• 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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    back to the earlier Ionians. History of metaphysical naturalism Mechanism (philosophy) Thales_of_Miletus#Mathematics American International Encyclopedia...
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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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • Analytic philosophy is an analysis focused, broad, contemporary movement or tradition within Western philosophy, especially anglophone philosophy. Analytic...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    Mechanism design, sometimes called implementation theory or institution design, is a branch of economics, social choice, and game theory that deals with...
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  • Marxist philosophy or Marxist theory are works in philosophy that are strongly influenced by Karl Marx's materialist approach to theory, or works written...
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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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    causally inevitable. Deterministic theories throughout the history of philosophy have developed from diverse and sometimes overlapping motives and considerations...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    Metaphysics (redirect from First philosophy)
    Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy that examines the basic structure of reality. It is often characterized as first philosophy, implying that it is more...
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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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    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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  • Bense Max Black Maxwell's demon Measurement in quantum mechanics Mechanism (philosophy) Mediocrity principle Meera Nanda Methodological individualism Michael...
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    Concept (redirect from Notion (philosophy))
    concepts are studied within such disciplines as linguistics, psychology, and philosophy, and these disciplines are interested in the logical and psychological...
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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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