Concepts and Objects
... epistemological strictures of empiricism.5 In doing so, Sellars augurs a new alliance between post-Kantian rationalism and post-Darwinian naturalism. His naturalistic rationalism6 purges the latter of those residues of Cartesian dogmatism liable to be seized upon by irrationalists eager to denounce ...
... epistemological strictures of empiricism.5 In doing so, Sellars augurs a new alliance between post-Kantian rationalism and post-Darwinian naturalism. His naturalistic rationalism6 purges the latter of those residues of Cartesian dogmatism liable to be seized upon by irrationalists eager to denounce ...
1 Graham Priest. One: Being an investigation into the Unity of
... could also serve as a panoramic introduction to Priest’s work generally. But a review of this size can only highlight its peaks at the expense of details in the valleys. Unities are more than just the sum of their parts. The parts must also be appropriately related. But merely relating is insufficie ...
... could also serve as a panoramic introduction to Priest’s work generally. But a review of this size can only highlight its peaks at the expense of details in the valleys. Unities are more than just the sum of their parts. The parts must also be appropriately related. But merely relating is insufficie ...
DIRECT REALISM WITHOUT MATERIALISM
... awareness, such as hallucinations and dreams (I shall call it the ontological objection); and (5) the assumption that direct realism cannot explain how we may distinguish between veridical and nonveridical perceptual awareness (I shall call it the epistemological objection). The power of skepticism ...
... awareness, such as hallucinations and dreams (I shall call it the ontological objection); and (5) the assumption that direct realism cannot explain how we may distinguish between veridical and nonveridical perceptual awareness (I shall call it the epistemological objection). The power of skepticism ...
consciousness on slides - Faculty Web Sites at the
... Everett and founder of Eels • “My father never, ever said anything to me about his theories. I was in the same house with him for at least 18 years but he was a total stranger to me. He was in his own parallel universe. He was a physical presence, like the furniture, sitting there jotting down crazy ...
... Everett and founder of Eels • “My father never, ever said anything to me about his theories. I was in the same house with him for at least 18 years but he was a total stranger to me. He was in his own parallel universe. He was a physical presence, like the furniture, sitting there jotting down crazy ...
Relativism and the Ontological Turn within Anthropology1
... legitimately thought of as parts of the mind, and their use is part of thinking. Shifting beads on an abacus, on this view, is not essentially different from doing sums in one's head. The movement of the beads is an aspect of thinking and thereby a part of the person's mind. In philosophy this work ...
... legitimately thought of as parts of the mind, and their use is part of thinking. Shifting beads on an abacus, on this view, is not essentially different from doing sums in one's head. The movement of the beads is an aspect of thinking and thereby a part of the person's mind. In philosophy this work ...
Perception
... interpreting sensory information, which enables us to recognize meaningful objects and events. ...
... interpreting sensory information, which enables us to recognize meaningful objects and events. ...
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... eyes) and a matching non-veridical experience (e.g. hallucinating, dreaming of, visually imagining a red tomato.) Disjunctivist direct realist theories claim that what is common is only epistemic: A veridical experience of a red tomato cannot be subjectively distinguished from the hallucination of a ...
... eyes) and a matching non-veridical experience (e.g. hallucinating, dreaming of, visually imagining a red tomato.) Disjunctivist direct realist theories claim that what is common is only epistemic: A veridical experience of a red tomato cannot be subjectively distinguished from the hallucination of a ...
8. Handout on Plato`s Theory of Forms - Elly Pirocacos
... II. From an epistemological point of view Plato, siding with PARMENIDES, will hold that “knowledge is of what is” and “knowledge (unlike mere belief) is infallible”. These two premises are basic to Plato’s epistemological theory, so remember them. Parmenides was struck by the problem of being able t ...
... II. From an epistemological point of view Plato, siding with PARMENIDES, will hold that “knowledge is of what is” and “knowledge (unlike mere belief) is infallible”. These two premises are basic to Plato’s epistemological theory, so remember them. Parmenides was struck by the problem of being able t ...
MOOD: A Concurrent C++-Based Music Language
... The simplest configuration is a single ROOT and NP_PROCESS (shown above, left). You can attach modifier objects to GROUPs and NP_PROCESSes. There are two types of modifiers: time modifiers operate on time intervals (changing tempo or note timing), while note modifiers operate on notes (changing thei ...
... The simplest configuration is a single ROOT and NP_PROCESS (shown above, left). You can attach modifier objects to GROUPs and NP_PROCESSes. There are two types of modifiers: time modifiers operate on time intervals (changing tempo or note timing), while note modifiers operate on notes (changing thei ...
Real, invented or applied? Some reflections on scientific objectivity
... This is how the debate between scientific realists and constructivists is normally reported to have developed. Scientific objects are either discovered or invented. If they are invented they cannot be real (ontologically speaking). If they are discovered, they must be more than an epistemological co ...
... This is how the debate between scientific realists and constructivists is normally reported to have developed. Scientific objects are either discovered or invented. If they are invented they cannot be real (ontologically speaking). If they are discovered, they must be more than an epistemological co ...
Direct and representative realism
... way that physical objects do – so they don’t have shape or size in exactly the same way physical objects do. Locke is confusing the mental thing (the image which doesn’t have size or shape) with what it represents (the physical object which does). In fact, since physical objects – according to indir ...
... way that physical objects do – so they don’t have shape or size in exactly the same way physical objects do. Locke is confusing the mental thing (the image which doesn’t have size or shape) with what it represents (the physical object which does). In fact, since physical objects – according to indir ...
Scientific Social Objects
... objects containing heterogeneous components which can be shared separately and independently. Since they capture process they are also prescriptions for the creation of other objects. This distinguishes them from an object type such as a photo or collection of photos. The next section illustrates th ...
... objects containing heterogeneous components which can be shared separately and independently. Since they capture process they are also prescriptions for the creation of other objects. This distinguishes them from an object type such as a photo or collection of photos. The next section illustrates th ...
Slide 1
... Hume: “It is a question of fact whether the perceptions of the senses be produced by external objects resembling them: How shall this question be determined? By experience surely; as all other questions of a like nature. But here experience is, and must be entirely silent. The mind has never any thi ...
... Hume: “It is a question of fact whether the perceptions of the senses be produced by external objects resembling them: How shall this question be determined? By experience surely; as all other questions of a like nature. But here experience is, and must be entirely silent. The mind has never any thi ...
Roman Ingarden: Ontological Foundations for Literary Theory
... of reading works of fiction is--from this point of view-almost identical with our mode of reading not only historical works but also e.g. newspaper reports concerning our contemporaries. In no case do we find it possible, in our reading, to draw a line between indeterminacies which are merely episte ...
... of reading works of fiction is--from this point of view-almost identical with our mode of reading not only historical works but also e.g. newspaper reports concerning our contemporaries. In no case do we find it possible, in our reading, to draw a line between indeterminacies which are merely episte ...
Cognition - Castle Wood School
... The Cognitive Programme of Learning begins with learning to think and problem solve. As children develop their thinking and problem solving they can begin to develop their basic understanding of patterns and numbers (mathematics) and how the world works (Science and Technology). As this stage is des ...
... The Cognitive Programme of Learning begins with learning to think and problem solve. As children develop their thinking and problem solving they can begin to develop their basic understanding of patterns and numbers (mathematics) and how the world works (Science and Technology). As this stage is des ...
Handout
... of mathematics are primarily interested in ontology. Well, they are interested in ontology, and for some, this is the ultimate point of their work. But semantics is more central to what philosophers of mathematics are doing. In particular, the most central goal of the philosophy of mathematics is pr ...
... of mathematics are primarily interested in ontology. Well, they are interested in ontology, and for some, this is the ultimate point of their work. But semantics is more central to what philosophers of mathematics are doing. In particular, the most central goal of the philosophy of mathematics is pr ...
What is Metaphysics?
... • Reality then can consist of both Matter and IdeasDualism, material and immaterial exists- body and mindbut how does one explain the relation between the two due to their different nature? • Pragmatism: Unlike Plato and Aristotle, who were concerned with how things actually are, pragmatists do not ...
... • Reality then can consist of both Matter and IdeasDualism, material and immaterial exists- body and mindbut how does one explain the relation between the two due to their different nature? • Pragmatism: Unlike Plato and Aristotle, who were concerned with how things actually are, pragmatists do not ...
Synopsis - PhilPapers
... whole, such as our universe, a state of being or defines its state of existence. Though dimensions are real they are not objectively real. There are other well known wholes: the Self and God are typical examples. Except in the two wholes just mentioned, consciousness and not spacetime are their dime ...
... whole, such as our universe, a state of being or defines its state of existence. Though dimensions are real they are not objectively real. There are other well known wholes: the Self and God are typical examples. Except in the two wholes just mentioned, consciousness and not spacetime are their dime ...
Objects
... "The situations of the sense-object are not conditioned by any such conditions either of uniqueness or continuity. In any durations however small a sense-object may have any number of situations separated from each other. Thus two situations of a sense-object, either in the same duration or differen ...
... "The situations of the sense-object are not conditioned by any such conditions either of uniqueness or continuity. In any durations however small a sense-object may have any number of situations separated from each other. Thus two situations of a sense-object, either in the same duration or differen ...
18 Classical Indian Metaphysics
... • “Though atoms serve as causes of the consciousness of the sense-organs, they are not its actual objects like the sense organs; because the consciousness does not represent the image of the atoms. The consciousness does not arise from what is represented in it. Because they do not exist in substanc ...
... • “Though atoms serve as causes of the consciousness of the sense-organs, they are not its actual objects like the sense organs; because the consciousness does not represent the image of the atoms. The consciousness does not arise from what is represented in it. Because they do not exist in substanc ...
Universals - The Metaphysicist
... By contrast, we humans invent abstract concepts like redness. We know that these cultural constructs exist nowhere in nature as physical structures. We create them. Cultural knowledge is relative to and dependent on the society that creates it. However, some of our invented abstract concepts seem to ...
... By contrast, we humans invent abstract concepts like redness. We know that these cultural constructs exist nowhere in nature as physical structures. We create them. Cultural knowledge is relative to and dependent on the society that creates it. However, some of our invented abstract concepts seem to ...
CS 150: Computing from Ada to the Web
... What have we been programming • Functional Programming Paradigm – “treats computation as the evaluation of mathematical functions and avoids state and mutable data. It emphasizes the application of functions, in contrast with the imperative programming style that emphasizes changes in ...
... What have we been programming • Functional Programming Paradigm – “treats computation as the evaluation of mathematical functions and avoids state and mutable data. It emphasizes the application of functions, in contrast with the imperative programming style that emphasizes changes in ...
- Falmouth University Research Repository
... Ian Bogost is one of many theorists contending with a paradigmatic shift in philosophy which has been taking various forms for the past 10 years or so, whereby Existence or Being no longer emanates out of a central human Subject, but instead, is distributed outwards into “myriad objects.” This philo ...
... Ian Bogost is one of many theorists contending with a paradigmatic shift in philosophy which has been taking various forms for the past 10 years or so, whereby Existence or Being no longer emanates out of a central human Subject, but instead, is distributed outwards into “myriad objects.” This philo ...