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Bernardino Telesio

05.11.2009 17:48    plato.stanford.edu
1509 - 1588) belongs to a group of independent philosophers of the late Renaissance who left the universities in order to develop philosophical and scientific ideas beyond the restrictions of the Aristotelian-scholastic tradition. Authors in the early modern period referred
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Bernardino Telesio



Space and Time: Inertial Frames

05.11.2009 17:48    plato.stanford.edu
Revised entry by Robert DiSalle on November 4, 2009. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] A "frame of reference" is a standard relative to which motion and rest may be measured; any set of points or objects that are at rest
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Space and Time: Inertial Frames

Classical Logic

02.11.2009 04:04    plato.stanford.edu
Revised entry by Stewart Shapiro on November 2, 2009. Changes to: Main text] Typically, a logic consists of a formal or informal language together with a deductive system and/or a model-theoretic semantics. The language is, or corresponds to, a part
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Classical Logic

Russell's Logical Atomism

30.10.2009 21:19    plato.stanford.edu
Revised entry by Kevin Klement on October 30, 2009. Changes to: Bibliography] Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970) described his philosophy as a kind of "logical atomism", by which he meant to endorse both a metaphysical view and a certain methodology
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Monotheism

27.10.2009 14:58    plato.stanford.edu
Revised entry by William Wainwright on October 26, 2009. Changes to: Bibliography] Theists believe that reality's ultimate principle is God - an omnipotent, omniscient, goodness that is the creative ground of everything other than itself. Monotheism is the view that
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Louis Althusser

22.10.2009 21:17    plato.stanford.edu
New Entry by William Lewis on October 16, 2009.] Louis Pierre Althusser (1918 - 1990) was one of the most influential Marxist philosophers of the 20th Century. As they seemed to offer a renewal of Marxist thought as well as
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Louis Althusser

Margaret Lucas Cavendish

22.10.2009 21:17    plato.stanford.edu
was a philosopher, poet, scientist, fiction-writer, and playwright who lived in the Seventeenth Century. Her work is important for a number of reasons. One is that it lays out an early and very compelling version of the naturalism that is
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Margaret Lucas Cavendish

Neo-Taoism

03.10.2009 05:15    plato.stanford.edu
in the "Wade-Giles" system of romanization) names the focal development in early "medieval" Chinese philosophy, from the third to the sixth century C.E. In Chinese sources, this development is called xuanxue (hsuan-hsueh, in Wade-Giles), literally the "learning" or study (xue)
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Neo-Taoism

Comparative Philosophy: Chinese and Western

03.10.2009 05:15    plato.stanford.edu
Revised entry by David Wong on October 1, 2009. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Comparative philosophy brings together philosophical traditions that have developed in relative isolation from one another and that are defined quite broadly along cultural and regional lines
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Comparative Philosophy: Chinese and Western

Saint Thomas Aquinas

03.10.2009 05:15    plato.stanford.edu
Revised entry by Ralph McInerny and John O'Callaghan on September 30, 2009. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Thomas Aquinas (1225 - 1274) lived at a critical juncture of western culture when the arrival of the Aristotelian corpus in Latin translation
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Pragmatic Arguments and Belief in God

03.10.2009 05:14    plato.stanford.edu
Revised entry by Jeff Jordan on September 29, 2009. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Pragmatic arguments have often been employed in support of theistic belief. Theistic pragmatic arguments are not arguments for the proposition that God exists; they are arguments
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Pragmatic Arguments and Belief in God

William James

29.09.2009 12:17    plato.stanford.edu
was an original thinker in and between the disciplines of physiology, psychology and philosophy. His twelve-hundred page masterwork, The Principles of Psychology (1890), is a rich blend of physiology, psychology, philosophy, and personal reflection that has given us such ideas
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Feminist Perspectives on Trans Issues

29.09.2009 12:17    plato.stanford.edu
New Entry by Talia Bettcher on September 26, 2009.] The relationship between feminism and transgender theory and politics is surprisingly fraught. The goal in this entry is to outline some of the key philosophical issues at the intersections, and this
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The Chinese Room Argument

24.09.2009 13:36    plato.stanford.edu
devised by John Searle, is an argument against the possibility of true artificial intelligence. The argument centers on a thought experiment in which someone who knows only English sits alone in a room following English instructions for manipulating strings of
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Impossible Worlds

19.09.2009 15:14    plato.stanford.edu
New Entry by Francesco Berto on September 17, 2009.] It is a venerable slogan due to David Hume, and inherited by the empiricist tradition, that the impossible cannot be believed, or even conceived. In Positivismus und Realismus, Moritz Schlick claimed
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Peter Frederick Strawson

17.09.2009 01:45    plato.stanford.edu
1919 - 2006) was an Oxford-based philosopher whose career spanned the second half of the twentieth century. He wrote most notably about the philosophy of language, metaphysics, epistemology and the history of philosophy, especially Kant....
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Information Processing and Thermodynamic Entropy

17.09.2009 01:44    plato.stanford.edu
New Entry by Owen Maroney on September 15, 2009.] Are principles of information processing necessary to demonstrate the consistency of statistical mechanics? Does the physical implementation of a computational operation have a fundamental thermodynamic cost, purely by virtue of its
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Kant's Views on Space and Time

14.09.2009 20:57    plato.stanford.edu
are immediately evident: they are widely regarded as central to Kant's so-called critical philosophy, and there is no consensus on how they ought to be characterized and explicated. The overarching goal of this entry is to bring some clarity to
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The Concept of the Aesthetic

12.09.2009 18:24    plato.stanford.edu
New Entry by James Shelley on September 11, 2009.] Introduced into the philosophical lexicon during the Eighteenth Century, the term "aesthetic" has come to be used to designate, among other things, a kind of object, a kind of judgment, a
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Medieval Theories of Analogy

12.09.2009 18:24    plato.stanford.edu
were a response to problems in three areas: logic, theology, and metaphysics. Logicians were concerned with the use of words having more than one sense, whether completely different, or related in some way. Theologians were concerned with language about God.
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