Determinism - The Information Philosopher
... The “problem of determinism” looms large in philosophy, where it appears as the powerful alternative to libertarian freedom in the “problem of free will.”1 ...
... The “problem of determinism” looms large in philosophy, where it appears as the powerful alternative to libertarian freedom in the “problem of free will.”1 ...
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... taking this course. The point is that this course is essentially unique: I know of no other course anywhere that provides this thorough a treatment of both special and general relativity at a level accessibly with only elementary calculus. By your presence here, I take it that you are happy to have ...
... taking this course. The point is that this course is essentially unique: I know of no other course anywhere that provides this thorough a treatment of both special and general relativity at a level accessibly with only elementary calculus. By your presence here, I take it that you are happy to have ...
Is Structural Spacetime Realism Relationism in Disguise
... radical way as to postulate entities that – similar to kantian noumena – are endowed with intrinsic properties that in principle we will never know. But ontic structural realism, even in the moderate form postulated by Esfeld and Lam (2006), is not without troubles, as it is natural to raise doubts ...
... radical way as to postulate entities that – similar to kantian noumena – are endowed with intrinsic properties that in principle we will never know. But ontic structural realism, even in the moderate form postulated by Esfeld and Lam (2006), is not without troubles, as it is natural to raise doubts ...
On the Indispensable Premises of the Indispensability - Hal-SHS
... A few expository remarks will help us to single out four common stances concerning the structure and significance of IA that we take as representative of the ongoing debate. Putnam [1971]’s well-known passage is commonly assumed as the reference formulation: So far I have been developing an argument ...
... A few expository remarks will help us to single out four common stances concerning the structure and significance of IA that we take as representative of the ongoing debate. Putnam [1971]’s well-known passage is commonly assumed as the reference formulation: So far I have been developing an argument ...
Lewis on Possibilia
... • Thus, for Lewis, actuality is an indexical notion: the actual world for an object is the world in which that object exists. • The world in which we live includes everything in at any distance from where we are or at any time before and after the present. ...
... • Thus, for Lewis, actuality is an indexical notion: the actual world for an object is the world in which that object exists. • The world in which we live includes everything in at any distance from where we are or at any time before and after the present. ...
Fall 2015 - The American Philosophical Association
... the boundaries between the first- and third-person perspectives on subjectivity, and concerning embodiment and the mental, and between experience and knowledge. Taken together, these two streams of thought raise what has come to be called, following David Chalmers (2003), the “hard problem,” or what ...
... the boundaries between the first- and third-person perspectives on subjectivity, and concerning embodiment and the mental, and between experience and knowledge. Taken together, these two streams of thought raise what has come to be called, following David Chalmers (2003), the “hard problem,” or what ...
saying and showing the good
... One of the totalities of which we cannot speak is that of propositions. This is crucial for Wittgenstein’s much discussed account of generality, which of course is inseparable from his view about totalities. He wrote: “A proposition is a truth-function of elementary propositions. (An elementary pro ...
... One of the totalities of which we cannot speak is that of propositions. This is crucial for Wittgenstein’s much discussed account of generality, which of course is inseparable from his view about totalities. He wrote: “A proposition is a truth-function of elementary propositions. (An elementary pro ...
Introduction - davidhume.org
... ‘was carry’d away by the Heat of Youth & Invention’ (see p. ???), producing a long work in which his strokes of critical genius were confusingly mingled with unrealistically ambitious psychological generalisations and – at least in Book I – unresolved sceptical paradoxes. Hume quickly regretted this ...
... ‘was carry’d away by the Heat of Youth & Invention’ (see p. ???), producing a long work in which his strokes of critical genius were confusingly mingled with unrealistically ambitious psychological generalisations and – at least in Book I – unresolved sceptical paradoxes. Hume quickly regretted this ...
Spacetime Structuralism or Spacetime Functionalism?
... par ontologically’ with objects, sometimes that objects lack intrinsic properties. Much discussion focusses around identity conditions - objects are often said to be individuated by their positions in a structure. Needless to say, not every interlocutor finds all of these statements comprehensible, ...
... par ontologically’ with objects, sometimes that objects lack intrinsic properties. Much discussion focusses around identity conditions - objects are often said to be individuated by their positions in a structure. Needless to say, not every interlocutor finds all of these statements comprehensible, ...
Skepticism and Perceptual Faith: Henry David Thoreau and Stanley
... more generally to any ill-founded or gratuitous belief, then Hume must classify as superstitious many of our ordinary beliefs about the world. As he admits, “in all reasonings from experience, there is a step taken by the mind, which is not supported by any argument or process of understanding”; so ...
... more generally to any ill-founded or gratuitous belief, then Hume must classify as superstitious many of our ordinary beliefs about the world. As he admits, “in all reasonings from experience, there is a step taken by the mind, which is not supported by any argument or process of understanding”; so ...
ABSOLUTE - Polskie Towarzystwo Tomasza z Akwinu
... whole perceives, the whole hears". "But without effort it sets in motion all things by mind and thought". "It always abides in the same place, not moved at all, nor is it fitting that it should move from one place to another" (Diels-Kranz 11 B 24-26). Parmenides introduced some new aspects into the ...
... whole perceives, the whole hears". "But without effort it sets in motion all things by mind and thought". "It always abides in the same place, not moved at all, nor is it fitting that it should move from one place to another" (Diels-Kranz 11 B 24-26). Parmenides introduced some new aspects into the ...
The4 - Homestead
... the aspect of the devotional and in understanding the nature of this type of absolute philosophy the coinciding presence of this feature, I believe, must also be accounted for. In this methodological metaphor or point made by Plotinus that I used to open this chapter it would seem to follow from an ...
... the aspect of the devotional and in understanding the nature of this type of absolute philosophy the coinciding presence of this feature, I believe, must also be accounted for. In this methodological metaphor or point made by Plotinus that I used to open this chapter it would seem to follow from an ...
Kant`s Pre-Critical Proof for God`s Existence
... Kant continued to lecture his entire academic career. It both criticizes and critically appropriates elements from that tradition in an attempt to work out a better theory of possibility than that on offer in those books. The failure of Kant (and his successors down to the twentieth century) to jus ...
... Kant continued to lecture his entire academic career. It both criticizes and critically appropriates elements from that tradition in an attempt to work out a better theory of possibility than that on offer in those books. The failure of Kant (and his successors down to the twentieth century) to jus ...
Explanation as orgasm and the drive for causal
... designed by evolution to construct what I will call “causal maps”. Causal maps are abstract, coherent, defeasible representations of the causal structure of the world around us. Moreover, the distinctive phenomenology of the theory-formation system impels us to action as well as to knowledge, it ref ...
... designed by evolution to construct what I will call “causal maps”. Causal maps are abstract, coherent, defeasible representations of the causal structure of the world around us. Moreover, the distinctive phenomenology of the theory-formation system impels us to action as well as to knowledge, it ref ...
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 ...
MODULE: Argument Analysis
... This means that if we have an argument with one or more false premises, then it is not a good argument. The reason for this condition is that we want a good argument to be one that can convince us to accept the conclusion. Unless the premises of an argument are all true, we would have no reason to a ...
... This means that if we have an argument with one or more false premises, then it is not a good argument. The reason for this condition is that we want a good argument to be one that can convince us to accept the conclusion. Unless the premises of an argument are all true, we would have no reason to a ...
How Valuable Could a Material Object Be?
... a judgment about the irrelevance of materiality to value along these lines: Bridge: If we have inherent moral worth irrespective of whether we possess a physical body, then our materiality is irrelevant to our value. From Reason Says and Bridge, this much follows immediately: Intermediate Conclusion ...
... a judgment about the irrelevance of materiality to value along these lines: Bridge: If we have inherent moral worth irrespective of whether we possess a physical body, then our materiality is irrelevant to our value. From Reason Says and Bridge, this much follows immediately: Intermediate Conclusion ...
Free Will Remains a Mystery
... the theory of “agent causation” (or some specific development of it) shows that acts that are undetermined by past states of affairs can be free acts. But the philosophical enemies of the idea of agent causation are numerous and articulate. Opposition to the idea of agent causation has been based on ...
... the theory of “agent causation” (or some specific development of it) shows that acts that are undetermined by past states of affairs can be free acts. But the philosophical enemies of the idea of agent causation are numerous and articulate. Opposition to the idea of agent causation has been based on ...
Has Science Established that the Cosmos is Physically
... can be accepted as a part scientific knowledge independently of empirical considerations. This rather thin doctrine is a central component of almost all views about science that philosophers of science have come up with. It is common ground for logical positivism, inductivism, logical empiricism, hy ...
... can be accepted as a part scientific knowledge independently of empirical considerations. This rather thin doctrine is a central component of almost all views about science that philosophers of science have come up with. It is common ground for logical positivism, inductivism, logical empiricism, hy ...
Has Science Established that the Cosmos is Physically
... can be accepted as a part scientific knowledge independently of empirical considerations. This rather thin doctrine is a central component of almost all views about science that philosophers of science have come up with. It is common ground for logical positivism, inductivism, logical empiricism, hy ...
... can be accepted as a part scientific knowledge independently of empirical considerations. This rather thin doctrine is a central component of almost all views about science that philosophers of science have come up with. It is common ground for logical positivism, inductivism, logical empiricism, hy ...
Has Science Established that the Cosmos is Physically
... can be accepted as a part scientific knowledge independently of empirical considerations. This rather thin doctrine is a central component of almost all views about science that philosophers of science have come up with. It is common ground for logical positivism, inductivism, logical empiricism, hy ...
... can be accepted as a part scientific knowledge independently of empirical considerations. This rather thin doctrine is a central component of almost all views about science that philosophers of science have come up with. It is common ground for logical positivism, inductivism, logical empiricism, hy ...
Part II : Light and gravitation
... the surface W = c². The potential is parallel to 4.D. In balance the masses parallel to 3D-surface are evenly shared over the 3D-surface and create a pull force around the whole closed surface. When the pull force is parallel to the surface and surrounds the surface, it has a component perpendicular ...
... the surface W = c². The potential is parallel to 4.D. In balance the masses parallel to 3D-surface are evenly shared over the 3D-surface and create a pull force around the whole closed surface. When the pull force is parallel to the surface and surrounds the surface, it has a component perpendicular ...
Kant`s Critique of the Ontological Argument: FAIL
... fallacious. Those that claim to have achieved both inevitably prove to be as unintelligible as the texts they are intended to explicate.1 For this reason, one often comes away with the impression that Kant tended to arrive at his positive views first, and only then attempted to find arguments to jus ...
... fallacious. Those that claim to have achieved both inevitably prove to be as unintelligible as the texts they are intended to explicate.1 For this reason, one often comes away with the impression that Kant tended to arrive at his positive views first, and only then attempted to find arguments to jus ...
REVIEW David Couzens Hoy, The Time of Our Lives: A Critical
... it is not possible to step outside of time, or for the temporal to be more accurate. The temporal dimension is always there as it is a central aspect of being a human. Hoy starts by what he calls Heidegger’s misreading of Kant. If I am correct, the discussion takes root before any distinction betwee ...
... it is not possible to step outside of time, or for the temporal to be more accurate. The temporal dimension is always there as it is a central aspect of being a human. Hoy starts by what he calls Heidegger’s misreading of Kant. If I am correct, the discussion takes root before any distinction betwee ...
Specious Present - Philsci
... ‘vulgar’ or popular conception of the present. In the strict or philosophical sense, the present moment is punctate, even thought it may not appear to be so. If one were to advocate a strict notion of the present in experience, one would need to then explain why our experience of it is illusory, ...
... ‘vulgar’ or popular conception of the present. In the strict or philosophical sense, the present moment is punctate, even thought it may not appear to be so. If one were to advocate a strict notion of the present in experience, one would need to then explain why our experience of it is illusory, ...