Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Metaphysics is the study of the basic structure of reality, of what there is and what it is like. It considers, for example, concepts such as identity, causation, substance, and kind, that seem ...

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/feminism-metaphysics/

Thomas Reid held a direct realist theory of memory. Like his direct realism about perception, Reid developed his account as an alternative to the model of the mind that he called 'the theory of ...

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/reid-memory-identity/

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https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/civil-rights/

Combinatory logic (henceforth: CL) is an elegant and powerful logical theory that is connected to many areas of logic, and has found applications in other disciplines, especially, in computer sc...

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/logic-combinatory/

This entry explores six general approaches to the reconciliation of reason and religious commitment and the relations among them. Though it touches on the intellectual status of theism and the r...

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/religious-commitment-reason/

Theodor W. Adorno (1903 - 1969) was one of the most important philosophers, cultural, and music critics in Germany after World War II. Although less well known among anglophone philosophers than...

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/adorno/

The laden phrase "identity politics" has come to signify a wide range of political activity and theorizing founded in the shared experiences of injustice of members of certain social groups. Rat...

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/identity-politics/

In logic, disjunction is a binary connective ((vee)) classically interpreted as a truth function the output of which is true if at least one of the input sentences (disjuncts) is true, and false...

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/disjunction/

ʿAyn al-Quḍāt was a first-rate philosopher, Sufi master, theologian, legal judge, poet, and scriptural exegete. He was a highly innovative author who wrote in both Arabic and Persian, and wh...

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/al-qudat/

The term "epistemology" comes from the Greek words "episteme" and "logos". "Episteme" can be translated as "knowledge" or "understanding" or "acquaintance", while "logos" can be translated as "a...

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/epistemology/

Causal decision theory adopts principles of rational choice that attend to an act's consequences. It maintains that an account of rational choice must use causality to identify the consideration...

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/decision-causal/

Immigration occurs when someone moves to another country in order to stay indefinitely. Thus, because of the brevity of their visits, tourists, business travelers and foreign students, for examp...

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/immigration/

The argument and thought-experiment now generally known as the Chinese Room Argument was first published in a 1980 article by American philosopher John Searle (1932 - ). It has become one of the...

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/chinese-room/

Political philosophy has witnessed a recent surge of interest in territorial rights - what they are, who holds them, what justifies them - as well as in a broader theory of territorial justice, ...

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/territorial-rights/

It is intuitive to think that animals communicate. This intuition shapes our everyday interactions with animals, and guides much empirical and theoretical research. Pet owners take their cats' m...

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/animal-communication/