Burali-Forte paradox See SET -THEORETIC PARA -. DOXES , SET THEOR. Buridan,...

Buridan’s ass See BURIDAN.

Burke Edmund (1729–97), British statesman and one of the eighteenth century's...

Burley Walter (c.1275–c.1344), English philosopher who taught philosophy at Oxford and...

business ethics See ETHICS.

bridge law See REDUCTION.

British empiricists See RATIONALISM.

Broad C(harlie) D(unbar) (1887–1971), English epistemologist, metaphysician, moral philosopher, and philosopher...

Bruno Giordano (1548–1600), Italian speculative philosopher. He was born in Naples,...

Brunschvicg Léon (1869–1944), French philosopher, an influential professor at the Sorbonne...

B-series See TIME.

B-theory of time See TIME.

Buber Martin (1878–1965), German Jewish philosopher, theologian, and political leader. Buber's...

Buddha (from Sanskrit, 'the enlightened one'), a title (but not a...

Buddhagosa (fourth–fifth century A.D.), Theraveda Buddhist philosopher whose major work was...

Buddhism, Hinayana See BUDDHISM.

bottom-up See COGNITIVE SCIENCE.

bound variable See ONTOLOGICAL COMMITMENT,. VARIABL. Bouwsma, O(ets) K(olk) (1898–1978), American philosopher,...

Boyle Robert (1627–91), British chemist and physicist who was a major...

bracketing See HUSSERL, PHENOMENOLOGY.

Bradley F(rancis) H(erbert) (1846–1924), the most original and influential nineteenth-century British...

Bradwardine, Thomas See OXFORD CALCULATORS.

Brahma See BRAHMAN.

Brahman in Hinduism, the ultimate reality, possessed of being, consciousness, and...

Brahmanism See BRAHMAN.

brain in a vat See PUTNAM, SKEPTICISM.

Brandt Richard B. (1910–97), American moral philosopher, most closely associated with...

Brentano Franz (1838–1917), German philosopher, one of the most intellectually influential...

Brentano’s thesis See INTENTIONALITY.

Bosanquet Bernard (1848–1923), British philosopher, the most systematic British absolute idealist...