Aesthetics

By Budd, Malcolm

Aesthetics owes its name to Alexander Baumgarten who derived it from the Greek aisthanomai, which means perception by means of the senses (see Baumgarten, A.G.). As the ...

African philosophy

By Appiah, K. Anthony

In order to indicate the range of some of the kinds of material that must be included in a discussion of philosophy in Africa, it is as well ...

Ancient philosophy

By Sedley, David

The philosophy of the Greco-Roman world from the sixth century bc to the sixth century ad laid the foundations for all subsequent Western philosophy. Its greatest ...

Abduction

see Discovery, logic of. Inference to the best explanation. Peirce, Charles Sanders.

Ābhidharma

see Buddhism, Ābhidharmika schools of.

Abortion

see Life and death (§5). Reproduction and ethics.

Abraham ibn Ezra

see Ibn Ezra, Abraham.

Abubacer

see Ibn Tufayl, Abu Bakr Muhammad.

Acquaintance and description, knowledge by

see Knowledge by acquaintance and description.

Acrasia

see Akrasia.

Adverbial theory

see Mental states, adverbial theory of.

Aegidius Romanus

see Giles of Rome.

Aesthetics, feminist

see Feminist aesthetics.

Afterlife in Islam

see Soul in Islamic philosophy.

Agapē

see Charity.

Agents, moral

see Moral agents.

Akṣapāda Gautama

see Gautama, Akṣapāda.

Albertus Magnus

see Albert the Great.

Alcibiades

see Plato. Socratic dialogues.

Algazel

see al-Ghazali, Abu Hamid.

Alhazen

see Ibn Hazm, Abu Muhammad ‘Ali.

al-Rahim, Qutb al-Din Ahmad

see Shah Wali Allah (Qutb al-Din Ahmad al-Rahim).

al-Shirazi, Sadr al-Din Muhammad

see Mulla Sadra (Sadr al-Din Muhammad al-Shirazi.

Altruism

see Egoism and altruism.

American Indian philosophy

see Native American philosophy.