Lemmata A–Z
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- atmosphere (sensu Gernot Böhme) (Gernot Böhme)
- chaos (Stefan Lobenhofer)
- environmental ethics (Konrad Ott)
- the felt body (Herrmann Schmitz))
- function (Ulrich Krohs)
- history of quantum mechanics (Oliver Passon)
- human-animal studies (Mieke Roscher)
- logos, I. Antiquity (Alfred Dunshirn)
- measurement (Oliver Schlaudt)
- mimesis (María Antonia González Valerio)
- naturalness (Dieter Birnbacher)
- nature and law (Michael Städtler)
- pantheism (Martin Bollacher)
- person (Jörg Noller)
- philosophy of quantum mechanics (Oliver Passon and Marij van Strien)
- physis (Alfred Dunshirn)
- sex and gender (Barbara Holland-Cunz)
- time (Norman Sieroka)
- vitalism (Charles Wolfe)
Among others, the following lemmata are in preparation: animal philosophy, Anthropocene, big bang, chemistry, climate ethics, creation, digitisation, domination/mastery of nature, energy, health/illness, instability, life, light, machina mundi, methodical culturalism, microorganism/microbe, natural law, new materialism, perception, philosophy of mathematics, philosophical anthropology, physiognomy, polarity, second nature, sublime, selforganisation, technology, versimilitude, wilderness, world, world machine, worldview.
A
- accident
- adaptation evolution; organism
- aesthetics of environment aesthetics of nature
- aesthetics of nature (see also sublime, the; beauty; picturesque; evolutionary aesthetics )
- aesthetics
- analogism (cf. doctrine of signatures; theory of the four humors)
- animal ethics
- animal philosophy (see also animals in philosophy; human-animal studies; animal ethics)
- animal welfare (see also animal ethics )
- animals in philosophy (see also animal philosophy; animal ethics)
- animism (see also soul )
- anthropic principle
- Anthropocene
- anthropocentrism (see also environmental ethics)
- anthropology human
- anthropomorphism (cf. technomorphism)
- anthroposophy
- art; artificiality (cf. nature; naturalness)
- atmosphere (phenomenological)
- atmosphere (sensu Gernot Böhme)
PDF - atom; atomism
- authenticity naturalness
- autopoiesis self-organisation
- awe
B
- “back to nature”
- beauty (see also aesthetics of nature )
- big bang
- biocenosis
- biocentrism (see also environmental ethics)
- biodiversity (see also diversity )
- bioethics environmental ethics
- biofact
- bionics
- biophilia
- biophilosophy philosophy of biology
- biopiracy
- biopolitics
- bioregionalism (see also human-nature relationship )
- bios & zoe
- biotope
- blood
- blood-and-soil ideology
- body; material body ( felt body — Leib )
- body-soul problem
- Book of Nature — liber naturae
- brain
- brain paradox
- brain research brain
- breeding
C
- causality
- chain of being; scala naturae
- chaos
- chemistry (see also philosophy of chemistry )
- chimera
- climate
- climate ethics
- co-evolution evolution; human-nature relationship
- colour
- competition
- complexity
- computationalism
- conception of nature
- constructivism (cf. realism)
- continuity
- continuum
- control or domination of nature, I. control of nature in humans
- control or domination of nature, II. control of external nature
- cosmology
- cosmos
- creation (cf. deism; theism)
- creationism
- culturalism
- culture
- cycle
D
- Darwinism evolution
- death
- death of nature (Merchant) (cf. domination of nature; machina mundi)
- deep ecology
- deism (cf. creation)
- design
- destruction of nature
- determinism (see also environmental or geographical determinism)
- development
- digitisation
- disequilibrium equilibrium
- disposition (see also potentiality)
- diversity (see also biodiversity)
- doctrine of signatures; signatura rerum (cf. analogism; theory of the four humors)
- domination of nature (cf. death of nature)
- dualism
- dystopia utopia
E
- ecocentrism (see also environmental ethics)
- eco-dictatorship; ecofascism
- ecological crisis ecology movement
- ecological ethics environmental ethics
- ecology
- ecology or green movement
- ecosystem
- ecosystem services
- element
- elementary particles atom
- emergence; emergentism
- emotion (cf. feeling)
- empiricism
- end of nature
- endemism; endemic
- energetism
- energy
- enhancement
- entelechy
- entropy
- environment
- environmental aesthetics aesthetic of nature
- environmental catastrophe natural catastrophe
- environmental education nature education
- environmental ethics
- environmental justice
- environmental or geographical determinism
- epigenetics
- equilibrium
- eros
- essence (see also nature)
- essentialism
- eternity
- ethics of nature environmental ethics (see also ethics of soil, animal ethics, climate ethics etc.)
- ethics environmental ethics
- ethnic religions nature religions
- eugenics
- evolution (see also epigenetics; Lamarckism)
- evolution: catastrophism; catastrophe theory
- evolutionary aesthetics (see also aesthetics of nature )
- evolutionary epistemology
- evolutionary theory, critical
- evolutionary theory, non-classical
- evolutionary theory: Geoffroyism
- evolutionary theory: Lamarckism
- experience
- experiment
F
- feeling (cf. emotion)
- felt body — Leib
- feminism
- field (physical)
- force (philsophical & physical)
- forgetfulness of nature
- form
- freedom
- function
PDF
G
- Gaia hypothesis
- garden
- gender/sex sex and gender
- gene
- gene bank
- genetic engineering
- genetically modified organisms
- genome; genomics
- geocentrism world; worldview
- Geoffroyism evolutionary theory: Geoffroyism
- gestalt (see also metamorphosis )
- green movement ecology movement
- green revolution
H
- habitat
- hand as instrument
- health/illness
- heliocentrism (see also world; worldview)
- hermeneutics of nature; hermeneutic philosophy of nature
- hierarchy
- history
- history of quantum mechanics
PDF - holism (cf. reductionism; mechanicism/organicism)
- homeland
- homeostasis equilibrium
- human (see also philosophical anthropolog)
- humanecology
- Human-Animal Studies
PDF - human-nature relationship
- humoral pathology theory of the four humors
- hyle
- hylomorphism
I
- idealism
- ideology; weltanschauung (see also worldview)
- illness health/illness
- individual
- individuality
- infinity
- information
- instinct
- instinct
- instrument (see also hand as instrument)
- instrumentalism
- intelligence, artificial
- interaction
- intrinsic value (cf. environmental ethics)
- intuition
- intuitionism
L
- Lamarckism (see also Darwinism; evolution )
- land
- land ethik (Aldo Leopold)
- landscape
- landscape garden
- life
- life reform movement
- life-philosophy; Lebensphilosphie
- light
- logos
- logos, I. Antiquity
M
- machina mundi; world as machine
- materialism (see also new materialism)
- mathesis; mathesis universalis
- matter
- matter; substance
- measurement; measure; measurability; metrics
PDF - mechanical philosophy see mechanicism
- mechanicism/organicism (cf. holism)
- medicine
- meme; meme theory
- metamorphosis (see also gestalt)
- metaphysics
- methodical culturalism
- microcosm-macrocosm cosmos
- microorganism; microbe
- milieu
- mimesis
PDF - model organism
- monism
- movement for the protection of the homeland; in Germany: Heimat movement
- museum
- mysticism nature mysticism
N
- nanotechnology
- natura integra/lapsa/elevata
- natura naturans/naturata
- natural artificiality (Plessner)
- natural catastrophe; environmental catastrophe
- natural constant
- natural history
- natural kind species; species concept
- natural law
- natural phenomenon or event (see also phenomenon)
- natural sciences
- natural spirituality --> natural spirituality
- natural theology (see also physico-theology or -teleology)
- natural theory of value physiocracy
- naturalism
- naturalness
- nature
- nature conservation
- nature education (including environmental education)
- nature gods nature religions
- nature mysticism
- nature religions (so-called); ethnic religions
- nature romanticism romantic philosophy of nature
- nature writing
- nature, end of
- nature, second
- nature, third
- naturopathy
- nature and law
- necessity
- need
- Neo-Darwinism evolution
- neuroethics
- new materialism
- noble savage, the
- nothing, the; nihilism (cf. being )
- number
O
- objectivity
- ontogenetic
- ontology
- order
- organicism mechanicism/organicism
- organism
- outer space; cosmic space (see also universe)
P
- panpsychism
- pantheism
PDF - paradise
- pathocentrism; sentientism (cf. environmental ethics)
- pathogens
- perception
- person
- phenomenology
- phenomenon (see also natural phenomenon)
- philosophical anthropology
- philosophy of biology
- philosophy of chemistry (see also chemistry)
- philosophy of mathematics
- philosophy of nature of Romanticism romantic philosophy of nature
- philosophy of nature, non-Western
- philosophy of nature, Western
- philosophy of physics
- philosophy of quantum mechanics
PDF - phylogenetic
- physicalism
- physico-theology, -teleology (see also natural theology)
- physiocentrism (see also environmental ethics)
- physiocracy; natural theory of value (economic)
- physiognomy, I. premodern physiognomy
- physiognomy, II. modern physiognomy
- physis
- picturesque, the (see also aesthetics of nature)
- place; sense of place
- plant
- plant ethics
- political ecology
- possibilism human-nature relationship (see also potentiality )
- possibility (potentiality)
- possibility (see also probability)
- post- and transhumanism
- potentiality possibility (see also probability)
- pragmatism
- prediction
- probabilism human-nature relationship (see also potentiality)
- probability (see also possibility)
- process philosophy
- process protection; protection of processes
- propensity
- protection of the homeland (environmental)
- purpose (see also teleology; purposiveness)
- purposiveness (see also teleology; purpose)
Q
- qualia
- quantum
R
- race; breed (cf. breeding)
- racism
- rationalism
- realism (cf. constructivism)
- reason
- reductionism
- reflex
- reproduction
- resilience stability
- resonance
- risk
- rite; ritual
- romantic philosophy of nature
S
- sacralization of nature sanctification of nature
- sanctification of nature
- savage noble savage, the
- scala naturae chain of being
- scientism
- second nature nature, second
- self-organization
- sentientism feeling
- sex and gender
- Social Darwinism
- sociobiology
- sociomorphism
- soil; ethics of soil
- soul
- space
- spatiality
- species; species concept (biological)
- speciesism
- spirit; mind
- stability
- state of nature
- stewardship
- structure
- sublime, the (see also aesthetics of nature)
- supernaturalness, the (supra naturam) (see also nature; naturalness)
- superorganism sociobiology
- synthetic theory of evolution
- system
T
- taboo
- technology
- technomorphism (cf. anthropomorphism)
- teleology (see also purpose)
- temporality
- theism
- theocentrism environmental ethics
- theory of the four causes
- theory of the four elements
- theory of the four humors (cf. doctrine of signatures)
- time
- totality
- totemism
- transgenic
- transhumanism post- and transhumanism
U
- uniqueness (see also landscape, landscape, human-nature relationship)
- unity
- universe (see also outer space)
- use value (see also value, extrinsic; value, instrumental)
- utopia; dystopia
V
- value of nature environmental ethics
- value, absolute or intrinsic environmental ethics
- value, extrinsic (see also value, instrumental, environmental ethics)
- value, inherent environmental ethics
- value, instrumental (see also value, extrinsic, environmental ethics)
- value, intrinsic environmental ethics
- value, relative/ relational environmental ethics
- vegetarianism; veganism
- versimilitude
- virgin forest; primeval forest
- vitalism
W
- whole holism
- wild animal
- wild plant
- wilderness
- wildness
- witch; hag
- world; worldview
- world machine, world clock machina mundi
X
Y
Z
- zoe bios
