emergence See METHODOLOGICAL HOLISM.

emergentism, descriptive See HOLISM.

emergent materialism See PHILOSOPHY OF MIND.

Emersonian perfectionism See CAVELL.

Emerson Ralph Waldo (1803–82), American philosophical essayist, lecturer, and poet, a...

emotion as conceived by philosophers and psychologists, any of several general...

emotions, the seven See KOREAN PHILOSOPHY.

emotions, the six See CH'ING.

emotive conjugation a humorous verbal conjugation, designed to expose and mock first-person...

emotive meaning See EMOTIVISM, MEANING.

emotivism a noncognitivist metaethical view opposed to cognitivism, which holds that...

empathic solipsism See SOLIPSISM.

empathy imaginative projection into another person's situation, especially for vicarious capture...

Empedocles (c.495–c.435 B.C.), Greek pre- Socratic philosopher who created a physical...

empirical See A PRIORI.

empirical decision theory the scientific study of human judgment and decision making. A...

empirical ego See KANT.

empirical meaning See MEANING.

empirical probability See PROBABILITY.

empiricism (from empiric, 'doctor who relies on practical experience', ultimately from...

empiricism, constructive See SOCIAL CONSTRUC -. TIVIS.

empiricism, British See RATIONALISM.

empiricism, logical See LOGICAL POSITIVISM.

enantiamorphs (from Greek enantios, 'opposite', and morphe, 'form'), objects whose shapes...

Encyclopedia in French, Encyclopédie; full English title: Encyclopedia, or a Descriptive...

Encyclopedists See ENCYCLOPEDIA.

end in itself See KANT.

endurance See PERDURANCE.

energeia Greek term coined by Aristotle and often translated as 'activity',...

energeticism also called energetism or energism, the doctrine that energy is...