quine`s argument from despair
... absolute foundations, it is quite another thing to reject the search for justification tout court and to claim that “[e]pistemology, or something like it, simply falls into place as a chapter of psychology and hence of natural science” (Quine 1969a, 82).4 Quine only shows that we cannot completely g ...
... absolute foundations, it is quite another thing to reject the search for justification tout court and to claim that “[e]pistemology, or something like it, simply falls into place as a chapter of psychology and hence of natural science” (Quine 1969a, 82).4 Quine only shows that we cannot completely g ...
Irwin`s Routledge Encyclopedia article on Aristotle
... explanatory scheme that Aristotle defends in his more theoretical reflections on the study of nature. These reflections (especially in the Physics and in Generation and Corruption) develop an account of nature, form, matter, cause and change that expresses Aristotle’s views about the understanding a ...
... explanatory scheme that Aristotle defends in his more theoretical reflections on the study of nature. These reflections (especially in the Physics and in Generation and Corruption) develop an account of nature, form, matter, cause and change that expresses Aristotle’s views about the understanding a ...
Heidegger`s Method: Philosophical Concepts as Formal Indications
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The Rise of History: Kant, Herder, and the End of the Enlightenment
... for abstract philosophy must come from the physical world and sense impressions. The Enlightenment, while not possessing the historical scope of the nineteenth century, thought in a historical manner, taking all known phenomena into consideration. Cassirer offers Bayle and Montesquieu – thinkers sti ...
... for abstract philosophy must come from the physical world and sense impressions. The Enlightenment, while not possessing the historical scope of the nineteenth century, thought in a historical manner, taking all known phenomena into consideration. Cassirer offers Bayle and Montesquieu – thinkers sti ...
Ethical and Epistemic Egoism and the Ideal of Autonomy Linda
... type relies on no one else for any of her knowledge. Thus she takes no one else’s word for anything, but accepts only what she has found out for herself, relying only on her own cognitive faculties and investigative and inferential powers.” (Fricker, p. 225) Notice that what Fricker calls “epistemic ...
... type relies on no one else for any of her knowledge. Thus she takes no one else’s word for anything, but accepts only what she has found out for herself, relying only on her own cognitive faculties and investigative and inferential powers.” (Fricker, p. 225) Notice that what Fricker calls “epistemic ...
Updating Empiricist Mentalist Semantics
... their non-mentalist opponents, such theories did include mental properties into their theories of the semantic phenomenon. Famous mentalist semantic theories have been put forward by René Descartes, John Locke, George Berkeley, and John Stuart Mill. Traditionally the domain of mentalist semantic th ...
... their non-mentalist opponents, such theories did include mental properties into their theories of the semantic phenomenon. Famous mentalist semantic theories have been put forward by René Descartes, John Locke, George Berkeley, and John Stuart Mill. Traditionally the domain of mentalist semantic th ...
The Problem of Nonexistence: Truthmaking or
... a predicate is what results when we remove one or more referring expressions from a sentence. There are at least three worries that we might raise for this conception. First, one might want to exclude certain complex sentences from this method of predicate formation, otherwise we can have what appea ...
... a predicate is what results when we remove one or more referring expressions from a sentence. There are at least three worries that we might raise for this conception. First, one might want to exclude certain complex sentences from this method of predicate formation, otherwise we can have what appea ...
The New Organon
... could reliably derive conclusions which were logically consistent with an argument’s premises, Bacon’s system was designed to investigate the fundamental premises themselves. Aristotle’s logic proposed certainty, based on incontrovertible premises accepted unquestioningly as true; Bacon proposed an ...
... could reliably derive conclusions which were logically consistent with an argument’s premises, Bacon’s system was designed to investigate the fundamental premises themselves. Aristotle’s logic proposed certainty, based on incontrovertible premises accepted unquestioningly as true; Bacon proposed an ...
What Does the Scientist of Man Observe?
... From this the scientist of man will conclude that the order of impressions causes the liveliness of the idea that preserves that order. But nothing about this theorizing prevents us, or the scientist of man, from asking for the grounds of the scientist’s claim to have observed this constant conjunct ...
... From this the scientist of man will conclude that the order of impressions causes the liveliness of the idea that preserves that order. But nothing about this theorizing prevents us, or the scientist of man, from asking for the grounds of the scientist’s claim to have observed this constant conjunct ...
Articles Plato and Aristophanes: Poets of Hope
... completing the oracle and deciding that it meant little about the man Socrates. Instead, Plato’s Socrates fades from view as an individual and becomes a character in a larger human drama, standing in for all human beings. In the twisted comedy of human life, Socrates holds up a mirror for us all, co ...
... completing the oracle and deciding that it meant little about the man Socrates. Instead, Plato’s Socrates fades from view as an individual and becomes a character in a larger human drama, standing in for all human beings. In the twisted comedy of human life, Socrates holds up a mirror for us all, co ...
Advaita Vedanta
... Vedanta to the west via the Ramakrishna Mission. His interpretation of Advaita Vedanta has been called "Neo-Vedanta".[21] In a talk on "The absolute and manifestation" given in at London in 1896 Swami Vivekananda said, I may make bold to say that the only religion which agrees with, and even goes a ...
... Vedanta to the west via the Ramakrishna Mission. His interpretation of Advaita Vedanta has been called "Neo-Vedanta".[21] In a talk on "The absolute and manifestation" given in at London in 1896 Swami Vivekananda said, I may make bold to say that the only religion which agrees with, and even goes a ...
rethinkingdemandingness
... would not be apt toward merely suboptimal acts. So, maximizing consequentialism, which includes the category of wrongness, licenses blame and guilt for certain actions, whereas scalar consequentialism does not. That could be a basis for maintaining that maximizing consequentialism is more demanding ...
... would not be apt toward merely suboptimal acts. So, maximizing consequentialism, which includes the category of wrongness, licenses blame and guilt for certain actions, whereas scalar consequentialism does not. That could be a basis for maintaining that maximizing consequentialism is more demanding ...
The Argument from Moral Experience
... moral objectivism either reflects a commonsense commitment or is needed in order to validate common sense, then it might be very disturbing to find out that it is wrong. But that it would be disturbing to learn that common sense is misguided, in itself gives us no reason to believe that common sense ...
... moral objectivism either reflects a commonsense commitment or is needed in order to validate common sense, then it might be very disturbing to find out that it is wrong. But that it would be disturbing to learn that common sense is misguided, in itself gives us no reason to believe that common sense ...
A Conception of Philosophical Progress
... advocate. For example, by employing epistemic criteria such as logical coherence or absence of fallacies we could have a legitimate idealistic position for judging progress on the path to truth, or a legitimate pessimistic position for judging progress despite the absence of truth. In reply I argue ...
... advocate. For example, by employing epistemic criteria such as logical coherence or absence of fallacies we could have a legitimate idealistic position for judging progress on the path to truth, or a legitimate pessimistic position for judging progress despite the absence of truth. In reply I argue ...
The Beautiful Soul and the Autocratic Agent: Schilleris
... Schiller explains that we can conceive of three different relations we can have with ourselves, three ways our rational and sensible natures can relate to one another. He claims that one of these relations in particular best suits us in the sensible world and that its expression constitutes the beau ...
... Schiller explains that we can conceive of three different relations we can have with ourselves, three ways our rational and sensible natures can relate to one another. He claims that one of these relations in particular best suits us in the sensible world and that its expression constitutes the beau ...
Scotus_God_First_Principle_et_al
... nature and essence can exist without the posterior, but the reverse is not true. And this I understand as follows. Even though the prior should produce the posterior necessarily and consequently could not exist without it, it would not be because the prior requires the posterior for its own existen ...
... nature and essence can exist without the posterior, but the reverse is not true. And this I understand as follows. Even though the prior should produce the posterior necessarily and consequently could not exist without it, it would not be because the prior requires the posterior for its own existen ...
The Genesis of Shame
... and consequently elicits social censure, which can be echoed by selfcensure on the part of its object. But assessments of this kind would have been unknown in the pre-social conditions of Eden. Adam and Eve’s shame might still have reflected an observer’sassessment if they thought of themselves as b ...
... and consequently elicits social censure, which can be echoed by selfcensure on the part of its object. But assessments of this kind would have been unknown in the pre-social conditions of Eden. Adam and Eve’s shame might still have reflected an observer’sassessment if they thought of themselves as b ...
Skeptical Hypotheses and Moral Skepticism
... epistemic form of the view which denies us moral knowledge because we lack sufficient justification. Moreover, I shall focus on those moral skeptics who, like perceptual skeptics, argue for their position via skeptical scenarios, which appeal to the mere existence of certain hypotheses, without the ...
... epistemic form of the view which denies us moral knowledge because we lack sufficient justification. Moreover, I shall focus on those moral skeptics who, like perceptual skeptics, argue for their position via skeptical scenarios, which appeal to the mere existence of certain hypotheses, without the ...
Aristotle and the Early Stoics on Moral Responsibility
... an end, for something we want for itself rather than as a means to something else. We can wish for things that are impossible (for instance, immortality) or that we cannot achieve by our own efforts (for instance, that a particular athlete should win a contest); however, we can deliberate about, and ...
... an end, for something we want for itself rather than as a means to something else. We can wish for things that are impossible (for instance, immortality) or that we cannot achieve by our own efforts (for instance, that a particular athlete should win a contest); however, we can deliberate about, and ...
Forthcoming in Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 1996. HOW TO
... that between cognitive and non-cognitive discourse in general. In effect, the standard literature offers two possible answers to the question as to how this distinction is to be characterised. One view is that it is primarily a semantic distinction, to be defined in terms of possession of truth cond ...
... that between cognitive and non-cognitive discourse in general. In effect, the standard literature offers two possible answers to the question as to how this distinction is to be characterised. One view is that it is primarily a semantic distinction, to be defined in terms of possession of truth cond ...
Constructivism in Ethics and Metaethics
... theory differs significantly from the sort of constructivism he attributes to Kant (to be examined in §2.1). Rawls advocates constructivism as a political conception, which is by design non-committal regarding ontological and metaphysical questions (Rawls 1993, 100; Rawls 1999, 395, 354) and does no ...
... theory differs significantly from the sort of constructivism he attributes to Kant (to be examined in §2.1). Rawls advocates constructivism as a political conception, which is by design non-committal regarding ontological and metaphysical questions (Rawls 1993, 100; Rawls 1999, 395, 354) and does no ...
Quine on "Alternative Logics"
... assent to regardless of the current stimulation. In addition, there are correlations between speech dispositions t o assent to or dissent from some sentences and dispositions to assent to or dissent from other sentences constructed from the former by means of sentential connectives. Some of these co ...
... assent to regardless of the current stimulation. In addition, there are correlations between speech dispositions t o assent to or dissent from some sentences and dispositions to assent to or dissent from other sentences constructed from the former by means of sentential connectives. Some of these co ...
Univocity and Analogy: A Comparative Study of Gilbert
... with the categorically separate realm of action in the external world. Ryle's alternative is to view this realm of thought as just another manifestation of action—not different in any substantive way from acts in the external world. As I will investigate later, this point is defended with Ryle's fam ...
... with the categorically separate realm of action in the external world. Ryle's alternative is to view this realm of thought as just another manifestation of action—not different in any substantive way from acts in the external world. As I will investigate later, this point is defended with Ryle's fam ...
Ethical Encounter - sikkim university library
... We need a much richer language than this to articulate the moral seriousness of rape. It will have to be a language rich enough to reveal sexual love as capable of bearing deep significance, since the seriousness of rape must surely be defined by its relation to that significance. There is deep ambi ...
... We need a much richer language than this to articulate the moral seriousness of rape. It will have to be a language rich enough to reveal sexual love as capable of bearing deep significance, since the seriousness of rape must surely be defined by its relation to that significance. There is deep ambi ...
Russell`s Neutral Monism
... monism it is as a particular theory held by others, such as James or Perry, so that his eventual conversion to it may give the impression of being merely the acceptance of their views instead of the commencement of a long period in which he consolidated and developed those views. More serious, howev ...
... monism it is as a particular theory held by others, such as James or Perry, so that his eventual conversion to it may give the impression of being merely the acceptance of their views instead of the commencement of a long period in which he consolidated and developed those views. More serious, howev ...