Home›Sources›Stanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophySourceStanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyAcademic Reference (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)Reference and ClassificationVerifiedA dynamic, peer reviewed reference work maintained by Stanford University, with each entry written and maintained by an expert in the subject and updated as scholarship develops.FactsSourcesClaims Backed By This Source (1,298 claims)Take a Related QuizComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsPublisherWell-attestedStanford University, Center for the Study of Language and InformationURLWell-attestedhttps://plato.stanford.edu/Source TypeWell-attestedReference WorkReliability TierWell-attested1SourcesStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophytier 1Stanford University, Center for the Study of Language and InformationView the SourceClaims Backed By This Source (1,298 claims)This source backs 1,298 claims across the atlas. As facts: 696 well-attested, 54 scholarly debate. 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Plus 268 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.Disposition By TopicPhilosophers, 345 claims: 208 well-attested, 10 scholarly debate, 22 holds, 46 connected, 6 critiqued Here, 53 general references.Schools of Philosophy, 306 claims: 135 well-attested, 18 scholarly debate, 58 holds, 26 connected, 1 critiqued Here, 1 rejected Here, 3 held Differently, 64 general references.Articles, 169 claims: 128 well-attested, 41 general references.Branches of Philosophy, 151 claims: 39 well-attested, 24 scholarly debate, 34 holds, 54 general references.Works, 150 claims: 59 well-attested, 2 scholarly debate, 22 holds, 48 connected, 19 general references.Open Questions, 94 claims: 75 well-attested, 7 connected, 12 general references.Sources, 68 claims: 47 well-attested, 21 general references.Concepts, 15 claims: 5 well-attested, 4 holds, 2 connected, 4 general references.Well-attested696Open QuestionsAre human choices ever free in a sense incompatible with universal causal determination?Are Kant's Several Formulas of the Categorical Imperative Truly Equivalent?Has Any Proposed Solution to the Problem of Induction Succeeded?Is the mind identical with the physical brain, or is it something genuinely non-physical?Must what justifies a belief be accessible from within the believer's own perspective, or can a reliable process the believer is unaware of confer justification?Was There a Single Historical Laozi?What Are Mozi's Life Dates and Origins?What must be added to, or substituted for, justified true belief for a definition of knowledge that survives Gettier-style counterexamples?When Did Continental Philosophy Begin as a Distinct Tradition?When Did the Kyoto School End?When Was Plato's Republic Composed Relative to His Other Dialogues?Who Actually Wrote The Book of Lord Shang?PhilosophersAl-FarabiAristotleBaruch SpinozaCharles Sanders PeirceDavid HumeDiogenes of SinopeDonald DavidsonEmpedoclesEpicurusFriedrich NietzscheGottfried Wilhelm LeibnizHan FeiHannah ArendtImmanuel KantJean BodinJean-Jacques RousseauJeremy BenthamJohn DeweyJohn LockeJohn RawlsKarl MarxLaoziLudwig WittgensteinMartin HeideggerMax HorkheimerMax WeberMoritz SchlickMoziNagarjunaNishida KitaroPlatoPyrrho of ElisRalph Waldo EmersonRene DescartesSimone de BeauvoirSocratesTheodor W. AdornoThomas AquinasShowing 51 to 100 of 183 entities carrying this claim.← Previous1234Next →Scholarly debate54Branches of PhilosophyAestheticsEpistemologyEthicsLogicMetaphysicsPhilosophy of Artificial IntelligencePhilosophy of BiologyPhilosophy of EducationPhilosophy of FilmPhilosophy of HistoryPhilosophy of LanguagePhilosophy of LawPhilosophy of LovePhilosophy of MathematicsPhilosophy of MindPhilosophy of ReligionPhilosophy of SciencePhilosophy of SexPhilosophy of TechnologyPolitical PhilosophyValue TheoryPhilosophersDiogenes of SinopeEmpedoclesJean BodinLaoziPyrrho of ElisSocratesSchools of PhilosophyAnalytic PhilosophyDaoismExistentialismJain PhilosophyKyoto SchoolLiberation PhilosophyMohismSchool of NamesStoicismVedantaVirtue EthicsWorksThe AnalectsThe Book of Lord ShangHolds140Branches of PhilosophyAestheticsEpistemologyEthicsLogicMetaphysicsPhilosophy of ActionPhilosophy of BiologyPhilosophy of EducationPhilosophy of LanguagePhilosophy of MindPhilosophy of ReligionPhilosophy of TechnologyPolitical PhilosophyConceptsQualiaThe Categorical ImperativeThe Problem of InductionPhilosophersAristotleBaruch SpinozaDavid HumeDiogenes of SinopeGottfried Wilhelm LeibnizJean-Jacques RousseauJohn LockeLudwig WittgensteinMax HorkheimerMoritz SchlickNishida KitaroPlatoPyrrho of ElisRene DescartesTheodor W. AdornoThomas NagelSchools of PhilosophyAnalytic PhilosophyCynicismDaoismDeontologyEmpiricismExistentialismFrankfurt SchoolIlluminationismIslamic PeripateticismKyoto SchoolLegalismLiberation PhilosophyLogical PositivismMadhyamakaMarxismMohismNeo-ConfucianismPeripatetic SchoolShowing 1 to 50 of 83 entities carrying this claim.12Next →Connected129ConceptsThe Categorical ImperativeThe Problem of InductionOpen QuestionsAre human choices ever free in a sense incompatible with universal causal determination?Are Kant's Several Formulas of the Categorical Imperative Truly Equivalent?Has Any Proposed Solution to the Problem of Induction Succeeded?Is the mind identical with the physical brain, or is it something genuinely non-physical?Must what justifies a belief be accessible from within the believer's own perspective, or can a reliable process the believer is unaware of confer justification?What must be added to, or substituted for, justified true belief for a definition of knowledge that survives Gettier-style counterexamples?When Was Plato's Republic Composed Relative to His Other Dialogues?PhilosophersAl-FarabiAristotleDavid HumeDiogenes of SinopeFriedrich NietzscheImmanuel KantJean BodinJean-Jacques RousseauJeremy BenthamJohn LockeKarl MarxMax HorkheimerMax WeberMoritz SchlickNishida KitaroPlatoPyrrho of ElisRene DescartesSimone de BeauvoirSocratesTheodor W. AdornoThomas HobbesSchools of PhilosophyAsh'arismCharvakaCynicismExistentialismFrankfurt SchoolGerman IdealismIlluminationismIslamic PeripateticismJain PhilosophyKyoto SchoolLiberation PhilosophyMadhyamakaMu'tazilismNeo-ConfucianismPeripatetic SchoolPlatonismProcess PhilosophyPythagoreanismSchool of NamesShowing 1 to 50 of 91 entities carrying this claim.12Next →Critiqued Here7PhilosophersEdmund BurkeGottfried Wilhelm LeibnizImmanuel KantKarl MarxSchools of PhilosophyMarxismRejected Here1Schools of PhilosophyRationalismHeld Differently3Schools of PhilosophyDaoismExistentialismNeoplatonismGeneral References268ArticlesA Committee That Judged ItselfA Ladder to Be Thrown Away: Wittgenstein's Tractatus and the Limits of LanguageA Name Invented by Its Outsiders: How Continental Philosophy Got Its NameA Private Language Cannot ExistAl-Farabi's Grammar of BeingAnselm's Island and the Argument That Would Not DieBracketing the World: What Husserl's Epoche Actually Asks You to DoClass as the Engine of HistoryDoubting Everything to Find One Thing CertainFour Traditions Under One Umbrella: What German Idealism, Phenomenology, Existentialism and Critical Theory Actually ShareFrom Consciousness to Being-in-the-World: Heidegger's Break with His TeacherHow a Pagan Philosopher Shaped Christian Theology: Augustine's Debt to PlotinusHume's Fork and the Limits of ReasonHume's Unanswerable QuestionMarx Against the UtilitariansNot Two: How Shankara Read the Upanishads Against ThemselvesOne Poem or TwoReason's Widest Claim: Spinoza's Single SubstanceThe Ghost in the Machine, ReconsideredThe King of France Problem: Russell's Theory of DescriptionsThe Man Who Refused a CrownThe Mind as Blank SlateThe One Beyond Being: Plotinus's Radical Reading of PlatoThe Problem of Evil, Restated Each CenturyThe Wager Glaucon Forces on SocratesThree Answers to the Same QuestionThree Commentaries, Three Vedantas: Why the Same Texts Produced Rival SchoolsWhat Hobbes FearedWhat It Is Like to Be SomethingWhy Science Still Works AnywayWhy the Genealogy of Morality Was Written to OffendBranches of PhilosophyAestheticsEpistemologyEthicsLogicMetaphysicsPhilosophy of ActionPhilosophy of Artificial IntelligencePhilosophy of BiologyPhilosophy of EducationPhilosophy of FilmPhilosophy of HistoryPhilosophy of LanguagePhilosophy of LawPhilosophy of LovePhilosophy of MathematicsPhilosophy of MindPhilosophy of ReligionPhilosophy of SciencePhilosophy of SexShowing 1 to 50 of 186 entities carrying this claim.1234Next →Take a Related QuizNew Ground in Philosophy: The Depth WaveIncludes a question about Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.Comments (0)No comments yet. 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