A.J. Ayer (1910–1989)An English philosopher in the tradition of British empiricism,| plato.stanford.edu
1. A Sketch of Kant’s View of the Mind| plato.stanford.edu
Notes to Action| plato.stanford.edu
If a person's head moves, she may or may not have moved her head,| plato.stanford.edu
1. Precedent and analogy in legal reasoning| plato.stanford.edu
For my own part, I think that if one were looking for a single| plato.stanford.edu
Naturalism in epistemology, as elsewhere, has a long history. But it| plato.stanford.edu
Human cognition and behavior heavily relies on the notion that| plato.stanford.edu
1. Conditional Probabilities and Bayes' Theorem| plato.stanford.edu
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1. Defining power| plato.stanford.edu
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Notes to Moral Psychology: Empirical Approaches| plato.stanford.edu
1. Price Signals and Spontaneous Order| plato.stanford.edu
Fanon engaged the fundamental issues of his day: language, affect,| plato.stanford.edu
John McTaggart Ellis McTaggart, henceforth simply| plato.stanford.edu
1. Combining Logic and Probability Theory| plato.stanford.edu
Confucianism, Daoism (Taoism), and Buddhism generally name the three| plato.stanford.edu
Actualism is a widely-held view in the metaphysics of modality.| plato.stanford.edu
1. Some Issues involving Omnipresence and Historical Background| plato.stanford.edu
1. The Distinction Between Types and Tokens| plato.stanford.edu
Philosophers connect sentences with various different items, such as| plato.stanford.edu
Notes to Propositions| plato.stanford.edu
The Multiple Relation Theory| plato.stanford.edu
It is a truism that two speakers can say the same thing by uttering| plato.stanford.edu
1. What is Platonism?| plato.stanford.edu
1. Two Kinds of Theory of Meaning| plato.stanford.edu
Existence raises deep and important problems in metaphysics,| plato.stanford.edu
Alonzo Church (1903–1995) was a renowned mathematical logician,| plato.stanford.edu
1. Life and works| plato.stanford.edu
Foundationalism is a view about the structure of (epistemic)| plato.stanford.edu
1. Coherentism Versus Foundationalism| plato.stanford.edu
1. What is Phenomenology?| plato.stanford.edu
1. Emergence| plato.stanford.edu
Basic Set Theory| plato.stanford.edu
Zermelo-Fraenkel Set Theory (ZF)| plato.stanford.edu
1. Independence| plato.stanford.edu
Existential second-order logic (a.k.a. \(\Sigma^{1}_1\) logic)| plato.stanford.edu
Notes to Independence Friendly Logic| plato.stanford.edu
Notes to Large Cardinals and Determinacy| plato.stanford.edu
The continuum hypothesis (CH) is one of the most central open| plato.stanford.edu
[Editor’s Note: The following new entry by| plato.stanford.edu
The identity theory of mind holds that states and processes of the mind| plato.stanford.edu
1. What is Behaviorism?| plato.stanford.edu
1. Preliminaries| plato.stanford.edu
1. The Basic Question: What is it to be a Law?| plato.stanford.edu
1. The Central Questions| plato.stanford.edu
1. Brief History| plato.stanford.edu
1. The origins| plato.stanford.edu
1. Introduction: Quantifier Dependence| plato.stanford.edu
The principal semantics of dependence logic, called team| plato.stanford.edu
The developments of set theory in 1960's led to an era of independence| plato.stanford.edu
The notion of a “mental representation” is, arguably, in| plato.stanford.edu
1. Introduction| plato.stanford.edu
1. The origin of the modal approach| plato.stanford.edu
1. Introduction| plato.stanford.edu
1. Life and Career| plato.stanford.edu
1. History of the Underlying Ideas| plato.stanford.edu
The term “free will” has emerged over the past two| plato.stanford.edu
1. Traditional Arguments (A) Pro| plato.stanford.edu
1. The Mind-Body Problem and the History of Dualism| plato.stanford.edu
Sections (1) and (2) offer introductory accounts of what is meant by| plato.stanford.edu
1. Kinds of Consciousness| plato.stanford.edu
1. A Brief Overview of Dialogical Logic| plato.stanford.edu
1. The Content of Russellian Monism| plato.stanford.edu
Notes to Panpsychism| plato.stanford.edu
Consider the following claim: the truck drivers are engaged in a labor| plato.stanford.edu
Relational Quantum Mechanics (RQM) is the most recent among the| plato.stanford.edu
1. Introduction| plato.stanford.edu
1. The Nature of Intuitions| plato.stanford.edu
1. QBism| plato.stanford.edu
1. Quantum Entanglement| plato.stanford.edu
Quantum mechanics is, at least at first glance and at least in part, a| plato.stanford.edu
In| plato.stanford.edu
1. The Background| plato.stanford.edu
1. Introduction| plato.stanford.edu
Bell’s Theorem is the collective name for a family of| plato.stanford.edu
(ca. 1895, in The Letters of William James, ed. by Henry| plato.stanford.edu
1. First-order languages and structures| plato.stanford.edu
1. Games in the History of Logic| plato.stanford.edu
Typically, a logic consists of a formal or informal language| plato.stanford.edu
1. Lobachevskian geometry| plato.stanford.edu
1. Introduction| plato.stanford.edu
1. Introduction| plato.stanford.edu
1. Can Quantum Mechanical Description of Physical Reality Be Considered Complete?| plato.stanford.edu
1. Homo Economicus and Expected Utility Theory| plato.stanford.edu
The term “naturalism” has no very precise meaning in| plato.stanford.edu
1. A More Detailed General Description| plato.stanford.edu
1. Brief History and Overview| plato.stanford.edu
1. Introduction| plato.stanford.edu
1. Expected Utility| plato.stanford.edu
Medieval theories of analogy were a response to problems in three| plato.stanford.edu
1. Some Philosophical Background| plato.stanford.edu
For any person, there are some things they know, and some things they| plato.stanford.edu
1. Life| plato.stanford.edu
1. Quine’s life and work| plato.stanford.edu
In philosophy, intentionality is the power of minds and mental states| plato.stanford.edu
1. Turing machines| plato.stanford.edu
Hannah Arendt, one of the leading political thinkers of the twentieth| plato.stanford.edu
1. Characterizing Moral Anti-realism| plato.stanford.edu