Moral Rearmament Movement See BUCHMAN -. IS. moral sense theory, an ethical theory,...

Moral skepticism any metaethical view that raises fundamental doubts about morality as...

Moral status the suitability of a being to be viewed as an...

Moral subjectivism See ETHICS.

Morality an informal public system applying to all rational persons, governing...

Morality, slave See NIETZSCHE.

More Henry (1614–87), English philosopher, theologian, and poet, the most prolific...

Mosca Gaetano (1858–1941), Italian political scientist who made pioneering contributions to...

Moses ben Maimon See MAIMONIDES.

Motion See NEWTON.

Motivation a property central in al explanations of intentional conduct. To...

Motivational explanation a type of explanation of goal-directed behavior where the explanans...

Motivational internalism the view that moral motivation is internal to moral duty...

Mou Tsung-san (1909–95), Chinese philosopher, perhaps the most original thinker among contemporary...

Moving rows paradox See ZENO's PARADOXES.

Multiple realizability See FUNCTIONALISM.

Multiple-relation theory See PERCEPTION.

Mystical experience an experience alleged to reveal some aspect of reality not...

Mysticism a doctrine or discipline maintaining that one can gain knowledge...

Myth of Er a tale at the end of Plato's Republic dramatizing the...

Myth of the given See SELLARS, WILFRID. Nagarjuna (fl. early second century A.D.), Indian...

N-tuple See SET THEORY.

Nagel Ernest (1901–85), Czech-born American philosopher, the preeminent American philosopher of...

Naive realism See PERCEPTION.

Name, logically proper See RUSSELL.

Names, causal theory of See CAUSAL THEORY OF. PROPER NAME.

Names, descriptivist theory of See CAUSAL THEORY. OF PROPER NAME.

Narrow content See PHILOSOPHY OF MIND.

Narrow reflective equilibrium See REFLECTIVE. EQUILIBRIU.

Nativism See FODOR.