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Intellectual Property
from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
(2014-9-23 15:05)
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[Revised entry by Adam Moore and Ken Himma on September 22, 2014.
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Intellectual property is generally characterized as non-physical property that is the product of original thought. Typically, rights do not surround the abstract non-physical entity; rather, intellectual property rights surround the control of physical manifestations or...
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The History of Utilitarianism
from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
(2014-9-23 14:28)
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[Revised entry by Julia Driver on September 22, 2014.
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Utilitarianism is one of the most powerful and persuasive approaches to normative ethics in the history of philosophy. Though not fully articulated until the 19th century, proto-utilitarian positions can be discerned throughout the history of ethical...
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David Lewis
from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
(2014-9-20 9:17)
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[Revised entry by Brian Weatherson on September 19, 2014.
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David Lewis (1941 - 2001) was one of the most important philosophers of the 20th Century. He made significant contributions to philosophy of language, philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of science, decision theory, epistemology, meta-ethics and aesthetics. In most of these...
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Sellars, Roy Wood
from Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
(2014-9-19 13:28)
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Roy Wood Sellars (18801973) Roy Wood Sellars was one of a generation of systematic philosophers in America the likes of which has not been seen before or since. He was born in Seaforth, Ontario in Canada, and spent most of his career at the University of Michigan where he continued working well into his 90s. […]
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African Sage Philosophy
from Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
(2014-9-19 12:30)
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African Sage Philosophy The Sage Philosophy Project began in the mid-1970s at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Nairobi Kenya. At the University, Henry Odera Oruka (1944-1995) popularized the term “Sage Philosophy Project,” and closely related terms such as “philosophic sagacity,” both by initiating a project of interviewing African sages, and by naming […]
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Hermann Lotze
from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
(2014-9-19 9:41)
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[Revised entry by David Sullivan on September 18, 2014.
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Rudolph Hermann Lotze (1817 - 1881) mediated the transition from the exuberance of German idealism, in the first half of the nineteenth century, to the sober, scholarly and scientific ethos that came to prevail in the second half. He adapted the notion...
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Desert
from Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
(2014-9-18 6:51)
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Desert Desert is a normative concept that is used in day-to-day life. Many believe that being treated as one deserves to be treated is a matter of justice, fairness, or rightness. Although desert claims come in a variety of forms, generally they are claims about some positive or negative treatment that someone or something ought […]
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Wilderness, Philosophy of American
from Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
(2014-9-18 2:51)
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Philosophy of American Wilderness Wilderness has been defined in diverse ways, but most famously in the Wilderness Act of 1964, which describes it “in contrast with those areas where man and his own works dominate the landscape … as an area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man […]
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Pierre Duhem
from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
(2014-9-17 8:39)
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[Revised entry by Roger Ariew on September 16, 2014.
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Pierre Duhem (1861 - 1916) was a French physicist and historian and philosopher of science. As a physicist, he championed "energetics," holding generalized thermodynamics as foundational for physical theory, that is, thinking that all of...
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Meaning Holism
from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
(2014-9-16 14:35)
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[New Entry by Henry Jackman on September 15, 2014.]
The term "meaning holism" is generally applied to views that treat the meanings of all of the words in a language as interdependent. Holism draws much of its appeal from the way in which the usage of all our words seems interconnected, and runs into many...
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