education, philosophy of See PHILOSOPHY OF EDU -. CATIO. eduction, the process of...

Edwards Jonathan (1703–58), American philosopher and theologian. He was educated at...

effective procedure a step-by-step recipe for computing the values of a function....

efficacious grace See ARNAULD.

efficient cause See ARISTOTLE.

effluences See DEMOCRITUS.

effluxes, theory of See DEMOCRITUS.

ego See FREUD.

ego, empirical See KANT.

ego, transcendental See KANT.

egocentric particular a word whose denotation is determined by identity of the...

egocentric predicament each person's apparently problematic position as an experiencing subject, assuming...

egoism any view that, in a certain way, makes the self...

egoistic consequentialism See CONSEQUENTIALISM.

eidetic intuition See HUSSERL.

eidos See ARISTOTLE, HUSSERL.

Eightfold Path See BUDDHISM.

eikasia See DIVIDED LINE.

Einfühlung (German, 'feeling into'), empathy. In contrast to sympathy, where one's...

Einstein Albert (1879–1955), German-born American physicist, founder of the special and...

élan vital See BERGSON. Eleatic School, strictly, two fifth-century B.C. Greek philosophers,...

elementary quantification theory See FORMAL. LOGI. elenchus, a cross-examination or refutation. Typically in...

Elias See COMMENTARIES ON ARISTOTLE.

eliminability, Ramsey See BETH's DEFINABILITY THE-. ORE.

eliminative induction See INDUCTION.

eliminative materialism See PHILOSOPHY OF MIND.

eliminativism See FOLK PSYCHOLOGY. Elizabeth of Bohemia (1618–80), German Princess whose...

ellipsis an expression (spoken or written) from which semantically or syntactically...

embodiment the bodily aspects of human subjectivity. Embodiment is the central...

emergence See METHODOLOGICAL HOLISM.