Marburg School See NEO-KANTIANISM.

Marcel Gabriel (1889–1973), French philosopher and playwright, a major representative of...

Marcus Ruth Barcan (b.1921), American philosopher best known for her seminal...

Marcuse Herbert (1898–1979). German-born American political philosopher who reinterpreted the ideas...

marginal utility See UTILITARIANISM.

Mariana Juan de (1536–1624), Spanish Jesuit historian and political philosopher. Born...

Markov process See STOCHASTIC PROCESS.

Marsilio dei Mainardine See MARSILIUS OF PADUA.

Marsilius of Inghen (c.1330–96), Dutch philosopher and theologian. Born near Nijmegen, Marsilius studied...

Marsilius of Padua in Italian, Marsilio dei Mainardini (1275/80–1342), Italian political theorist. He...

Martineau James (1805–1900), English philosopher of religion and ethical intuitionist. As...

Marxism the philosophy of Karl Marx, or any of several systems...

mass noun See COUNT NOUN.

master argument See MEGARIANS.

material adequacy the property that belongs to a formal definition of a...

material cause See ARISTOTLE.

material conditional See COUNTERFACTUALS, IMPLI-. CATIO.

material equivalence See EQUIVALENCE.

material implication See IMPLICATION.

material implication, paradoxes of See IMPLICA -. TIO.

materialism See METAPHYSICS, PHILOSOPHY OF. MIN.

materialism, Australian See SMART.

materialism, central state See PHILOSOPHY OF. MIN.

materialism, dialectical See MARX, PLEKHANOV.

materialism, emergent See PHILOSOPHY OF MIND.

materialism, historical See ENGELS.

materialism, non-reductive See PHILOSOPHY OF. MIN.

material mode See METALANGUAGE.

material supposition See SUPPOSITIO.

mathematical analysis also called standard analysis, the area of mathematics pertaining to...