Empathy and Transformative Experiences without the First Person
... It isn’t our goal here to make careful sense of these different versions of the shared feeling requirement. Rather, there are two points we want to make about the requirement.2 First, there are natural ways of understanding our modelling conception on which some sort of shared feeling requiremen ...
... It isn’t our goal here to make careful sense of these different versions of the shared feeling requirement. Rather, there are two points we want to make about the requirement.2 First, there are natural ways of understanding our modelling conception on which some sort of shared feeling requiremen ...
neo-sentimentalism`s prospects[*]
... concepts. That constraint is that the analysans ought to maintain the action-guidingness, or more generally the normative force, of the analysandum. What is wrong with an analysis of good in terms of biological fitness, for instance, resides in the fact that biological fitness has no particular norm ...
... concepts. That constraint is that the analysans ought to maintain the action-guidingness, or more generally the normative force, of the analysandum. What is wrong with an analysis of good in terms of biological fitness, for instance, resides in the fact that biological fitness has no particular norm ...
Can We Really See a Million Colours? David Papineau Abstract
... properties. As it happens, I think that conscious vision is designed to represent features of the external environment, and so will on occasion talk in about conscious colour perception in representational terms; I also think that conscious phenomenal colour properties are to be identified with ‘syn ...
... properties. As it happens, I think that conscious vision is designed to represent features of the external environment, and so will on occasion talk in about conscious colour perception in representational terms; I also think that conscious phenomenal colour properties are to be identified with ‘syn ...
A Study Guide to Descartes` Meditations
... sceptical argument aims to undermine this confidence we have in our senses. How does the argument work?2. Ordinarily, we naively follow a ‘basic principle’ that looks something like this. A. ...
... sceptical argument aims to undermine this confidence we have in our senses. How does the argument work?2. Ordinarily, we naively follow a ‘basic principle’ that looks something like this. A. ...
PRAGMATISM, REALISM, AND RELIGION
... endorsing what he calls a “constructive realism,” a type of internal realism that bears a number of similarities with Putnam’s earlier attempts at developing an internal realist theory. See Margolis 1986, 257; 2002, 24–29. Margolis, unfortunately, does not provide textual support for these claims ab ...
... endorsing what he calls a “constructive realism,” a type of internal realism that bears a number of similarities with Putnam’s earlier attempts at developing an internal realist theory. See Margolis 1986, 257; 2002, 24–29. Margolis, unfortunately, does not provide textual support for these claims ab ...
Abstract expressionism and the communication
... phenomenon by claiming that, though empirical science studies objects like planets and molecules, it has discovered that these objects bear relations to numbers. On this approach, (S) is read as claiming that Saturn and 1.08x1012 stand in the surface-area-in-km2 relation. More generally (the explana ...
... phenomenon by claiming that, though empirical science studies objects like planets and molecules, it has discovered that these objects bear relations to numbers. On this approach, (S) is read as claiming that Saturn and 1.08x1012 stand in the surface-area-in-km2 relation. More generally (the explana ...
The Exposure Society Experience as a new aspect of social status
... culture. Experience is considered a general aspect of all consumption and leisure activities. Culture understood as the production and reception of art and similar specialised, high-cultural activities is more restricted. As a consequence of this logic, the culture economy understood as the part of ...
... culture. Experience is considered a general aspect of all consumption and leisure activities. Culture understood as the production and reception of art and similar specialised, high-cultural activities is more restricted. As a consequence of this logic, the culture economy understood as the part of ...
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... in/finitude can be traced, in the West, back to pre-Socratic philosophy over 2,400 years ago. The term ‘ontology’ presents us with a fundamental ambiguity as it refers both to the study of the nature of reality and to the study of an author’s or a community’s specific conception of reality. This amb ...
... in/finitude can be traced, in the West, back to pre-Socratic philosophy over 2,400 years ago. The term ‘ontology’ presents us with a fundamental ambiguity as it refers both to the study of the nature of reality and to the study of an author’s or a community’s specific conception of reality. This amb ...
PLATO: THE SEVENTH LETTER_4
... at that time, as if he were composing a handbook of his own which differed entirely from the instruction he received. Of this I know nothing. I do know, however, that some others have written on these same subjects, but who they are they know not themselves. One statement at any rate I can make in r ...
... at that time, as if he were composing a handbook of his own which differed entirely from the instruction he received. Of this I know nothing. I do know, however, that some others have written on these same subjects, but who they are they know not themselves. One statement at any rate I can make in r ...
ProCredit Regional Academy - Colombia
... probably not open and honest in other aspects of their lives; and those who are reluctant to accept with open arms the multicultural challenge that Academy life necessarily involves are probably chauvinistic in other respects too. It is not so important to be good at all the subjects on offer. That ...
... probably not open and honest in other aspects of their lives; and those who are reluctant to accept with open arms the multicultural challenge that Academy life necessarily involves are probably chauvinistic in other respects too. It is not so important to be good at all the subjects on offer. That ...
The Varieties of Pure Experience: William James and
... demands our attention at any given moment. In this way, concepts have a clear instrumental necessity. They are invaluable in both organizing our experiences as well as enabling us to report, share, and discuss our experiences with other language users. But concepts, James insists, do not capture the ...
... demands our attention at any given moment. In this way, concepts have a clear instrumental necessity. They are invaluable in both organizing our experiences as well as enabling us to report, share, and discuss our experiences with other language users. But concepts, James insists, do not capture the ...
On the Indispensable Premises of the Indispensability - Hal-SHS
... naturalism and holism”6. Naturalism would be required in order to justify the onlydirection of the implication, which, as Colyvan himself acknowledge 7, is, in fact, redundant for drawing the conclusion, and confirmational holism to justify the alldirection. Whether this is so hinges on how the noti ...
... naturalism and holism”6. Naturalism would be required in order to justify the onlydirection of the implication, which, as Colyvan himself acknowledge 7, is, in fact, redundant for drawing the conclusion, and confirmational holism to justify the alldirection. Whether this is so hinges on how the noti ...
KANT`S RESPONSE TO SKEPTICISM
... only insofar as it appears to us unless we had some knowledge of the world as it is in itself, on the basis of which to give content to this contrast? Faced with these difficulties, it has been suggested that a different way of handling transcendental arguments is called for, which, rather than tryi ...
... only insofar as it appears to us unless we had some knowledge of the world as it is in itself, on the basis of which to give content to this contrast? Faced with these difficulties, it has been suggested that a different way of handling transcendental arguments is called for, which, rather than tryi ...
reply to JJ Valberg - Keele Research Repository
... integral to, and reconciled within, our final account. For although Valberg grants the legitimacy of the phenomenal conception, it has no real place in his account. It serves primarily to provide his diagnosis of where others go wrong, and within his own account, it strikes me as merely an awkwardne ...
... integral to, and reconciled within, our final account. For although Valberg grants the legitimacy of the phenomenal conception, it has no real place in his account. It serves primarily to provide his diagnosis of where others go wrong, and within his own account, it strikes me as merely an awkwardne ...
THE CONCEPT OF VERBUM IN THE WRITINGS OF ST. THOMAS
... one insight into phantasm, so two defined terms proceed from two insights. Such multiple insights and definitions may be separate, isolated, atomic. But it also happens that one insight combines with another, or that a first develops so as to include a second. Such a process of developing insight is ...
... one insight into phantasm, so two defined terms proceed from two insights. Such multiple insights and definitions may be separate, isolated, atomic. But it also happens that one insight combines with another, or that a first develops so as to include a second. Such a process of developing insight is ...
Reorienting Critical Realism: the Actual Essence of the Capitalist
... Social structures, as analogues of natural structures, constitute a ‘non-actual domain’, underlying the ‘actual domain’ of events, within the critical realist ontology. This notion of ‘depth’ stems from Bhaskar’s (1975) analysis of natural scientific experiment. According to Bhaskar (1975), an exper ...
... Social structures, as analogues of natural structures, constitute a ‘non-actual domain’, underlying the ‘actual domain’ of events, within the critical realist ontology. This notion of ‘depth’ stems from Bhaskar’s (1975) analysis of natural scientific experiment. According to Bhaskar (1975), an exper ...
Russell`s Neutral Monism
... adhere even in his philosophical autobiography of 1959. On the other hand, in support of this view, I must admit that Russell himself does not provide tremendous help. What I mean is that, for instance, when Russell explicitly mentions neutral monism it is as a particular theory held by others, such ...
... adhere even in his philosophical autobiography of 1959. On the other hand, in support of this view, I must admit that Russell himself does not provide tremendous help. What I mean is that, for instance, when Russell explicitly mentions neutral monism it is as a particular theory held by others, such ...
Keith Crome`s `Descartes` Evil Demon`
... itself necessarily false, at best dubious, leads him to resolve to overturn all his beliefs, everything he once thought he knew. To accomplish this Descartes tells us that it is not necessary for him to show that all his former beliefs are false. This would require a certainty of knowledge as yet un ...
... itself necessarily false, at best dubious, leads him to resolve to overturn all his beliefs, everything he once thought he knew. To accomplish this Descartes tells us that it is not necessary for him to show that all his former beliefs are false. This would require a certainty of knowledge as yet un ...
EINSTEIN: PHILOSOPHICAL IDEAS
... attitude was fundamentally different from that of 20th century Anglo-American philosophy (itself strongly influenced by ideas from Vienna); for him language was a higher-level faculty, which was not involved in our contact with, and understanding of, physical reality at the most basic level availabl ...
... attitude was fundamentally different from that of 20th century Anglo-American philosophy (itself strongly influenced by ideas from Vienna); for him language was a higher-level faculty, which was not involved in our contact with, and understanding of, physical reality at the most basic level availabl ...
TALK OF SAYING, SHOWING, GESTURING, AND FEELING IN
... - I want to say - is a refinement, ‘in the beginning was the deed’.’ Where, in this kind of activity - that elsewhere, I have called joint action (Shotter, 1980, 1984, 1993) - what we do is ‘shaped’ just as much by the social context ‘into’ which we must fit our actions, as any inner plans or desire ...
... - I want to say - is a refinement, ‘in the beginning was the deed’.’ Where, in this kind of activity - that elsewhere, I have called joint action (Shotter, 1980, 1984, 1993) - what we do is ‘shaped’ just as much by the social context ‘into’ which we must fit our actions, as any inner plans or desire ...
Is Structural Spacetime Realism Relationism in Disguise
... rather, he simply declares them to be unknowable (“the real objects which Nature will hide for ever from our eyes”). Consequently, following Ladyman, we can distinguish two forms of structural realism: depending on whether the concrete, physical relations partially referred to by mathematical models ...
... rather, he simply declares them to be unknowable (“the real objects which Nature will hide for ever from our eyes”). Consequently, following Ladyman, we can distinguish two forms of structural realism: depending on whether the concrete, physical relations partially referred to by mathematical models ...
Norms, Selves, and Concepts
... phenomenon I am claiming provided Descartes with his semantic paradigm—is the global isomorphism between the two systems. One can, if one likes, still think of a formula and the figure it represents as sharing something or being alike in some way. But what they share must be thought about in terms o ...
... phenomenon I am claiming provided Descartes with his semantic paradigm—is the global isomorphism between the two systems. One can, if one likes, still think of a formula and the figure it represents as sharing something or being alike in some way. But what they share must be thought about in terms o ...
Introduction - Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy
... we discover, following Dewey’s example, that the noise was caused by a loose shutter banging against the window. According to Dewey’s thesis, the knowing experience, the experience that comes about as a result of inquiry, is no more real than the flustered experience, but they are not the same expe ...
... we discover, following Dewey’s example, that the noise was caused by a loose shutter banging against the window. According to Dewey’s thesis, the knowing experience, the experience that comes about as a result of inquiry, is no more real than the flustered experience, but they are not the same expe ...
Collapsing Distinctions: Interacting within Fields of Intelligence on
... intelligence, the nature of which cannot be known in advance. This is critical. This newly recognized intelligence would, no doubt, have arisen from a process of evolution that may also not be knowable. Stuart Kauffman has argued persuasively (Kaufman 2000) that it is not possible to finitely presta ...
... intelligence, the nature of which cannot be known in advance. This is critical. This newly recognized intelligence would, no doubt, have arisen from a process of evolution that may also not be knowable. Stuart Kauffman has argued persuasively (Kaufman 2000) that it is not possible to finitely presta ...
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.