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B-theory of time | the tenseless conception of time | The theory that time is secondary | 4,162 |
robustness | the quality of being strong, often applied to algorithms | strength | 7,804 |
emergence | novelty arising out of complexity | process of becoming visibile | 1,184 |
metaethics | study of what assumptions underly our ethical frameworks; metaphysics of ethics | doing ethics about our ethical frameworks, figuring out if our values should be better | 4,056 |
secession | forming a new state by taking territory away from an existing state | accession | 3,679 |
Any expanding universe has a beginning | Borde-Guth-Vilenkin Theorem | Cosmological Argument | 2,177 |
belief | doxastic attitude | faith | 8,709 |
Epistocracy | the rule of the knowledgeable | Democracy | 5,220 |
Action | Deed | Explosion | 5,134 |
The Phenomenological Tradition | A tradition associated with Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, and Merleau-Ponty | A tradition associated with Hegel and Marx | 2,273 |
defeasibly | presumptively | assumption | 184 |
the difference principle | the maximin principle | the divergence principle | 6,359 |
example of ad hominem | attack the person | attack the argument | 8,838 |
flourishing | well-being | pleasure | 5,579 |
inverted spectrum argument | a thought experiment in which people experience different colours but share the same vocabulary about them | moral argument | 8,723 |
epistemic | related to knowledge | epistolary | 2,838 |
The Laugh of The Medusa | Cixous | Greek Mythology | 4,252 |
Speech act theory | The study of how utterances function in communication | Speech therapy | 619 |
number is a concept | number is abstract | number is another name for multiple | 11,616 |
Criterion | A ground for judging | Character | 2,966 |
space of reason | Sellar's neologism for the practice of asking and giving reasons | area of reason | 4,350 |
Pragmatism | A philosophical movement concerned with practical consequences | Self-interestedness | 252 |
eudaimonia | flourishing | abundance | 1,616 |
schopenhauer's limitations of scientific knowledge | schopenhauer's occult qualities of science | schopenhauer's subjectivity of knowledge | 7,238 |
Malabou's negative possibility | destruction without remission | impossibility | 8,893 |
Bell's theorem | theorem demonstrating that no local hidden variable theories can reproduce all the predictions of quantum mechanics | hidden variable | 9,636 |
secondary properties | colors, sounds, felt temperature, and similar qualities | unimportant or less essential aspects of a thing | 521 |
biopolitics | Foucalt's term for political control of lives, populations, and bodies | Searle's biological theory of mind | 9,094 |
The ship of theseus | identity persistence | The ship to Crete | 7,474 |
Kairos | the right moment | the right place | 2,364 |
the given in traditional epistemology | what one has immediate aware of or what is presented to one's consciousness | what is there for the taking | 2,960 |
the physical state most humans are in when they have the causes and effects associated with the concept of pain | identity theory in philosophy of mind | functionalism | 9,371 |
aristotelian logic | syllogistic logic | ancient logic | 3,315 |
empirical adequacy | accounting for observed phenomena | ability to be known | 8,416 |
panopticon | Bentham's concept of an institution with a system of surveillance and control, often depicted as a round prison where everything is observed | panpsychism | 9,119 |
Anthropocentrism | Egocentrism | Human rights | 4,639 |
Molyneux’s Problem | the question of whether a person born blind might immediately identify a shape previously familiar to them only by touch if they were made to see | the problem of defeating Molyneux | 9,058 |
Torture | Inflicting pain impermissibly | Punishment | 2,275 |
dialethism | some propositions are true and false | atheism | 7,196 |
relevant logic | relevance logic | pertinent logic | 11,415 |
Brute facts | Primitive facts | Facts that are human-independent | 665 |
sound | a valid argument whose premises are true | noise | 3,489 |
computationalism | functionalism | whole brain emulation | 8,299 |
intersectionality | multiple standpoints | road networks | 4,139 |
the antecedent | the first half, or "if-clause", of a conditional proposition | the precedent | 11,135 |
subjectivity | reality can be perceived subjectively by each individual and relative | Math rules are constant between mathematicians | 10,721 |
emotivism | expressivism | over acting | 11,433 |
theodicy | religious apology | sin | 8,308 |
realization | functional realization | implementation | 3,371 |
Ghost in the machine | Ryle's criticism of Cartesian dualism | Homunculus fallacy | 9,865 |
causation | why something happened | be careful | 7,041 |
an English philosopher, political economist, politician and civil servant often seen as the successor to Jeremy Bentham | John Stuart Mill | Jeremy Bentham | 10,647 |
Logicism | Reduction of mathematics to logic | Movement to spread logic | 10,488 |
misogyny | policing arm of the patriarchy | hating men | 3,693 |
Nationalism | identification with the country with which one identifies and the support of that countries interests | Rationalism | 3,448 |
Physicalism | The view that physical reality is all there is | Bodily | 1,351 |
Mirror Phase | Lacan | Reflection | 4,254 |
conciliationism | the view that, in cases of peer disagreement, one should adjust one's epistemic position towards that of one's peer | the view that we should be conciliatory in personal life | 10,502 |
eliminativist anti-realism | an argument to the effect that the atomic sentences of the discourse are all untrue | anti-real elimination | 7,536 |
Primitive | Fundamental kind | Savage | 7,390 |
empirical | a posteriori | contingent | 11,341 |
general will | rousseau's concept to describe what would be best for the people of a state | majority will | 3,852 |
a truth condition that is satisfied | a truth condition that is met | a truth condition that is pleased | 4,425 |
Contingency | Possibility | unforeseen events | 3,434 |
categorical | universal | categorizing | 3,862 |
ZFC axioms | axioms of math | axioms of mathematical physics | 5,043 |
fundamental | base level | fundaments | 753 |
relativism | a view that makes truth in a domain dependent on mental states of individuals or groups | philosophy of relatives | 3,962 |
Falsifiability | The ability to disprove a scientific theory | Verificationism | 2,094 |
Toxin puzzle | A puzzle about intention | Poison puzzle | 5,345 |
Semantic ascent | Linguistic ascent | Conceptual ascent | 6,019 |
reasons within an Agent's subject motivational set | internal reasons | private reasons | 591 |
Gold | Element with atomic number seventy-nine | Silver | 3,883 |
Person | Rational being | Human | 5,143 |
empirical evidence | evidence for a proposition is what supports it | proof | 6,444 |
plot | narrative | intention | 4,451 |
low hanging fruit | easy point to make | ripe fruit | 11,876 |
many economical experiments are not externally valid | most of economical experiment results cannot be generalized to other populations and settings | economical experiments rest on instrument measures that are note enough precise | 6,149 |
Emergent | Irreducible | Surprising | 6,804 |
P is biconditional with Q | P is true if and only if Q is true | P is true when Q is true and Q is true when P is true | 6,747 |
the harm principle | a famous moral principle articulated by Mill | liberalism | 10,098 |
moral realism | the view that there are objective, mind-independent moral facts | Lewis's modal realism | 9,055 |
Decartes' innate ideas | ideas whose contents have their origin in his nature | adventitious ideas | 10,138 |
Consciousness | Awareness | Perception | 3,890 |
Ethical | Moral | Transparency | 7,249 |
backward causation | retro-causation | reverse force | 11,619 |
defeater | a proposition that undermines a belief | conqueror | 732 |
Akrasia | Incontinence | The inability to hold liquids | 10,794 |
Intrinsic property | Property something has in virtue of itself considered independently | Inference | 6,424 |
Neutralism | Impartiality | Political Neutrality | 1,110 |
conspiracy theorizing | conspiratorial explanation | conspiracism | 4,504 |
Phenomenological Sociology | Studying social experience from the perspective of individuals | Functionalism | 4,714 |
mereological overlap | sharing a part in common | overlap in the disciplines of mereology and metaphysics | 8,661 |
intrinsic nature argument for panpsychism | an argument that matter must have an inner conscious nature in order to ground the dispositions of matter | intrinsic value | 8,604 |
defeasible reasoning | non-monotonic reasoning | deductive reasoning | 4,293 |
Sentience | The capacity to feel pleasure and pain. | Sentential | 687 |
Moral Relativism | Morality is relative to culture | Morality is defined by financial freedom | 11,798 |
natural lawyer | legal anti-positivist | law of nature | 457 |
Compatibilism | Free will determinism compatibility | Compatible software | 3,272 |
form | idealized archetype | shape | 5,857 |