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Philosophy Glossary

Ye olde original Glossary (established way back in Issue 4) attempts to explain those few bits of jargon that make it into the mag when I don’t have the heart to veto them.

Overdetermination: an event is overdetermined if two or more factors have operated any of which individually would have been sufficient to cause it.

Underdetermination: a gun going off is underdetermined by someone pulling the trigger, because although that can cause the gun to go off it won’t necessarily do so.

Ontology : the ontology of a theory is a list all of the things that the theory assumes to actually exist.

Idealism: the theory that what seems like the external world is a product of the mind.

Anthropocentric: any view that considers human beings to be of central importance in the universe