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Consequentialism - The view that normative properties depend only on consequences; by Walter Sinnott-Armstrong.

Constitutionalism - Philosophical survey of the idea that government should be limited in its powers by law; by Wil Waluchow.

Constructive Mathematics - By Douglas Bridges from Waikato University.

Contemporary Approaches to the Social Contract - By Fred D'Agostino.

Contractarianism - By Ann E. Cudd, University of Kansas.

Conventionality of Simultaneity - By Allen I. Janis, University of Pittsburgh.

Cosmology and Theology - Deals with the cosmological argument. By John Leslie of the University of Guelph.

Cosmology: Methodological Debates 1932-48 - Discusses philosophical views about cosmology in the 1930s and 1940s; by George Gale.

Cosmopolitanism - The view that all human beings belong to a single community; by Pauline Kleingeld and Eric Brown.

Counterfactual Theories of Causation - Discussion of analysis of causal statements in terms of counterfactual conditionals; by Peter Menzies.

Curry's Paradox - Discussion of a semantic paradox due to Haskell B. Curry; by J. C. Beall.

Dante Alighieri - Life and work of 13th century Italian poet and philosopher; by Winthrop Wetherbee.

David Hume - Life and work of 18th century Scottish philosopher; by William Edward Morris.

Death - Discussion of philosophical issues about death; by Steven Luper.

Deflationary Theory of Truth - According to the deflationary theory of truth, to assert that a statement is true is just to assert the statement itself. By Daniel Stoljar.

Descartes' Epistemology - By Lex Newman of the University of Nebraska, Lincoln.

Descartes' Modal Metaphysics - Interpretations of René Descartes' ontology of necessities and possibilities; by David Cunning.

Descartes' Ontological Argument - Discussion of René Descartes ontological proof of the existence of God; by Lawrence Nolan.

Desert - Moral issues of desert (punishment, success) and justice; by Owen McLeod.

Determinates vs. Determinables - A distinction introduced by W. E. Johnson to apply, e.g., to red and colored; by David H. Sanford.

Dialetheism - Dialeth(e)ism is the view that there are true contradictions. By Graham Priest of the University of Queensland.

Disjunction - Theory and history of the binary connective 'or'; by Ray Jennings.

Distributive Justice - By Julian Lamont, University of Queensland.

Divine Illumination - Augustine's doctrine described by Robert Pasnau of the University of Colorado.

Doing vs. Allowing Harm - Views on the moral difference between doing harm and allowing harm; by Frances Howard-Snyder.

Donald Davidson - Jeff Malpas of the University of Tamania.

Egalitarianism - The view that people should get the same or be treated the same; by Richard Arneson.

Eliminative Materialism - The view that some or all of the mental states posited by common-sense do not actually exist; by William Ramsey.

Environmental Ethics - Branch of ethics dealing with the moral relationship of humans to the environment; by Andrew Brennan and Yeuk-Sze Lo.

Epiphenomenalism - Discusses the view that mental events are caused by physical events in the brain, but have no effects upon any physical events. From the Stanford Encyclopedia, by William S. Robinson.

Episteme and Techne - Discussion of the distinction between knowledge and craft, or art in ancient philosophy; by Richard Parry.

Epistemological Problems of Perception - Discussion of how sense experience justifies or warrants beliefs about the physical world; by Lawrence BonJour.

Equality - Survey of social and political equality; by Stefan Gosepath.

Events - Survey of philosophical views on the character and status of events; by Roberto Casati and Achille Varzi.

Everett's Relative-State Formulation of Quantum Mechanics - Describes Everett's attempt to solve the measurement problem by dropping the collapse dynamics from the standard von Neumann-Dirac theory of quantum mechanics. By Jeffrey A. Barrett.

Evolutionary Epistemology - Survey of naturalistic epistemology which emphasizes importance of natural selection; by Michael Bradie and William Harms

Existence - By Barry Miller.

Experiments in Physics - By Allan Franklin, University of Colorado.

Feminist Epistemology and Philosophy of Science - By Elizabeth Anderson.

Feminist Ethics - By Rosemarie Tong, Davidson College.

Feminist History of Philosophy - Survey of feminist writing on the philosophical canon; by Charlotte Witt.

Feminist Perspectives on the Self - By Diana Meyers of the University of Connecticut.

Finitism in Geometry - Approaches to geometry that do not presuppose an infinity of points; by Jean-Paul van Bendegem.

Folk Psychology as a Theory - By Ian Ravenscroft, the Flinders University of South Australia.

Folk Psychology as Mental Simulation - By Robert M. Gordon, University of Missouri.

Formal Learning Theory - Discusses mathematical approaches to normative epistemology; by Oliver Schulte.

Foundationalist Theories of Epistemic Justification - Survey of theories according to which knowledge and justified belief rest ultimately on a foundation of noninferential knowledge or justified belief. By Richard Fumerton of the University of Iowa.

Francis of Marchia - Life and work of 14th century French theologian; by Christopher Schabel.

Frege's Logic, Theorem, and Foundations for Arithmetic - By Edward N. Zalta of Stanford University.

Friedrich Daniel Schleiermacher - Life and work of the 18th century German philosopher; by Michael Forster.


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