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Personal Identity and Ethics
(2025-7-1 11:45)
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[New Entry by Annette Dufner and David Shoemaker on June 30, 2025.]
We think of ourselves as temporally extended beings. We do not just exist in the moment. Most of us have been around for a few years and will, hopefully, continue to exist in the future. We also believe that we are individuals whose psychology and bodies are distinct from others. For example, our own thoughts and feelings can of course be communicated to others, but in some special way they seem to be ours. These views - our temporally extended existence and our distinctness from other individuals - have given rise to a number of ethical debates. For instance, if someone committed a terrible crime in the past, but then went through decades of inner reform, are they still deserving of blame and punishment to the same degree as shortly after the crime? Other debates concern the beginning and the end of our existence. Imagine someone issues a directive according to which she does not want further life-extending medica ...
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Arabic and Islamic Metaphysics
(2025-6-30 17:56)
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[Revised entry by Amos Bertolacci on June 30, 2025.
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Among the Greek philosophical disciplines transmitted to the Arabic and Islamic world, metaphysics was of ...
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Truth
(2025-6-28 10:44)
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[Revised entry by Michael Glanzberg on June 27, 2025.
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Truth is one of the central subjects in philosophy. It is also one of the largest. Truth has been a top ...
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Epistemic Foundations of Game Theory
(2025-6-28 9:21)
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[Revised entry by Eric Pacuit and Olivier Roy on June 27, 2025.
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Non-cooperative game theory studies how individual players, or a ...
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Incommensurable Values
(2025-6-27 14:19)
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[Revised entry by Henrik Andersson and Nien-hê Hsieh on June 26, 2025.
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Things are sometimes said to be incommensurable. The meaning of the term can take many ...
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Assertion
(2025-6-27 10:08)
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[Revised entry by Peter Pagin and Neri Marsili on June 26, 2025.
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Asserting is the act of claiming that something is the case - for instance, that oranges are c ...
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Continental Feminism
(2025-6-26 11:48)
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[Revised entry by Dilek Huseyinzadegan, Jana McAuliffe, Jameliah Inga Shorter-Bourhanou, B. Tamsin Kimoto, Ege Selin Islekel, Marie Draz, and Erika Brown on June 25, 2025.
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Free Logic
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[Revised entry by Norbert Gratzl, Edi Pavlovi , and John Nolt on June 19, 2025.
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In most general terms, free logic is concerned with names that do not denote. ...
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Nationalism
(2025-6-20 7:50)
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[New Entry by David Miller on June 19, 2025.]
[Editor's Note: The following new entry by David Miller replaces the former entry on this topic by the previous author.]...
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Abduction
(2025-6-19 11:30)
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[Revised entry by Igor Douven on June 18, 2025.
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In the philosophical literature, the term "abduction" is used in two related but different senses. In both se ...
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