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 every...
Zhuangzi (Chuang-tzu 莊子 "Master Zhuang" late 4th century BC) is the pivotal figure in Classical Philosophical Daoism. The Zhuangzi is a compilation of his and others' writings at the pinnacl...
Kumārila Bhaṭṭa, a Brahmanical proponent of the Pūrva Mīmāṃsā school who flourished around 660 ce, was among the most influential thinkers in the history of Indian philosophy. His sig...
If law is a system of enforceable rules governing social relations and legislated by a political system, it might seem obvious that law is connected to ideology. Ideology refers, in a general se...
Questions about necessity (or what has to be, or what cannot be otherwise) and possibility (or what can be, or what could be otherwise) are questions about modality. Fictionalism is an approach ...
There is an extensive literature on time travel in both philosophy and physics. Part of the great interest of the topic stems from the fact that reasons have been given both for thinking that ti...
Until recently, epistemology - the study of (the nature, sources, and pursuit of) knowledge - was heavily individualistic in focus. The emphasis was on the pursuit of knowledge by individual sub...
Pierre Gassendi (b. 1592, d. 1655) was a French philosopher, scientific chronicler, observer, and experimentalist, scholar of ancient texts and debates, and active participant in contemporary de...
Substantivalists believe that there are regions of space or spacetime. Many substantivalists also believe that there are entities (people, tables, social groups, electrons, fields, holes, events...
Herbert Spencer (1820 - 1903) is typically, though quite wrongly, considered a coarse social Darwinist. After all, Spencer, and not Darwin, coined the infamous expression "survival of the fittes...
Testimony is an important source of knowledge which is used ubiquitously in our daily lives (Coady 1992; Lackey 2008; Lackey a Sosa 2006; Matilal a Chakrabarti 1994; Faulkner 2011; Moran 2018; W...
Theory of knowledge, pramāṇa-śāstra, is a rich genre of Sanskrit literature, spanning almost twenty centuries, carried out in texts belonging to distinct schools of philosophy. Debate acros...
Many important debates in contemporary ethics centre on idealized thought experiments in which agents are assumed to have perfect information about the effects of their actions and other morally...
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/moral-decision-uncertainty/
This entry offers a broad historical review of the origin and development of Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection through the initial Darwinian phase of the "Darwinian Revolution" u...
Giordano Bruno (1548 - 1600) was one of the most adventurous thinkers of the Renaissance. Supremely confident in his intellectual abilities, he ridiculed Aristotelianism, especially its contempo...