General philosophy

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automatism

Philosophy; General philosophy

An artistic technique of spontaneous writing, drawing, or the like practiced without conscious aesthetic or moral self-censorship.

surrealist automatism

Philosophy; General philosophy

An artistic technique of spontaneous writing, drawing, or the like practiced without conscious aesthetic or moral self-censorship.

baianism

Philosophy; General philosophy

A school of thought credited to the Roman Catholic theologian Michael Baius (1513–1589). It is related to Augustinianism, and is considered to be the immediate historical predecessor of Jansenism.

An approach in political science that seeks to provide an objective, quantified approach to explaining and predicting political behavior. It is associated with the rise of the behavioral sciences, ...

classical behaviorism

Philosophy; General philosophy

The behaviorism of Watson; the objective study of behavior; no mental life, no internal states; thought is covert speech.

methodological behaviorism

Philosophy; General philosophy

The objective study of third-person behavior; the data of psychology must be inter-subjectively verifiable; no theoretical prescriptions. It has been absorbed into general experimental and cognitive ...

radical behaviorism

Philosophy; General philosophy

Skinner's behaviorism; is considered radical since it expands behavioral principles to processes within the organism; in contrast to methodological behaviorism; not mechanistic or reductionist; ...