#Plato

[Revised entry by Jessica Begon, Daniel Putnam, David Wasserman, Jeffrey Blustein, and Adrienne Asch on May 29, 2026. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography, notes.html] Among the topics in philosophy and disability, the relationship between disability and…

[New Entry by Chris Bobonich and Katherine Meadows on May 15, 2026.] [Editor's Note: The following entry replaces and is partially based on the former entry titled Plato on utopia.] The texts of all great philosophers give rise to interpretative…

[Revised entry by Scott A. Davison on May 18, 2026. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Prayer seems to be a prominent feature of every religion.…

[New Entry by Allison Aitken on May 18, 2026.] Śrīgupta was a circa seventh - early eighth century Indian Buddhist philosopher who made notable contributions to the Madhyamaka Buddhist philosophical tradition in relation to metaphysics, epistemology,…

[Revised entry by David Bourget and Angela Mendelovici on May 19, 2026. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Phenomenal intentionality is a kind of intentionality, or aboutness, that is grounded in phenomenal consciousness, the subjective, experiential…

[New Entry by Denis Kambouchner and Louis Rouquayrol on May 20, 2026.] [Editor's Note: The following new entry by Denis Kambouchner and Louis Rouquayrol replaces the former entry on this topic by the previous author.]...

[Revised entry by Roman Frigg and James Nguyen on May 20, 2026. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Science provides us with representations of atoms, elementary particles, polymers, populations, pandemics, economies, rational decisions, aeroplanes,…

[Revised entry by Martin Wilkinson and Stephen Wilkinson on May 20, 2026. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Organ transplantation raises difficult ethical questions about people's claims to determine what happens to their bodies before and after death.…

[New Entry by Ahmed Alwishah and David Sanson on May 21, 2026.] Although the Liar Paradox was known in antiquity, the surviving textual record from that period is sparse.…

[Revised entry by Joshua Hoffman and Gary Rosenkrantz on May 21, 2026. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography, notes.html] Omnipotence is maximal power. Maximal greatness (or perfection) includes omnipotence.…

[New Entry by Juliet Floyd on May 21, 2026.] Susanne K. Langer (born Susanne Katherina Knauth, 1895 - 1985) was and remains a widely-read and influential American philosopher, best known for her analyses of language, mind, art and ritual in terms of her…

[Revised entry by Gerhard Heinzmann and David Stump on May 21, 2026. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Henri Poincare was a mathematician, a theoretical physicist and a philosopher of science famous for discoveries in several fields and referred to as…

[Revised entry by Holger Andreas on May 22, 2026. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] A simple explanation of theoreticity says that a term is theoretical if and only if it refers to nonobservational entities.…

[Revised entry by Charles Cross and Floris Roelofsen on May 26, 2026. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] The philosophy of language since Frege has emphasized propositions and declarative sentences, but it is clear that questions and interrogative…

[Revised entry by Roberta L. Millstein on May 27, 2026. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Evolution in its contemporary meaning in biology typically refers to the changes in the proportions of biological types in a population over time (see the entries…

[Revised entry by Andrea Staiti and Luca Oliva on May 29, 2026. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Heinrich Rickert was born in Gdańsk (then Danzig, in Prussia) on May 25th 1863. His father Heinrich Rickert Sr.…

Four preliminary comments are needed. Firstly, debates about realism and opposing views have figured prominently in the history of philosophy (see the entry on idealism), and indeed the birth of analytical philosophy can be traced at least in part to the…

Plato (429?–347 B.C.E.) is, by any reckoning, one of the most dazzling writers in the Western literary tradition and one of the most penetrating, wide-ranging, and influential authors in the history of philosophy.…

The European Space Agency Plato mission has successfully completed a series of tough tests under space‑like conditions. With this accomplishment, the spacecraft is on track to lift off in early 2027 and begin its search for terrestrial planets.

Socrates is considered the "Father of Western Philosophy," but perhaps that honorific should go to Plato.