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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
Beauty (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) It is a primary theme among ancient Greek, Hellenistic, and medieval philosophers, and was central to eighteenth and nineteenth-century thought, as represented in treatments by such thinkers as Shaftesbury, Hutcheson, Hume, Burke, Kant, Schiller, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Hanslick, and Santayana
The Moral Status of Animals - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Increasingly, philosophers are arguing that while our behavior towards animals is indeed subject to moral scrutiny, the kinds of ethical arguments that are usually presented frame the issues in the wrong way
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
Trans Philosophy (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) While some philosophers (even trans philosophers) make various arguments about trans people by appealing merely to some higher reason or reality (Dembroff 2020b; Burke 2022), trans philosophy proper requires more
List of Authors - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy B [jump to top] Babushkina, Dina Bradley’s Moral Philosophy (with David Crossley) Bradley’s Moral Philosophy (with David Crossley) Bacciagaluppi, Guido The Role of Decoherence in Quantum Mechanics The Role of Decoherence in Quantum Mechanics Badhwar, Neera K Ayn Rand (with Roderick T Long) Ayn Rand (with Roderick T Long) Baedke, Jan Evolution and Development (with Scott F Gilbert
Presocratic Philosophy - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy The questions that the early Greek philosophers asked, the sorts of answers that they gave, and the views that they had of their own inquiries were the foundation for the development of philosophy as it came to be defined in the work of Plato and Aristotle and their successors
Locke On Freedom - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy This question made sense to Scholastic philosophers (including, e g , Bramhall, who engaged in a protracted debate on the subject with Hobbes), who tended not to distinguish between the question of whether the will is free and the question of whether the mind or soul is free with respect to willing, and, indeed, some of whom thought that acts