lacking any intrinsic relationship to each other. The doctrine of mechanism in philosophy comes in two different flavors. They are both doctrines of metaphysics... 39 KB (4,882 words) - 02:06, 26 March 2024 |
desired force and/or motion transmission Mechanism (biology), explaining how a feature is created Mechanism (philosophy), a theory that all natural phenomena... 1 KB (195 words) - 16:50, 20 May 2023 |
 | 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... 9 KB (940 words) - 05:43, 28 March 2024 |
natural selection operates. Many characterizations/definitions of mechanisms in the philosophy of science/biology have been provided in the past decades. For... 6 KB (817 words) - 02:13, 27 September 2023 |
social mechanisms and mechanism-based explanations of social phenomena originate from the philosophy of science. The core thinking behind the mechanism approach... 2 KB (313 words) - 23:27, 19 October 2023 |
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... 13 KB (1,534 words) - 02:22, 28 March 2024 |
 | back to the earlier Ionians. History of metaphysical naturalism Mechanism (philosophy) American International Encyclopedia, J.J. Little Co., New York... 9 KB (991 words) - 01:22, 22 April 2024 |
Analytic philosophy is a broad, contemporary movement or tradition within Western philosophy and especially anglophone philosophy focused on analysis.... 92 KB (10,591 words) - 11:43, 26 April 2024 |
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... 1 KB (113 words) - 03:22, 7 July 2023 |
Philosophy of science is the branch of philosophy concerned with the foundations, methods, and implications of science. Amongst its central questions... 97 KB (11,983 words) - 12:07, 19 April 2024 |
 | Mechanism design is a branch of economics, social choice theory, and game theory that deals with designing games (or mechanisms) to implement a given... 32 KB (4,958 words) - 20:42, 19 March 2024 |
consciousness Holonomic brain theory Many-minds interpretation Mechanism (philosophy) Neuroplasticity Quantum cognition Quantum neural network "Quantum... 86 KB (9,784 words) - 02:41, 27 April 2024 |
Mechanical universe can refer to: Mechanism (philosophy), theory that the universe is best understood as a system composed entirely of matter in motion... 434 bytes (91 words) - 18:50, 26 July 2017 |
 | 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... 76 KB (9,938 words) - 02:40, 10 April 2024 |
Measurement in quantum mechanics Mechanics Mechanics (Aristotle) Mechanism (philosophy) Media accountability Media ecology Media ethics Media transparency... 127 KB (12,368 words) - 12:47, 24 March 2024 |
 | Political philosophy or political theory is the philosophical study of government, addressing questions about the nature, scope, and legitimacy of public... 74 KB (9,225 words) - 00:35, 27 April 2024 |
Selection and Mechanisms. Dordrecht: Kluwer, pp.159-81. Machamer P.; Darden L.; Craver C. F. (2000). "Thinking about mechanisms". Philosophy of Science.... 46 KB (6,403 words) - 23:34, 21 February 2024 |
 | 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... 154 KB (16,766 words) - 20:43, 11 April 2024 |
 | 1017/S0140525X00031915. S2CID 144018337. Lewis, David (July 1969). "Lucas against Mechanism". Philosophy. 44 (169): 231–233. doi:10.1017/s0031819100024591. S2CID 170411423... 48 KB (5,312 words) - 13:54, 17 March 2024 |
 | Meditations on First Philosophy, in which the existence of God and the immortality of the soul are demonstrated (Latin: Meditationes de Prima Philosophia... 49 KB (6,993 words) - 12:47, 8 April 2024 |
 | Natural philosophy or philosophy of nature (from Latin philosophia naturalis) is the philosophical study of physics, that is, nature and the physical universe... 35 KB (4,509 words) - 08:56, 2 April 2024 |
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,... 1 KB (157 words) - 03:47, 18 June 2023 |
Outline of metaphysics (category Outlines of philosophy topics) nominalism Logical atomism Logical holism Material monism Materialism Mechanism (philosophy) Meliorism Mereological essentialism Mereological nihilism Metaphysical... 28 KB (3,182 words) - 14:25, 1 April 2024 |
 | Determinism (redirect from Determinism (philosophy)) causally inevitable. Deterministic theories throughout the history of philosophy have developed from diverse and sometimes overlapping motives and considerations... 85 KB (10,635 words) - 15:11, 8 April 2024 |
 | In philosophy, naturalism is the idea that only natural laws and forces (as opposed to supernatural ones) operate in the universe. In its primary sense... 60 KB (6,929 words) - 20:35, 2 April 2024 |
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... 93 KB (11,340 words) - 05:40, 14 April 2024 |
The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (IEP) is a scholarly online encyclopedia, dealing with philosophy, philosophical topics, and philosophers. The... 6 KB (452 words) - 15:23, 3 November 2023 |
 | Metaphysics (redirect from First philosophy) Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy that examines the fundamental structure of reality. It is often characterized as first philosophy, implying that it is... 159 KB (15,310 words) - 22:00, 27 April 2024 |
 | The Unix philosophy, originated by Ken Thompson, is a set of cultural norms and philosophical approaches to minimalist, modular software development. It... 18 KB (2,169 words) - 11:07, 29 February 2024 |
 | Dream argument (category Arguments in philosophy of mind) experience the reality of wakefulness at all.[citation needed] In Western philosophy this philosophical puzzle was referred to by Plato (Theaetetus 158b-d)... 11 KB (1,327 words) - 01:45, 14 February 2024 |