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Process Theism
from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
(2014-1-29 9:42)
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[Revised entry by Donald Viney on January 28, 2014.
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Process theism typically refers to a family of theological ideas originating in, inspired by, or in agreement with the metaphysical orientation of the English philosopher-mathematician Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947) and the American philosopher-ornithologist Charles Hartshorne (1897 - 2000). For both Whitehead and Hartshorne, it is an essential attribute of God to be fully involved in and affected...
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The Problem of Dirty Hands
from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
(2014-1-28 14:51)
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[Revised entry by C.A.J. Coady on January 27, 2014.
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Should political leaders violate the deepest constraints of morality in order to achieve great goods or avoid disasters for their communities? This question poses what has become known amongst philosophers as the problem of dirty hands. There are many different strands to the philosophical debate about this topic, and they echo many of the complexities in more popular thinking about politics and...
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Skeptical Theism
from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
(2014-1-26 11:03)
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[New Entry by Trent Dougherty on January 25, 2014.]
Skeptical theism is a strategy for bringing human cognitive limitations to bear in reply to arguments from evil against the existence of God....
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Time
from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
(2014-1-25 15:38)
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[Revised entry by Ned Markosian on January 24, 2014.
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Discussions of the nature of time, and of various issues related to time, have always featured prominently in philosophy, but they have been especially important since the beginning of the 20th Century. This article contains a brief overview of some of the main topics in the philosophy of time - Fatalism; Reductionism and Platonism with respect to time; the topology of time; McTaggart's arguments;...
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Externalism About Mental Content
from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
(2014-1-23 10:46)
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[Revised entry by Joe Lau and Max Deutsch on January 22, 2014.
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Many of our mental states such as beliefs and desires are intentional mental states, or mental states with content. Externalism with regard to mental content says that in order to have certain types of intentional mental states (e.g. beliefs), it is necessary to be related to the environment in the right way. Internalism (or individualism) denies this, and it...
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Situations in Natural Language Semantics
from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
(2014-1-21 13:08)
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[Revised entry by Angelika Kratzer on January 20, 2014.
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Situation semantics was developed as an alternative to possible worlds semantics. In situation semantics, linguistic expressions are evaluated with respect to partial, rather than complete, worlds. There is no consensus about what situations are, just as there is no consensus about what possible worlds or events are. According to some, situations are structured entities consisting of relations and...
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Dewey's Moral Philosophy
from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
(2014-1-21 11:57)
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[Revised entry by Elizabeth Anderson on January 20, 2014.
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John Dewey (1859 - 1952) lived from the Civil War to the Cold War, a period of extraordinary social, economic, demographic, political and technological change. During his lifetime the United States changed from a rural to an urban society, from an agricultural to an industrial economy, from a regional to a world power. It emancipated its slaves, but subjected them to white supremacy. It absorbed...
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Intention
from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
(2014-1-21 11:51)
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[Revised entry by Kieran Setiya on January 20, 2014.
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Philosophical perplexity about intention begins with its appearance in three guises: intention for the future, as when I intend to complete this entry by the end of the month; the intention with which someone acts, as I am typing with the further intention of writing an introductory sentence; and intentional action, as in the fact that I am typing these words intentionally. As Elizabeth Anscombe wrote in a...
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Ernst Mally
from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
(2014-1-18 11:04)
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[Revised entry by Alexander Hieke and Gerhard Zecha on January 17, 2014.
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The Austrian philosopher Ernst Mally (1879 - 1944) is one of the most important representatives of Meinong's School. Though he is best known for his work on Meinong's theory of objects (Gegenstandstheorie) and for his development of deontic logic, he has also gained some notoriety for his German-nationalist convictions and his support of National Socialist ideology. On the one hand, Mally's contribution to...
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Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
(2014-1-18 9:57)
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[Revised entry by Lev Vaidman on January 17, 2014.
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The Many-Worlds Interpretation (MWI) of quantum mechanics holds that there are many worlds which exist in parallel at the same space and time as our own. The existence of the other worlds makes it possible to remove randomness and action at a distance from quantum theory and thus from all physics....
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