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

per se See ESSENTIALISM, PER ACCIDENS.

perseity See DIVINE ATTRIBUTES.

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

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

personality See CHARACTER.

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.

personal supposition See SUPPOSITIO.

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

person stage See PERSONAL IDENTITY.

phenomena See KANT.

phenomenal body See EMBODIMENT.

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

phenomenal property See QUALIA.

phenomenal world See KANT.

phenomenological attitude See HUSSERL.

phenomenological reduction See HUSSERL.

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

phenotext See KRISTEVA.

Philodemus See EPICUREANISM.

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

Philolaus (470?–390? B.C.), pre-Socratic Greek philosopher from Croton in southern Italy,...