lacking any intrinsic relationship to each other. The doctrine of mechanism in philosophy comes in two different varieties. They are both doctrines of metaphysics...
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desired force and/or motion transmission Mechanism (biology), explaining how a feature is created Mechanism (philosophy), a theory that all natural phenomena...
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natural selection operates. Many characterizations/definitions of mechanisms in the philosophy of science/biology have been provided in the past decades. For...
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social mechanisms and mechanism-based explanations of social phenomena originate from the philosophy of science. The core thinking behind the mechanism approach...
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back to the earlier Ionians. History of metaphysical naturalism Mechanism (philosophy) Thales_of_Miletus#Mathematics American International Encyclopedia...
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Materialism and Christianity (category Christian philosophy)
Christian materialism is a widely discussed position in contemporary analytic philosophy of religion, defended by figures such as Peter van Inwagen and Trenton...
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consciousness Holonomic brain theory Many-minds interpretation Mechanism (philosophy) Neuroplasticity Quantum cognition Quantum neural network "Quantum...
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French materialism (category French philosophy)
Naigeon Atheism during the Age of Enlightenment German materialism Mechanism (philosophy) Metaphysical naturalism Marx's essay on French Materialism on WikiSource...
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Philosophy of science is the branch of philosophy concerned with the foundations, methods, and implications of science. Amongst its central questions...
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Mechanical universe can refer to: Mechanism (philosophy), theory that the universe is best understood as a system composed entirely of matter in motion...
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Analytic philosophy is an analysis focused, broad, contemporary movement or tradition within Western philosophy, especially anglophone philosophy. Analytic...
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Selection and Mechanisms. Dordrecht: Kluwer, pp.159-81. Machamer P.; Darden L.; Craver C. F. (2000). "Thinking about mechanisms". Philosophy of Science....
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Roberta Millstein (category American philosophy academics)
an approach where biology and philosophy work as equal disciplinary contributors. Her recent co-edited volume ‘’Mechanism and Causality in Biology and...
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The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (IEP) is a scholarly online encyclopedia with 880 articles about philosophy, philosophers, and related topics....
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Determinism (redirect from Determinism (philosophy))
causally inevitable. Deterministic theories throughout the history of philosophy have developed from diverse and sometimes overlapping motives and considerations...
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1017/S0140525X00031915. S2CID 144018337. Lewis, David (July 1969). "Lucas against Mechanism". Philosophy. 44 (169): 231–233. doi:10.1017/s0031819100024591. S2CID 170411423...
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Natural philosophy or philosophy of nature (from Latin philosophia naturalis) is the philosophical study of physics, that is, nature and the physical universe...
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Absurdism (redirect from The Absurd (philosophy))
matter either. The term "absurdism" is most closely associated with the philosophy of Albert Camus. However, important precursors and discussions of the...
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Political philosophy or political theory is the philosophical study of government, addressing questions about the nature, scope, and legitimacy of public...
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Animal machine (category Concepts in the philosophy of mind)
role of free will in human behaviour as opposed to determinism. Mechanism (philosophy) Self-preservation MAN-MACHINE FROM THE GREEKS TO THE COMPUTER,...
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Principles of Philosophy (Latin: Principia Philosophiae) is a book by René Descartes. In essence, it is a synthesis of the Discourse on Method and Meditations...
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Bense Max Black Maxwell's demon Measurement in quantum mechanics Mechanism (philosophy) Mediocrity principle Meera Nanda Methodological individualism Michael...
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He had been inspired to take this approach by the philosophy of Hume, who argued that the mechanisms of the mind gave people the perception of cause and...
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The philosophy of mind is a branch of philosophy that deals with the nature of the mind and its relation to the body and the external world. The mind–body...
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The philosophy of education is the branch of applied philosophy that investigates the nature of education as well as its aims and problems. It also examines...
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Meditations on First Philosophy, in which the existence of God and the immortality of the soul are demonstrated (Latin: Meditationes de Prima Philosophia...
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Bechtel, William (2013). "Abstraction and the Organization of Mechanisms". Philosophy of Science. 80 (2): 241–261. doi:10.1086/670300. S2CID 62677634...
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Measurement in quantum mechanics Mechanics Mechanics (Aristotle) Mechanism (philosophy) Media accountability Media ecology Media ethics Media transparency...
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Aristotle (redirect from Natural philosophy of Aristotle)
natural sciences, philosophy, linguistics, economics, politics, psychology, and the arts. As the founder of the Peripatetic school of philosophy in the Lyceum...
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scientific practice as the search for mechanisms. His research has also focused on 17th-century history of philosophy and science, on Galileo Galilei and...
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