http://en.redtram.com/ plato.stanford.edu Copyright (c) 2009 RedTram. All rights reserved. webmaster@redtram.com (RedTram) en Thu, 17 Dec 2009 05:17:11 GMT 300 100 50 http://en.redtram.com/ http://img.en.redtram.com/rsslogo.gif 139413 | Pierre Gassendi http://en.redtram.com/go/236297355/top100/ 236297355 b. 1592, d. 1655) was a French philosopher, scientific chronicler, observer, and experimentalist, scholar of ancient texts and debates, and active participant in contemporary deliberations of the first half of the seventeenth century. His significance in early modern thought has Wed, 16 Dec 2009 14:20:22 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/236297355/top100/ 139413 | Leibniz's Ethics http://en.redtram.com/go/236297347/top100/ 236297347 Revised entry by Andrew Youpa on December 15, 2009. Changes to: Bibliography] It is often remarked that Leibniz never wrote a systematic ethical treatise. However, in his view theology is a sort of jurisprudence, a type of science of law Wed, 16 Dec 2009 14:20:02 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/236297347/top100/ 139413 | Bruno Bauer http://en.redtram.com/go/236186823/top100/ 236186823 1809 - 1882), philosopher, historian, and theologian. His career falls into two main phases, divided by the Revolutions of 1848. In the 1840s, the period known as the Vormarz or the prelude to the German revolutions of March 1848, Bauer Sat, 12 Dec 2009 03:35:12 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/236186823/top100/ 139413 | The Computational Theory of Mind http://en.redtram.com/go/236153171/top100/ 236153171 Revised entry by Steven Horst on December 10, 2009. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Over the past thirty years, it is been common to hear the mind likened to a digital computer. This essay is concerned with a particular philosophical Fri, 11 Dec 2009 08:27:47 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/236153171/top100/ 139413 | John M. E. McTaggart http://en.redtram.com/go/236153167/top100/ 236153167 New Entry by Kris McDaniel on December 10, 2009.] John McTaggart Ellis McTaggart, henceforth simply "McTaggart", was one of the most important systematic metaphysicians of the early 20th century. His greatest work is The Nature of Existence, the first volume Fri, 11 Dec 2009 08:27:37 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/236153167/top100/ 139413 | Moral Realism http://en.redtram.com/go/236153160/top100/ 236153160 Revised entry by Geoff Sayre-McCord on December 10, 2009. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Taken at face value, the claim that Nigel has a moral obligation to keep his promise, like the claim that Nyx is a black cat, purports Fri, 11 Dec 2009 08:27:27 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/236153160/top100/ 139413 | John Cook Wilson http://en.redtram.com/go/236081238/top100/ 236081238 1849 - 1915) was Wykeham Professor of Logic at New College, Oxford and the founder of 'Oxford Realism', a philosophical movement that flourished at Oxford during the first decades of the 20th century. Although trained as a classicist and a Tue, 08 Dec 2009 17:50:28 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/236081238/top100/ 139413 | Animal Consciousness http://en.redtram.com/go/235799334/top100/ 235799334 Revised entry by Colin Allen on December 6, 2009. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography, Internet resources, doubleinduction.jpg, notes.html] There are many reasons for philosophical interest in nonhuman animal (hereafter "animal") consciousness. First, if philosophy often begins with questions about the Mon, 07 Dec 2009 04:03:49 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/235799334/top100/ 139413 | Mind in Indian Buddhist Philosophy http://en.redtram.com/go/234849701/top100/ 234849701 New Entry by Christian Coseru on December 3, 2009.] Perhaps no other classical philosophical tradition, East or West, offers a more complex and counter-intuitive account of mind and mental phenomena than Buddhism. While Buddhists share with other Indian philosophers the Fri, 04 Dec 2009 00:57:06 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/234849701/top100/ 139413 | Medieval Theories of Haecceity http://en.redtram.com/go/234849618/top100/ 234849618 Revised entry by Richard Cross on December 3, 2009. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] First proposed by John Duns Scotus (1266 - 1308), a haecceity is a non-qualitative property responsible for individuation. As understood by Scotus, a haecceity is not Fri, 04 Dec 2009 00:56:57 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/234849618/top100/ 139413 | Axiomatic Theories of Truth http://en.redtram.com/go/234391709/top100/ 234391709 Revised entry by Volker Halbach on December 2, 2009. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] One way to investigate the concept of truth is by studying the truth predicate. Although there are various ways of studying the expression "is true", we Thu, 03 Dec 2009 03:49:38 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/234391709/top100/ 139413 | Michel de Montaigne http://en.redtram.com/go/234391629/top100/ 234391629 Revised entry by Marc Foglia on December 2, 2009. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Francois Quesnel, "Montaigne", c. 1590, drawing (H. 335 x L. 230 mm),... Thu, 03 Dec 2009 03:49:26 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/234391629/top100/ 139413 | Method and Metaphysics in Plato's Sophist and Statesman http://en.redtram.com/go/234391556/top100/ 234391556 Revised entry by Mary Louise Gill on December 2, 2009. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography, notes.html] The Sophist and Statesman are late Platonic dialogues, whose relative dates are established by their stylistic similarity to the Laws, a work that was Thu, 03 Dec 2009 03:49:14 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/234391556/top100/ 139413 | Qualia: The Knowledge Argument http://en.redtram.com/go/231554674/top100/ 231554674 Revised entry by Martine Nida-Rümelin on November 23, 2009. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] The knowledge argument aims to establish that conscious experience involves non-physical properties. It rests on the idea that someone who has complete physical knowledge about another Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:12:52 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/231554674/top100/ 139413 | School of Names http://en.redtram.com/go/231554649/top100/ 231554649 ming jia) is the traditional Chinese label for a diverse group of Warring States (479-221 B.C.) thinkers who shared an interest in language, disputation, and metaphysics. They were notorious for logic-chopping, purportedly idle conceptual puzzles, and paradoxes such as "Today Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:12:28 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/231554649/top100/ 139413 | Other Minds http://en.redtram.com/go/231554630/top100/ 231554630 Revised entry by Alec Hyslop on November 23, 2009. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] The problem of other minds is the problem of how to justify the almost universal belief that others have minds very like our own. It is Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:12:22 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/231554630/top100/ 139413 | The Frame Problem http://en.redtram.com/go/231554615/top100/ 231554615 Revised entry by Murray Shanahan on November 22, 2009. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] To most AI researchers, the frame problem is the challenge of representing the effects of action in logic without having to represent explicitly a large number Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:12:16 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/231554615/top100/ 139413 | Moral Responsibility http://en.redtram.com/go/230892169/top100/ 230892169 Revised entry by Andrew Eshleman on November 18, 2009. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography, notes.html] When a person performs or fails to perform a morally significant action, we sometimes think that a particular kind of response is warranted. Praise and Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:41:03 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/230892169/top100/ 139413 | The Experience and Perception of Time http://en.redtram.com/go/230516014/top100/ 230516014 Revised entry by Robin Le Poidevin on November 17, 2009. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] We see colours, hear sounds and feel textures. Some aspects of the world, it seems, are perceived through a particular sense. Others, like shape, are Tue, 17 Nov 2009 05:14:35 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/230516014/top100/ 139413 | Pythagoras http://en.redtram.com/go/230153916/top100/ 230153916 one of the most famous and controversial ancient Greek philosophers, lived from ca. 570 to ca. 490 BCE. He spent his early years on the island of Samos, off the coast of modern Turkey. At the age of forty, however, Fri, 13 Nov 2009 20:42:28 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/230153916/top100/