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Molyneux’s Problem
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[Revised entry by Brian Glenney, Gabriele Ferretti, and Marjolein Degenaar on January 8, 2026.
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Molyneux's problem asks whether a person born blind, capable of distinguishing a sphere and a cube by touch, could, if their vision were restored, recognize these shapes by sight alone. This problem, posed by the Irish scientist and politician William Molyneux (1656 - 1698) to John Locke, who published it in his An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1694), has ngaged...
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al-Fārābī’s Metaphysics
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[Revised entry by Stephen Menn on January 7, 2026.
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"Al-Fārābī's metaphysics", as understood here, means not just his views, and arguments for tho ...
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Philosophy of Cell Biology
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[Revised entry by William Bechtel and Andrew Bollhagen on January 6, 2026.
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Among biological entities, cells are regarded as of special importance since they ...
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Regularity and Inferential Theories of Causation
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[Revised entry by Holger Andreas and Mario Guenther on January 5, 2026.
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A cause is regularly followed by its effect. This idea is at the core of regularity t ...
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Paul Ricoeur
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[Revised entry by David Pellauer, Bernard Dauenhauer, and Scott Davidson on January 5, 2026.
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Paul Ricoeur (1913 - 2005) is a distinguished French philosopher ...
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Ontology and Information Systems
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[New Entry by Adam Pease on January 3, 2026.]
When two agents communicate they must have some significant body of shared understanding about the meaning of the symbols they use. Humans have attem ...
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Robert Kilwardby
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[Revised entry by José Filipe Silva on December 30, 2025.
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Robert Kilwardby (ca. 1215 - 1279) was a Dominican Provincial and later Archbishop of C ...
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The Coherence Theory of Truth
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[Revised entry by James O. Young on December 27, 2025.
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A coherence theory of truth states that any proposition is true if and only if it coheres with some sp ...
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Joane Petrizi
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[Revised entry by Tengiz Iremadze on December 27, 2025.
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Joane Petrizi (12th century) - the most significant Georgian medieval philosopher - devoted intensive ...
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Walter Benjamin
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[Revised entry by Peter Osborne and Matthew Charles on December 23, 2025.
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Walter Benjamin's importance as a philosopher and critical theorist can be gauged b ...
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