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Friedrich Schlegel

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Published: March 18, 2025 00:46

[Revised entry by Allen Speight on March 17, 2025. Changes to: Bibliography] Friedrich Schlegel (1772 - 1829) is of undisputed importance as a literary critic, but interest in his work among philosophers has until recently tended to be confined to a…

Tibetan Epistemology and Philosophy of Language

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Published: March 17, 2025 01:44

[Revised entry by Pascale Hugon on March 16, 2025. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] The birth of the Tibetan epistemological tradition (Tib. tshad ma) follows the reception in Tibet of a corpus of Indian Buddhist works focusing on the topic of…

Egalitarianism

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Published: March 13, 2025 04:54

[New Entry by Juliana Bidadanure and David Axelsen on March 12, 2025.] [Editor's Note: The following new entry by Juliana Bidadanure and David Axelsen replaces the former entry on this topic by the previous author.]...

Philosophy of Macroevolution

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Published: March 13, 2025 03:42

[Revised entry by Derek Turner and Joyce C. Havstad on March 12, 2025. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Macroevolution refers (most of the time, in practice) to evolutionary patterns and processes above the species level. It is usually contrasted…

Search Engines and Ethics

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ethics-search/

Published: March 13, 2025 02:04

[Revised entry by Herman Tavani and Michael Zimmer on March 12, 2025. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Search engines shape our understanding of the world by controlling what information we see and how we access it. As gatekeepers of knowledge,…

Negation

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Published: March 12, 2025 02:10

[Revised entry by Laurence R. Horn and Heinrich Wansing on March 11, 2025. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography, notes.html, substructural.html, unary-connective.html] Negation is in the first place a phenomenon of semantic opposition. As such, negation…

The Sale of Human Organs

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Published: March 11, 2025 04:22

[Revised entry by Stephen Wilkinson on March 10, 2025. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Organ sale - for example, allowing or encouraging consenting adults to become living kidney donors in return for money - has been proposed as a possible solution…

The Sophists

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Published: March 11, 2025 04:02

[Revised entry by C.C.W. Taylor and Mi-Kyoung Lee on March 10, 2025. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] The Greek word sophistēs, formed from the noun sophia, 'wisdom' or 'learning', has the general sense 'one who exercises wisdom or learning'. As…

Ideology

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Published: March 8, 2025 03:18

[New Entry by William Clare Roberts on March 7, 2025.] The uses of the word "ideology" are so divergent as to make it doubtful that there is any conceptual unity to the term. It may refer to a comprehensive worldview, a legitimating discourse, a partisan…

The Textual Transmission of the Aristotelian Corpus

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Published: March 8, 2025 03:01

[New Entry by Justin Winzenrieth on March 7, 2025.] The Aristotelian corpus (corpus aristotelicum) is the collection of the extant works transmitted under the name of Aristotle along with its organizational features, such as its ordering, internal textual…

19th and 20th Century Chilean Philosophy

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Published: March 7, 2025 14:18

[Revised entry by Ivan Jaksic on March 7, 2025. Changes to: Main text] Philosophy in Chile, as in the rest of Latin America, has been an academic pursuit ever since the conquest and settlement of the New World by Spain and Portugal in the early sixteenth…