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Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy organizes scholars from around the world in philosophy and related disciplines to create and maintain an up-to-date reference work.
Plato (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
There is another feature of Plato’s writings that makes him distinctive among the great philosophers and colors our experience of him as an author. Nearly everything he wrote takes the form of a dialogue.
The Meaning of Life - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
It has become increasingly common for philosophers of life’s meaning, especially objectivists, to hold that life as a whole, or at least long stretches of it, can substantially affect its meaningfulness beyond the amount of meaning (if any) in its parts.
Existentialism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Prominent anglophone philosophers such as Harry Frankfurt (1971), Charles Taylor (1985), and Alasdair MacIntyre (1981) have drawn on classical existentialism to illuminate how we exist in the meanings and self-interpretations that we create for ourselves.
Enlightenment - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Through their articulation of the ideal of scientia, of a complete science of reality, composed of propositions derived demonstratively from a priori first principles, these philosophers exert great influence on the Enlightenment.
Table of Contents - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
A abduction (Igor Douven) Abelard [Abailard], Peter (Peter King and Andrew Arlig) Abhidharma (Noa Ronkin) abilities (John Maier and Sophie Kikkert) Abner of Burgos (Shalom Sadik) abortion, ethics of (Elizabeth Harman) Abrabanel, Judah (Aaron Hughes) abstract objects (José L. Falguera, Concha Martínez-Vidal, and Gideon Rosen) accidental properties — see essential vs. accidental properties ...
Free Will (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Most philosophers theorizing about free will take themselves to be attempting to analyze a near-universal power of mature human beings. But as we’ve noted above, there have been free will skeptics in both ancient and (especially) modern times.
Philosophy of Mathematics - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
When professional mathematicians are concerned with the foundations of their subject, they are said to be engaged in foundational research. When professional philosophers investigate philosophical questions concerning mathematics, they are said to contribute to the philosophy of mathematics.
Love (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Even within personal love, philosophers from the ancient Greeks on have traditionally distinguished three notions that can properly be called “love”: eros, agape, and philia.
Retributive Justice - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
The idea of retributive justice has played a dominant role in theorizing about punishment over the past few decades, but many features of it—especially the notions of desert and proportionality, the normative status of suffering, and the ultimate justification for retribution—remain contested and problematic.
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