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[Revised entry by Achille Varzi on July 3, 2023. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] We think of a boundary whenever we think of an entity demarcated from its surroundings. There is a boundary (a line) separating Maryland and Pennsylvania. There is a boundary (a circle) isolating the interior of a disc from its exterior. There Read More
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[Revised entry by Yuri Pines on April 7, 2023. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography, notes.html] Legalism (which henceforth will be called the fa tradition) is a popular – albeit quite inaccurate – designation of an intellectual current that gained considerable popularity in the latter half of the Warring States period (Zhanguo, 453 – 221 BCE). Read More
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[Revised entry by Robert Kirk on March 25, 2023. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Zombies in philosophy are imaginary creatures designed to illuminate problems about consciousness and its relation to the physical world. Unlike the ones in films or witchcraft, they are exactly like us in all physical respects but without conscious experiences: by definition Read More [New Entry by Andrea Sangiovanni and Juri Viehoff on March 25, 2023.] The term “solidarity” first becomes prevalent in the early- to late-nineteenth century in France. Since then, it has always been used to describe a special relationship of unity and mutual indebtedness within a group. The term’s origins lie in French legal usage, in Read More 
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