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yesterday | Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

[Revised entry by Thomas Williams on December 15, 2025. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] John Duns Scotus (1263/66 - 1308) was one of the most important and influential philosopher-theologians of the High Middle Ages. His brilliantly complex and nuanced thought, which earned him the honorific [...]

20th Century Theories of Scientific Explanation

4 days ago | Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

[New Entry by James Woodward and Lauren Ross on December 12, 2025.] [Editor's Note: The following entry replaces and is based on the former entry titled Scientific Explanation.] Issues concerning scientific explanation have been a focus of...

Korean Buddhism

8 days ago | Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

[Revised entry by Lucy Hyekyung Jee on December 8, 2025. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Buddhism was introduced to the Korean Peninsula from China in the 4th century during the Korean Three Kingdoms period. It first arrived in Koguryŏ, a kingdom on the peninsula's northern end, and then reac [...]

Mathematical Style

8 days ago | Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

[Revised entry by Paolo Mancosu on December 8, 2025. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] The essay begins with a taxonomy of the major contexts in which the notion of 'style' in mathematics has been appealed to since the early twentieth century. These include the use of the notion of style in com [...]

Arrow’s Theorem

9 days ago | Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

[Revised entry by Michael Morreau on December 7, 2025. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Kenneth Arrow's "impossibility" theorem - the "general possibility" theorem, as he called it - answers a very basic question in the theory of collective decision-making. Say there are some alternatives to c [...]

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