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  • Non-monotonic LogicThis link opens in a new windowNov 23, 2024
    [Revised entry by Christian Strasser and G. Aldo Antonelli on November 23, 2024. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Non-monotonic logic (NML) is a family of formal logics designed to model and better understand defeasible reasoning. Reasoners draw conclusions in a defeasible manner when they retain the right to retract these inferences upon the acquisition of further information. Numerous instances can be found, ranging from inductive generalizations to reasoning based on the best explanation, as well as inferences grounded on expert opinion. Defeasible inferences are prevalent in everyday reasoning, expert reasoning such...
  • Spinoza’s Psychological TheoryThis link opens in a new windowNov 21, 2024
    [Revised entry by Michael LeBuffe on November 21, 2024. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] In Part III of his Ethics, "On the Origin and Nature of the Affects," which is the subject of this article, Spinoza addresses two of the most serious challenges facing his thoroughgoing naturalism. First, he attempts to show that human beings follow the order of nature. Human beings, on Spinoza's view, have causal natures similar in kind to other ordinary objects, other "finite modes" in the technical language of the Ethics, so they ought to be analyzed and understood in the same way as the rest of...
  • Ancient Theories of Freedom and DeterminismThis link opens in a new windowNov 19, 2024
    [Revised entry by Tim O’Keefe on November 19, 2024. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] From at least Aristotle onwards, ancient philosophers engaged in systematic reflection on human agency. They asked questions about when people are morally responsible for their actions and what must be the case for people to deliberate and act effectively, and in doing so they confronted arguments that tried to establish that humans are not responsible and effective agents. But if we want to understand these philosophers correctly, we should be careful not to assimilate ancient theories of freedom and determinism too quickly to the problem of free...
  • Petrus RamusThis link opens in a new windowNov 19, 2024
    [Revised entry by Erland Sellberg on November 19, 2024. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] While Petrus Ramus (1515 - 1572) undoubtedly occupies an important place in the history of ideas, few nowadays would consider him to be one of the most significant philosophers of his time. Yet in his day he gained an impressive number of followers and admirers, and his works influenced the curriculum of many European universities. According to scholars such as Walter J. Ong, Ramus' frequently reprinted books on logic "could in no real sense be considered an advance or even a reform" (Ong 1958: 5). Yet, it was mainly...
  • MaimonidesThis link opens in a new windowNov 18, 2024
    [Revised entry by Kenneth Seeskin on November 18, 2024. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Moses ben Maimon [known to English speaking audiences as Maimonides and Hebrew speaking as Rambam] (1138 - 1204) is the greatest Jewish philosopher of the medieval period and is still widely read today. The Mishneh Torah, his 14-volume compendium of Jewish law, established him as the leading rabbinic authority of his time and quite possibly of all time. His philosophic masterpiece, the Guide of the Perplexed, is a sustained treatment of Jewish thought and practice that seeks to resolve the conflict between religious...
  • August Wilhelm von SchlegelThis link opens in a new windowNov 18, 2024
    [Revised entry by Katia D. Hay on November 18, 2024. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] August W. Schlegel (Sept. 5, 1767, Hanover - May 12, 1845, Bonn) was a German essayist, critic, translator, philosopher, and poet. Although the philosophical dimension and profundity of his writings remain underrated, he is considered to be one of the founders of the German Romantic Movement as well as one of the most prominent disseminators of its philosophical foundational ideas, not only in Germany but also abroad and, most notably, in Britain. Indeed, Schlegel conceived of this new cultural, literary and social movement...
  • Hume on ReligionThis link opens in a new windowNov 15, 2024
    [Revised entry by Paul Russell and Anders Kraal on November 15, 2024. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] David Hume's various writings concerning problems of religion are among the most important and influential contributions on this topic. In these writings Hume advances a systematic, sceptical critique of the philosophical foundations of various theological systems. Whatever interpretation one takes of Hume's philosophy as a whole, it is certainly true that one of his most basic philosophical objectives is to discredit the doctrines and dogmas of traditional theistic, and especially Christian, belief. There are,...
  • Eliminative MaterialismThis link opens in a new windowNov 12, 2024
    [Revised entry by William Ramsey on November 12, 2024. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Eliminative materialism (or eliminativism) is the radical claim that our ordinary, common-sense understanding of the mind is deeply wrong and that some or all of the mental states posited by common-sense do not actually exist and have no role to play in a mature science of the mind. Descartes famously challenged much of what we take for granted, but he insisted that, for the most part, we can be confident about the content of our own minds. Eliminative materialists go further than Descartes on this point, since they...
  • Hermann LotzeThis link opens in a new windowNov 12, 2024
    [Revised entry by David Sullivan on November 12, 2024. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] 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. In Lotze's work, he adapted the notion of "chief" or defining problems in the philosophical sub-disciplines, inherited from Herbart, and brought opposing approaches to bear on them, preparing the way for the modern textbook. A professor in a changing situation, he mostly restricted...
  • PhilanthropyThis link opens in a new windowNov 12, 2024
    [New Entry by Theodore M. Lechterman, Emma Saunders-Hastings, and Rob Reich on November 12, 2024.] Philanthropy involves the voluntary contribution of money or other goods and resources for broadly public purposes. Unlike taxation, contributions are not coerced: rather, their magnitude, their direction, and often their specific use is determined by the donor's discretion. Unlike the case of ordinary market exchange, the giver does not ask or receive payment for what she offers, though she may receive psychological, reputational, or even material benefits from her gift (e.g., she may feel a "warm glow", see her...

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