What's New in the Spring 2024 PDF Library
New Entries
- Aesthetic Testimony (Jon Robson and Rebecca Wallbank)
- Bradley’s Moral Philosophy (Dina Babushkina and David Crossley)
- Constructivism in Political Philosophy (Andrew Williams)
- Ecology (Alkistis Elliott-Graves)
- Emotional Responses to Fiction (Katie Tullmann)
- Freedom of Speech (Jeffrey W. Howard)
- Heritability (Stephen M. Downes and Lucas Matthews)
- Intertheory Relations in Physics (Patricia Palacios)
- Moral Decision-Making Under Uncertainty (Christian Tarsney, Teruji Thomas, and William MacAskill)
- Reverse Mathematics (Benedict Eastaugh)
- Ruth Barcan Marcus (Roberta Ballarin)
Entries With Substantive Content Changes
- Alexius Meinong (Johann Marek)
- Automated Reasoning (Frederic Portoraro)
- Bell’s Theorem (Wayne Myrvold, Marco Genovese, and Abner Shimony)
- Biological Individuals (Robert A. Wilson and Matthew J. Barker)
- Causation in the Law (Michael Moore)
- Ceteris Paribus Laws (Alexander Reutlinger, Gerhard Schurz, Andreas Hüttemann, and Siegfried Jaag)
- Charles Hartshorne (Dan Dombrowski)
- Church’s Type Theory (Christoph Benzmüller and Peter Andrews)
- Civic Humanism (Cary Nederman)
- Compatibilism (Michael McKenna and D. Justin Coates)
- Convention (Michael Rescorla)
- Darwin: From the Origin of Species to the Descent of Man (Phillip Sloan)
- Disagreement (Bryan Frances and Jonathan Matheson)
- Epistemology in Classical Indian Philosophy (Stephen Phillips and Anand Vaidya)
- Ethics in Indian Buddhism (Charles Goodman and Aaron Schultz)
- Evolutionary Psychology (Stephen M. Downes)
- Feminist Perspectives on Objectification (Evangelia (Lina) Papadaki)
- Fictionalism (Matti Eklund)
- Finitism in Geometry (Jean Paul Van Bendegem)
- First-order Model Theory (Wilfrid Hodges and Thomas Scanlon)
- Formalism in the Philosophy of Mathematics (Alan Weir)
- Giacomo Zabarella (Heikki Mikkeli and Tawrin Baker)
- Giordano Bruno (Dilwyn Knox)
- Hannah Arendt (Tatjana Tömmel and Maurizio Passerin d’Entreves)
- Hasdai Crescas (Shalom Sadik)
- Herbert Spencer (David Weinstein)
- Identity and Individuality in Quantum Theory (Steven French and Tomasz Bigaj)
- Implicature (Wayne Davis)
- Influence of Arabic and Islamic Philosophy on Judaic Thought (Mauro Zonta and Charles Manekin)
- Intersections Between Pragmatist and Continental Feminism (Shannon Sullivan and Erin Tarver)
- Japanese Zen Buddhist Philosophy (Shigenori Nagatomo)
- Johann Sturm (Andrea Sangiacomo and Christian Henkel)
- John Buridan (Jack Zupko)
- Leibniz’s Influence on 19th Century Logic (Volker Peckhaus)
- Location and Mereology (Cody Gilmore, Claudio Calosi, and Damiano Costa)
- Logic-Based Artificial Intelligence (Richmond Thomason)
- Lucrezia Marinella (Marguerite Deslauriers)
- Max Scheler (Zachary Davis and Anthony Steinbock)
- Michael Oakeshott (Terry Nardin)
- Molecular Biology (Tudor Baetu, Monika Piotrowska, and James Tabery)
- Natural Selection (Peter Gildenhuys)
- Nelson Goodman (Daniel Cohnitz and Marcus Rossberg)
- Nishida Kitarō (John C. Maraldo)
- Otto Neurath (Jordi Cat)
- Philip the Chancellor (Colleen McCluskey and Anthony Celano)
- Philosophy of Linguistics (Barbara C. Scholz, Francis Jeffry Pelletier, Geoffrey K. Pullum, and Ryan Nefdt)
- Philosophy of Science in Latin America (Olimpia Lombardi, Alberto Cordero, and Ana Rosa Pérez Ransanz)
- Pierre Gassendi (Saul Fisher)
- Plato on Rhetoric and Poetry (Charles L. Griswold)
- Progress (Agnes Tam and Margaret Meek Lange)
- Proof Theory (Michael Rathjen and Wilfried Sieg)
- Provability Logic (Rineke (L.C.) Verbrugge)
- Psychologism (Martin Kusch)
- Pythagoras (Carl Huffman)
- Pythagoreanism (Carl Huffman)
- Qualia: The Knowledge Argument (Martine Nida-Rümelin and Donnchadh O Conaill)
- Quantum Computing (Michael Cuffaro and Amit Hagar)
- Quantum Gravity (Steven Weinstein and Dean Rickles)
- Quantum Theory and Mathematical Rigor (Fred Kronz and Tracy Lupher)
- Radulphus Brito (Ana María Mora-Márquez and Iacopo Costa)
- Recursive Functions (Walter Dean and Alberto Naibo)
- Reference (Eliot Michaelson)
- Richard Sylvan [Routley] (Dominic Hyde, Filippo Casati, and Zach Weber)
- Salomon Maimon (Peter Thielke and Yitzhak Y. Melamed)
- Samuel Ibn Tibbon (James T. Robinson)
- Scientific Progress (Ilkka Niiniluoto)
- Scientific Reduction (Raphael van Riel and Robert Van Gulick)
- Seneca (Katja Vogt)
- Set Theory: Constructive and Intuitionistic ZF (Laura Crosilla)
- Social Ontology (Brian Epstein)
- Structuralism in Physics (Heinz-Juergen Schmidt)
- Supererogation (David Heyd)
- Tense and Aspect (Friedrich Hamm and Oliver Bott)
- The Frege-Hilbert Controversy (Patricia Blanchette)
- The Logic of Mass Expressions (David Nicolas)
- The Unity of Science (Jordi Cat)
- Voluntary Euthanasia (Robert Young)
- Zeno’s Paradoxes (Nick Huggett)
Entries With Minor Corrections
- 18th Century French Aesthetics (Jennifer Tsien and Jacques Morizot)
- Animal Consciousness (Colin Allen and Michael Trestman)
- Aristotle’s Categories (Paul Studtmann)
- Arthur Schopenhauer (Robert Wicks)
- Baruch Spinoza (Steven Nadler)
- Belief (Eric Schwitzgebel)
- Charles Sanders Peirce (Robert Burch)
- Chinese Ethics (David Wong)
- Classical Logic (Stewart Shapiro and Teresa Kouri Kissel)
- Contemporary Approaches to the Social Contract (Fred D’Agostino, Gerald Gaus, and John Thrasher)
- Counterfactual Theories of Causation (Peter Menzies and Helen Beebee)
- Creativity (Elliot Samuel Paul and Dustin Stokes)
- David Lewis’s Metaphysics (Ned Hall, Brian Rabern, and Wolfgang Schwarz)
- Democracy (Tom Christiano and Sameer Bajaj)
- Descartes’ Modal Metaphysics (David Cunning)
- Descartes’ Theory of Ideas (Kurt Smith)
- Episteme and Techne (Richard Parry)
- Epistemology (Matthias Steup and Ram Neta)
- Evolution (Roberta L. Millstein)
- Evolutionary Thought Before Darwin (Phillip Sloan)
- Feminist Perspectives on Science (Sharon Crasnow)
- Feminist Philosophy (Noëlle McAfee, Ann Garry, Anita Superson, Heidi Grasswick, and Serene Khader)
- Francis Herbert Bradley (Stewart Candlish and Pierfrancesco Basile)
- Frege’s Theorem and Foundations for Arithmetic (Edward N. Zalta)
- Friedrich Nietzsche (R. Lanier Anderson)
- Game Theory (Don Ross)
- Gershom Scholem (Shaul Magid)
- Gottlob Frege (Edward N. Zalta)
- Herbert Marcuse (Arnold Farr)
- Informal Logic (Leo Groarke)
- Introspection (Eric Schwitzgebel)
- Japanese Aesthetics (Graham Parkes and Adam Loughnane)
- Johannes Sharpe (Alessandro Conti)
- Kant and Hume on Morality (Eric Entrican Wilson and Lara Denis)
- Kant’s Social and Political Philosophy (Frederick Rauscher)
- Kant’s Transcendental Idealism (Nicholas F. Stang)
- Karl Jaspers (Chris Thornhill and Ronny Miron)
- Legal Punishment (Zachary Hoskins and Antony Duff)
- Locke’s Political Philosophy (Alex Tuckness)
- Logic in Classical Indian Philosophy (Brendan Gillon)
- Miracles (Timothy McGrew)
- Modal Logic (James Garson)
- Moral Dilemmas (Terrance McConnell)
- Nāgārjuna (Jan Christoph Westerhoff)
- Natural Deduction Systems in Logic (Francis Jeffry Pelletier and Allen Hazen)
- Natural Kinds (Alexander Bird and Emma Tobin)
- Philo of Larissa (Charles Brittain and Peter Osorio)
- Philosophy of Statistical Mechanics (Roman Frigg and Charlotte Werndl)
- Physicalism (Daniel Stoljar)
- Plato on Knowledge in the Theaetetus (Sophie-Grace Chappell)
- Principia Mathematica (Bernard Linsky and Andrew David Irvine)
- Process Philosophy (Johanna Seibt)
- Proof-Theoretic Semantics (Peter Schroeder-Heister)
- Race (Michael James and Adam Burgos)
- Relevance Logic (Edwin Mares)
- René Descartes (Gary Hatfield)
- Roman Ingarden (Amie Thomasson)
- Rosa Luxemburg (Lea Ypi)
- Rudolf Carnap (Hannes Leitgeb and André Carus)
- Scientific Revolutions (Thomas Nickles)
- Singular Propositions (Greg Fitch and Michael Nelson)
- Skepticism (Juan Comesaña and Peter Klein)
- Skepticism and Content Externalism (Michael McKinsey)
- The Church-Turing Thesis (B. Jack Copeland)
- The Distinction Between Innate and Acquired Characteristics (Paul Griffiths and Stefan Linquist)
- The Philosophy of Music (Andrew Kania)
- The Possibilism-Actualism Debate (Christopher Menzel)
- The Problem of Dirty Hands (C.A.J. Coady)
- The Uncertainty Principle (Jan Hilgevoord and Jos Uffink)
- Torture (Seumas Miller)
- Transformative Experience (Rebecca Chan)
- W.E.B. Du Bois (Robert Gooding-Williams)
- Zermelo’s Axiomatization of Set Theory (Michael Hallett)
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