lacking any intrinsic relationship to each other. The doctrine of mechanism in philosophy comes in two different flavors. They are both doctrines of metaphysics...

desired force and/or motion transmission Mechanism (biology), explaining how a feature is created Mechanism (philosophy), a theory that all natural phenomena...

natural selection operates. Many characterizations/definitions of mechanisms in the philosophy of science/biology have been provided in the past decades. For...

social mechanisms and mechanism-based explanations of social phenomena originate from the philosophy of science. The core thinking behind the mechanism approach...

back to the earlier Ionians. History of metaphysical naturalism Mechanism (philosophy) American International Encyclopedia, J.J. Little Co., New York...

Christian materialism is a widely discussed position in contemporary analytic philosophy of religion, defended by figures such as Peter van Inwagen and Trenton...

Naigeon Atheism during the Age of Enlightenment German materialism Mechanism (philosophy) Metaphysical naturalism Marx's essay on French Materialism on WikiSource...

Philosophy of science is the branch of philosophy concerned with the foundations, methods, and implications of science. Amongst its central questions...

Analytic philosophy is a broad, contemporary movement or tradition within Western philosophy and especially anglophone philosophy focused on analysis....

Natural philosophy or philosophy of nature (from Latin philosophia naturalis) is the philosophical study of physics, that is, nature and the physical universe...