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The philosophical view that only the mind and mental states truly exist, and physical matter is either an illusion or dependent on minds.
Difficulty: Easy- Materialism
- Idealism
- Dualism
- Nihilism
This doctrine holds that God is the only true cause and that apparent causal relations between finite things are just occasions for God to act.
Difficulty: Medium- Pre-established harmony
- Parallelism
- Occasionalism
- Concurrentism
This view holds that only things caught up in causal relations exist, used by Armstrong to reject abstract objects.
Difficulty: Hard- Causal theory of reference
- Eleatic Principle
- Causal closure
- Causal fundamentalism
The view that all events, including human decisions, are completely determined by previously existing causes.
Difficulty: Easy- Determinism
- Free will
- Fatalism
- Libertarianism
This view holds that the same mental state type can be realized by different physical state types, challenging the mind-brain identity theory.
Difficulty: Medium- Token identity
- Multiple realizability
- Supervenience
- Emergence
This thesis states that higher-level special sciences cannot be reduced to physics because their predicates are wildly disjunctive at the physical level.
Difficulty: Hard- Anti-reductionism
- Emergentism
- Anomalous monism
- Multiple realizability argument against reduction
The state of subjective, first-person experience, describing what it feels like to be something.
Difficulty: Easy- Intelligence
- Perception
- Cognition
- Consciousness
This 20th-century German philosopher argued that the fundamental question of metaphysics is why there is something rather than nothing.
Difficulty: Medium- Martin Heidegger
- Edmund Husserl
- Hans-Georg Gadamer
- Karl Jaspers
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