Permissibility See DEONTIC LOGIC, EPISTEMOLOGY.

Perry Ralph Barton (1876–1957), American philosopher who taught at Harvard University...

Perseity See DIVINE ATTRIBUTES.

Person stage See PERSONAL IDENTITY.

Personal identity the (numerical) identity over time of persons. The question of...

Personal supposition See SUPPOSITIO.

Personalism a version of personal idealism that flourished in the United...

Personality See CHARACTER.

Personhood the condition or property of being a person, especially when...

Perspectivism See NIETZSCHE, ORTEGA Y GASSET,. TEICHMÜLLE.

Persuasive definition See DEFINITION.

Peter Abelard See ABELARD.

Peter Lombard (c.1095–1160), Italian theologian and author of the Book of Sentences...

Peter of Spain It is now thought that there were two Peters of...

Petitio principii See INFORMAL FALLACY.

Phalanx See FOURIER.

Phantasia (Greek, 'appearance', 'imagination'), (1) the state we are in when...

Phase space See STATE.

Phenomena See KANT.

Phenomenal body See EMBODIMENT.

Phenomenal property See QUALIA.

Phenomenal world See KANT.

Phenomenalism the view that propositions asserting the existence of physical objects...

Phenomenological attitude See HUSSERL.

Phenomenological reduction See HUSSERL.

Phenomenology in the twentieth century, the philosophy developed by Husserl and...

Phenotext See KRISTEVA.

Philo Judaeus (c.20 B.C. – A.D. 40), Jewish Hellenistic philosopher of Alexandria...

Philo of Larisa See ACADEMY.

Philo the Megarian See MEGARIANS.