Tags
A tag is a keyword or label that categorizes your question with other, similar questions. Using the right tags makes it easier for others to find and answer your question.
Use for questions about the properties, nature, or definition of infinitude.
169 questions
For posts concerning Induction, an analytical method that makes predictions of future results based on observations of past behavior.
169 questions
Rationality is the use of reason to find the truth based on facts and to decide how to act to achieve desired goals. Also use this tag for questions regarding any view or intellectual movement which h…
163 questions
163 questions
163 questions
162 questions
161 questions
Realism is a view that the statements of a subject matter refer to what is real and therefore could be assigned a definite true or false valuation if we knew what that valuation should be. A realist n…
159 questions
158 questions
a religion of eastern and central Asia that is based on the teachings of Gautama Buddha
155 questions
Computational theory is the study of calculations. Important questions are: what can be computed? How quickly can it be computed? What requirements or abilities must a computer have?
154 questions
Materialism is a form of philosophical monism which holds the fundamental basis of reality is matter and all mental states are caused by states of this material world.
153 questions
Ancient philosophy consists, at least in the west, of the work by philosophers before around ~480 CE.
151 questions
150 questions
150 questions
148 questions
146 questions
Nihilism is a type of philosophical view that variously considers life as without objective meaning or without intrinsic value.
146 questions
144 questions
[St. Thomas Aquinas][1] (1225–1274), scholastic philosopher, Catholic theologian, and most famous commentator on Aristotle. [Thomism][2] is his school of thought.
[1]: http://plato.stanford.edu/e…
144 questions
143 questions
Used when an inquisitor or question posed might occur at the undergraduate or lower level of institutional philosophical pedagogy. Certain basic ideas about metaphysics, ontology, and epistemology oft…
142 questions
140 questions
The term `continental philosophy` refers to the trends of philosophy prevalent in the European continent, particularly in 19th-20th century France and Germany. Philosophical ideas that fall beneath th…
139 questions
139 questions
139 questions
139 questions
Karl Marx is a political philosopher and author of the Marxist theory of government and economics.
138 questions
Dualism, at the most general level, posits that the mind is fundamentally different from the physical.
138 questions
Socrates was a classical Greek Athenian philosopher. Credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy, he is an enigmatic figure known chiefly through the accounts of later classical writers, esp…
137 questions
Evolution is the change in the characteristics of a species over time.
136 questions
131 questions
for questions relating to what, if anything, the quantum mechanical formalism and experimental results say about the way the world works.
131 questions
Questions related to the work of Kurt Gödel. Please mind the spelling of his last name: "Gödel". If you cannot or don't know how to create the "ö", you might also write his name as "Goedel". In all ca…
128 questions
126 questions
125 questions