Metaphysics

The nature of things

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Boundary

[Revised entry by Achille Varzi on July 3, 2023. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] We think of a boundary whenever we think…

Plato on Friendship and Eros

[Revised entry by C. D. C. Reeve on June 14, 2023. Changes to: Bibliography] Plato discusses love (eros) and friendship…

Principle of Sufficient Reason

[Revised entry by Yitzhak Y. Melamed and Martin Lin on June 14, 2023. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] The Principle of…

Global Justice

[Revised entry by Gillian Brock and Nicole Hassoun on June 9, 2023. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] On common accounts, we…

Mary Astell

[Revised entry by Alice Sowaal on June 6, 2023. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Mary Astell (1666 - 1731) was an English…

The Revision Theory of Truth

[Revised entry by Philip Kremer and Edoardo Rivello on June 6, 2023. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography, notes.html] Consider…

Transformative Experience

[New Entry by Rebecca Chan on June 1, 2023.] Transformative experiences are experiences that radically change the experiencer in…

Arabic and Islamic Philosophy of Religion

[New Entry by Jon McGinnis and Rahim Acar on May 31, 2023.] This entry focuses on the historical sources and formative moments…

Structural Realism

[Revised entry by James Ladyman on May 18, 2023. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Structural realism is considered by many…

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  Barnabás Ágota Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary Moderately Limited Omnipotence   Riccardo Baratella Free University…

Propositional Logic

[New Entry by Curtis Franks on May 18, 2023.] Propositional logic is the study of the meanings of, and the inferential…

Causation and Manipulability

[Revised entry by James Woodward on May 6, 2023. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography, notes.html] Manipulability theories of…

Metaphysics

[Revised entry by Peter van Inwagen, Meghan Sullivan, and Sara Bernstein on May 4, 2023. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] …

Meister Eckhart

[New Entry by Amber L. Griffioen on May 1, 2023.] [Editor's Note: The following new entry by Amber Griffioen replaces the former…

Moral Particularism and Moral Generalism

[Revised entry by Michael Ridge and Sean McKeever on May 1, 2023. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Among the many questions…

Jean Jacques Rousseau

[Revised entry by Christopher Bertram on April 21, 2023. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Jean-Jacques Rousseau remains an…

Umar Khayyam

[Revised entry by Seyed N. Mousavian, Suzanne Sumner, Mehdi Aminrazavi, and Glen Van Brummelen on April 18, 2023. Changes to:…

Reductionism in Biology

[Revised entry by Ingo Brigandt and Alan Love on April 10, 2023. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography, notes.html] Reductionism…

Atonement

[New Entry by Josh Thurow on April 5, 2023.] Atonement is what we do to fix relationships fractured by wrongdoing. To atone is,…

Epistemological Problems of Memory

[New Entry by Matthew Frise on March 27, 2023.] [Editor's Note: The following new entry by Matthew Frise replaces the former…
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