http://en.redtram.com/ plato.stanford.edu Copyright (c) 2009 RedTram. All rights reserved. webmaster@redtram.com (RedTram) en Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:33:32 GMT 300 100 50 http://en.redtram.com/ http://img.en.redtram.com/rsslogo.gif 139413 | Bernardino Telesio http://en.redtram.com/go/229095234/top100/ 229095234 1509 - 1588) belongs to a group of independent philosophers of the late Renaissance who left the universities in order to develop philosophical and scientific ideas beyond the restrictions of the Aristotelian-scholastic tradition. Authors in the early modern period referred Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:48:32 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/229095234/top100/ 139413 | Space and Time: Inertial Frames http://en.redtram.com/go/229095231/top100/ 229095231 Revised entry by Robert DiSalle on November 4, 2009. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] A "frame of reference" is a standard relative to which motion and rest may be measured; any set of points or objects that are at rest Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:48:30 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/229095231/top100/ 139413 | Classical Logic http://en.redtram.com/go/228748454/top100/ 228748454 Revised entry by Stewart Shapiro on November 2, 2009. Changes to: Main text] Typically, a logic consists of a formal or informal language together with a deductive system and/or a model-theoretic semantics. The language is, or corresponds to, a part Mon, 02 Nov 2009 04:04:14 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/228748454/top100/ 139413 | Russell's Logical Atomism http://en.redtram.com/go/228069713/top100/ 228069713 Revised entry by Kevin Klement on October 30, 2009. Changes to: Bibliography] Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970) described his philosophy as a kind of "logical atomism", by which he meant to endorse both a metaphysical view and a certain methodology Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:19:06 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/228069713/top100/ 139413 | Monotheism http://en.redtram.com/go/227304278/top100/ 227304278 Revised entry by William Wainwright on October 26, 2009. Changes to: Bibliography] Theists believe that reality's ultimate principle is God - an omnipotent, omniscient, goodness that is the creative ground of everything other than itself. Monotheism is the view that Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:58:48 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/227304278/top100/ 139413 | Louis Althusser http://en.redtram.com/go/226191252/top100/ 226191252 New Entry by William Lewis on October 16, 2009.] Louis Pierre Althusser (1918 - 1990) was one of the most influential Marxist philosophers of the 20th Century. As they seemed to offer a renewal of Marxist thought as well as Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:17:36 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/226191252/top100/ 139413 | Margaret Lucas Cavendish http://en.redtram.com/go/226191223/top100/ 226191223 was a philosopher, poet, scientist, fiction-writer, and playwright who lived in the Seventeenth Century. Her work is important for a number of reasons. One is that it lays out an early and very compelling version of the naturalism that is Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:17:30 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/226191223/top100/ 139413 | Neo-Taoism http://en.redtram.com/go/222178797/top100/ 222178797 in the "Wade-Giles" system of romanization) names the focal development in early "medieval" Chinese philosophy, from the third to the sixth century C.E. In Chinese sources, this development is called xuanxue (hsuan-hsueh, in Wade-Giles), literally the "learning" or study (xue) Sat, 03 Oct 2009 05:15:28 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/222178797/top100/ 139413 | Comparative Philosophy: Chinese and Western http://en.redtram.com/go/222178769/top100/ 222178769 Revised entry by David Wong on October 1, 2009. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Comparative philosophy brings together philosophical traditions that have developed in relative isolation from one another and that are defined quite broadly along cultural and regional lines Sat, 03 Oct 2009 05:15:18 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/222178769/top100/ 139413 | Saint Thomas Aquinas http://en.redtram.com/go/222178746/top100/ 222178746 Revised entry by Ralph McInerny and John O'Callaghan on September 30, 2009. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Thomas Aquinas (1225 - 1274) lived at a critical juncture of western culture when the arrival of the Aristotelian corpus in Latin translation Sat, 03 Oct 2009 05:15:08 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/222178746/top100/ 139413 | Pragmatic Arguments and Belief in God http://en.redtram.com/go/222178724/top100/ 222178724 Revised entry by Jeff Jordan on September 29, 2009. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Pragmatic arguments have often been employed in support of theistic belief. Theistic pragmatic arguments are not arguments for the proposition that God exists; they are arguments Sat, 03 Oct 2009 05:14:50 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/222178724/top100/ 139413 | William James http://en.redtram.com/go/221846715/top100/ 221846715 was an original thinker in and between the disciplines of physiology, psychology and philosophy. His twelve-hundred page masterwork, The Principles of Psychology (1890), is a rich blend of physiology, psychology, philosophy, and personal reflection that has given us such ideas Tue, 29 Sep 2009 12:17:25 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/221846715/top100/ 139413 | Feminist Perspectives on Trans Issues http://en.redtram.com/go/221846707/top100/ 221846707 New Entry by Talia Bettcher on September 26, 2009.] The relationship between feminism and transgender theory and politics is surprisingly fraught. The goal in this entry is to outline some of the key philosophical issues at the intersections, and this Tue, 29 Sep 2009 12:17:18 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/221846707/top100/ 139413 | The Chinese Room Argument http://en.redtram.com/go/221083578/top100/ 221083578 devised by John Searle, is an argument against the possibility of true artificial intelligence. The argument centers on a thought experiment in which someone who knows only English sits alone in a room following English instructions for manipulating strings of Thu, 24 Sep 2009 13:36:19 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/221083578/top100/ 139413 | Impossible Worlds http://en.redtram.com/go/220372246/top100/ 220372246 New Entry by Francesco Berto on September 17, 2009.] It is a venerable slogan due to David Hume, and inherited by the empiricist tradition, that the impossible cannot be believed, or even conceived. In Positivismus und Realismus, Moritz Schlick claimed Sat, 19 Sep 2009 15:14:18 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/220372246/top100/ 139413 | Peter Frederick Strawson http://en.redtram.com/go/219940574/top100/ 219940574 1919 - 2006) was an Oxford-based philosopher whose career spanned the second half of the twentieth century. He wrote most notably about the philosophy of language, metaphysics, epistemology and the history of philosophy, especially Kant.... Thu, 17 Sep 2009 01:45:00 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/219940574/top100/ 139413 | Information Processing and Thermodynamic Entropy http://en.redtram.com/go/219940561/top100/ 219940561 New Entry by Owen Maroney on September 15, 2009.] Are principles of information processing necessary to demonstrate the consistency of statistical mechanics? Does the physical implementation of a computational operation have a fundamental thermodynamic cost, purely by virtue of its Thu, 17 Sep 2009 01:44:55 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/219940561/top100/ 139413 | Kant's Views on Space and Time http://en.redtram.com/go/219548115/top100/ 219548115 are immediately evident: they are widely regarded as central to Kant's so-called critical philosophy, and there is no consensus on how they ought to be characterized and explicated. The overarching goal of this entry is to bring some clarity to Mon, 14 Sep 2009 20:57:00 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/219548115/top100/ 139413 | The Concept of the Aesthetic http://en.redtram.com/go/219132063/top100/ 219132063 New Entry by James Shelley on September 11, 2009.] Introduced into the philosophical lexicon during the Eighteenth Century, the term "aesthetic" has come to be used to designate, among other things, a kind of object, a kind of judgment, a Sat, 12 Sep 2009 18:24:08 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/219132063/top100/ 139413 | Medieval Theories of Analogy http://en.redtram.com/go/219132053/top100/ 219132053 were a response to problems in three areas: logic, theology, and metaphysics. Logicians were concerned with the use of words having more than one sense, whether completely different, or related in some way. Theologians were concerned with language about God. Sat, 12 Sep 2009 18:24:04 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/219132053/top100/