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   Free online encyclopedia. Edited by James Fieser, hosted by the University of Tennessee at Martin.
   http://www.iep.utm.edu/

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Capital Punishment Open in a new browser window  
   The issue of capital punishment involves determining whether the execution of criminals is ever justified.
   http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/c/capitalp.htm
Carnap, Rudolf Open in a new browser window  
   Extensive article about his life and work, by Mauro Murzi.
   http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/c/carnap.htm
Chinese Room Argument Open in a new browser window  
   John Searle's thought experiment is one of the best known counters to claims of artificial intelligence.
   http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/c/chineser.htm
Chrysippus Open in a new browser window  
   Prolific stoic of Soli, and disciple of Cleanthes.
   http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/c/chrysipp.htm
Cicero, Marcus Tullius Open in a new browser window  
   1st century BCE Roman orator and philosopher of the New Academy.
   http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/c/cicero.htm
Cleanthes Open in a new browser window  
   Stoic philosopher of Assus in Lydia, disciple of Zeno of Citium.
   http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/c/cleanthe.htm
Cudworth, Ralph Open in a new browser window  
   17th century 'Cambridge Platonist' who fought for preservation of religious ideals, including divine illumination.
   http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/c/cudwor.htm
Cumberland, Richard Open in a new browser window  
   17th century critic of Hobbes and the neo-Platonists.
   http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/c/cumberla.htm
Damon Open in a new browser window  
   5th century BCE Pythagorean philosopher of Syracuse.
   http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/d/damon.htm
Davidson, Donald Open in a new browser window  
   Introduction to one of the most significant philosophers concerned with philosophy of mind and action of the 20th/21st century.
   http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/d/davidson.htm
Deism, English Open in a new browser window  
   Explores the deism of Hobbes, Locke, Tindal, and the influence of Hume.
   http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/d/deismeng.htm
Deism, French Open in a new browser window  
   The deism of Voltaire and Rousseau.
   http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/d/deismfre.htm
Democritus Open in a new browser window  
   4th century BCE philosopher of Abdera who expanded the atomic theory of Leucippus.
   http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/d/democrit.htm
Demonax Open in a new browser window  
   Philosopher of the second century CE. who tried to revive the philosophy of the Cynic School.
   http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/d/demonax.htm
Descartes, RenĂ© Open in a new browser window  
   Early modern philosopher who rejected religious authority in the quest for scientific and philosophical knowledge.
   http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/d/descarte.htm
Dewey, John Open in a new browser window  
   Leading light of the 20th century American school of thought known as pragmatism.
   http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/d/dewey.htm
Diderot, Denis Open in a new browser window  
   The most prominent of the French Encyclopedists and one of the leaders of the Enlightenment.
   http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/d/diderot.htm
Diogenes Laertius Open in a new browser window  
   3rd century biographer of ancient Greek philosophers.
   http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/d/dioglaer.htm
Diogenes of Apollonia Open in a new browser window  
   Pupil of Anaximenes and contemporary of Anaxagoras in the 6th cn. BCE.
   http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/d/diogapol.htm
Diogenes of Sinope Open in a new browser window  
   4th cn. BCE cynic philosopher of Sinope.
   http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/d/diogsino.htm
Eckhart, Meister Open in a new browser window  
   13th century Dominican mystic who was almost forgotten until Franz von Baader revived his memory in the nineteenth century.
   http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/e/eckhart.htm
Eclecticism Open in a new browser window  
   Group of ancient philosophers who sought to reach by selection the highest degree of probability in the search for truth.
   http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/e/eclectic.htm
Egoism, Psychological and Ethical Open in a new browser window  
   Maintains that the individual self is the motivating moral force and the end of moral action.
   http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/e/egoism.htm
Emanation Open in a new browser window  
   The theory that all derived or secondary things flow from the primary.
   http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/e/emanatio.htm
Empedocles Open in a new browser window  
   5th century BCE philosopher who combined medical study with Orphic mysticism.
   http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/e/empedocl.htm
Empiricism, British Open in a new browser window  
   18th century British philosophical movement which maintained that all knowledge comes from experience.
   http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/e/emp-brit.htm
Encyclopedists Open in a new browser window  
   Group of French philosophers and men of letters who collaborated in the production of the famous Encyclopedie.
   http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/e/encylop.htm
Epictetus Open in a new browser window  
   Eminent Stoic philosopher, born as a slave at Hieropolis in Phyrgia in 55 CE.
   http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/e/epictetu.htm
Epicurus Open in a new browser window  
   4th century BCE materialist, empiricist, and hedonist. One of the major philosophers of the Hellenistic period.
   http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/e/epicur.htm
Moral Philosophy Open in a new browser window  
   Introduction to ethics, with links to other articles at the IEP.
   http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/e/ethics.htm
Euclides Open in a new browser window  
   4th century BCE native of Megara, and founder of the Megarian or Eristic sect.
   http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/e/euclides.htm
Euthanasia Open in a new browser window  
   Contemporary applied ethical issue considering whether it is morally permissible for a third party to end the life of a terminally ill patient who is in intense pain.
   http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/e/euthanas.htm
Evolution Open in a new browser window  
   Introduces evolution through the ages, from the ancient Greeks, through Leibniz and Descartes to Darwin and Spencer.
   http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/e/evolutio.htm
Ferrier, James Frederick Open in a new browser window  
   The earliest absolute idealist in English philosophy.
   http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/f/ferrier.htm
Fichte, Immanuel Hermann Open in a new browser window  
   Aimed to secure a philosophical basis for the personality of God.
   http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/f/fichteih.htm
Fichte, Johann Gottlieb Open in a new browser window  
   One of the major figures in German philosophy in the period between Kant and Hegel.
   http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/f/fichtejg.htm
Freud, Sigmund Open in a new browser window  
   Lenghty article on the father of psychoanalysis who is generally recognised as one of the most influential and authoritative thinkers of the twentieth century.
   http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/f/freud.htm
Galileo Open in a new browser window  
   Italian physicist and astronomer, born 1564.
   http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/g/galileo.htm
German Idealism Open in a new browser window  
   The German reaction to empiricism, including related theories of Kant, Fichte, Hegel and others.
   http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/g/germidea.htm
Gorgias Open in a new browser window  
   Greek sophist and rhetorician, known as "the Nihilist," born in 483 BCE.
   http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/g/gorgias.htm
Greek Philosophy Open in a new browser window  
   The philosophical currents of Ancient Greek philosophy are introduced, from the Presocratic philosophers through to Proclus.
   http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/g/greekphi.htm
Hamilton, William Open in a new browser window  
   19th century exponent of the Scottish common-sense philosophy.
   http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/h/hamilton.htm
Hartmann, Karl Robert Eduard Von Open in a new browser window  
   19th century German philosopher who attempted to combine the idea of Hegel with the will of Schopenhauer in 'spiritual monism.'
   http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/h/hartmann.htm
Hegelians, St. Louis Open in a new browser window  
   19th century group of amateur American philosophers founded and led by William Torrey Harris.
   http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/h/hstlouis.htm
Helvetius, Claude Adrien Open in a new browser window  
   One of the 18th century Encyclopedists who held the skeptical and materialistic views common to that school of philosophy.
   http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/h/helvetiu.htm
Hempel, Carl Gustav Open in a new browser window  
   A leading member of logical positivism, the German philosopher died in 1997.
   http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/h/hempel.htm
Heraclitus Open in a new browser window  
   5th century BCE. Presocratic Greek philosopher.
   http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/h/heraclit.htm
Herbert of Cherbury, Edward Open in a new browser window  
   17th century historian, poet (brother of George), and philosopher. Sought to determine the nature and standard of truth, and conditions of knowledge. Precursor of the philosophy of Common Sense.
   http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/h/herbert.htm
Hippias Open in a new browser window  
   Hippias was a sophist, a contemporary of Socrates, and an enthusiast for universality.
   http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/h/hippias.htm
Hodgson, Shadworth Open in a new browser window  
   Follower of Kant, founder of the Aristotelian Society.
   http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/h/hodgson.htm
Humanism Open in a new browser window  
   Brief article on Erasmus and the Italian humanist movement.
   http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/h/humanism.htm
Positivism, Logical Open in a new browser window  
   Schlick, Carnap, Reichenbach, and others made up the Austrian school of philosophy in the 1920s, which has been influential in analysis of scientific thought.
   http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/l/logpos.htm
Husserl, Edmund Open in a new browser window  
   Leader of the German phenomenological movement.
   http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/h/husserl.htm
Huxley, Thomas Henry Open in a new browser window  
   19th century zoologist and advocate of Darwinism.
   http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/h/huxley.htm
Identity Theory Open in a new browser window  
   Form of monistic materialism which maintains that mental states and brain activities are identical.
   http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/i/identity.htm
Interventionism Open in a new browser window  
   Examines the nature and justifications of interfering with another polity or choices made by individuals.
   http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/i/interven.htm
Jacobi, Friedrich Heinrich Open in a new browser window  
   18th century German philosopher, famous for effective criticism of Kant.
   http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/j/jacobi.htm
Just War Theory Open in a new browser window  
   Some of those who have attempted to justify war include Aquinas, Grotius, and Pufendorf.
   http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/j/justwar.htm
Positivism, Legal Open in a new browser window  
   Theory that law is manufactured according to certain social conventions.
   http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/l/legalpos.htm
Leucippus Open in a new browser window  
   5th century BCE founder of atomism.
   http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/l/leucippu.htm
Libraries, Ancient Greek and Roman Open in a new browser window  
   Describing the public libraries of Ancient Greece, and the fashion for book-collecting in Rome.
   http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/l/library.htm
Locke, John Open in a new browser window  
   Article on the life and work of the influential philosopher.
   http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/l/locke.htm
Lombard, Peter Open in a new browser window  
   French scholastic theologian of the 12th century, influenced by Abelard.
   http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/l/lombard.htm
Lotze, Rudolf Hermann Open in a new browser window  
   19th century German philosopher who criticised the pantheism of Hegel.
   http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/l/lotze.htm
Lucretius Open in a new browser window  
   Roman poet and advocate of Epicurean philosophy.
   http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/l/lucretiu.htm
Machiavelli, Nicolo Open in a new browser window  
   Renaissance philosopher who remains controversial for his practical solutions to problems of how to retain political authority.
   http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/m/machiave.htm
Malebranche, Nicholas Open in a new browser window  
   17th century Cartesian philosopher. Author of The Search After Truth (1674-1675).
   http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/m/malebran.htm
Menippus Open in a new browser window  
   Third century BCE Greek philosopher and satirist.
   http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/m/menippus.htm
Mill, John Stuart Open in a new browser window  
   19th leader and prophet of utilitarianism, heir to the Hume-Bentham line, and influential force in modern political theory. Author of On Liberty (1859), and Utilitarianism (1863).
   http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/m/milljs.htm
Moral Luck Open in a new browser window  
   Andrew Latus, St. Francis Xavier University, summarizes the discussion between Thomas Nagel and Bernard Williams on the question: Can luck ever make a moral difference?
   http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/m/moralluc.htm
Natural Law Open in a new browser window  
   Standards that govern human behavior objectively derived from the nature of human beings.
   http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/n/natlaw.htm
Natural Theology Open in a new browser window  
   Used in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to describe knowledge of God drawn from nature.
   http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/n/nattheol.htm
Neoplatonism Open in a new browser window  
   The revival of Greek philosophy in 3rd century BCE, led by Plotinus and his disciple, Porphyry. Influenced by both Pythagoras and Plato.
   http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/n/neoplato.htm
Ockham, William of Open in a new browser window  
   Detailed biography of the 14th century Franciscan.
   http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/o/ockham.htm
Origen Open in a new browser window  
   Father of the early Church, born around 182.
   http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/o/origen.htm
Solipsism Open in a new browser window  
   The doctrine of the solipsist is that existence means my existence and that of my mental states.
   http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/s/solipsis.htm
Paley, William Open in a new browser window  
   18th century British theologian.
   http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/p/paley.htm
Parmenides Open in a new browser window  
   Greek philosopher and poet.
   http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/p/parmenid.htm
Peripatetics