What's New in the Winter 2025 PDF Library
New Entries
- 20th Century Theories of Scientific Explanation (James Woodward and Lauren Ross)
- Alberic of Paris (Heine Hansen and Boaz Faraday Schuman)
- Albert the Great (Bruno Tremblay)
- Aristotle’s De Motu Animalium (Klaus Corcilius)
- Francis Bacon (Markku Peltonen)
- Internalist vs. Externalist Conceptions of Epistemic Justification (Clayton Littlejohn)
- Primitivist Theories of Truth (Jeremy Wyatt)
- Weighing Reasons (Chris Tucker)
Entries With Substantive Content Changes
- Aesthetics of the Everyday (Yuriko Saito)
- Anarchism (Andrew Fiala)
- Arrow’s Theorem (Michael Morreau)
- Authority (Tom Christiano and Stefan Sciaraffa)
- Axiomatic Theories of Truth (Volker Halbach, Graham E. Leigh, and Mateusz Łełyk)
- Backward Causation (Jan Faye)
- Collapse Theories (Giancarlo Ghirardi and Angelo Bassi)
- Combining Logics (Walter Carnielli and Marcelo Esteban Coniglio)
- Commentators on Aristotle (Andrea Falcon)
- Compositionality (Bryan Pickel and Zoltán Gendler Szabó)
- Constructivism in Metaethics (Carla Bagnoli)
- Dedekind’s Contributions to the Foundations of Mathematics (Erich Reck)
- Depiction (John Hyman and Katerina Bantinaki)
- Descartes’ Physics (Edward Slowik)
- Developmental Biology (Alan Love and Yoshinari Yoshida)
- Dewey’s Aesthetics (Tom Leddy and Kalle Puolakka)
- Dietrich of Freiberg (Sylvain Roudaut, Véronique Decaix, and Markus Führer)
- Domination (Richard C. McCammon)
- Dualism (Howard Robinson and Ralph Weir)
- Edmund Burke (Ian Harris)
- Emmanuel Levinas (Bettina Bergo)
- Empathy (Karsten Stueber)
- Epistemology of Geometry (Jeremy Gray and José Ferreirós)
- Feminist History of Philosophy (Charlotte Witt, Lisa Shapiro, Christina Van Dyke, Lydia L. Moland, and Marcia Robinson)
- Feminist Perspectives on Trans Issues (Talia Bettcher)
- Folk Psychology as a Theory (Daniel Hutto and Ian Ravenscroft)
- Galileo Galilei (David Marshall Miller)
- Global Democracy (Jonathan Kuyper)
- Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorems (Panu Raatikainen)
- Hans Reichenbach (Clark Glymour and Frederick Eberhardt)
- Henri Bergson (Leonard Lawlor and Valentine Moulard-Leonard)
- Human Enhancement (Daniel Moseley and Eric Juengst)
- Ibn ‘Arabī (William Chittick)
- Ibn Sina [Avicenna] (Dimitri Gutas)
- Influence of Arabic and Islamic Philosophy on the Latin West (Dag Nikolaus Hasse)
- Insolubles (Stephen Read and Paul Vincent Spade)
- John Duns Scotus (Thomas Williams)
- Kant’s Moral Philosophy (Robert Johnson and Adam Cureton)
- Kant’s Philosophy of Religion (Lawrence Pasternack and Courtney Fugate)
- Korean Buddhism (Lucy Hyekyung Jee)
- Laozi (Alan Chan)
- Latin American Philosophy: Metaphilosophical Foundations (Susana Nuccetelli)
- Legal Positivism (Leslie Green and Thomas Adams)
- Locke on Personal Identity (Jessica Gordon-Roth)
- Lord Shaftesbury [Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury] (Michael B. Gill)
- Ludwik Fleck (Wojciech Sady)
- Mathematical Style (Paolo Mancosu)
- Medieval Theories of Analogy (E. Jennifer Ashworth and Domenic D’Ettore)
- Modal Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics (Olimpia Lombardi and Dennis Dieks)
- Moral Vegetarianism (Tyler Doggett)
- Nicole Oresme (Stefan Kirschner)
- Parenthood and Procreation (Elizabeth Brake and Joseph Millum)
- Patriotism (Igor Primoratz)
- Peter John Olivi (Juhana Toivanen and Robert Pasnau)
- Philosophy of Statistics (Jan-Willem Romeijn)
- Pietro Pomponazzi (Craig Martin)
- Prisoner’s Dilemma (Steven Kuhn)
- Properties (Francesco Orilia and Michele Paolini Paoletti)
- Propositional Function (Edwin Mares)
- Psychoanalytic Feminism (Claudia Leeb and Emily Zakin)
- Sin in Christian Thought (Kevin Timpe)
- Social Institutions (Seumas Miller)
- States of Affairs (Mark Textor)
- Syrianus (Roberto Granieri and Christian Wildberg)
- The Concept of Emotion in Classical Indian Philosophy (Joerg Tuske)
- The Early Development of Set Theory (José Ferreirós)
- The Epistemology of Religion (Peter Forrest)
- The Ergodic Hierarchy (Roman Frigg, Joseph Berkovitz, and Fred Kronz)
- The Ethics of Cultural Heritage (Erich Hatala Matthes)
- Time (Nina Emery, Ned Markosian, and Meghan Sullivan)
- Translating and Interpreting Chinese Philosophy (Chad Hansen, David Wong, and Henry Rosemont Jr.)
Entries With Minor Corrections
- Abduction (Igor Douven)
- Alternative Axiomatic Set Theories (M. Randall Holmes)
- Anomalous Monism (Steven Yalowitz)
- Artificial Intelligence (Selmer Bringsjord and Naveen Sundar Govindarajulu)
- Atomism from the 17th to the 20th Century (Alan Chalmers)
- Cancer (Anya Plutynski and Lucie Laplane)
- Carl Hempel (James Fetzer)
- Causal Approaches to Scientific Explanation (Lauren Ross and James Woodward)
- Causation in Physics (Mathias Frisch)
- Chaos (Robert Bishop)
- Constructive Empiricism (Chad Mohler and Bradley Monton)
- Convention (Michael Rescorla)
- Counterfactuals (Willow Starr and Alex Kocurek)
- Counterfactual Theories of Causation (Peter Menzies and Helen Beebee)
- Croce’s Aesthetics (Gary Kemp)
- Cusanus, Nicolaus [Nicolas of Cusa] (Clyde Lee Miller)
- Darwinism (James Lennox and Charles H. Pence)
- Deontic Logic (Paul McNamara and Frederik Van De Putte)
- Deontological Ethics (Larry Alexander and Michael Moore)
- Dialetheism (Graham Priest, Francesco Berto, and Zach Weber)
- Edmund Husserl (Dan Zahavi)
- Ernst Mach (Paul Pojman)
- Feminist Ethics (Kathryn Norlock and Jordan Pascoe)
- Feminist Perspectives on Argumentation (Catherine E. Hundleby)
- Fitch’s Paradox of Knowability (Berit Brogaard and Joe Salerno)
- Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (Brian Copenhaver)
- Girolamo [Geronimo] Cardano (Guido Giglioni and Jonathan Regier)
- Heaven and Hell in Christian Thought (Thomas Talbott)
- Historicist Theories of Scientific Rationality (Thomas Nickles)
- Intertheory Relations in Physics (Patricia Palacios)
- Inverted Qualia (Alex Byrne)
- Laws of Nature (John W. Carroll)
- Margaret Lucas Cavendish (David Cunning)
- Mathematical Explanation (Paolo Mancosu, Francesca Poggiolesi, and Christopher Pincock)
- Mechanisms in Science (Carl Craver, James Tabery, and Phyllis Illari)
- Metaphysical Explanation (Andrew Brenner, Anna-Sofia Maurin, Alexander Skiles, Robin Stenwall, and Naomi Thompson)
- Metaphysics (Peter van Inwagen, Meghan Sullivan, and Sara Bernstein)
- Methodological Holism in the Social Sciences (Julie Zahle)
- Methods in Comparative Cognition (Marta Halina)
- Michel de Montaigne (Marc Foglia and Emiliano Ferrari)
- Michel Foucault (Gary Gutting and Johanna Oksala)
- Models in Science (Roman Frigg and Stephan Hartmann)
- Molecular Biology (Tudor Baetu, Monika Piotrowska, and James Tabery)
- Mysticism (Richard Jones and Jerome Gellman)
- Natural Kinds (Alexander Bird and Emma Tobin)
- Personal Identity and Ethics (Annette Dufner)
- Philosophy of Biology in Latin America (Pablo Lorenzano)
- Philosophy of Chemistry (Michael Weisberg, Paul Needham, and Robin Hendry)
- Philosophy of Economics (Daniel M. Hausman)
- Philosophy of Medicine (Julian Reiss and Rachel A. Ankeny)
- Philosophy of Psychiatry (Dominic Murphy)
- Philosophy of Systems and Synthetic Biology (Sara Green)
- Practical Reason (R. Jay Wallace and Benjamin Kiesewetter)
- Prediction versus Accommodation (Eric Christian Barnes)
- Primary and Secondary Qualities in Early Modern Philosophy (Martha Bolton)
- Probabilistic Causation (Christopher Hitchcock)
- Reproducibility of Scientific Results (Fiona Fidler and John Wilcox)
- Richard Mervyn Hare (Anthony Price)
- Robert Grosseteste (Neil Lewis and Nicola Polloni)
- Russell’s Paradox (Harry Deutsch, Oliver Marshall, and Andrew David Irvine)
- Scientific Progress (Ilkka Niiniluoto)
- Scientific Realism (Anjan Chakravartty)
- Scientific Reduction (Raphael van Riel and Robert Van Gulick)
- Scientific Research and Big Data (Sabina Leonelli)
- The Distinction Between Innate and Acquired Characteristics (Paul Griffiths and Stefan Linquist)
- Theories of Meaning (Jeff Speaks)
- The Possibilism-Actualism Debate (Christopher Menzel)
- The Structure of Scientific Theories (Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther)
- Trans Philosophy (Perry Zurn)
- Understanding (Stephen Grimm)
- Wesley Salmon (Maria Carla Galavotti)
- Zeno’s Paradoxes (Nick Huggett)
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