General philosophy

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Modernism

Philosophy; General philosophy

Describes a series of reforming cultural movements in art and architecture, music, literature and the applied arts, which emerged roughly in the period of 1884-1914. The term covers many political, ...

Meliorism

Philosophy; General philosophy

The idea in metaphysics that humans can, through their interference with natural processes, produce an improvement over the natural outcome. It is at the foundation of contemporary liberal democracy ...

Emergent materialism

Philosophy; General philosophy

A philosophy that asserts that the mind is an irreducible existent in some sense, albeit not in the sense of being an ontological simple, and that the study of mental phenomena is independent of ...

Mechanism

Philosophy; General philosophy

Theory that all natural phenomena can be explained by physical causes. It can be contrasted with vitalism, the philosophical theory that vital forces are active in living organisms, so that life ...

French materialism

Philosophy; General philosophy

A philosophy that holds that both the associationist psychology and Empiricism of John Locke with the Totality of Isaac Newton are correct and compatible with each other.

Evolutionary materialism

Philosophy; General philosophy

The philosophical view that the only thing that can truly be said to 'exist' is matter and that the process of observing such existence evolves and changes over time.

Molinism

Philosophy; General philosophy

A religious doctrine that attempts to reconcile the omniscience of God with human free will. Named after 16th Century Jesuit theologian Luis de Molina.