Indeterminism The contention that even though determinism is true, attempting to measure the causes of something influences those causes, making it impossible to know them with certainty. This contention is also called Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle.
Interactionism A proposed answer to the mind–body problem, maintaining that bodily experiences influence the mind and that the mind influences the body.
Irrationalism Any explanation of human behavior stressing determinants that are not under rational control—for example, explanations that emphasize the importance of emotions or unconscious mechanisms.
Kuhn, Thomas (1922–1996) Believed that the activities of members of a scientific community are governed by a shared set of beliefs called a paradigm. This paradigmatic, or normal, science continues until an existing paradigm is displaced by another paradigm. (See also Paradigm, Normal science, and Puzzle solving.)
Materialists Those who believe that everything in the universe is material (physical), including those things that others refer to as mental.
Knowledge of causal laws allows both the prediction and control of events.