Entry	Definition
materialism	The view that everything that actually exists is material, or physical. Many philosophers and scientists now use the terms `material' and `physical' interchangeably (for a version of physicalism distinct from materialism, see physicalism). Characterized in this way, as a doctrine about what exists, materialism is an ontological, or a metaphysical, view; it is not just an epistemological view about how we know or just a semantic view about the meaning of terms. <Discussion> <References> J.D. Trout and Paul Moser
mental content	As distinguished from vehicle, mental content is that aspect of mentality which, ideally, refers to an object, property or relation and specifies some properties of that item. See externalism, internalism, sense, reference. <Discussion> <References> Chris Eliasmith
mereology	The study of part-whole relationships. <Discussion> <References> Chris Eliasmith
mind-body problem	Most generally, the problem of describing the relationship between the mind and body (or brain). First explicitly raised by Descartes, it is, perhaps, the best know problem in the philosophy of mind. See dualism, epiphenomenalism, monism, and materialism. <Discussion> <References> Chris Eliasmith
monism	The thesis that all of reality is of one kind. See materialism, idealism, neutral monism, anomalous monism, dualism. <Discussion> <References> Chris Eliasmith
multiple realizability	The thesis that a mental state is the type it is independent of the physical realization of that mental state. See functionalism. <Discussion> <References> Chris Eliasmith & Pete Mandik

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