Existentialism Existentialism is a catch-all term for those philosophers who consider the nature of the human condition as a key philosophical problem and who share the view that this problem is best addressed through ontology….
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Defeaters in Epistemology
Defeaters in Epistemology The concept of epistemic defeat or defeasibility has come to occupy an important place in contemporary epistemology, especially in relation to the closely allied concepts of justified belief, warrant, and knowledge. Ces…
Francis Hutcheson (1694-1745)
Francis Hutcheson (1694-1745) Francis Hutcheson était un philosophe écossais du XVIIIe siècle dont les écrits et les activités méticuleux ont influencé la vie en Écosse., Grande-Bretagne, Europe, et même les colonies nord-américaines nouvellement formées. Pour les historiens et les politologues,…
Éditeurs
Editors General Editors James Fieser, University of Tennessee at Martin, tu. S. UN. Bradley Dowden, Université d'État de Californie, Sacramento, tu. S. UN. Area Editors The following is list of the IEP area editors. See the…
Anne Le Fèvre Dacier (1647—1720)
Anne Le Fèvre Dacier (1647—1720) A distinguished classicist during the reign of the French king Louis XIV, Madame Dacier achieved renown for her translation of Greek and Latin texts into French. Her translation of Homer’s Iliad…
Objects of Perception
Objects of Perception The objects of perception are the entities we attend to when we perceive the world. Perception lies at the root of all our empirical knowledge. We may have acquired much of what…
Libertarianism
Libertarianism What it means to be a “libertarian” in a political sense is a contentious issue, especially among libertarians themselves. There is no single theory that can be safely identified as the libertarian theory, et…
Martin Heidegger (1889—1976)
Martin Heidegger (1889—1976) Martin Heidegger is widely acknowledged to be one of the most original and important philosophers of the 20th century, while remaining one of the most controversial. His thinking has contributed to such…
Frege’s Problem: Referential Opacity
Frege’s Problem: Referential Opacity The problem of referential opacity is to explain why a certain inference rule of classical logic sometimes produces invalid-seeming inferences when applied to ascriptions of mental states. The rule concerns substitution…
Synesthesia
Synesthesia The word “synesthesia” or “synaesthesia,” has its origin in the Greek roots, syn, meaning union, and aesthesis, meaning sensation: a union of the senses. Many researchers use the term “synesthesia” to refer to a…