Williams Bernard (b.1929), English philosopher who has made major contributions to...

Windelband Wilhelm (1848–1915), German philosopher and originator of Baden neo- Kantianism....

will, general See ROUSSEAU.

Wille See KANT.

white horse paradox See KUNG-SUN LUNG TZU.

wide reflective equilibrium See REFLECTIVE EQUI -. LIBRIU.

wide content See PHILOSOPHY OF MIND.

will See VOLITION.

Whitehead Alfred North (1861–1947), English mathematician, logician, philosopher of science, and...

William of Alnwick (d. 1333), English Franciscan theologian. William studied under Duns Scotus...

William Ockham See OCKHAM.

will, weakness of See AKRASIA.

wheel of rebirth See BUDDHISM, SAMSARA.

wff See WELL-FORMED FORMULA.

well-ordered set See MATHEMATICAL INDUCTION,. SET -THEORETIC PARADOXE.

Weltanschauung See DILTHEY.

well-formed formula a grammatically wellformed sentence or (structured) predicate of an artificial...

Whewell William (1794–1866), English historian, astronomer, and philosopher of science. He...

welfare liberalism See POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY.

Wertrationalität See WEBER.

well ordering See ORDERING.

welfare economics See PHILOSOPHY OF ECONOM -. IC.

Whichcote, Benjamin See CAMBRIDGE PLATONISTS.

Westermarck Edward (1862–1939), Finnish anthropologist and philosopher who spent his life...

weakness of will See AKRASIA.

weak semantic completeness See COMPLETENESS.

Weber Max (1864–1920), German social theorist and sociologist. Born in Berlin...

weak law of large numbers See BERNOULLI'S THEO-. REM , PROBABILIT.

Weber’s law See FECHNER.

wedge argument See SLIPPERY SLOPE ARGUMENT.