Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/africana/SEPStanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyPhilosophy EncyclopediaContext-EntrySEP entry

SEP Africana Philosophy context for African philosophy, postcolonial intellectual debate, philosophical method, and Oruka's broader field; not a dedicated Oruka profile.

Albert Camus

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https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/camus/SEPStanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyEncyclopediaPhilosopher-Profile

Scholarly encyclopedia anchor for Camus's absurdism, revolt, moral philosophy, politics, literature, and relation to existentialism.

al-Kindi

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https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/al-kindi/SEPStanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyPhilosophy EncyclopediaPhilosopher-ProfileSEP entry

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on al-Kindi, central to early Arabic-Islamic philosophy, Greek-Arabic transmission, logic, metaphysics, and scientific inquiry.

Ammonius

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https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ammonius/SEPStanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyPhilosophy EncyclopediaContext-AnchorSEP article

Context article for Damascius Alexandrian philosophical milieu, Ammonius, and late antique classroom continuity.

Chan Buddhism

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https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/buddhism-chan/SEPStanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyPhilosophy EncyclopediaTradition-EntrySEP entry

SEP Chan Buddhism entry directly discusses Huineng, the Platform Sutra, no-thought, Buddha-nature, meditation and wisdom, and the philosophical profile of Chan.

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/peirce/SEPStanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyEncyclopediaPhilosopher-Profile2001; revised 2021

SEP profile covering Peirce as founder of pragmatism and pragmaticism, theorist of logic, signs, categories, inquiry, science, realism, and evolutionary metaphysics.

Cicero

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https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/cicero/SEPStanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyEncyclopediaPhilosopher-Profile

Scholarly reference entry for Cicero life, Academic skepticism, ethics, political thought, theology, rhetoric, and Latin philosophical writing.

Confucius

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https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/confucius/SEPStanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyPhilosophy EncyclopediaPhilosopher-ProfileSEP article

Philosophy reference for Confucius on ritual, ethics, political order, the Analects, early Chinese intellectual context, and later reception.

Dai Zhen

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https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/dai-zhen/SEPStanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyPhilosophy EncyclopediaPhilosopher-ProfileSEP article

Scholarly reference for Dai Zhen on evidence, language, desire, principle, moral feeling, and Qing Confucian critique.

Daoism

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https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/daoism/SEPStanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyPhilosophy EncyclopediaSchool-ContextSEP entry

SEP context row for philosophical Daoism, Laozi, Zhuangzi, Wang Bi, Dao, wuwei, ziran, and later religious Daoist reception.

David Hume

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https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hume/SEPStanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyEncyclopediaPhilosopher-ProfileReference article

Detailed academic entry on Hume's empiricism, causation, induction, moral philosophy, religion, aesthetics, political thought, and reception.

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/husserl/SEPStanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyReference EntryPhilosopher-ProfileSEP entry

Major scholarly reference for Husserl as founder of phenomenology, his development from anti-psychologism to transcendental phenomenology, and his principal works.

Emotion

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https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/emotion/SEPStanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyPhilosophy EncyclopediaConcept-ContextSEP context

SEP context row for emotions and moral psychology relevant to Upheavals of Thought and Political Emotions.

Epictetus

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https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/epictetus/SEPStanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyReference EntryPhilosopher-ProfileRevised 2025

Reference entry for Epictetus, his life at Hierapolis and Nicopolis, prohairesis, use of impressions, kinship with god, and Arrianic transmission.

Epicurus

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https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/epicurus/SEPStanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyEncyclopediaTradition-ContextReference article

Academic context for Epicurean physics, epistemology, ethics, death, pleasure, gods, and the tradition Diogenes publicly inscribed.

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/leibniz/SEPStanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyReference EntryPhilosopher-ProfileFirst published 2007; revised 2013

Scholarly overview for Leibniz life, chronology, metaphysics, epistemology, logic, philosophy of religion, and the major writings used by the profile and direct works manifest.

Gottlob Frege

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https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/frege/SEPStanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyReference EntryPhilosopher-ProfileSEP entry

Scholarly overview for Frege life, Jena career, predicate logic, ontology, philosophy of language, logicism, and the direct writings used in the repair.

Heraclitus

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https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/heraclitus/SEPStanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyPhilosophy EncyclopediaPhilosopher-ProfileSEP entry

SEP profile for Heraclitus, supporting the logos, flux, unity of opposites, fire cosmology, dates, and fragmentary textual tradition.

Iamblichus

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https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/iamblichus/SEPStanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyPhilosophy EncyclopediaContext-AnchorSEP article

Context article for the Neoplatonic theology and theurgic inheritance that shaped Damascius treatment of ineffability and divine causation.

Ibn Arabi

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https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ibn-arabi/SEPStanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyPhilosophy EncyclopediaPhilosopher-ProfileSEP entry

SEP entry for Ibn Arabi on Akbarian metaphysics, imagination, divine names, prophecy, sainthood, cosmology, and later reception.

Ideology

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https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ideology/SEPStanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyReference EntryDoctrine-ContextSEP entry

Reference context for ideology critique, social consciousness, and materialist accounts associated with Marx and Engels.

Immanuel Kant

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https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/kant/SEPStanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyPhilosophy EncyclopediaPhilosopher-ProfileSEP entry

SEP profile for Kant, critical philosophy, transcendental idealism, cognition, morality, aesthetics, religion, politics, and the critical corpus.

John Dewey

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https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/dewey/SEPStanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyPhilosophy EncyclopediaPhilosopher-ProfileSEP entry

SEP profile for Dewey, pragmatism, instrumentalism, experience, inquiry, democracy, education, and naturalism.

John Locke

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https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/locke/SEPStanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyPhilosophy EncyclopediaPhilosopher-ProfileSEP entry

SEP profile for Locke, human understanding, empiricism, political thought, religion, education, and science.

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/habermas/SEPStanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyPhilosophy EncyclopediaPhilosopher-ProfileSEP entry

SEP profile for Habermas, communicative rationality, discourse ethics, public sphere, democracy, law, religion, and postmetaphysical philosophy.

Karl Marx

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https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/marx/SEPStanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyReference EntryDoctrine-ContextSEP entry

Reference context for Engels's collaboration with Marx, historical materialism, alienation, class analysis, and Marxist reception.

Laozi

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https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/laozi/SEPStanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyPhilosophy EncyclopediaPhilosopher-ProfileSEP entry

SEP profile for Laozi, the Daodejing/Laozi text, traditional biography, historicity problems, Guodian and Mawangdui manuscript evidence, Dao, de, and wuwei.

Mencius

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https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/mencius/SEPStanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyPhilosophy EncyclopediaPhilosopher-ProfileSEP entry

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry for Mencius, human nature, moral psychology, political thought, and Warring States Confucianism.

Modal Logic

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https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/logic-modal/SEPStanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyPhilosophy EncyclopediaLogic-ContextSEP entry

SEP modal logic context row for necessity, possibility, accessibility, frame semantics, and the logic background behind Kripke's technical work.

Mohism

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https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/mohism/SEPStanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyPhilosophy EncyclopediaTradition-ProfileSEP entry

SEP entry for Mohism, Mozi, inclusive care, utility, anti-aggression, Heaven, ghosts, epistemology, language, and later Mohist logic.

Mysticism

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https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/mysticism/SEPStanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyPhilosophy EncyclopediaContext-EntrySEP entry

SEP context for mystical experience, union, apophasis, ineffability, and contemplative epistemology relevant to Suso's wisdom mysticism; not a dedicated Suso profile.

Nagarjuna

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https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/nagarjuna/SEPStanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyPhilosophy EncyclopediaPhilosopher-ProfileSEP entry

SEP entry for Nagarjuna on Madhyamaka, emptiness, svabhava, dependent origination, the two truths, logic, and major works.

Neo-Daoism

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https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/neo-daoism/SEPStanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyPhilosophy EncyclopediaContext-EntrySEP entry

SEP context for He Yan, Wang Bi, xuanxue, the Learning of the Profound, nonbeing, namelessness, sagehood, qingtan, and Wei-Jin philosophical transformation.

Plato

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https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/plato/SEPStanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyEncyclopediaTopic-EntrySubstantive revision 2026

Scholarly context for Plato, Socratic dialogue, and the fragmentary remains of non-Platonic Socratic writers including Aeschines.

Proclus

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https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/proclus/SEPStanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyPhilosophy EncyclopediaContext-AnchorSEP article

Context article for the late Neoplatonic tradition Damascius inherited and criticized through aporetic first-principles inquiry.

Pyrrho

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Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry for Pyrrho, his life, relation to Anaxarchus and eastern travel, indeterminacy, appearances, suspension, and the later Pyrrhonian tradition.

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qing-philosophy/SEPStanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyPhilosophy EncyclopediaContext-EntrySEP entry

SEP context for Gu Yanwu in early Qing philosophy, practical learning, historical inquiry, moral-political responsibility, and critique of empty metaphysical speculation.

Race

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https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/race/SEPStanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyPhilosophy EncyclopediaConcept-ContextSEP context

Context row for race, social categories, and identity debates relevant to Appiah; not a dedicated Appiah profile.

Seneca

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https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/seneca/SEPStanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyPhilosophy EncyclopediaPhilosopher-ProfileSEP entry

SEP row for Seneca's life, Stoicism, moral psychology, political circumstances, literary method, and philosophical corpus.

Socrates

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https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/socrates/SEPStanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyPhilosophy EncyclopediaSocratic-ContextSEP article

Scholarly context for Socrates and the dialogues, supporting Crito as a Socratic interlocutor rather than a securely transmitted author.

Stoicism

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https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/stoicism/SEPStanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyEncyclopediaSchool-Context

Scholarly entry for Stoicism that situates Chrysippus after Zeno and Cleanthes and explains Stoic logic, physics, ethics, providence, fate, and rational order.

Syrianus

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https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/syrianus/SEPStanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyPhilosophy EncyclopediaContext-AnchorSEP article

Context article for the Athenian Neoplatonic line that runs through Syrianus, Proclus, and the later school Damascius led.

Thomas Reid

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https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/reid/SEPStanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyPhilosophy EncyclopediaPhilosopher-ProfileSEP article

Scholarly reference row for Reid on common sense, perception, first principles, action, and the Scottish Enlightenment.

Vasubandhu

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https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/vasubandhu/SEPStanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyPhilosophy EncyclopediaPhilosopher-ProfileSEP entry

SEP profile for Vasubandhu on Abhidharma, Yogācāra, disputed biography, major works, no-self, and appearance-only arguments.

Xunzi

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https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/xunzi/SEPStanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyPhilosophy EncyclopediaPhilosopher-ProfileSEP entry

SEP entry for Xunzi, biography uncertainty, human nature, ritual, language, Heaven, political order, and received text history.

Zhu Xi

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https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/zhu-xi/SEPStanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyPhilosophy EncyclopediaReception ContextSEP entry

SEP Zhu Xi row retained as Zhou Dunyi reception context through Zhu Xi's Taijitu and li-qi system.

Zhuangzi

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https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/zhuangzi/SEPStanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyPhilosophy EncyclopediaWork-ContextSEP entry

SEP context for the Zhuangzi, its reception, commentary traditions, naturalness, spontaneity, language, and Daoist philosophical interpretation.