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... true. (ii) Semantic physicalism implies that our mathematical theories are empirical theories and that the right methodology for determining whether there are, say, infinitely many primes would involve an empirical investigation into the number of physical objects in the universe. (iii) When we appl ...
... true. (ii) Semantic physicalism implies that our mathematical theories are empirical theories and that the right methodology for determining whether there are, say, infinitely many primes would involve an empirical investigation into the number of physical objects in the universe. (iii) When we appl ...
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... 2. Utilitarianism: consider the consequences for all affected by an action, your interests count for only one in that calculation ...
... 2. Utilitarianism: consider the consequences for all affected by an action, your interests count for only one in that calculation ...
LCS 11: Introduction to Cognitive Science. Behaviorism
... Together, these factors yield Ideas, mental contents likened to pictures or images, linked to what they are about. Empiricism Knowledge is to be gained primarily through sense experience. A prominent proponent of empiricism was John Locke, who devised a scheme for mental mechanics in which ideas com ...
... Together, these factors yield Ideas, mental contents likened to pictures or images, linked to what they are about. Empiricism Knowledge is to be gained primarily through sense experience. A prominent proponent of empiricism was John Locke, who devised a scheme for mental mechanics in which ideas com ...
Recalling the future
... example, if the train to work has been on time 4 out of 5 days, taking it again would seem to be a good decision. But if by next month this has become 6 out of 20 days, choosing the train looks unwise. Each memory of the train must be associated with the previous and subsequent ones as they occur, t ...
... example, if the train to work has been on time 4 out of 5 days, taking it again would seem to be a good decision. But if by next month this has become 6 out of 20 days, choosing the train looks unwise. Each memory of the train must be associated with the previous and subsequent ones as they occur, t ...
OBJECTIONS TO REALISM Introduction: There are a bewildering
... from which absolutely all languages are equally part of the totality being scrutinized--is forever inaccessible" (1990), p. 17. Of course, we can't say what the facts are without employing concepts. But then we can't say what exists without using language. Does that really mean that the existence of ...
... from which absolutely all languages are equally part of the totality being scrutinized--is forever inaccessible" (1990), p. 17. Of course, we can't say what the facts are without employing concepts. But then we can't say what exists without using language. Does that really mean that the existence of ...
Subjectivity, Objectivity, Intersubjectivity: Phenomenology and
... Husserl says that the primordial sphere is characterised by original givenness, the “alien” sphere by non-original, re-presented givenness: the difference is not temporal, logical, or foundational but lies in the mode of givenness. However, this conception is highly problematic. As I have pointed pu ...
... Husserl says that the primordial sphere is characterised by original givenness, the “alien” sphere by non-original, re-presented givenness: the difference is not temporal, logical, or foundational but lies in the mode of givenness. However, this conception is highly problematic. As I have pointed pu ...
Introduction to Perception
... sends an electrical signal that stands for “hello.” The signal that reaches cell phone #2 is the same as the signal sent from cell phone #1. (b) The nervous system sends electrical signals that stand for the moth. The nervous system processes these electrical signals, so the signal responsible for p ...
... sends an electrical signal that stands for “hello.” The signal that reaches cell phone #2 is the same as the signal sent from cell phone #1. (b) The nervous system sends electrical signals that stand for the moth. The nervous system processes these electrical signals, so the signal responsible for p ...
Meeting #3 Step 2 - Came to believe that a Power greater than
... 1) (Page 45) In the preceding chapters you have learned something of alcoholism. We hope we have made clear the distinction between the alcoholic and the nonalcoholic. If, when you honestly want to, you find you cannot quit entirely, or if when drinking, you have little control over the amount you t ...
... 1) (Page 45) In the preceding chapters you have learned something of alcoholism. We hope we have made clear the distinction between the alcoholic and the nonalcoholic. If, when you honestly want to, you find you cannot quit entirely, or if when drinking, you have little control over the amount you t ...
Global Community Investment Ambition and Strategy
... We focus on helping disadvantaged young people to develop the skills that will help them to succeed at school and in the workplace, and on instilling in them the confidence to be more ambitious. In addition, we use our advisory skills to help social enterprises whose aims are aligned with ours to de ...
... We focus on helping disadvantaged young people to develop the skills that will help them to succeed at school and in the workplace, and on instilling in them the confidence to be more ambitious. In addition, we use our advisory skills to help social enterprises whose aims are aligned with ours to de ...
To: Paul Robinson
... 1. Professor Litton makes some “big” arguments, to which I will return, but he also makes some “smaller” ones (echoed in Rudolph) about the compatibility of Martin and Decina. Alas, they seem to me to be based on a first semester law student’s confusion: each case (and more pointedly Martin) is abou ...
... 1. Professor Litton makes some “big” arguments, to which I will return, but he also makes some “smaller” ones (echoed in Rudolph) about the compatibility of Martin and Decina. Alas, they seem to me to be based on a first semester law student’s confusion: each case (and more pointedly Martin) is abou ...
BAVRD2015-Short Program - Vision Science at UC Berkeley
... Lyndia Wu Investigating the relationship between head impact kinematics and oculomotor response – a pilot study Christy Sheehy Usages of the Tracking Scanning Laser Ophthalmoscope ...
... Lyndia Wu Investigating the relationship between head impact kinematics and oculomotor response – a pilot study Christy Sheehy Usages of the Tracking Scanning Laser Ophthalmoscope ...
Introduction to Philosophy
... Type 2 Counterexamples: Locke’s Room Example Being Free vs. Being Lucky ...
... Type 2 Counterexamples: Locke’s Room Example Being Free vs. Being Lucky ...
Of Self-Love - Sophia Project
... of a disinterested benevolence, distinct from self-love, has really more simplicity in it, and is more conformable to the analogy of nature than that which pretends to resolve all friendship and humanity into this latter principle. There are bodily wants or appetites acknowledged by every one, which ...
... of a disinterested benevolence, distinct from self-love, has really more simplicity in it, and is more conformable to the analogy of nature than that which pretends to resolve all friendship and humanity into this latter principle. There are bodily wants or appetites acknowledged by every one, which ...
Reason and experience
... don't have to have any experience of the world to know that it holds. Although it is less obviously the case, it can be argued that 'All right angles are equal to one another' is likewise analytic: knowing the meanings of the words is sufficient to know that it must be true. The idea of analytic tru ...
... don't have to have any experience of the world to know that it holds. Although it is less obviously the case, it can be argued that 'All right angles are equal to one another' is likewise analytic: knowing the meanings of the words is sufficient to know that it must be true. The idea of analytic tru ...
Organizational Behaviour
... • Better safe than sorry BUT Nothing ventured, nothing gained. • Two heads are better than one BUT If you want something done right, do it yourself. ...
... • Better safe than sorry BUT Nothing ventured, nothing gained. • Two heads are better than one BUT If you want something done right, do it yourself. ...
Construction of mental model in mechanics through sensory
... Research topic: Construction of mental model in mechanics through sensory interaction in computerized environment Abstract: The research focuses on construction of physics understanding through sensory interaction with a hapto-visual mediated environment. The learning environment is a unique compute ...
... Research topic: Construction of mental model in mechanics through sensory interaction in computerized environment Abstract: The research focuses on construction of physics understanding through sensory interaction with a hapto-visual mediated environment. The learning environment is a unique compute ...
Epistemology 1
... E. An important tool for observation and experimentation is to provide knowledge of the conditions under which events of a given type takes place ...
... E. An important tool for observation and experimentation is to provide knowledge of the conditions under which events of a given type takes place ...
Inner music and brain connectivity
... • This does not qualify as agnosia, but is a kind of imagery agnosia, something not yet identified! How will the weak top-down connections in visual modality manifest? Attention problems? Only if they are very weak, then object recognition in poor lighting conditions may be impaired. Otherwise: poor ...
... • This does not qualify as agnosia, but is a kind of imagery agnosia, something not yet identified! How will the weak top-down connections in visual modality manifest? Attention problems? Only if they are very weak, then object recognition in poor lighting conditions may be impaired. Otherwise: poor ...
Notes here - Raymond Williams Foundation
... 1. The person believes the statement to be true 2. The statement is in fact true 3. The person is justified in believing the statement to be true 3. Can we know anything? Descarte(1596 -1650) developed an argument …..suppose there is an evil genius, that is “supremely powerful and clever” and was be ...
... 1. The person believes the statement to be true 2. The statement is in fact true 3. The person is justified in believing the statement to be true 3. Can we know anything? Descarte(1596 -1650) developed an argument …..suppose there is an evil genius, that is “supremely powerful and clever” and was be ...
A catalog of conscious experiences
... attention on the mystery of consciousness. In my environment now, there is a particularly rich shade of deep purple from a book on my shelf; an almost surreal shade of green in a photograph of ferns on my wall; and a sparkling array of bright red, green, orange, and blue lights on a Christmas tree t ...
... attention on the mystery of consciousness. In my environment now, there is a particularly rich shade of deep purple from a book on my shelf; an almost surreal shade of green in a photograph of ferns on my wall; and a sparkling array of bright red, green, orange, and blue lights on a Christmas tree t ...
Kant`s Epistemology
... capacity of the human mind by which it organizes and structures raw sense data. One of the categories is PUC. – One may see a similarity between Kant’s view of perception and Aristotle’s view of substance. – For Aristotle, a substance is created when a form organizes and structures inherently formle ...
... capacity of the human mind by which it organizes and structures raw sense data. One of the categories is PUC. – One may see a similarity between Kant’s view of perception and Aristotle’s view of substance. – For Aristotle, a substance is created when a form organizes and structures inherently formle ...
DAVID HUME from A Treatise of Human Nature
... If morality had naturally no influence on human passions and actions, ’twere in vain to take such pains to inculcate it; and nothing wou’d be more fruitless than that multitude of rules and precepts, with which all moralists abound. Philosophy is commonly divided into speculative and practical ; an ...
... If morality had naturally no influence on human passions and actions, ’twere in vain to take such pains to inculcate it; and nothing wou’d be more fruitless than that multitude of rules and precepts, with which all moralists abound. Philosophy is commonly divided into speculative and practical ; an ...
Nuances - Originals
... “The secret of Zen is just two words: not always so” Shunryo Suzuki Roshi ...
... “The secret of Zen is just two words: not always so” Shunryo Suzuki Roshi ...
Direct and indirect realism
The question of direct or ""naïve"" realism, as opposed to indirect or ""representational"" realism, arises in the philosophy of perception and of mind out of the debate over the nature of conscious experience; the epistemological question of whether the world we see around us is the real world itself or merely an internal perceptual copy of that world generated by neural processes in our brain. Naïve realism is known as direct realism when developed to counter indirect or representative realism, also known as epistemological dualism, the philosophical position that our conscious experience is not of the real world itself but of an internal representation, a miniature virtual-reality replica of the world. Indirect realism is broadly equivalent to the accepted view of perception in natural science that states that we do not and cannot perceive the external world as it really is but know only our ideas and interpretations of the way the world is. Representationalism is one of the key assumptions of cognitivism in psychology. The representational realist would deny that 'first-hand knowledge' is a coherent concept, since knowledge is always via some means. Our ideas of the world are interpretations of sensory input derived from an external world that is real (unlike the standpoint of idealism). The alternative, that we have knowledge of the outside world that is unconstrained by our sense organs and does not require interpretation, would appear to be inconsistent with everyday observation.