Nineteenth-century philosophy

By Stern, Robert

In the first part of the nineteenth century, the reigning philosophical outlook was idealist in one form or another, as the attempt was made to complete the intellectual ...

Names

see Proper names.

Natorp, Paul

see Neo-Kantianism.

Natural laws

see Laws, natural.

Naturalistic fallacy

see Moore, George Edward. Naturalism in ethics.

‘Nature, philosophy of’

see Naturphilosophie.

Navya-Nyāya

see Nyāya-Vaiśeṣika.

Neckam, Alexander

see Neckham, Alexander.

Nédellec, Hervé

see Hervaeus Natalis.

Négritude

see African philosophy, Anglophone. African philosophy, Francophone.

Neumann, Franz

see Frankfurt School.

Nicole, Pierre

see Arnauld, Antoine. Port Royal (§2).

Niphus, Augustinus

see Nifo, Agostino.

Nomos

see Physis and nomos.

Non-conceptual content

see Content, non-conceptual.

Nonstandard models

see Löwenheim–Skolem theorems and nonstandard models.

Norway, philosophy of

see Scandinavia, philosophy in.

Novum Organum

see Aristotle.

Nyāya

see Nyāya-Vaiśeṣika.

Narrative

By Currie, Gregory

Narrative, in its broadest sense, is the means by which a story is told, whether fictional or not, and regardless of medium. Novels, plays, films, historical texts, diaries ...

Narrative

Narrative, in its broadest sense, is the means by which a story is told, whether fictional or not, and regardless of medium. Novels, plays, films, historical texts, diaries ...

Nation and nationalism

By Miller, David

No one observing political events in the world today could deny the continuing potency of nationalism. Many of the most intractable conflicts arise when one national community tries ...

Nation and nationalism

No one observing political events in the world today could deny the continuing potency of nationalism. Many of the most intractable conflicts arise when one national community tries ...

Native American philosophy

By Whiteley, Peter M.

Native American philosophies are multiple and multiply different, though with some palpable commonalities. Cosmologically, Native American thought posits phased differentiations of form from a primordial void. Form is ...

Nativism

By Samet, Jerry

Traditional empiricism claims that the mind is initially equipped only with the capacity for experience and the mechanisms that make it possible for us to learn from experience. ...