Ralph Cudworth
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[Revised entry by Sarah Hutton on August 15, 2025.
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The English philosopher, Ralph Cudworth (1618 - 1688) defies classification within customary categories of the history of philosophy. At a time when mainstream philosophers announced their modernity by breaking with the past, Cudworth is a figure of continuity, steeped in ancient philosophy, yet abreast of contemporary philosophy and science. He shared the anti-scholastic agenda of self-styled modernisers like Bacon, Hobbes and Descartes, with whose philosophy he engaged, but framed his most original ideas by recourse...
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Causation in Arabic and Islamic Thought
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[Revised entry by Kara Richardson on August 15, 2025.
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In the classical period of Arabic and Islamic thought (9th - 12th centuries), original and influential ...
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Trinity
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[Revised entry by Dale Tuggy on August 14, 2025.
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A Trinity doctrine is commonly express ...
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Edmund Husserl
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[New Entry by Dan Zahavi on August 8, 2025.]
[Editor's Note: The following new entry by Dan Zahavi replaces the former entry on this topic by the previous author.]...
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Justice as a Virtue
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[Revised entry by Mark LeBar on August 8, 2025.
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The notion of justice as a virtue began in reference to a trait of individuals, and to some extent remains so ...
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Giles of Rome
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[Revised entry by Roberto Lambertini on August 7, 2025.
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Giles of Rome (who died in 1316 as archbishop of Bourges) was one of the most productive and influent ...
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Idiolects
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[Revised entry by Alex Barber and Eduardo Garcia Ramirez on August 5, 2025.
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For the purposes of this entry an idiolect is a language the linguistic (i. e. syntactic, phono ...
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Confirmation
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[Revised entry by Vincenzo Crupi on August 4, 2025.
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Human cognition and behavior heavily relies on the notion that evidence (data, premises) can affect the c ...
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Lady Anne Conway
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[Revised entry by Sarah Hutton on August 4, 2025.
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Lady Anne Conway (nee Anne Finch) was one of a tiny minority of seventeenth-century women who was able to p ...
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Robert Boyle
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[Revised entry by Peter Anstey and Jan-Erik Jones on August 4, 2025.
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Best known today as the father of chemistry, Robert Boyle (1627 - 1691) has, since the e ...
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