Dynamic Epistemic Logic This article tells the story of the rise of dynamic epistemic logic. The rise began in the 1960s with the creation and development of epistemic logic, the logic of knowledge, Then in…
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Philosophy of Love
Philosophy of Love This article examines the nature of love and some of the ethical and political ramifications. For the philosopher, the question “what is love?” generates a host of issues: love is an abstract…
Foi: Perspectives historiques
Foi: Perspectives historiques traditionnellement, la foi et la raison ont chacune été considérées comme des sources de justification de la croyance religieuse. Parce que les deux peuvent prétendre remplir cette même fonction épistémique, it has been a matter of much…
Ethics and Phenomenology
Ethics and Phenomenology Phenomenology is, generally speaking, a discipline that examines questions of metaphysics and epistemology. Insofar as ethics is usually seen as a topic apart from metaphysics and epistemology, it is thus not typically…
Modern Chinese Philosophy
Modern Chinese Philosophy The term “modern Chinese philosophy” is used here to denote various Chinese philosophical trends in the short period between the implementation of the constitutional “new policy” (1901) and the abolition of the…
Middle Knowledge
Middle Knowledge Luis de Molina If Aristotle had not been a student of Plato, then would Aristotle have chosen to start his school at Lyceum? If you believe God knows the answer to this question,…
Epistemic Circularity
Epistemic Circularity An epistemically circular argument defends the reliability of a source of belief by relying on premises that are themselves based on the source. It is a widely shared intuition that there is something…
Philosophy of Peace
Philosophy of Peace Peace is notoriously difficult to define, and this poses a special challenge for articulating any comprehensive philosophy of peace. Any discussion on what might constitute a comprehensive philosophy of peace invariably overlaps…
Dieu merci, Frege: Langue
Dieu merci, Frege: Language Gottlob Frege (1848-1925) is most celebrated today for his contributions to mathematical logic and the philosophy of language. The first section below considers why a philosophical investigation of language mattered at all for…
George Herbert Mead (1863-1931)
George Herbert Mead (1863-1931) George Herbert Mead est une figure majeure de l'histoire de la philosophie américaine, l'un des fondateurs du pragmatisme avec Peirce, James, Touffes, et Dewey. He published numerous papers during…