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Einstein’s Philosophy of Science
from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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[Revised entry by Don A. Howard and Marco Giovanelli on February 2, 2025.
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Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955) is well known as the most prominent physicist of the twentieth century. His contributions to twentieth-century philosophy of science, though of comparable importance, are less well known. Einstein's own philosophy of science is an original synthesis of elements drawn from sources as diverse as neo-Kantianism, conventionalism, and logical empiricism, its distinctive feature being its novel blending of realism with a holist, underdeterminationist form of conventionalism. Of special note...
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The Possibilism-Actualism Debate
from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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[Revised entry by Christopher Menzel on January 31, 2025.
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Actualism is a widely-held view in the metaphysics of modality that arises in response to the thesis of possibilism. To understand the motivations for possibilism, consider first that most everyone would agree that things might have been different than they are in fact. For example, no one has free soloed the Dawn Wall route up El Capitan in Yosemite National Park and, given the almost superhuman physical ability and mental strength the feat would require and, more importantly, the massive risk it...
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Bradley’s Regress
from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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[Revised entry by Katarina Perovic on January 31, 2025.
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"Bradley's Regress" is an umbrella term for a family of arguments that lie at the heart of the ontological debate concerning properties and relations. The original arguments were articulated by the British idealist philosopher F. H. Bradley, who, in his work Appearance and Reality (1893), outlined three distinct regress arguments against the relational unity of properties. Bradley argued that a particular thing (a lump of sugar) is nothing more than a bundle of qualities (whiteness,...
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Martin Heidegger
from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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[New Entry by Mark Wrathall on January 31, 2025.]
[Editor's Note: The following new entry by Mark Wrathall replaces the former entry on this topic by the previous author.] Martin Heidegger (1889 - 1976) is a central figure in the...
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