Fang Thomé H. (1899–1976), Chinese philosopher of culture. Educated at the...

Faaraabii, al- See AL-FARABI.

fascism See POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY.

fatalism See FREE WILL PROBLEM.

feature-placing discourse See STRAWSON.

Fechner Gustav Theodor (1801–87), German physicist and philosopher whose Elemente der...

Fechner’s law See FECHNER.

feedback See CYBERNETICS.

feedforward See CYBERNETICS.

felicific calculus See BENTHAM.

felicity conditions See SPEECH ACT THEORY.

feminist epistemology epistemology from a feminist perspective. It investigates the relevance that...

feminist philosophy a discussion of philosophical concerns that refuses to identify the...

Ferguson Adam (1723–1816), Scottish philosopher and historian. His main theme was...

Fermat’s last theorem See CHOICE SEQUENCE.

Feuerbach Ludwig Andreas (1804–72), German materialist philosopher and critic of religion....

Fichte Johann Gottlieb (1762–1814), German philosopher. He was a proponent of...

Ficino Marsilio (1433–99), Italian Neoplatonic philosopher who played a leading role...

fiction in the widest usage, whatever contrasts with what is a...

fiction, logical See LOGICAL CONSTRUCTION.

fictionalism See DUHEM.

fideism See EVIDENTIALISM.

field (of a relation) See RELATION.

finite automaton See COMPUTER THEORY, TURING. MACHIN.

finitism See HILBERT, PHILOSOPHY OF MATHEMAT -. IC.

field theory a theory that proceeds by assigning values of physical quantities...

figure See SYLLOGISM.

figure–ground the discrimination of an object or figure from the context...

Filmer Robert (1588–1653), English political writer who produced, most importantly, the...

final cause See ARISTOTLE.