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Pyrrho
from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
(2014-10-23 9:29)
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[Revised entry by Richard Bett on October 22, 2014.
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Pyrrho was the starting-point for a philosophical movement known as Pyrrhonism that flourished several centuries after his own time. This later Pyrrhonism was one of the two major traditions of sceptical thought in the Greco-Roman world (the other being located in Plato's...
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Niccolò Machiavelli
from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
(2014-10-21 11:21)
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[Revised entry by Cary Nederman on October 20, 2014.
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Why an entry on Machiavelli? That question might naturally and legitimately occur to anyone encountering an entry about him in an encyclopedia of philosophy. Certainly, Machiavelli contributed to a large number of important discourses in Western...
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Pejorative Language
from Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
(2014-10-18 14:36)
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Pejorative Language Some words can hurt. Slurs, insults, and swears can be highly offensive and derogatory. Some theorists hold that the derogatory capacity of a pejorative word or phrase is best explained by the content it expresses. In opposition to content theories, deflationism denies that there is any specifically derogatory content expressed by pejoratives. As […]
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Reid on Memory and Personal Identity
from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
(2014-10-18 9:37)
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[Revised entry by Rebecca Copenhaver on October 17, 2014.
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Thomas Reid held a direct realist theory of memory. Like his direct realism about perception, Reid developed his account as an alternative to the model of the mind that he called 'the theory of ideas.' On such a theory, mental operations such as perception...
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Death
from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
(2014-10-18 9:15)
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[Revised entry by Steven Luper on October 17, 2014.
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This article considers several questions concerning death and its ramifications. First, what constitutes death? It is clear enough that people die when their lives end, but less clear what...
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Auguste Comte
from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
(2014-10-17 9:10)
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[Revised entry by Michel Bourdeau on October 16, 2014.
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Auguste Comte (1798 - 1857) is the founder of positivism, a philosophical and political movement which enjoyed a very wide diffusion in the second half of the nineteenth century. It sank into an almost complete oblivion during the twentieth, when it was eclipsed by neopositivism. However, Comte's decision to develop successively a...
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Intentionality
from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
(2014-10-16 9:48)
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[Revised entry by Pierre Jacob on October 15, 2014.
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Intentionality is the power of minds to be about, to represent, or to stand for, things, properties and states of affairs. The puzzles of intentionality lie at the interface between the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of language. The word itself, which is of medieval...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
(2014-10-14 20:46)
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[Revised entry by Russell Goodman on October 14, 2014.
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An American essayist, poet, and popular philosopher, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 82) began his career as a Unitarian minister in Boston, but achieved worldwide fame as a lecturer and the author of such essays as "Self-Reliance," "History,"...
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Russell's Moral Philosophy
from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
(2014-10-14 20:40)
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[Revised entry by Charles Pigden on October 14, 2014.
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Russell remains famous as a logician, a metaphysician, and as a philosopher of mathematics, but in his own day he was also notorious for his social and political opinions. He wrote an immense amount about practical ethics - women's rights, marriage and morals, war...
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The Development of Proof Theory
from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
(2014-10-14 6:40)
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[Revised entry by Jan von Plato on October 13, 2014.
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The development of --> proof theory--> can be naturally divided into: the prehistory of the notion of proof in ancient logic and mathematics; the discovery by...
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