1. General Term: Materialism
Materialism A metaphysical thesis that asserts that everything that exists is material or
a product of material processes.
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2. General Term: Reductive Materialism
Reductive Materialism The view that only the material world (matter) is truly real, and that all
processes and realities observed in the universe can be explained by reducing
them down to their most basic scientific components,
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3. Neuroscience Topic: Getting Mind Out of Meat - Introduction
view of physicalism or materialism and a non-reductive view of materialism or physicalism.
First of all, I want to try to make that distinction clear to you. And in both this talk and the one after lunch, I'm hoping to make it clear that
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4. General Term: Physicalist
more
comprehensive term than materialism because it includes energy as well as
matter. Both terms are usually contrasted with idealism , theism , or some form of
dualism .
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5. Divine Action Topic: Haught, John F. Darwins Gift to Theology."
science to
scientism and materialism , ideologies clearly in opposition to theology. Haught
cites Stephen Jay Gould , Dennett, and Dawkins as conflating the science of
evolution and the ideology of materialistic metaphysics. In
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6. Evolution Topic: Darwin and Hitler: Prominent anti-Jewish voices rejected Darwin
rejection of scientific
materialism (sharing this goal, but surely not others, with the agenda of the
DI , which seeks nothing less than the overthrow of
materialism and its cultural legacies.) For his doctoral work he argued
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7. Evolution Topic: Did Darwin lead to Hitler? Prominent anti-Jewish voices rej...
rejection of scientific
materialism (sharing this goal, but surely not others, with the agenda of the
DI , which seeks nothing less than the overthrow of
materialism and its cultural legacies.) For his doctoral work he argued
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8. General Term: Idealism
Often contrasted with materialism or physicalism,
which explain mental phenomena as properties of physical systems.
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9. God, Humanity and the Cosmos Topic: Barbours Typology
Scientific
Materialism
Biblical
Literalism
INDEPENDENCE
because of a performed commitment to
Contrasting
Methods
Presuppositions
and Limit Questions
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10. Intelligent Design Topic: Getting Acquainted With the ID Vocabulary
by such labels as materialism (the material/physical world is all there is) or
atheism (there is no transcendent God as
envisioned by any of the theistic religions).
I use the term minimal
naturalism (it could also be
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