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wisdom | Sophia | truth | 7,714 |
supervenes on | depends on | follows | 2,444 |
I and Thou | Buber's basic relationship | Two of Jung's archetypes | 9,834 |
Gödel numbering | Arithmetic encoding of syntax | Binary coding | 8,141 |
Affect | Emotion | Cause | 2,315 |
Turing Test | Imitation Game | Colossus computer | 11,500 |
Randomness | stochasticity | Physics | 10,259 |
Minimalism | Deflationism | Simplicity | 7,604 |
Animal rights | Moral status for non-human animals | Deontology | 3,794 |
effective altruist | someone who makes decisions with the aim of maximizing positive impact | guardian angel | 1,459 |
Supervenience of X on Y | No change in X without change in Y | Superposition of X on Y | 4,068 |
Pragmatism about truth | Truth is just what is useful | language | 5,975 |
Natural theology | Arguments for the existence of God | Natural science | 9,874 |
Axiom | Assumption | System | 1,354 |
entails | deductively necessitates | implies | 87 |
originalism | Textualism | origin | 293 |
computer | turing machine | robot | 11,156 |
inevitability | predeterminism | fatalism | 11,165 |
theoretical virtue | parsimony, elegance, simplicity etc | when a theory provides moral good | 5,499 |
the linguistic turn | special attention paid to the language in contemporary philosophy | turn of the phrase | 5,657 |
raven paradox | problem of induction | how can ravens fly if they're so big? | 8,766 |
feminist philosophy | a lens adopted that takes systems of power (particularly gender) into account | believing that women are better than men is feminist | 3,918 |
priority monism | the universe is ontologically prior to its proper parts | monistic idealism | 8,236 |
alief | an associative and arational mental state | being alive and relieved | 7,841 |
Oppression | Subjugation | Objectification | 3,360 |
argument from definition to verbal classification | semantic argument | classification | 4,367 |
phenomenal conservatism | believing appearances is justified without defeaters | phenomenal liberalism | 8,044 |
Knowledge is produced by attacking claims and refuting them instead of justifying them. | Non-justificationism | True by default | 10,564 |
Zombies are conceivable | Physical duplicates lacking consciousness are conceivable | Vampires are conceivable | 5,808 |
Baruch Spinoza | Benedictus de Spinoza | Baruch Smith | 3,106 |
manifested | active | obvious | 7,286 |
cognitive science | combination of linguistics, computer science, and philosophy | symbolic systems | 3,522 |
time does really pass | some form of the A theory is correct | some events are earlier or later than others | 11,118 |
Model theory | the study of the interpretation of any language, formal or natural | the theory that everything is a model for something else | 4,948 |
rules of proof | rules that only apply to theorems to construct proofs | rules of inference | 4,271 |
state of nature | Hobbesian state of nature | preindustrial society | 7,630 |
negative liberty | freedom from interference | freedom to have a negative attitude | 5,206 |
the swampman thought experiment | Davidson's example in which a person is struck by lightning, disintegrated, and then reconstituted, focusing on the causal history of that person | the brain-in-a-vat thought experiment | 8,455 |
Fatalism is incompatible with free will | Inevitability is incompatible with free will | Deterministic cause and effect is incompatible with free will | 4,253 |
position | thesis | synthetic | 7,711 |
Panpsychism | Consciousness is ubiquitous and fundamental to the universe | Mental states are fundamental and ubiquitous to the universe. | 4,947 |
Cynics | Ancient philosophers including Diogenes | Self interested | 7,398 |
Qualia | Phenomenal experience | Quality of life | 5,368 |
Supposition | Assumption | Demand | 4,062 |
noneism | modal meinongianism | nothingness | 10,658 |
parthood | being a part | part of a neighborhood | 9,931 |
McTaggart's paradox | Temporal paradox | Zeno's paradox | 8,980 |
unsatisfiable | contradictory | unable to be pleased | 5,620 |
phenomenal concepts | concepts that are about phenomenal consciousness, mental states | Husserl's phenomenological reduction | 8,492 |
Brain-in-vat skepticism | Biv skepticism | Biv scenario | 1,785 |
Trolley problem | Decision about relative worth of human life and moral agency | Train problem | 7,175 |
Ethics | Morality | Virtue | 6,336 |
syntactical entailment | there exists a finite deterministic procedure to get from the premises to the conclusion | semantic entailment | 8,006 |
imitation game | turing test | simon says | 5,478 |
Social Contract Theory | Government legitimacy based on a hypothetical agreement of the people | Socialism | 4,566 |
Different Number Choices Solution | Theory X | The Same Number Quality Claim | 3,905 |
Biopolitics | the style of government that regulates populations through the application and impact of political power on all aspects of human life | Necropolitics | 3,143 |
epoche | suspension of judgement | judgement | 7,786 |
Justified belief | Belief with proper grounds | Belief that is righteous according to God | 11,181 |
Popperian falsification | refutation of a hypothesis through contradicting evidence | Popperian lies | 5,885 |
the growing universe view | the growing block view | the exploding star view | 11,774 |
referent | denotatum | referee | 7,450 |
Banning statistical support for belief | Rejecting a belief as irrational because it is based on purely statistical evidence | Rejecting a belief as irrational because it is based on no evidence | 9,737 |
extralinguistic factors | pragmatic factors | free market economy | 10,634 |
Denying the antecedent | If A then B, Not A, Therefore not B | Physics | 10,241 |
hallucination | perceiving something that isn't there | illusion | 595 |
meaning | sense | use | 2,494 |
synthetic | based on experience | made of plastic | 1,189 |
philosophical zombie | a being in a thought experiment that is physically identical to a normal human being but does not have conscious experience | erudite living dead | 8,694 |
Munchhausen syndrome | pathologically faking an illness | pathologically faking a child's illness | 6,738 |
Family resemblance | Inexact but related uses of the same word | Parents looking like their children | 2,649 |
context-sensitivity | a property that a linguistic expression has if its semantic value on an occasion of utterance depends on the context of utterance | the view that historical events must be viewed in terms of their context | 10,500 |
ethical relativism | moral principles and values are relative to particular cultures, societies, or individuals | prescriptivism | 4,926 |
identity theory of powers | the terms dispositional and categorical are only ways of describing and ontologically monistic property | personal identity | 8,353 |
this sentence is false | liar paradox | an example of a false statement | 8,564 |
dispositional properties | properties that are defined in terms of their manifestations under certain conditions | phenomenal character | 8,300 |
Pragmatism according to Peirce | The sum of the effects of an object is our conception of that object. | Practical philosophy preceeds theoretical philosophy. | 10,439 |
meaning | significance | sign | 2,451 |
Possible worlds | Ways things could have been | Multiple universes | 3,516 |
Induction | The inference from a series of instances to the general case | A way of cooking that uses electrical waves to cause induction heating in metal pans | 1,308 |
ground | explain | earth | 233 |
Vienna Circle | a group of early twentieth-century philosophers who sought to reconceptualize empiricism by means of their interpretation of then recent advances in t | A circular shape found in Vienna | 572 |
Kant's formula for the kingdom of ends | treat others as though we are already in a kingdom of ends | treat others as if they will fail us, so we are prepared to care for them | 3,441 |
Restorative justice | Restitution | Retributivism | 4,521 |
ready to hand | transparent | available | 1,071 |
Hard Problem of consciousness | Problem of explaining subjective experience and qualia | The challenge of understanding the brain | 11,104 |
Physicalism | naturalism | positivism | 10,866 |
synthetic judgement | a judgement that brings a manifold of empirical data under one concept | a judgement that consists of different pre-constructed parts | 7,765 |
conceivable | imaginable | possible | 11,162 |
The universe was created (Aquinas' view). | The universe depends entirely on God for its existence (Aquinas' view). | The universe first did not exist, then was brought into existence (Aquinas' view). | 6,237 |
Interpretation | Hermeneutics | Translation | 5,018 |
Necessary | Couldn't be false | Totally certain | 1,901 |
social welfare function | a preference aggregation function for collective decision-making | social welfare policy | 4,628 |
Monadic predicate | One-place predicate | Dyadic predicate | 9,184 |
a possible world | a complete way things could have otherwise gone | a possible pathway in the 'many world interpretation' of quantum mechanics | 9,750 |
Identity | Sameness | Indiscernibility | 203 |
Straw man | Arguing against a nonexistent inflated argument | balloon argument | 8,129 |
Skepticism | Doubt | Ignorance | 3,709 |
Conceptual engineering | The manipulation of concepts | Philosophy of engineering | 2,405 |
Vacuous | Empty | Vacuum | 1,084 |