The Oxford Companion to Philosophy Part 107 ppsx

... gnosticism; language, history of the philosophy of; mathematics, history of the philosophy of; mathematics, problems of the phil- osophy of; metaphysics, history of; mind, history of the philosophy of; ... language, history of the philosophy of; law, history of the philosophy of; macrocosm and microcosm; materialism; mathemat- ics, history of the philosophy of; medie...

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... Data The Oxford companion to philosophy / edited by Ted Honderich. Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Philosophy Encyclopedias. I. Honderich, Ted. B 51. 094 19 95 10 0—dc20 94–36 914 ISBN ... be allowed to exclude its present. It is true, too, that one of these contemporaries may one day stand in the pantheon.

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... well to the jury of distinguished philosophers who cast an eye over the initial list of their contemporaries, and then to the thirty advisers in this matter for the second edition. Thanks too to ... Rundle University of Oxford Contributors xvii Contributors Almost all the contributors are or were members of the departments, faculties or sub-faculties of philosophy at t...

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... 529. l.p.g. *philosophy, history of centres and departments of. J. Dillon, The Heirs of Plato: A Study of the Old Academy 34 7–274 BC (Oxford, 20 03) . —— The Middle Platonists 80 BC to AD 220 (Ithaca, ... motion, due to Zeno of Elea. In a race, Achilles can never catch the tortoise, if the tortoise is given a head start. For while Achilles closes the initial gap between th...

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... the aesthetic, centres on the nature of aesthetic responses and judgements. The philosophy of art and the philosophy of the aesthetic overlap, without either being clearly sub- ordinate to the ... or there is, but reason cannot determine that one is to be preferred to the other by that standard, then the agent (the will) must be free to choose either way. If, in...

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... projects of their own and not be engaged in working on just the same issues as everyone else. The other is an impetus to togetherness— the desire of philosophers to find companions, to be able to interact ... terms. The premisses contain two occurrences of one of the terms, the middle term. It is by virtue of relations of the other two terms to the middle term that t...

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... in the more recent history of the subject, while in the case of others it has been claimed that they were unknown or ignored by the ancient thinkers and only came to the fore in philosophy in the period ... exercise it for the benefit of those below them, and if they hold offices of authority they are accountable to those below them and recallable by them. The abolition of...

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... is dependent. The truth of the house lies in its conformity to the plan, and the truth of the passer-by’s idea of the house lies in its conformity to the house. In each case there is truth where there ... of other figures of the syllogism to the first uses the negated conclusion with one of the original premisses to yield a valid first-figure syllogism whose conclusi...

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... head, Aristotle left Athens, lived for a while in Assos and Mytilene, and then was invited to return to Macedonia by Philip to tutor Alexander. Aris- totle returned to Athens in 335 at the age ... history of mathematics and Aristoxenus wrote on music. Theophrastus and the next head of the Lyceum, Strato, were independent thinkers, prepared to criticize Aristotle’s views, and...

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... (‘Lectures on the Philosophy of Logical Atomism’ ( 191 8), 1 79) , together with the facts composed of these atoms. Atomism as a theory of matter dates back to the ancients. Hume’s atom- ism is psychological: ... Bailey, The Greek Atomists and Epicurus (Oxford, 192 8). atomism, psychological. The view that the ultimate con- tents of the mind consist in self-standing items ow...

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... them. For example, our access to the physical world seems to be only via our own sense-data, to the minds of others via their behaviour, and to the past via our memories. There are four types of possible ... for instance, that the wrongness of *killing rests, in part, on the fact that to deprive someone of their life is normally to violate their autonomy. This account c...

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... of the History of Phil- osophy in the University of Oxford. Historian of ancient philosophy who is sensitive to the methodological distinc- tion between writing history of philosophy as history ... appears that Plato was led to the theory in the first place by con- sidering such types as the type of person who is virtuous, but he then extended it to many other types. d.b...

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... Hobbes, they do not take free will to mean the lib- erty of the man [to do] what he has the will, desire, or inclin- ation to do’. Rather, they take free will to refer to some power within the person ... in the land, however many years they or their ancestors have lived there. They are called aliens and may well be persecuted or deported—as if to vindicate the claim that...

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... back to the eighteenth, pessimism to the nineteenth century. The history of the terms themselves reflect the recent growth of the theories. ‘Optimisme’ came into currency in France towards the ... are, therefore, more part of the expository rhetoric of philosophy than of its real substance. But orderly exposition nevertheless contributes valuably to making philosophy...

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... and philosophical logic Political philosophy Philosophy of language Philosophy of history Philosophy of science Metaphysics Philosophy of mind Philosophy of law Philosophy of religion Philosophy of mathematics Inner ... both the circles them- selves and the regions within them should be thought of as only rather vaguely delimited. There are multiple overlaps, and in particul...

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