Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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Consequentialism
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/consequentialism/
The view that normative properties depend only on consequences; by Walter Sinnott-Armstrong.
Mereology
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/mereology/
The theory of parthood relations: of the relations of part to whole and the relations of part to part within a whole; by Achille Varzi.
Arthur Schopenhauer
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/schopenhauer/
Life and work of 19th century German philosopher; by Robert Wicks.
Scientific Explanation
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/scientific-explanation/
Philosophical theories about the nature of explanation in science; by James Woodward.
Eliminative Materialism
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/materialism-eliminative/
The view that some or all of the mental states posited by common-sense do not actually exist; by William Ramsey.
Saadya [Saadiah]
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/saadya/
Life and work of Saadya Gaon (Saadya ben Joseph, known in Arabic as Sa'id ibn Yusuf al-Fayym, 10th century theologian, philosopher and rabbi; by Sarah Pessin.
Adorno, Theodor
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/adorno/
Life and work of 20th century German philosopher and critical theorist; by Lambert Zuidervaart.
Karl Leonhard Reinhold
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/karl-reinhold/
Life and work of 19th century Austrian philosopher; by Dan Breazeale.
Laws of Nature
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/laws-of-nature/
Philosophical theories about what it is to be a law; by John W. Carroll.
Reflective Equilibrium
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/reflective-equilibrium/
The result of a process of reflection on an area of (moral) inquiry, a notion figuring prominently in Rawls' Theory of Justice; by Norman Daniels.
Episteme and Techne
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/episteme-techne/
Discussion of the distinction between knowledge and craft, or art in ancient philosophy; by Richard Parry.
Alcmaeon
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/alcmaeon/
Life and work of early Greek medical writer and philosopher-scientist; by Carl Huffman.
The Turing Test
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/turing-test/
Proposal due to Alan Turing for a criterion of the presence of mind or consciousness; by Graham Oppy and David Dowe.
Analysis
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/analysis/
The historical development and conceptual structure of philosophical analysis; by Michael Beaney.
Hilbert's Program
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hilbert-program/
In 1921, David Hilbert made a proposal for a formalist foundation of mathematics, for which a finitary consistency proof should establish the security of mathematics. By Richard Zach.


