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Philosophy Word of the Day – Other Minds
Image via Wikipedia The problem of other minds is the problem of how to justify the almost universal belief that others have minds very like our own. It is one of the hallowed, if nowadays unfashionab… more →
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Philosophy Word of the Day – Other Minds
fleance7 wrote 6 days ago: Image via Wikipedia The problem of other minds is the problem of how to justify the almost universal … more →
Philosophy Word of the Day – Personalism
fleance7 wrote 2 weeks ago: Although it was only in the first half of the twentieth century that the term personalism became kno … more →
Philosophy Word of the Day – Feminist Epistemology
fleance7 wrote 3 weeks ago: Feminist epistemology is an outgrowth of both feminist theorizing about gender and traditional epist … more →
Philosophy Word of the Day – Action Theory
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Philosophy Word of the Day – Action Theory
fleance7 wrote 3 weeks ago: Branch of philosophy concerned with the analysis of what human beings do intentionally. This typical … more →
Philosophy Word of the Day – Abandonment
fleance7 wrote 3 weeks ago: aldous huxley via last.fm In the ethical thought of such existentialist writers as Sartre and Heideg … more →
Philosophy Word of the Day – Moral Character
fleance7 wrote 1 month ago: Image by Image Editor via Flickr At the heart of one major approach to ethics—an approach counting a … more →
Philosophy Word of the Day – Underdetermination of Scientific Theory
fleance7 wrote 1 month ago: At the heart of the underdetermination of scientific theory by evidence is the simple idea that the … more →
Philosophy Word of the Day – Compatibilism
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fleance7 wrote 1 month ago: Compatibilism offers a solution to the free will problem. This philosophical problem concerns a disp … more →
Philosophy Word of the Day – Language Games
fleance7 wrote 1 month ago: Image via Wikipedia According to Ludwig Wittengenstein, the vagueness of ordinary usage is not a pro … more →
Philosophy Word of the Day – Cartesian Skepticism
fleance7 wrote 2 months ago: Any of a class of skeptical views against empirical knowledge based on the claim that claims to empi … more →
Philosophy Word of the Day – The Knowledge Argument Against Physicalism
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fleance7 wrote 2 months ago: The knowledge argument is one of the main challenges to physicalism, the doctrine that the world is … more →
Philosophy Word of the Day – Knowledge and Science
fleance7 wrote 2 months ago: “Science systematically corrects the errors of common sense. Thus, from science we learned that, co … more →
Philosophy Word of the Day – Voltaire (1694–1778)
fleance7 wrote 2 months ago: Image via Wikipedia François-Marie d’Arouet (1694–1778), better known by his pen name Voltaire … more →
Philosophy Word of the Day – de dicto / de re
fleance7 wrote 2 months ago: Distinction between ways of understanding the logical necessity or truth of statements, either in te … more →
Philosophy Word of the Day – Religious Language
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fleance7 wrote 2 months ago: The term “religious language” refers to statements or claims made about God or gods. Here is a typic … more →
Philosophy Word of the Day – The Analytic/Synthetic Distinction
fleance7 wrote 2 months ago: “Analytic” sentences, such as “Ophthalmologists are doctors,” are those whose truth seems to be know … more →
Philosophy Word of the Day – Performative Utterance
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fleance7 wrote 2 months ago: A linguistic expression used to do something. When spoken by someone in an appropriate position: … more →
Philosophy Word of the Day – Neo-Thomism
fleance7 wrote 2 months ago: A nineteenth- and twentieth-century movement (encouraged by Leo XIII’s Aeterni Patris in 1879) … more →
