Search results for "Teleology" - New World Encyclopedia
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- *Nagel, Ernest. 1979. Teleology revisited and other essays in the philosophy and history of science. The John Dewey essays in philosophy, no ...9 KB (1,352 words) - 19:32, 13 February 2024
- Anaxagoras (c. 500 – 428 b.c.e.) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher. Anaxagoras conceived the origin of the cosmos as the pre-existing, undifferentiated ...9 KB (1,342 words) - 19:07, 26 July 2023
- Bruhl believed in a historical and evolutionary teleology leading from the primitive mind to the civilized mind. His intention however was not to diminish ...11 KB (1,515 words) - 02:25, 5 November 2022
- Positivism is a family of philosophical views characterized by a highly favorable account of science and what is taken to be the scientific method ...11 KB (1,561 words) - 05:45, 30 November 2022
- Natural law or the law of nature (Latin lex naturalis) is law whose content derives naturally from human nature or physical nature, and therefore ...24 KB (3,647 words) - 15:20, 11 November 2022
- The 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury (Anthony Ashley Cooper III) (1671 – 1713) was an English philosopher and a grandson of the First Earl of Shaftesbury ...11 KB (1,695 words) - 05:22, 31 July 2023
- These papers were "Behavior, Purpose and Teleology" by Arturo Rosenblueth, Norbert Wiener, and Julian Bigelow; and the paper "A Logical ...22 KB (3,161 words) - 06:51, 12 January 2024
- Holism (from ὅλος holos, a Greek word meaning all, entire, total) is the idea that all the properties of a given system (biological, chemical ...23 KB (3,318 words) - 16:10, 25 January 2023
- Philo attacks Cleanthes' views on anthropomorphism and teleology; while not going as far as to deny the existence of god, Philo asserts ...12 KB (1,729 words) - 15:21, 11 November 2022
- category:image wanted Divine command theory is the metaethical theory that an act is obligatory if and only if, and because, it is commanded by ...13 KB (1,986 words) - 15:31, 29 January 2024
- category:image wanted Virtue ethics is one of three major theories in normative ethics, the other two being deontological ethics and consequentialism ...28 KB (4,212 words) - 20:38, 3 May 2023
- category:image wanted Metanarrative or grand narrative or mater narrative is a term developed by Jean-François Lyotard to mean a theory that ...13 KB (1,834 words) - 16:21, 9 November 2022
- Situational ethics, or situation ethics, is a teleological and consequential theory of ethics concerned with the outcome of an action as opposed ...14 KB (2,274 words) - 22:41, 29 January 2023
- === Analysis of teleology based on science === Teleology is a philosophical and theological study of purpose in nature ...50 KB (7,753 words) - 02:49, 9 November 2022
- Dialectical materialism is the philosophical expression of Marxism and Marxism-Leninism. The name refers to the notion that Marxism is a materialist ...15 KB (2,180 words) - 10:24, 29 January 2024
- quot;The Experimental Foundations of Galen's Teleology" Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 29A.1 (1998): 63-90. ...12 KB (1,806 words) - 03:50, 18 April 2024
- Socialist realism is a teleologically-oriented style of realistic art which has as its purpose the furtherance of the goals of socialism and ...14 KB (2,117 words) - 21:49, 30 January 2023
- Kinds of causes, predictability, and teleology are viewed by a practicing ... *1992 "The idea of teleology." Journal of the History of ...30 KB (4,364 words) - 21:22, 20 March 2024
- Mechanism is contrasted with vitalism and teleology, and is often criticized for overlooking the organic interdependent relationships found within ...18 KB (2,812 words) - 09:35, 10 March 2023
- instance, the final cause of an eye is sight (teleology). Additionally, things can be causes of one another, causing each other reciprocally, ...37 KB (5,500 words) - 06:30, 12 August 2023
