Terminology Tuesday: Reductionism
An attempt to explain some domain or field by showing that it can be derived from or redescribed in the language of some more basic domain or field. A physicalist, for example, may
Terminology Tuesday: Puritanism
A reform movement heavily influenced by Calvinsim but initially part of the Church of England that had its zenith in the seventeenth century in England and North America. The ste
Terminology Tuesday: Metaethics
The branch of ethics that focuses on the meanings of fundamental ethical concepts, the justification of ethical claims and the metaphysical status of ethical entities. Metaethics i
Terminology Tuesday: Magisterium
The teaching authority of the Roman Catholic Church. The magisterium consists of the bishops of the Church under the authority of the pope. Catholics sometimes argue that the weakn
Terminology Tuesday: Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
Italian astronomer and physicist and one of the great early modern scientists. Galileo invented the modern science of mechanics and defended Copernicus’s theory that the sun
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