Revision Theory of Truth
Theory developed to analyze paradoxes that appear to show that common-sense beliefs about truth are inconsistent. By Eric M. Hammer.
Richard Rorty
Life and work of 20th century American philosopher; by Bjørn Ramberg.
Richard the Sophister
Richardus Sophista was an English philosopher/logician who studied at Oxford most likely sometime during the second quarter of the thirteenth century. From the Stanford Encyclopedi…
Robert Alyngton
Life and work of 14th Century British philosopher, follower of Wyclif and Burley; by Alessandro Conti.
Robert Boyle
Life and work of 17th century Irish philosopher and physicist; by J. J. McIntosh, University of Calgary.
Robert Desgabets
Life and work of 17th century Cartesian philosopher; by Patricia Easton.
Robert Holkot
Life and Work of Robert Holcot, 14th Century English philosopher and theologian; by Hester Gelber.
Roman Ingarden
Life and work of Polish phenomenologist, ontologist and aesthetician; by Amie Thomasson.
Søren Kierkegaard
Essay about Kierkegaard's life, work, and philosophy by William McDonald.
Saadya [Saadiah]
Life and work of Saadya Gaon (Saadya ben Joseph, known in Arabic as Sa'id ‘ibn Yusuf al-Fayyûmî, 10th century theologian, philosopher and rabbi; by Sarah Pessin.
Salomon Maimon
Life and work of contemporary and critic of Kant; by Peter Thielke and Yitzhak Melamed.
Scientific Explanation
Philosophical theories about the nature of explanation in science; by James Woodward.
Scientific Realism
The thesis that science discovers truths about a theory-independent reality; by Richard Boyd.
Scottish Philosophy in the Eighteenth Century
Survey of Scottish Enlightenment philosophers, including Francis Hutcheson, Henry Home (Lord Kames), and George Campbell; by lexander Broadie.
Scottish Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century
Survey of the work of William Hamilton, James Frederick Ferrier, and Alexander Bain; by Gordon Graham.
Semantic Challenges to Realism
Realism and the representation problem; by Drew Khlentzos.
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