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Privacy and Information Technology
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/it-privacy/
Published: October 5, 2024 00:32
[Revised entry by Jeroen van den Hoven, Martijn Blaauw, Wolter Pieters, and Martijn Warnier on October 4, 2024. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Human beings value their privacy and the protection of their personal sphere of life. They value some…
Common Ground in Pragmatics
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/common-ground-pragmatics/
Published: October 4, 2024 00:08
[New Entry by Bart Geurts on October 3, 2024.] Compare and contrast the following scenarios. In the first, Betty sends Fred an email saying that she will be in town tomorrow, and then sends the same message to Barney. In the second scenario, Betty…
Paul-Henri Thiry (Baron) d’Holbach
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/holbach/
Published: October 2, 2024 02:44
[Revised entry by Michael LeBuffe on October 1, 2024. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Paul-Henri Thiry, Baron d'Holbach was a philosopher, translator, and prominent social figure of the French Enlightenment. In his philosophical writings Holbach…
Wilfrid Sellars
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/sellars/
Published: October 2, 2024 02:29
[Revised entry by Willem deVries on October 1, 2024. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Wilfrid Stalker Sellars (1912 - 89) was an original, systematic, and profound American philosopher. His effort in philosophy was "to formulate a scientifically…
Conscience
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/conscience/
Published: October 2, 2024 01:52
[Revised entry by Alberto Giubilini on October 1, 2024. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Reading the philosophical and historical literature on conscience, the first thing one would notice is the variety of meanings and psychological and ethical…
Numenius
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/numenius/
Published: October 2, 2024 01:51
[Revised entry by George Karamanolis on October 1, 2024. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography, notes.html] Numenius, a Platonist philosopher of the mid 2nd century CE, had considerable impact on later Platonism, most notably on Plotinus (3rd c.) and…
Doxastic Voluntarism
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/doxastic-voluntarism/
Published: October 1, 2024 23:47
[New Entry by Mark Boespflug and Elizabeth Jackson on October 1, 2024.] Doxastic voluntarism is the thesis that our beliefs are subject to voluntary control. While there's some controversy as to what "voluntary control" amounts to (see s1.2), it's often…
Spinoza’s Political Philosophy
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/spinoza-political/
Published: October 1, 2024 03:59
[Revised entry by Justin Steinberg on September 30, 2024. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] At least in anglophone countries, Spinoza's reputation as a political thinker is eclipsed by his reputation as a rationalist metaphysician. Nevertheless,…
Pragmatism
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pragmatism/
Published: October 1, 2024 02:35
[Revised entry by Catherine Legg and Christopher Hookway on September 30, 2024. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Pragmatism is a philosophical tradition that - very broadly - understands knowing the world as inseparable from agency within it. This…
Mencius
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/mencius/
Published: September 28, 2024 07:31
[Revised entry by Bryan Van Norden on September 27, 2024. Changes to: Bibliography] Mencius (fourth century BCE) was a Confucian philosopher. Often referred to as the "Second Sage" of Confucianism (meaning second in importance only to Confucius himself),…
Philolaus
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/philolaus/
Published: September 28, 2024 04:51
[Revised entry by Carl Huffman on September 27, 2024. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Philolaus of Croton, in southern Italy, was a Greek philosopher/scientist, who lived from ca. 470 to ca. 385 BC and was thus a contemporary of Socrates. He is one…
William of Sherwood
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/william-sherwood/
Published: September 27, 2024 03:18
[Revised entry by Sara L. Uckelman on September 26, 2024. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] William of Sherwood (Guilelmus, Willelmus, Schyrwode, Shirwode, Shyreswode, and others) was a 13th century English logician who taught at the University of…