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Aesthetics in Chinese Philosophy: Painting and Calligraphy
(2026-2-26 12:01)
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[New Entry by Yolaine Escande on February 25, 2026.]
Although there is no word such as "aesthetics" in Chinese philosophy, if we understand it not in the restrictive sense of the science of beauty but in the broader sense of reflection on the theory of art, then aesthetics does indeed exist in Chinese philosophy, even if the matters and concerns that arose differed from those dominant in Europe....
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Liberalism
(2026-2-26 11:52)
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[Revised entry by Shane D. Courtland, Gerald Gaus, and David Schmidtz on February 25, 2026.
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Liberalism is more than one thing. On any close examination, it s ...
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Natural Deduction Systems in Logic
(2026-2-25 12:31)
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[Revised entry by Francis Jeffry Pelletier and Allen Hazen on February 24, 2026.
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'Natural ded ...
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Animalism
(2026-2-24 10:16)
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[Revised entry by Stephan Blatti on February 23, 2026.
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Among the questions to be raised under the heading of "personal identity" are these: "What are we?" (n ...
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Scientific Pluralism
(2026-2-22 21:33)
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[Revised entry by David Ludwig and Stéphanie Ruphy on February 22, 2026.
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Science is a complex epistemic and social practice that is organized in a large numb ...
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Bruno Bauer
(2026-2-21 15:07)
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[Revised entry by Douglas Moggach and Gabriele Schimmenti on February 20, 2026.
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Bruno Bauer (6 September 1809 - 13 April 1882) was a philosopher, historian, ...
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Atomism from the 17th to the 20th Century
(2026-2-21 12:26)
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[Revised entry by Alan Chalmers and Klodian Coko on February 20, 2026.
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Atomism in the form in which it first emerged in Ancient Greece was a metaphysical the ...
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Structuralism in Physics
(2026-2-20 21:33)
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[Revised entry by Heinz-Juergen Schmidt on February 20, 2026.
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Under the heading of "structuralism in physics" there are three different but closely related r ...
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Computer Simulations in Science
(2026-2-20 15:24)
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[Revised entry by Eric Winsberg and Ramon Alvarado on February 19, 2026.
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Computer simulations were first introduced to scientific inquiry in meteorology and ...
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Evolutionary Approaches to Religion
(2026-2-19 8:47)
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[New Entry by Jason Marsh on February 18, 2026.]
Within the broader conversation about religion and science, no topic has sparked more interest than the Darwinian revolution and whether it can be ...
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