A branch of philosophy that examines the nature, justification, and implications of materialistic orthodoxy—asking philosophical questions about the foundations of materialism itself. The philosophy of materialistic orthodoxy investigates the epistemological status of materialist commitments: Is materialism proven, or is it a working assumption? How do we know that matter is all that exists? What counts as evidence for materialism, and what would count against it? It also examines the conceptual coherence of materialism: Can materialism account for consciousness, meaning, and value? Does materialism's own claims about knowledge presuppose something beyond matter? The philosophy of materialistic orthodoxy is essential for materialism to be self-aware rather than merely assumed, for materialists to understand the philosophical foundations of their worldview rather than treating them as self-evident.
Example: "His philosophy of materialistic orthodoxy work asked whether materialism can account for its own existence—if thoughts are just brain states, then why think any are true rather than just caused? Materialism's claim to truth requires something materialism can't provide."
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Example: "Her sociology of materialistic orthodoxy research showed how philosophy departments that questioned materialism were systematically excluded from prestige networks—not because their arguments were weak, but because they violated the orthodoxy that defined 'serious' philosophy. The social enforcement was invisible to those who benefited from it."
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Get the Sociology of Materialistic Orthodoxy mug.The singer/songwriter Madonna's hit song "Material Girl" in the 1980's first used the term materiality in response to a reporters question about her hit song a decade prior. She described it in the interview: "...I feel materiality is part of who we are, the texture of our life. I just wouldn't be able to perform to my best without a real sense of it each time I appear on stage".
The materiality of our existence is one where lines, objects, and places have their own distinct awareness of themselves compared to the forms and feelings of adjacent spaces.
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Get the materiality mug.The paradigm that many terms used to describe frames of the mind either describe ciphers or are themselves redundant.
For instance eliminative materialism would argue that sense is a false state in the broader illusion of sensualism.
For instance eliminative materialism would argue that sense is a false state in the broader illusion of sensualism.
Eliminative materialism argues that desire is actually consciousness.
Ie. The term "desire" is redundant.
Ie. The term "desire" is redundant.
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Get the eliminative materialism mug.defines the synthetic material world which categorizes all material things created by man such as material wealth etc.
priganic materialism defines all material things made by man, such as material wealth, possessions etc.
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defines the material world as it is found in its natural state, which is the expressive attribute of natures substance.
defines the material world as it is found in its natural state, which is the expressive attribute of natures substance.
organic materialism constitutes Mountains, trees and the earth in general, which are all material expressive attributes of natures substance.
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Get the organic materialism mug.Orange Materialism is a form of materialism where everything that cannot be reduced to material is false and pseudoscientific and must be eliminated. Orange materialism is considered to be the eliminativist version of materialism and considers everything religious, spiritual, esoteric, occult, extraphysical, metaphysical and beyond material and spacetime to be false, eliminative and pseudoscientific. Orange materialism is also characterized by defending materialism, physicalism, eliminativism, psychoatheism, neuroatheism, positivism, neopositivism, neoatheism, naturalism, skepticism, scientism and rationalism to the extreme and rejecting anything outside of them, as is the case with everything that is everything that is religious, spiritual, esoteric, occult, extraphysical, metaphysical and beyond material and space-time.
Orange Materialism is considered to be the version of eliminative materialism which is focused on eliminating everything that is religious, spiritual, esoteric, occult, extraphysical, metaphysical and beyond material and space-time.
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