General philosophy

General philosophy

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Biologism

Philosophy; General philosophy

The interpretation of humans and human life from a strictly biological point of view, and it is closely related to genetic determinism

Teleological behaviourism

Philosophy; General philosophy

Post-Skinnerian, purposive, close to microeconomics.

Cartesianism

Philosophy; General philosophy

A philosophy based on the ideas and works of René Descartes.

Dynamism

Philosophy; General philosophy

Term coined by Gottfried Leibniz (1646–1716) and developed into a full system of cosmology. The Dynamism idea in metaphysical cosmology explains the material world in terms of active, point-like ...

Is a type of ontological dualism defended by Descartes in which it is claimed that there are two fundamental kinds of substance: mental and material. The mental does not extend in space, and material ...

Dogmatism

Philosophy; General philosophy

Inflexible adherence to rigid belief or doctrine established by a religion, ideology or any kind of organization, held to be authoritative and not to be disputed, doubted or diverged from. A dogmatic ...

Dualism

Philosophy; General philosophy

A set of beliefs that begins with the claim that the mental and the physical have a fundamentally different nature. It is contrasted with varying kinds of monism, including materialism and ...