Berkeley George (1685–1753), Irish philosopher and bishop in the Anglican Church...
Berlin Isaiah (1909–97), British philosopher and historian of ideas. He is...
Bernard of Chartres (fl. 1114–26), French philosopher. He was first a teacher (1114–19)...
Bernard of Clairvaux Saint (1090–1153), French Cistercian monk, mystic, and religious leader. He...
Bernoulli’s theorem also called the (weak) law of large numbers, the principle...
Berry’s paradox See SEMANTIC PARADOXES.
Bertrand’s box paradox a puzzle concerning conditional probability. Imagine three boxes with two...
Bertrand’s paradox an inconsistency arising from the classical definition of an event's...
Beth’s definability theorem a theorem for firstorder logic. A theory defines a term...
Bhagavad Gita (from Sanskrit Bhagavadgita 'song of the blessed one/exalted lord'), Hindu devotional poem composed...
bhakti (Sanskrit), in Hindu theistic thought systems, devotion. Bhakti includes the...
bhavanga a subliminal mode of consciousness, according to Theravada Buddhist philosophers,...
biconditional the logical operator, usually written with a triple-bar sign (S...
biconditional, Tarskian See TARSKI.
bilateral reduction sentence See REDUCTION SEN -. TENC.
binary quantifier See PLURALITIVE LOGIC. bioethics, the subfield of ethics that concerns...
biological naturalism See SEARLE.
biology, autonomy of See UNITY OF SCIENCE.
biology, philosophy of See PHILOSOPHY OF BIOL -. OG.
biology, social See SOCIAL BIOLOGY.
Birkhoff–von Neumann logic See QUANTUM LOGIC. bit (from binary digit), a unit or...
bivalence, principle of See PRINCIPLE OF BIVA -. LENC. black box, a hypothetical...
bleen See GRUE PARADOX.
blindsight a residual visual capacity resulting from lesions in certain areas...
Bloch Ernst (1885–1977), German philosopher. Influenced by Marxism, his views went...
Blondel Maurice (1861–1949), French Christian philosopher who discovered the deist background...
bodily continuity See PERSONAL IDENTITY.
Bodin Jean (c.1529–96), French political philosopher whose philosophy centers on the...
body, objective See EMBODIMENT.
body, phenomenal See EMBODIMENT.
