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Scientific Camps/Isms

To which camp or ism does an author belong?

Which authors are supporting/opposing a particular ism?

Is an ism supported or opposed by an author?

Does a theory lead to oppositions – and to which?

Is a theory incompatible with another theory?

Which constellation of opponents has led to which theory?

	Pro	Pro	Pro	Pro	Pro	Pro	Pro	Pro	Versus	Versus	Versus	Versus	Versus	Versus	Versus	Versus	Neutral	Neutral	Neutral	Neutral	Neutral	Neutral	Neutral
Actualism	Stalnaker								Lewis
Analyticity	Fodor/Lep								Quine
Anaphora
Animals Causality		Rumbaugh	Hilix	Dickinson					Tomasello
Anti-Realism	Dummett	Cartwright	Put/Fraas	Fraassen	Davidson				Seel
Antinaturalism	Nagel
Artificial Intelligence
Atomism, Logical	Tractatus	Leibniz							Black	Simons
Atomism, Semantical	Locke	Hume	Berkeley	Behavior	Dewey
Autority, 1st Person	Davidson	Wittgenst	Strawson	Rorty	Shoemaker	Burge			Ryle	Ayer
Barcan-Formula	Barcan								Prior	Hintikka	Myhill
Bayesianism	de Finetti	subj.Wschk		Lewis													Fraassen
Behaviorism		Quine	Skinner	Watson					Wittgenstein
Best Explanation	Peirce	Realism	Field	Feyerab		Rorty			Antirealism	Fraassen	Instrum	Positivism
Biology	Schurz								Smart
Brain inexplicable	Chomsky	Fodor	McGinn						Dennett	Saltationism
Brentano: Irreducib.	Chisholm	Quine	Davidson	Avramides
Bridge Laws
Bundle Theory/Names	Wittg.früh								Kripke	Kausalth	Searle
Causal Explanation
Causal Th./Names	Devitt	Kripke	Husserl	Donnellan					Goldman	Quine/Russ	Evans	Wittgenstei	Searle	Verläßlichk.	Frege	Mill
Causal Th./Reference	Kripke								Holismus
Causal theory of knowledge
Cause									Fraassen	Russell
Charity Principle		Davidson							intent.Gesetze								Fodor/Lep
Chinese Room	Searle								Fodor
Classical Logic	Quine	Field							Priest	Dialethism
Cognition Theory	Block	Psychofunktionalism							Volkspsych		Ryle
Cognitivism/Ethics	Bentham	Mill	Moore	Intuit/Eth	B.Williams				Ayer	Hare
Coherence Theory
Common Sense
Complete Induction
Compositionality
Conceptualism	Qhuine	Intuitionism	Slupecki	Lesniewski
Conditional = Statement		Grice	Strawson						Stalnaker
Connectionism
Constructivism	Lorenzen	Maturana
Continuants	Simons	Chisholm							Hume	Russell
Contradiction senseless		"Wyman"							Quine
Convention. Meaning Th.	Wittg.spät	Austin	Searle	Grice	Brandom
Convergence Theory										Kuhn
Copenhagen Interpr. QM	Bohr								Schrödinger
Correspondence Theory
Correspondence Theory
Covering Law	Dray	Hempel							Cartwright
Cross World Identity	Kripke	Hintikka							Lewis
Darwinism
Deconstructivism
deductive- nomolog.	Hempel	E. Nagel	Grünbaum	Popper					Fraassen	Quine/Cartw		Carnap
Deflationism	Field	M.Williams	Leeds	Horwich					Frege	Putnam	Friedman						Putnam
Deontology	Nagel
Descr. Theory/Names	Loar
Description Th./nat.Kind		Frege	Russell						Kripke	Putnam	Cresswell
Determinism	Davidson	Laplace	Leibniz						Barrow
Disquotation				Tarski					Davidson
Disquotationalism
Dualism	Descarte	Nagel	Locke	Gödel					Ryle	Searle				Ryle
eliminat. Materialism			Rorty
Empiricism	Fraassen	Hume	Rorty	McDowell					Davidson	Sellars
Empiricism, Logical									Quine
Endurantism
Epiphenomenon Epiphenomenalism		Dualismus							Materialis	Jackson
Epistemology									Goodman	Putnam	Quine
EPR	Einstein	Podolski	Rosen						QM	Planck
Essentialism		Plantinga	Kripke
Ethics, objektivist.	Moore	Scheler	Plato	Aristoteles	Aquin	Leibniz	Kant	Hartmann
Ethics, subjektivist.	Epikur	Hobbes	Hume	Schopenh	Weber	Mackie
Evolution Th. of Meaning	Dennett								Putnam	Fodor	Searle	Kripke	Burge	Dretske
Evolution Theory	Dennett			Vollmer
Experience, conceptual	Kuhn	Hanson
Experiment	F.Bacon								Aristoteles
Explanation									Wittgenste	Duhem
Extensional Language	Churchland	Tarski/Suppes							Weyl	Evert	Beth
Externalism	Burge	Dretske	Putnam	Davidson	Dennett	Fodor	Stich	Millikan	Davidson	Searle	Esfeld	Fodor	Putnam?				Davidson	Quine
Facts
Fichte Self-Consc.	Pollock	Shoemaker	Chisholm						Castaneda
Finitism
Flux	Cartwright	Chisholm	Thomson	Inwagen	Heller	Henry
Folk Psychology
Folk Psychology
Formalism	Hilbert	Bourbaki	Cantor	Zermelo	Russell	Einstein	Planck		Frege	Barrow	Quine
Four-Dimensionalism		Quine	McTaggart	Russell	Carnap	Smart			Prior	Broad	Geach	Chisholm	Hacker
Free Logic									Wiggins	Quine
Free Will
Frege Sense/Meaning	Evans	Peacocke	McDowell	Oxford	Montague				Perry	Castaneda
Functionalism	Armstr	Lewis	Shoemake	Smart	Putnam	Sellars			Nagel	Field
Gestalt Theory
Grice
Holism	Duhem	Putnam	Quine	Quanten-H	Quine	Dennett	Stich	Davidson	Husserl	Fodor	Kripke	Searle	Baustein-Th
Husserl	Luhmann								Heidegger
Idealism	Bradley	Cassirer	Foucault	Nietzsche	Bataille	Kuhn			Langer	Whitehead
Identity contingent									Kripke	Wiggins	Barcan
Identity Theory	Papineau								Harman								Pauen
Impossible World
Incommensurability	Kuhn	Hanson
Independence
Indeterminism	Kant	Campbell
Indexicality psych.	Dretske
Inductivism	Carnap								Deutsch	Goodman	Popper
Inferentialism	Brandom	Davidson	Wittgenst	Descartes					Dummett	Habermas	Locke
Infinite (actual)									Descartes	Gauß	Kronecker	Kant	Hobbes
Inflationism	Frege	Russell	Tractatus	Ramsey	McGee?				Field
Innate	Quine	Hume	Locke	Berkeley
Innate Ideas	Chomsky								Goodman	Locke	Hume
Instrumentalism									Realismus
Intensionality
Intentional Laws	Fodor/Lep								Nachsicht	Quine	Davidson	Dennett	Churchl	Stich
Intentional Stance		Dennett	Fodor/Lep
Intentionality																	Wittgenst
Internalism
Intersubjectivity
Introspection
Intuitionism/Ethics	Moore
Intuitionism/Math.	Brouwer	Weyl	Poincaré	Waismann	Konzeptua				Cantor	Fraenkel
Justification. objektive	Putnam								Field
Kin of Paradoxes		Russell							Ramsey
Kuhn Vs Accum. of Knowl.									E.Nagel
Language essent. Comm.									Chomsky	Nagel
Language infinite	Fodor
Linguistic View	Field								Stalnaker
Linguistics
Loar	Loar								McD/Wigg
Logic, empirical	Quine	Mill
Logicism/Math.	Field
Materialism
McDowell	Brandom	Sellars	Davidson
Meaning Change	Kuhn								Putnam								Field
Meaning Postulate	Carnap								Katz	Nagel
Meanings n. i.th. Head	Putnam	fast alle							Searle	Fodor							Cresswell
Ment. State = Percept.	Locke	Armstrong	Lycan	Churchland					Rosenthal	Dennett	Descartes
Mentalese
Mentalism	Russell								Quine	Wittg	Searle	Grice	Brandom
mereol. Essentialism		Chisholm							Simons
mereol. Variability	Aristoteles	Locke	Realisten						Abaelard	Leibniz	Hume	Chisholm	Reid	mereol.Essentialism
Mereology/Sum	Lesniewski		Simons						Rescher	Chisholm
metaphys. Realism	Harman
Metaphyscs	Heidegger	Hume
Monism
Mysticism
Names = Ideas		Hobbes							Reid	Russell	Mach
Narrow Content (TE)	Verifik	Block	Field	Loar	Lycan	McGinn	Putnam
Natural Laws
Natural Laws modifiable		Stuhkmann-Laeisz
Naturalism	Loar
Nominalism	Locke	Goodman	Davidson	Formalism					Evans	Leibniz
Nonfactualism	Field	Deflationism							Boghossia		Stalnaker	Inflationism
Object Theory	Kripke	Devitt							Frege	Russell	Beschreib-Th
Operationalism	Hacking								Field
Organicism		Mayr
Oxford School									Fodor
Parmenides
Phenomenalism	Mach		Anthropo	Kojeve	Sartre	Russell			Strukturalist		Husserl	Chisholm	Repräsentation
Phenomenology	Luhmann	Husserl
Physicalism	Loar	Block	Prosatz-Th	Fodor	Devitt	Field
Platonism	Frege	Quine							Field
Platonism/Math.		Hartmann
Positivism	Wittgenstein								Fodor	Fraassen	Quine	Habermas
Possible World									Chisholm	Field	Sider	Heller	Wessel	Aktualismus
Possible World Semantics
Poststructuralism	Lyotard
Pragmatics	Brandom	Stalnaker							linguist Bild	Field
Pragmatism	Dewey	James	Field	Rorty		Feyerab						Searle
Prescriptivism
prima philosophia		Cavell							Quine	Vendler
Privileged Access	Ryle	Brandom	Chisholm						Brandom
Property/Object	Tractatus	Kripke							Searle	Dummett	Frege
Propositional Knowledge									Lewis	Castaneda	Chisholm
Propositions	Kripke								Loar	Davidson	Soames
Prosentential Theory	Camp	Grover	Belanp						Putnam
Proximal Theory	Quine	Putnam	Dummett						Davidson
Psycho-Functionalism	Fodor	Harman	Putnam	Block	Dennett
Psychologism
Qualia Theory	Shoemaker								Frege	Schlick
Quine-Duhem- Thesis	Quine								Fodor/Lep
Ramsey-Sentence		Lewis							Fraassen
Rationalism
Real Numbers constr.		Cantor	Waismann						Hankel	d.Bios-Reymond
Realism	Black	Sellars	Born/Bohm	Chisholm	Mathe/Qui	hypothet.	Field	Boyd/Glymour	Fraassen	Suppes	Sneed	Wessel	Wheeler
Reductionism	Churchl	Loar/Field	Sellars						Avramides	Davidson	Brandom	Fodor	Cresswell
Redundancy Theory	Ramsey			Ramsey					Thomson	Black?	Korr-Th
Relation Theory	Lycan	Frege	Boer	Lewis	Stalnaker	Field	Cresswell		Schiffer	Cresswell
Relationism		Mach	Leibniz						Field	Newton
Relativism
Reliability Theory
Representation
Representationalism	Frege	Dretske	Harman	Lycan	M.Tye				Dummett	Phänomenalism
Ryle									Brandom
Schrödingers Cat	Schrödinger								Bohr	Kopenhagener Deutung
Selfconsciousn.. irreduc.	Kripke	Shoemaker	Anscombe	Nagel	Castaneda	Chisholm	Perry		Strawson	Evans							Evans
Semantic Realism		Frege	Russell	Wittgenst	Carnap				Locke
Semantic Theoy	Dretske	Fodor	Millikan						Brandom
Semanticism									Field
Sense = Mediation	Frege	Dummett	Searle						Kripke
Sense Data Theory
Skepticism
Speech Act Theory
Spencer/Social Darwinism	Monod	Eigen							Kauffman	Chomsky	Goodwin
Structuralism
Subject Philosophy									Habermas
Subjectivism
Substantivalism
Theoretical Entities	Field/Cartw		Field						Fraassen
Theory Ladenness	Hanson	Kuhn	Goodman	Feyerabe
Theory/Observ. Language	Hacking	Carnap	Comte	Mach	Fraassen?				Fraassen	Lakatos	G.Maxwell
Thinking w/o Language	Grice								Sellars
Thinking/Thought
Token Physicalism	Fodor
Transcend. Objects	Frege	Davidson							Kant	Castaneda	Hume
Transcendentalism	Emerson								Peirce	James	Dewey
Truth = Conclusion	Locke?	Hume?	Gestaltth.						Quine
Truth = Esteem		James
Truth = Ideal Endpoint	Peirce								Rorty
Truth = Property	Frege?	Russell?	Korr-Th	Putnam?					Putnam?	Wright	Field	Rorty	Prosatz-Th	Deflationism	Redundth
Truth Cond. Semantics	Davidson								Verifikat.
Truth Definition
Truth Maker	Armstrong	Place	Martin						Davidson
Truth nonconceptual	Husserl								Kant	Cassierer	Gombrich	Berkeley	Goodman
Type Identity	Harman	Field	Fodor						Fodor
Type Physicalism
Universals
Use Theory				Wittgenst
Utilitarism	Brentano	Bentham							Dennett
Vagueness, precise Sem.	Wright
Verificationalism	Dummett	Habermas	Putnam	Wittgenst	Quine	Peirce			Davidson
Vitalism