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... 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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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.
The Oxford Companion to Philosophy Part 2 pdf
... 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...
The Oxford Companion to Philosophy Part 3 pptx
... 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...
The Oxford Companion to Philosophy Part 4 pot
... 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...
The Oxford Companion to Philosophy Part 5 ppsx
... 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...
The Oxford Companion to Philosophy Part 6 ppsx
... 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...
The Oxford Companion to Philosophy Part 7 ppt
... 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...
The Oxford Companion to Philosophy Part 8 pot
... 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...
The Oxford Companion to Philosophy Part 9 pot
... (‘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...
The Oxford Companion to Philosophy Part 10 pptx
... 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...
The Oxford Companion to Philosophy Part 34 ppsx
... 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...
The Oxford Companion to Philosophy Part 42 ppsx
... 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...