Havi Carel Vocabulary Flashcards

Vocabulary terms and definitions from Havi Carel's lecture notes covering core philosophical and medical distinction terminology.

phenomena

Appearances.

Phenomenology

The study of experience, as perceived by the subject, including how things appear as endowed with meaning rather than simply being baldly there.

Rationalism

A philosophical school of thought that all knowledge is ultimately a product of the mind, cognitive processes, and deduction.

Empiricism

A philosophical school of thought claiming that all knowledge ultimately comes through the senses.

homogenous

Alike in type.

heterogenous

Different in type.

somatic

Bodily, physical.

semantic

Relating to meaning.

empirical

Measurable.

epistemic

Relating to knowledge.

epistemology

The study of knowledge, what can be known, and how we know it.

ontology

The study of what is real.

etiology

The study of causes.

qua

As, in the capacity of, in the role of.

effable

Capable of being described in words.

ineffable

Incapable of being described in words.

Disease

Physiological dysfunction.

Illness

The experience of disease, the 'what it is like' qualitative dimension, as it is experienced and made meaningful by the ill person.