What's New in the Spring 2026 PDF Library
New Entries
- Aesthetics in Chinese Philosophy: Painting and Calligraphy (Yolaine Escande)
- Bioethics in Latin America (Gustavo Ortiz Millán, Florencia Luna, and Eduardo Rivera López)
- Disability and Well-Being (Stephen M. Campbell, Joseph A. Stramondo, and David Wasserman)
- Evolutionary Approaches to Religion (Jason Marsh)
- Giovanni Francesco [Gianfrancesco] Pico della Mirandola (Francesco Molinarolo)
- Leibniz on the Problem of Evil (Thomas Feeney)
- Many-Valued Logic (João Marcos, Adam Přenosil, and Paul Egré)
- Marsilius of Padua (Alessandro Mulieri)
- Ontology and Information Systems (Adam Pease)
- Ottobah Cugoano (Antonia LoLordo)
- Sikh Philosophy (Arvind-Pal S. Mandair)
Entries With Substantive Content Changes
- al-Fārābī’s Metaphysics (Stephen Menn)
- al-Ghazali (Frank Griffel)
- Animal Consciousness (Michael Trestman, Jonathan Birch, and Colin Allen)
- Animalism (Stephan Blatti)
- Arcesilaus (Charles Brittain and Peter Osorio)
- Atomism from the 17th to the 20th Century (Alan Chalmers and Klodian Coko)
- Attention (Christopher Mole)
- Auguste Comte (Michel Bourdeau)
- Bruno Bauer (Douglas Moggach and Gabriele Schimmenti)
- Carl Hempel (James Fetzer)
- Computer Simulations in Science (Eric Winsberg and Ramon Alvarado)
- David Lewis (Brian Weatherson)
- Denis Diderot (Charles T. Wolfe and J.B. Shank)
- Dreams and Dreaming (Jennifer M. Windt)
- Ecological Genetics (Michael Wade)
- Economics in Early Modern Philosophy (Margaret Schabas)
- Facts (Kevin Mulligan and Fabrice Correia)
- Fine-Tuning (Simon Friederich)
- Foreknowledge and Free Will (David Hunt and Linda Zagzebski)
- Forgiveness (Luke Russell and Brandon Warmke)
- Francisco Suárez (Christopher Shields and Daniel Schwartz)
- Gelukpa [dge lugs pa] (Douglas Duckworth)
- Genetic Drift (Roberta L. Millstein)
- George Boole (Stanley Burris and Marcel Jackson)
- Henricus Regius (Desmond Clarke and Erik-Jan Bos)
- Higher-Order Theories of Consciousness (Peter Carruthers and Rocco Gennaro)
- Hyperintensionality (Francesco Berto and Daniel Nolan)
- Identity Over Time (Andre Gallois and Irem Kurtsal)
- Imagination (Daniel Munro, Shen-yi Liao, and Tamar Gendler)
- Informal Logic (Leo Groarke)
- Jacques Lacan (Adrian Johnston)
- Japanese Philosophy (Thomas Kasulis and Raquel Bouso)
- Jeremy Bentham (James E. Crimmins)
- Joane Petrizi (Tengiz Iremadze)
- John Austin (Brian Bix)
- John Philoponus (Christian Wildberg and Tommaso De Robertis)
- Josiah Royce (Kelly A. Parker and Scott Pratt)
- Justice (David Miller)
- Legal Punishment (Zachary Hoskins and Antony Duff)
- Liberalism (Shane D. Courtland, Gerald Gaus, and David Schmidtz)
- Life (Carlos Mariscal)
- Lorenzo Valla (Lodi Nauta)
- Mally’s Deontic Logic (Gert-Jan Lokhorst, Stefania Centrone, and Pierluigi Minari)
- Margaret Fuller (Daniel Howe and Sonia Di Loreto)
- Marriage and Domestic Partnership (Elizabeth Brake)
- Material Constitution (Ryan Wasserman)
- Medieval Theories of the Syllogism (Henrik Lagerlund)
- Mental Imagery (Bence Nanay)
- Molyneux’s Problem (Brian Glenney, Gabriele Ferretti, and Marjolein Degenaar)
- Moral Disagreement (Folke Tersman)
- Natural Deduction Systems in Logic (Francis Jeffry Pelletier and Allen Hazen)
- Naturalism in Classical Indian Philosophy (Amita Chatterjee)
- Neoliberalism (Kevin Vallier)
- Nicolai Hartmann (Keith Peterson and Roberto Poli)
- Nicolas Malebranche (Tad Schmaltz)
- Paul Ricoeur (David Pellauer, Bernard Dauenhauer, and Scott Davidson)
- Peter Auriol (Russell L. Friedman and Giacomo Fornasieri)
- Philosophy of Cell Biology (William Bechtel and Andrew Bollhagen)
- Philosophy of Chemistry (Michael Weisberg, Paul Needham, and Robin Hendry)
- Philosophy of Immunology (Bartlomiej Swiatczak and Alfred I. Tauber)
- Pierre Duhem (Roger Ariew)
- Plato’s Parmenides (Samuel Rickless)
- Presentism (David Ingram and Jonathan Tallant)
- Principia Mathematica (Bernard Linsky and Andrew David Irvine)
- Property and Ownership (Jeremy Waldron and James Penner)
- Regularity and Inferential Theories of Causation (Holger Andreas and Mario Guenther)
- Robert Kilwardby (José Filipe Silva)
- Robin George Collingwood (Giuseppina D’Oro and James Connelly)
- Russell’s Paradox (Harry Deutsch, Oliver Marshall, and Andrew David Irvine)
- Scientific Pluralism (David Ludwig and Stéphanie Ruphy)
- Secession (Allen Buchanan and Elizabeth Levinson)
- Sextus Empiricus (Benjamin Morison)
- Skepticism (Juan Comesaña and Peter Klein)
- Structuralism in Physics (Heinz-Juergen Schmidt)
- Suicide (Michael Cholbi and Brent Kious)
- Susan Stebbing (Michael Beaney and Siobhan Chapman)
- Teleological Notions in Biology (Colin Allen and Jacob Neal)
- The Analysis of Knowledge (Jonathan Ichikawa and Matthias Steup)
- The Coherence Theory of Truth (James O. Young)
- The Emotions in Early Chinese Philosophy (Bongrae Seok)
- The Epistemic Basing Relation (Keith Allen Korcz)
- The Ethics of Clinical Research (David Wendler)
- Theory and Observation in Science (Nora Mills Boyd and James Bogen)
- The Pure Theory of Law (Andrei Marmor)
- Toleration (Rainer Forst)
- Walter Benjamin (Peter Osborne and Matthew Charles)
- Well-Being (Roger Crisp)
Entries With Minor Corrections
- Aesthetics of the Everyday (Yuriko Saito)
- Alberic of Paris (Heine Hansen and Boaz Faraday Schuman)
- Artificial Intelligence (Selmer Bringsjord and Naveen Sundar Govindarajulu)
- Category Theory (Jean-Pierre Marquis)
- Children’s Rights (David William Archard)
- Citizenship (Dominique Leydet)
- Civic Humanism (Cary Nederman)
- Climate Science (Wendy Parker)
- Cognitive Disability and Moral Status (David Wasserman, Adrienne Asch, Jeffrey Blustein, and Daniel Putnam)
- Concepts of Disease and Health (Dominic Murphy)
- Consciousness (Robert Van Gulick)
- Constructivism in Metaethics (Carla Bagnoli)
- Disability: Definitions and Models (David Wasserman and Sean Aas)
- Disability and Health Care Rationing (Jerome Bickenbach)
- Dualism (Howard Robinson and Ralph Weir)
- Edith Stein (Thomas Szanto and Dermot Moran)
- Eugenics (Inmaculada de Melo-Martin and Sara Goering)
- Fakhr al-Din al-Razi (Peter Adamson and Fedor Benevich)
- Feminist Philosophy (Noëlle McAfee, Ann Garry, Anita Superson, Heidi Grasswick, and Serene Khader)
- Feminist Philosophy of Law (Leslie Francis)
- Fitch’s Paradox of Knowability (Berit Brogaard and Joe Salerno)
- Formal Representations of Belief (Konstantin Genin and Franz Huber)
- Frege’s Theorem and Foundations for Arithmetic (Edward N. Zalta)
- Game Theory and Ethics (Keith Hankins and Peter Vanderschraaf)
- Genetics (James Tabery)
- Gertrude Elizabeth Margaret Anscombe (Eric Wiland and Julia Driver)
- Global Democracy (Jonathan Kuyper)
- Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorems (Panu Raatikainen)
- Herbert Marcuse (Arnold Farr)
- Jean Bodin (Mario Turchetti)
- John Anderson (Creagh McLean Cole)
- John Buridan (Jack Zupko)
- Jürgen Habermas (James Gordon Finlayson and Dafydd Huw Rees)
- Justification Logic (Sergei Artemov, Melvin Fitting, and Thomas Studer)
- Logical Consequence (Jc Beall, Greg Restall, and Gil Sagi)
- Mechanisms in Science (Carl Craver, James Tabery, and Phyllis Illari)
- Metaepistemology (J. Adam Carter and Ernest Sosa)
- Nonexistent Objects (Maria Reicher)
- Object (Bradley Rettler and Andrew M. Bailey)
- Parenthood and Procreation (Elizabeth Brake and Joseph Millum)
- Plural Quantification (Øystein Linnebo)
- Prisoner’s Dilemma (Steven Kuhn)
- Public Health Ethics (Ruth Faden, Justin Bernstein, and Sirine Shebaya)
- Quine’s New Foundations (Thomas Forster)
- Reproducibility of Scientific Results (Fiona Fidler and John Wilcox)
- Robert Boyle (Peter Anstey and Jan-Erik Jones)
- Scientific Method (Brian Hepburn and Hanne Andersen)
- Semantic Conceptions of Information (Sebastian Sequoiah-Grayson and Luciano Floridi)
- Sin in Christian Thought (Kevin Timpe)
- The Chinese Room Argument (David Cole)
- The Church-Turing Thesis (B. Jack Copeland)
- The Donation and Sale of Human Eggs and Sperm (Reuven Brandt, Stephen Wilkinson, and Nicola Williams)
- The Frege-Hilbert Controversy (Patricia Blanchette)
- The Philosophy of Music (Andrew Kania)
- The Possibilism-Actualism Debate (Christopher Menzel)
- The Repugnant Conclusion (Gustaf Arrhenius, Jesper Ryberg, and Torbjörn Tännsjö)
- The Social Dimensions of Scientific Knowledge (Helen Longino)
- Thick Ethical Concepts (Pekka Väyrynen)
- Thomas Jefferson (M. Andrew Holowchak)
- Voluntary Euthanasia (Robert Young)
- William David Ross (Anthony Skelton)
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