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Transitional Justice
from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
(2014-4-5 9:41)
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[Revised entry by Nir Eisikovits on April 4, 2014.
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Once violent conflict between two groups has subsided, what is the best way to transition to a civil society? Do former enemies need to "come to terms with their past" if they are to live peacefully? If such a reckoning is required, what are the strategies of transition available to the parties?...
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Baron de Montesquieu, Charles-Louis de Secondat
from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
(2014-4-3 12:23)
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[Revised entry by Hilary Bok on April 2, 2014.
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Montesquieu was one of the great political philosophers of the Enlightenment. Insatiably curious and mordantly funny, he constructed a naturalistic account of the various forms of government, and of the causes that made them what they were and that advanced or constrained their development. He used this account to explain how governments might be preserved from corruption. He saw despotism, in particular,...
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Feminist Political Philosophy
from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
(2014-4-2 14:25)
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[Revised entry by Noëlle McAfee on April 1, 2014.
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Feminist political philosophy is an area of philosophy that is in part focused on understanding and critiquing the way political philosophy is usually construed - often without any attention to feminist concerns - and on articulating how political theory might be reconstructed in a way that advances feminist concerns. Feminist political philosophy is a branch of both feminist philosophy and...
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The Disjunctive Theory of Perception
from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
(2014-4-2 9:13)
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[Revised entry by Matthew Soteriou on April 1, 2014.
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Perceptual experiences are often divided into the following three broad categories: veridical perceptions, illusions, and hallucinations. For example, when one has a visual experience as of a red object, it may be that one is really seeing an object and its red colour (veridical perception), that one is seeing a green object (illusion), or that one is not seeing an object at all...
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Type Theory
from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
(2014-3-31 8:04)
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[Revised entry by Thierry Coquand on March 30, 2014.
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The topic of type theory is fundamental both in logic and computer science. We limit ourselves here to sketch some aspects that are important in logic. For the importance of types in computer science, we refer the reader for instance to Reynolds 1983 and 1985....
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Practical Reason
from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
(2014-3-27 11:26)
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[Revised entry by R. Jay Wallace on March 26, 2014.
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Practical reason is the general human capacity for resolving, through reflection, the question of what one is to do. Deliberation of this kind is practical in at least two senses. First, it is practical in its subject matter, insofar as it is concerned with action. But it is also practical in its consequences or its issue, insofar as reflection about action itself directly moves people to act. Our capacity for...
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Moral Responsibility
from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
(2014-3-27 11:17)
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[Revised entry by Andrew Eshleman on March 26, 2014.
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When a person performs or fails to perform a morally significant action, we sometimes think that a particular kind of response is warranted. Praise and blame are perhaps the most obvious forms this reaction might take. For example, one who encounters a car accident may be regarded as worthy of praise for having saved a child from inside the burning car, or alternatively, one may be regarded as...
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Śāntarakita
from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
(2014-3-27 9:43)
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[Revised entry by James Blumenthal on March 26, 2014.
Changes to: Bibliography]Śāntarakita (725 - 788)[1] was one of the most important and pivotal thinkers in the history of Indian and Tibetan Buddhist philosophy.[2] His contributions to Buddhist thought were particularly noteworthy...
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Thomas More
from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
(2014-3-20 13:07)
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[New Entry by Dominic Baker-Smith on March 19, 2014.]
Thomas More (1478 - 1535) was an English lawyer, humanist, statesman, and Catholic martyr, whose paradoxical life is reflected in his contrasting titles: he was knighted by King Henry VIII in 1521 and canonized by Pope Pius XI in 1935. Born to an affluent mercantile and professional family, he was representative of the lively intellectual culture which had evolved in fifteenth century London and which...
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Experimental Moral Philosophy
from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
(2014-3-20 12:26)
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[New Entry by Mark Alfano and Don Loeb on March 19, 2014.]
Experimental moral philosophy began to emerge as a methodology in the last decade of the twentieth century, a branch of the larger experimental philosophy (X-Phi, XP) approach. From the beginning, it has been embroiled in controversy on a number of fronts. Some...
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