philosophical theory
theoretical concept within philosophy
fatalism
philosophical doctrine emphasising the subjugation of all events or actions to fate
determinism
philosophical belief that all events are determined completely by previously existing causes
nominalism
a philosophical view which denies the existence of universals and abstract objects, but affirms the existence of general or abstract terms and predicates
neutral monism
philosophical theory that mind and matter are each reducible to some third category which is neither mental nor material, but somehow neutral between them
subjectivism
philosophical position according primacy to human mental activity, rather than shared or communal ones
Platonic realism
philosophical doctrine about abstract objects
eliminative materialism
the claim that people's common-sense understanding of the mind (or folk psychology) is false and that certain classes of mental states that most people believe in do not exist
pantheistic monism
philosophical theory
Platonic epistemology
epistemology developed by Plato and his followers
Marx's theory of human nature
marx's views on the totality of society, feelings and behaviors
metaphysical nihilism
Philosophical Sub-Viewpoint of Nihilism
temporal finitism
the doctrine that time is finite in the past
legitimacy
theory by Edmund Husserl
new materialism
current that deals with the relationship of man to technology, nature and the environment
conventionalism
philosophical belief that principles depend on societal agreements, not external reality
probabilism
ancient Greek doctrine of academic skepticism
coherentism
two theories in epistemology which sees each belief as justified by how well it coheres with all the other beliefs held by an agent
euhemerism
a theory that the gods of mythology should be interpreted as deified men
parallelism
philosophical theory that mental and bodily events occur together, without any causal interaction between them
radical behaviorism
philosophy of behaviorism founded by B.F. Skinner
scientistic materialism
philosophical stance which posits a limited definition of consciousness to that which is observable and subject to the scientific method
epistemological particularism
view that that one can know something without knowing how one knows that thing
agential realism
philosophical theory
monism
view that attributes oneness or singleness to a concept
foundationalism
theory in epistemology which sees some beliefs as being justified in terms of more basic beliefs, some of which are seen as being so basic so as to not require any further justification
multiple realizability
thesis that the same mental property, state, or event can be implemented by different physical properties, states or events
dynamism
philosophical system in which matter consists essentially of simple and indivisible units, substances, or forces; esp. one that reduces to matter to force
labor theory of property acquisition
the idea that a human owns the fruits of their labor
Turtles all the way down
expression of the problem of infinite regress
B-theory of time
philosophical theory in which the flow of time is only a subjective illusion of human consciousness and that the past, present and future are equally real, without ontological privileging of the present
biological naturalism
an approach to the mind–body problem proposed by John Searle, that mental phenomena are higher-level features of the brain caused by neurobiological processes
bundle theory
ontological theory about objecthood in which an object consists only of a collection (bundle) of properties, relations or tropes; originated by Hume
Doctrine of internal relations
philosophical doctrine that all relations are internal to their bearers
structuralism
viewpoint in the philosophy of mathematics
innate evilness
theory of good and evil in Eastern philosophy or Confucianism
Horak Controversy
controversy/debate
logical pluralism
philosophical view that there is more than one correct logic
uniformitarianism
assumption that the same natural laws and processes that operate in the universe here and now have operated always and everywhere
physicalism
theory in philosophy
antihumanism
philosophical and social theory, critical of traditional humanism
acosmism
philosophical belief
supposition theory
branch of medieval logic
sensationism
view in epistemology and cognitive psychology that perceptions underlie all cognition; thinking is recollection, modification, association,and comparison of perceptions
Transcendental Analytic
part of Immanuel Kant's Transcendental logic
existential nihilism
philosophical theory
Platonic idealism
concept in philosophy
semantic theory of truth
in the philosophy of language, a theory of truth holding that truth is a property of sentences
irrationalism
philosophical movement