property rights in external things and oneself; by Peter Vallentyne. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/libertarianism/
Paul-Henri Thiry, Baron d'Holbach - Life and work of French Enlightenment philosoher; by Michael LeBuffe. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/holbach/
Philosophy of Childhood - The philosophy of childhood takes up philosophically interesting questions about childhood, about conceptions people have of childhood and attitudes they have toward children; by Gareth Matthews. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/childhood/
The Problem of Evil - Does the world contain undesirable states of affairs that provide the basis for an argument that makes it unreasonable for anyone to believe in the existence of God?; by Michael Tooley. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/evil/
Logic and games - Survey of game-theoretical approaches to logic; by Wilfrid Hodges. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/logic-games/
William Penbygull - Life and work of 15th Century Oxford Realist philosopher; by Alessandro Conti. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/penbygull/
Robert Alyngton - Life and work of 14th Century British philosopher, follower of Wyclif and Burley; by Alessandro Conti. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/alyngton/
Robert Holkot - Life and Work of Robert Holcot, 14th Century English philosopher and theologian; by Hester Gelber. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/holkot/
Charles Hartshorne - Life and work of 20th Century metaphysician and philosopher of religion; by Dan Dombrowski. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hartshorne/
Abstract Objects - Survey of attempts to draw the distinction between concrete and abstract objects; by Gideon Rosen. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/abstract-objects/
Automated Reasoning - Survey of automated deduction and theorem proving; by Frederic Portoraro. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/reasoning-automated/
Bayesian Epistemology - Epistemological movement based on Bayesian confirmation and decision theory; by William Talbott. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/epistemology-bayesian/
Epistemological Problems of Perception - Discussion of how sense experience justifies or warrants beliefs about the physical world; by Lawrence BonJour. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/perception-episprob/
Being and Becoming in Modern Physics - Discusses implications of general relativity for the philosophy of time; by Steven Savitt. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/spacetime-bebecome/
Truthlikeness - Discussion of notion of verisimilitude, closeness to truth; by Graham Oddie. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/truthlikeness/
Naturalized Epistemology - The view that epistemology is of one piece with natural science; by Richard Feldman. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/epistemology-naturalized/
Baruch Spinoza - Life and work of 17th century Dutch Rationalist philosopher; by Steven Nadler. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/spinoza/
Scottish Philosophy in the Eighteenth Century - Survey of Scottish Enlightenment philosophers, including Francis Hutcheson, Henry Home (Lord Kames), and George Campbell; by lexander Broadie. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/scottish-18th/
Charles Sanders Peirce - Life and work of 19th century American logician and philosopher; by Robert Burch. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/peirce/
Descartes' Ontological Argument - Discussion of René Descartes ontological proof of the existence of God; by Lawrence Nolan. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/descartes-ontological/
Moral Particularism - The claim that there are no defensible moral principles; by Jonathan Dancy. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/moral-particularism/
John Duns Scotus - In-depth article on the life, work, and thought of John Duns Scotus. By Thomas Williams. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/duns-scotus/
Medieval Theories of Relations - Survey of medieval views concerning the nature and ontological status of relations; by Jeffrey Brower. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/relations-medieval/
On The Nature of Law - Survey of theories on the conditions of legal validity including natural law theories and legal positivism; by Andrei Marmor. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/lawphil-nature/
Panpsychism - The doctrine that mind is a fundamental feature of the world which exists throughout the universe; by William Seager. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/panpsychism/
Aristotle's Ethics - Discussion of Aristotle's ethical views; by Richard Kraut. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aristotle-ethics/
Peter of Spain (Petrus Hispanus) - Life and work of 13th century logician and author of the Tractatus; by Joke Spruyt. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/peter-spain/
René Descartes' Life and Works - Life and work of 17th century French philosopher; by Kurt Smith. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/descartes-works/
Integrity - Discussion of integrity as a virtue term; by Damian Cox, Marguerite La Caze, and Michael Levine. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/integrity/
Higher-order Theories of Consciousness - Theories which explain conscious states by their relations to higher-order representations of them; by Peter Carruthers. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/consciousness-higher/
The Unity of Consciousness - History and philosophical accounts of unity of consciousness; by Andrew Brook. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/consciousness-unity/
Equality - Survey of social and political equality; by Stefan Gosepath. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/equality/
Francis of Marchia - Life and work of 14th century French theologian; by Christopher Schabel. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/francis-marchia/
Robert Desgabets - Life and work of 17th century Cartesian philosopher; by Patricia Easton. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/desgabets/
Social Epistemology - Survey of views on the social dimension of knowledge; by Alvin Goldman. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/epistemology-social/
David Hume - Life and work of 18th century Scottish philosopher; by William Edward Morris. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hume/
John Austin - Life and work of 19th century British legal philosopher and founder of legal positivism; by Brian Bix. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/austin-john/
Physicalism - Discussion of the thesis that everything is physical; by Daniel Stoljar. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/physicalism/
The Analysis of Knowledge - Survey of analyses of the concept of knowledge, including justified true belief and the Gettier problem; by Matthias Steup. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/knowledge-analysis/
Richard Rorty - Life and work of 20th century American philosopher; by Bjørn Ramberg. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/rorty/
Benjamin Peirce - Life and work of 19th century mathematician and philosopher of mathematics; by Ivor Grattan-Guinness and Alison Walsh. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/peirce-benjamin/
Albert of Saxony - Life and work of 14th century German logician and philosopher; by Joël Biard. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/albert-saxony/
Dante Alighieri - Life and work of 13th century Italian poet and philosopher; by Winthrop Wetherbee. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/dante/
Semantic Challenges to Realism - Realism and the representation problem; by Drew Khlentzos. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/realism-sem-challenge/
Evolutionary Epistemology - Survey of naturalistic epistemology which emphasizes importance of natural selection; by Michael Bradie and William Harms - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/epistemology-evolutionary/
Constitutionalism - Philosophical survey of the idea that government should be limited in its powers by law; by Wil Waluchow. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/constitutionalism/
Counterfactual Theories of Causation - Discussion of analysis of causal statements in terms of counterfactual conditionals; by Peter Menzies. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/causation-counterfactual/
Curry's Paradox - Discussion of a semantic paradox due to Haskell B. Curry; by J. C. Beall. - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/curry-paradox/
Moral Responsibility - Historical survey of the concept of moral responsibility; by Andrew Eshleman. - http://plato.sta