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Cognitive Science - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/cognitive-science/
The study of mind and intelligence. By Paul Thagard of the University of Waterloo. |
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Propositional Attitude Reports - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/prop-attitude-reports/
Explores semantic accounts of propositional attitude reports, and some of the theories developed to deal with Frege's puzzle. From the Stanford Encyclopedia, by Thomas J. McKay. |
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Multiple Realizability - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/multiple-realizability/
John Bickle discusses the contention that a given mental kind (property, state, event) is realized by distinct physical kinds. |
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Donald Davidson - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/davidson/
Jeff Malpas of the University of Tasmania. |
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Richard Rorty - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/rorty/
Life and work of 20th century American philosopher; by Bjørn Ramberg. |
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Plato's Middle Period Metaphysics and Epistemology - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/plato-metaphysics/
Discussion of Plato's views on metaphysics and the theory of knowledge, including his theory of forms; by Allan Silverman. |
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Saadya [Saadiah] - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/saadya/
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. |
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Actualism - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/actualism/
The thesis that there are no merely possible entities; by Christopher Menzel. |
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Timon of Phlius - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/timon-phlius/
Timon (c. 320-230 BC) was the younger contemporary and leading disciple of Pyrrho; by Richard Bett. |
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Robert Desgabets - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/desgabets/
Life and work of 17th century Cartesian philosopher; by Patricia Easton. |
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http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/desert/ - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/desert/
Moral issues of desert (punishment, success) and justice; by Owen McLeod. |
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Ontological Arguments - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ontological-arguments/
Ontological arguments are arguments, for the conclusion that God exists, from premisses which are supposed to derive from some source other than observation of the world. From the Stanford Encyclopedia, by Graham Oppy. |
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Identity Theory of Truth - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/truth-identity/
When a truth-bearer is true, there is a truth-maker with which it is identical and the truth of the former consists in its identity with the latter. By Stewart Candlish. |
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Contemporary Approaches to the Social Contract - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/contractarianism-contemporary/
By Fred D'Agostino. |
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Interpretation and Coherence in Legal Reasoning - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/legal-reas-interpret/
Survey of theories on legal reasoning; by Julie Dickson. |
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The Hole Argument - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/spacetime-holearg/
The hole argument is an attempt to illustrate how spacetime substantivalism causes errors in a large class of spacetime theories. By John D. Norton of the University of Pittsburgh. |
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http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/color/ - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/color/
Metaphysical and epistemological accounts of color. By Barry Maund of the University of Western Australia. |
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The Analysis of Knowledge - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/knowledge-analysis/
Survey of analyses of the concept of knowledge, including justified true belief and the Gettier problem; by Matthias Steup. |
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Ancient Skepticism - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/skepticism-ancient/
Two movements in ancient philosophy, Pyrrhonism, and Academic Skepticism. By Leo Groarke. |
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Bayes' Theorem - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/bayes-theorem/
Discussion of a formula to calculate conditional probabilities which figures in subjectivist approaches to epistemology; by James Joyce. |
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The Unity of Consciousness - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/consciousness-unity/
History and philosophical accounts of unity of consciousness; by Andrew Brook. |
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Epiphenomenalism - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/epiphenomenalism/
Discusses the view that mental events are caused by physical events in the brain, but have no effects upon any physical events. From the Stanford Encyclopedia, by William S. Robinson. |
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The Identity Theory of Mind - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/mind-identity/
Evaluates the theory that holds that states and processes of the mind are identical to states and processes of the brain. By J. J. C. Smart of Monash. |
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Mental Representation - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/mental-representation/
According to the Representational Theory of Mind, psychological states are to be understood as relations between agents and mental representations. By David Pitt, CUNY. |
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Connectionism - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/connectionism/
Movement in cognitive science which hopes to explain human intellectual abilities using artificial neural networks. By James W. Garson of the University of Houston. |
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The Language of Thought Hypothesis - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/language-thought/
By Murat Aydede, surveying the arguments for and against the proposition that thoughts are expressed in a mental language. |
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Private Language - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/private-language/
By Stewart Candlish from the University of Western Australia. |
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Feminist Ethics - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/feminism-ethics/
By Rosemarie Tong, Davidson College. |
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Friedrich Nietzsche - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/nietzsche/
Robert Wicks, University of Auckland. |
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Original Position - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/original-position/
The original position is a hypothetical situation in which rational calculators, acting as agents or trustees for the interests of concrete individuals, are pictured as choosing those principles of social relations under which their principals would do best. From the Stanford Encyclopedia, by Fred D'Agostino. |
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Descartes' Epistemology - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/descartes-epistemology/
By Lex Newman of the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. |
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Saint Augustine - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/augustine/
By Michael Mendelson of Lehigh University. |
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Modal Logic - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/logic-modal/
Originally the study of deductive behavior of the expressions `it is necessary that' and `it is possible that', now also includes logics for belief, tense, the deontic (moral) expressions. By James W. Garson, University of Houston. |
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Infinitary Logic - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/logic-infinitary/
Infinitary Logic is a branch of formal logic where finitary formulae are replaced by potentially infinitary mathematical entities. By John L. Bell. |
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Temporal Logic - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/logic-temporal/
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on the subject, with a detailed description, application areas and a bibliography. |
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Scottish Philosophy in the Eighteenth Century - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/scottish-18th/
Survey of Scottish Enlightenment philosophers, including Francis Hutcheson, Henry Home (Lord Kames), and George Campbell; by lexander Broadie. |
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18th Century German Philosophy Prior to Kant - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/18thGerman-preKant/
Survey of work of, among others, Christian Thomasius and Christian Wolff; by Brigitte Sassen. |
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Medieval Theories of Conscience - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/conscience-medieval/
The ability to act on the determinations of conscience is tied to the development of the moral virtues, which in turn refines the functions of conscience. By Doug Langston of the University of South Florida. |
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Medieval Theories of Practical Reason - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/practical-reason-med/
From the Stanford Encyclopedia, by Anthony Celano. |
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Medieval Theories of Modality - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/modality-medieval/
By Simo Knuuttila of the University of Helsinki. |