Mutual Questioning - UQ eSpace
... force participants, through dialogue to express their thoughts clearly, to systematize judgement and to test their own beliefs against the arguments and views of others. (p.26) A major aim of Nelson’s method is to achieve consensus through close examination of arguments, e.g., clarification and conc ...
... force participants, through dialogue to express their thoughts clearly, to systematize judgement and to test their own beliefs against the arguments and views of others. (p.26) A major aim of Nelson’s method is to achieve consensus through close examination of arguments, e.g., clarification and conc ...
Normative Ethics, Normative Epistemology, and Quine`s Holism
... what follows, I hope that I can persuade him here to accept certain views that I advance in What Is and What Ought To Be Done. And if I do not succeed in persuading him, I hope that he will be good enough to say why. One of my main purposes in this paper is to persuade Quine to abandon a dualism bet ...
... what follows, I hope that I can persuade him here to accept certain views that I advance in What Is and What Ought To Be Done. And if I do not succeed in persuading him, I hope that he will be good enough to say why. One of my main purposes in this paper is to persuade Quine to abandon a dualism bet ...
2.1.1 Spinoza on the extreme subtlety called “possibility”
... 2.1.2. A world without aim or good or evil Spinoza opened his ethical definitive work by detailing his whole metaphysics and chose the end of this metaphysical presentation for declaring his view about ends in nature. It is, in an important sense, the apex of his ontology, the locus where its centra ...
... 2.1.2. A world without aim or good or evil Spinoza opened his ethical definitive work by detailing his whole metaphysics and chose the end of this metaphysical presentation for declaring his view about ends in nature. It is, in an important sense, the apex of his ontology, the locus where its centra ...
The Inaugural Address AUTONOMY: THE EMPEROR`S NEW
... And there is worse to come. Proponents of rational autonomy may hope to show that certain rational processes for choosing generally produce more ûaluable choices. But they will not be able to show even this much without independent criteria for identifying valuable choices. In Mill’s hands, where th ...
... And there is worse to come. Proponents of rational autonomy may hope to show that certain rational processes for choosing generally produce more ûaluable choices. But they will not be able to show even this much without independent criteria for identifying valuable choices. In Mill’s hands, where th ...
Omniscience and the Rhetoric of Reason
... partner for many years, John Dunne, was with me in Sarnath on the day I decided to make omniscience the focus of my doctoral studies. His help over the years has been invaluable. My teachers in Sarnath were likewise all critical to this work. In particular, Ram Shankar Tripathi, whom I always call G ...
... partner for many years, John Dunne, was with me in Sarnath on the day I decided to make omniscience the focus of my doctoral studies. His help over the years has been invaluable. My teachers in Sarnath were likewise all critical to this work. In particular, Ram Shankar Tripathi, whom I always call G ...
Pierre Duhem`s Virtue Epistemology
... described as "virtue epistemology". “Just as virtue theories in ethics try to understand the normative properties of actions in terms of the normative properties of moral agents, virtue epistemology tries to understand the normative properties of beliefs in terms of the normative properties of cogni ...
... described as "virtue epistemology". “Just as virtue theories in ethics try to understand the normative properties of actions in terms of the normative properties of moral agents, virtue epistemology tries to understand the normative properties of beliefs in terms of the normative properties of cogni ...
minimalism and truth
... “Bachelors are unmarried men”, but grasping the concept man does not consist inter alia in grasping that platitude. At least normally, that platitude may help introduce us to the concept bachelor, but not to the concept man: there is simply no question that one can know what a man is without knowing ...
... “Bachelors are unmarried men”, but grasping the concept man does not consist inter alia in grasping that platitude. At least normally, that platitude may help introduce us to the concept bachelor, but not to the concept man: there is simply no question that one can know what a man is without knowing ...
Kant`s Schematism and the Foundations of Mathematics
... knowledge and his philosophy of science. One of the reasons for this is the comprehensive work done by Michael Friedman which has prompted a variety of responses. The present thesis can also been seen as a reaction on Friedman’s work on Kant. I was introduced, through Friedman (1992), to Kant’s noti ...
... knowledge and his philosophy of science. One of the reasons for this is the comprehensive work done by Michael Friedman which has prompted a variety of responses. The present thesis can also been seen as a reaction on Friedman’s work on Kant. I was introduced, through Friedman (1992), to Kant’s noti ...
Empathie
... when they visit alcoholics in hospital to try to persuade them to join the movement. The idea is that the treatment will be more effective if there is greater understanding.) A second difference concerns the group's relationship with the medical profession. Alcoholics Anonymous has a clear-cut posit ...
... when they visit alcoholics in hospital to try to persuade them to join the movement. The idea is that the treatment will be more effective if there is greater understanding.) A second difference concerns the group's relationship with the medical profession. Alcoholics Anonymous has a clear-cut posit ...
Foucault and Rorty on Truth and Ideology: A
... objections to Marx’s so-called economic determinism. Foucault’s truthobjection was linked to his understanding of modern ‘disciplinary power’ and ‘normalisation’ and the connections these have to the production of knowledge. In one of his provocative claims regarding truth and power, Foucault assert ...
... objections to Marx’s so-called economic determinism. Foucault’s truthobjection was linked to his understanding of modern ‘disciplinary power’ and ‘normalisation’ and the connections these have to the production of knowledge. In one of his provocative claims regarding truth and power, Foucault assert ...
Truth and Perspectivism
... If Nietzsche is right about the kind of world we live in, then he is justified in claiming that most thoughts or statements we take to be true (e.g. “That leaf is green) cannot correspond to the world. But in one way, Nietzsche seems to be taking too narrow a view of what thought and language presu ...
... If Nietzsche is right about the kind of world we live in, then he is justified in claiming that most thoughts or statements we take to be true (e.g. “That leaf is green) cannot correspond to the world. But in one way, Nietzsche seems to be taking too narrow a view of what thought and language presu ...
is discontinuous bergsonism possible?
... discontinuity thesis. It was also meant to provide another falsifying test of Bergson’s metaphysics, this time by trying “to develop a discontinuous Bergsonism, showing the need to arithmatize Bergsonian duration so as to give it more fluidity, more numbers, and also more accuracy in the corresponde ...
... discontinuity thesis. It was also meant to provide another falsifying test of Bergson’s metaphysics, this time by trying “to develop a discontinuous Bergsonism, showing the need to arithmatize Bergsonian duration so as to give it more fluidity, more numbers, and also more accuracy in the corresponde ...
DOC - Princeton University
... rationality is a species of instrumental rationality, viz. instrumental rationality in the service of one's cognitive or epistemic goals. Call this way of thinking about epistemic rationality the instrumentalist conception of epistemic rationality. My primary concern in this paper is to explore the ...
... rationality is a species of instrumental rationality, viz. instrumental rationality in the service of one's cognitive or epistemic goals. Call this way of thinking about epistemic rationality the instrumentalist conception of epistemic rationality. My primary concern in this paper is to explore the ...
The Moral Value of Literature: Defending a Diamondian
... can simply contend that your critique starts from a misdescription and this alone gives me grounds to reject any further claims you make. For this reason genuine moral philosophical discussion cannot occur within a realistic framework. Why, though, does this affect thinkers like Crary? The point is ...
... can simply contend that your critique starts from a misdescription and this alone gives me grounds to reject any further claims you make. For this reason genuine moral philosophical discussion cannot occur within a realistic framework. Why, though, does this affect thinkers like Crary? The point is ...
Kafka and Brentano - Buffalo Ontology Site
... a more or less adequate understanding of that complex cultural entity which was fin-de-siècle Vienna.2 The outburst of intellectual energy which is encountered in the works of Weininger, Wittgenstein, Kraus, Mahler, Schoenberg, Loos, Klimt, Hofmannsthal, Musil, Broch, Schnitzler and Freud was, on th ...
... a more or less adequate understanding of that complex cultural entity which was fin-de-siècle Vienna.2 The outburst of intellectual energy which is encountered in the works of Weininger, Wittgenstein, Kraus, Mahler, Schoenberg, Loos, Klimt, Hofmannsthal, Musil, Broch, Schnitzler and Freud was, on th ...
Modaaliteoria
... being F, then x necessarily has F at t. Because Spinoza is a substance monist what he has to prove is that his only substance God exists necessarily and that God has all its properties necessarily. Spinoza attributes necessary existence to God in 1p11. God exists necessarily because God is a substan ...
... being F, then x necessarily has F at t. Because Spinoza is a substance monist what he has to prove is that his only substance God exists necessarily and that God has all its properties necessarily. Spinoza attributes necessary existence to God in 1p11. God exists necessarily because God is a substan ...
Rationalism, Sentimentalism, and Ralph Cudworth
... Part of the explanation for Cudworth’s not fitting squarely into the rationalist or sentimentalist camp is simply that at the time he was writing, the distinction had not yet been sharply formulated.4 But Cudworth also vacillated. In certain works, he implied that passion is the leading player in the ...
... Part of the explanation for Cudworth’s not fitting squarely into the rationalist or sentimentalist camp is simply that at the time he was writing, the distinction had not yet been sharply formulated.4 But Cudworth also vacillated. In certain works, he implied that passion is the leading player in the ...
1 - Valpo Blogs
... making claims about language, pure syntax, and so on, since all of these are parts of reality, or that one must make claims about reality in justifying the belief that they are not parts of reality. The only way out is Wittgensteinian quietism—abstention from claimmaking. But such an approach proves ...
... making claims about language, pure syntax, and so on, since all of these are parts of reality, or that one must make claims about reality in justifying the belief that they are not parts of reality. The only way out is Wittgensteinian quietism—abstention from claimmaking. But such an approach proves ...
Notes on Epistemology
... described above, let us first glance at the position which it proposes as the starting-point of the investigator. Even if we examine this position in itself, apart from the arguments which were employed to recommend it, and part form its relation to the rest of epistemology, we shall find that it is ...
... described above, let us first glance at the position which it proposes as the starting-point of the investigator. Even if we examine this position in itself, apart from the arguments which were employed to recommend it, and part form its relation to the rest of epistemology, we shall find that it is ...
The Varieties of Pure Experience: William James and
... stuff or material in the world, a stuff of which everything is composed, and if we call that stuff “pure experience,” then knowing can easily be explained as a particular sort of relation towards one another into which portions of pure experience may enter.17 James thus looked to locate a primor ...
... stuff or material in the world, a stuff of which everything is composed, and if we call that stuff “pure experience,” then knowing can easily be explained as a particular sort of relation towards one another into which portions of pure experience may enter.17 James thus looked to locate a primor ...
Alfarabi`s Conversion of Plato`s Republic
... Strauss considered Alfarabi “as a predecessor of Maimonides and as a representative of a kind of rationalism distinct from modern rationalism” (Colmo, 1992: p. 966). Strauss’s view of knowledge of the best way of life to be “crucial to political philosophy” (Colmo, 1992: p. 966) might explain his li ...
... Strauss considered Alfarabi “as a predecessor of Maimonides and as a representative of a kind of rationalism distinct from modern rationalism” (Colmo, 1992: p. 966). Strauss’s view of knowledge of the best way of life to be “crucial to political philosophy” (Colmo, 1992: p. 966) might explain his li ...
Constructing and Representing Reality: Hegel and the Making of
... to us through sensation, possess the highest, most fundamental reality—Plato denounces “poetry” as “injurious to the minds which do not possess the antidote in a knowledge of its real nature.” Given that the “art of representation” is “a long way from reality,” he continues, “all poetry, from Homer ...
... to us through sensation, possess the highest, most fundamental reality—Plato denounces “poetry” as “injurious to the minds which do not possess the antidote in a knowledge of its real nature.” Given that the “art of representation” is “a long way from reality,” he continues, “all poetry, from Homer ...
Collective Intentionality VI, Berkeley
... Re-Expressing Normative Pragmatism in the Medium of Computation Philosophers typically articulate their claims in natural language, and leave it at that. But sometimes we can get a deeper understanding of a proposition by seeing it from a different perspective, by seeing it re-expressed it in a diff ...
... Re-Expressing Normative Pragmatism in the Medium of Computation Philosophers typically articulate their claims in natural language, and leave it at that. But sometimes we can get a deeper understanding of a proposition by seeing it from a different perspective, by seeing it re-expressed it in a diff ...
Truth, Value and Epistemic Expressivism
... a fact about games; it is also a fact about winning. Similarly, the fact that the aim of belief is truth is not just a fact about belief; it is a fact about truth. Of course, the nature and explanation of this fact, like its sister fact about belief, is a matter of dispute.17 Although they are disti ...
... a fact about games; it is also a fact about winning. Similarly, the fact that the aim of belief is truth is not just a fact about belief; it is a fact about truth. Of course, the nature and explanation of this fact, like its sister fact about belief, is a matter of dispute.17 Although they are disti ...
Reasons and Beliefs
... view that requires an explicit argument. However, Dancy does not provide such an argument. The same would be true were Dancy to give up premise 2 of OO: since this thesis is very plausible, the burden of proof would be on Dancy to provide an alternative account, which, again, he doesn’t do. Given th ...
... view that requires an explicit argument. However, Dancy does not provide such an argument. The same would be true were Dancy to give up premise 2 of OO: since this thesis is very plausible, the burden of proof would be on Dancy to provide an alternative account, which, again, he doesn’t do. Given th ...