Postscript - Shamik Dasgupta
... individualism vs algebraic generalism down for a moment. And let us distinguish a property from its causal role. The causal role of a property P might be defined by taking the laws governing it, conjoining them to form a statement T(P), and then replacing all occurrences of P with a variable, result ...
... individualism vs algebraic generalism down for a moment. And let us distinguish a property from its causal role. The causal role of a property P might be defined by taking the laws governing it, conjoining them to form a statement T(P), and then replacing all occurrences of P with a variable, result ...
Frege`s theory of sense
... contribute the object for which they stand to the truth-conditions of sentences in which they occur; why should they, in this one case, stand not for an object but for themselves? In the opening passages of “On sense and reference,” Frege criticized his earlier view: “What one wishes to express with ...
... contribute the object for which they stand to the truth-conditions of sentences in which they occur; why should they, in this one case, stand not for an object but for themselves? In the opening passages of “On sense and reference,” Frege criticized his earlier view: “What one wishes to express with ...
EINSTEIN: PHILOSOPHICAL IDEAS
... minds. As we discuss below, this led him, as it had Hume and Kant before him, to a discussion of the limitations, to human thought, that were inherent in our very nature. But Einstein saw very clearly that this discussion should not be applied solely to those thinking processes that could be formula ...
... minds. As we discuss below, this led him, as it had Hume and Kant before him, to a discussion of the limitations, to human thought, that were inherent in our very nature. But Einstein saw very clearly that this discussion should not be applied solely to those thinking processes that could be formula ...
Are Colors Secondary Qualities?
... There are two importantly different ways of specifying the manifestation of the disposition, the “visual experiences of kind K” (cf. Boghossian and Velleman 1989: 84–5). The specification may be non-reductive: the visual experiences are as of a green object. Put more plainly, the experiences consist ...
... There are two importantly different ways of specifying the manifestation of the disposition, the “visual experiences of kind K” (cf. Boghossian and Velleman 1989: 84–5). The specification may be non-reductive: the visual experiences are as of a green object. Put more plainly, the experiences consist ...
Donald Davidson, Subjective, Intersubjective, Objective
... puts it, the paradox of irrationality is that it ‘is a failure within the house of reason’ (PR, p. 169). The possibility of irrationality should seem especially puzzling against the background of a theory of action like Davidson’s, according to which nothing is an action unless it is caused by reaso ...
... puts it, the paradox of irrationality is that it ‘is a failure within the house of reason’ (PR, p. 169). The possibility of irrationality should seem especially puzzling against the background of a theory of action like Davidson’s, according to which nothing is an action unless it is caused by reaso ...
The Asymmetric Magnets Problem
... The problem I’ll be focussing on looks rather simple, but it brings out several points that seem to have metaphysical interest. In particular, it highlights the importance of three distinctions that are easy to blur when doing metaphysics. It will make the exposition of the puzzle easier to place th ...
... The problem I’ll be focussing on looks rather simple, but it brings out several points that seem to have metaphysical interest. In particular, it highlights the importance of three distinctions that are easy to blur when doing metaphysics. It will make the exposition of the puzzle easier to place th ...
A Tension in Pragmatist and Neo
... where for instance one is able correctly to classify or describe an object one has never experienced directly. To have knowledge by acquaintance with something, on the other hand, is a matter of being directly perceptually aware of the qualitative nature of some reality, and for James this is to be ...
... where for instance one is able correctly to classify or describe an object one has never experienced directly. To have knowledge by acquaintance with something, on the other hand, is a matter of being directly perceptually aware of the qualitative nature of some reality, and for James this is to be ...
The Objectivity of the Past
... The opposing view, realism about the past, however, fares, Dummett argues, no better. The view, as he characterizes it, that the meaning of a statement is knowledge of truth-conditions – conditions which may be beyond our ability to verify – generates its own problems. As Dummett has consistently po ...
... The opposing view, realism about the past, however, fares, Dummett argues, no better. The view, as he characterizes it, that the meaning of a statement is knowledge of truth-conditions – conditions which may be beyond our ability to verify – generates its own problems. As Dummett has consistently po ...
Do the Causal Principles of Modern Physics Contradict Causal Anti
... possibility of logical paradoxes: for, one could imagine that with a suitable rocketship one could travel round such a curve and, arriving back before one’s departure, one could prevent oneself from setting out in the first place. Of course there is a contradiction only if one assumes a simple notio ...
... possibility of logical paradoxes: for, one could imagine that with a suitable rocketship one could travel round such a curve and, arriving back before one’s departure, one could prevent oneself from setting out in the first place. Of course there is a contradiction only if one assumes a simple notio ...
on the logic of perception sentences
... [3] I. Niiniluoto, Knowing That One Sees, [in:] E. Saarinen et all. (eds.), Essays in Honour of Jaakko Hintikka, D. Reidel, Dordrecht, ...
... [3] I. Niiniluoto, Knowing That One Sees, [in:] E. Saarinen et all. (eds.), Essays in Honour of Jaakko Hintikka, D. Reidel, Dordrecht, ...
- PhilSci-Archive
... the relation with the use of laws in scientific practice, the governing vs. the nongoverning status of laws, and so on. Ned Hall claims, for instance: By far the most central and important question about laws of nature is this: are they mere patterns in the phenomena (patterns that are in some way s ...
... the relation with the use of laws in scientific practice, the governing vs. the nongoverning status of laws, and so on. Ned Hall claims, for instance: By far the most central and important question about laws of nature is this: are they mere patterns in the phenomena (patterns that are in some way s ...
Popper`s Paradoxical Pursuit of Natural Philosophy - Philsci
... were the first to struggle with central problems of natural philosophy in something like their modern form. Their ideas, most notably the idea that there is an underlying unity or invariance in nature, the idea of symmetry, and the idea that nature is made up of atoms in motion in the void, have ha ...
... were the first to struggle with central problems of natural philosophy in something like their modern form. Their ideas, most notably the idea that there is an underlying unity or invariance in nature, the idea of symmetry, and the idea that nature is made up of atoms in motion in the void, have ha ...
william wordsworth and idealism - Bangladesh Research Publications
... The extract from Wordsworth’s poem ‘The Prelude’ somehow alludes, the pioneer of idealism, Plato’s doctrine who believed that ‘full reality’ is achieved only through thought. Another neo-Platonist philosopher Plotinus who, in his Enneads, has strived to affirm that “the only space or place of the wo ...
... The extract from Wordsworth’s poem ‘The Prelude’ somehow alludes, the pioneer of idealism, Plato’s doctrine who believed that ‘full reality’ is achieved only through thought. Another neo-Platonist philosopher Plotinus who, in his Enneads, has strived to affirm that “the only space or place of the wo ...
Haecceitism, Anti-Haecceitism, and Possible Worlds
... (I say ‘if this new set of sentences is a possible world’ because two philosophers might agree that possible worlds are sets of sentences but disagree about just which sets of sentences are possible worlds. In fact, an anti-haecceitist who thinks that possible worlds are sets will deny that two sets ...
... (I say ‘if this new set of sentences is a possible world’ because two philosophers might agree that possible worlds are sets of sentences but disagree about just which sets of sentences are possible worlds. In fact, an anti-haecceitist who thinks that possible worlds are sets will deny that two sets ...
Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind 1
... • “For x to be sensed is for it to be the object of an act.” • A sense content is a possible object for such an act. • Kinds of sensing may just reduce to the kinds of sense content that are their objects. • The point of these acts is to serve as a starting point (foundation) for empirical knowledge ...
... • “For x to be sensed is for it to be the object of an act.” • A sense content is a possible object for such an act. • Kinds of sensing may just reduce to the kinds of sense content that are their objects. • The point of these acts is to serve as a starting point (foundation) for empirical knowledge ...
The Issue of Correspondence between Scientific Law and Ultimate
... an a priori overstanding of that knowledge. The two fail to gain such an overstanding of knowledge because, according to Kant, it is impossible to gain transcendental knowledge about the Ding an sich—thing in itself—since we can only come to understand things through the faculties of our own mind. S ...
... an a priori overstanding of that knowledge. The two fail to gain such an overstanding of knowledge because, according to Kant, it is impossible to gain transcendental knowledge about the Ding an sich—thing in itself—since we can only come to understand things through the faculties of our own mind. S ...
roberta de monticelli
... In short, the phenomenology of strong individuality is as well assessed in our everyday lifes, as its notion is in our everyday thought. Even the term « individual »and related ones, as well as their equivalents in most European languages, are meant to refer to individuals in a pretty strong sense, ...
... In short, the phenomenology of strong individuality is as well assessed in our everyday lifes, as its notion is in our everyday thought. Even the term « individual »and related ones, as well as their equivalents in most European languages, are meant to refer to individuals in a pretty strong sense, ...
Why Identity is Fundamental1 - University of Miami College of Arts
... that identity is not defined for such an object⎯then it is not obvious what would make the object an individual rather than just an indistinguishable thing (indistinguishable from any other thing of the same kind, whatever it is). In either case, the link between identity and individuality is very ...
... that identity is not defined for such an object⎯then it is not obvious what would make the object an individual rather than just an indistinguishable thing (indistinguishable from any other thing of the same kind, whatever it is). In either case, the link between identity and individuality is very ...
Deleuze Lecture on Kant 1978 - The Partially Examined Life
... Philosophers have said this for a very long time: there is something in this which is not given in experience. What is it? It's the expressions: "always", "necessarily", or even the future tense. What experience has given me is, strictly speaking, that each time I have effectively brought water to 1 ...
... Philosophers have said this for a very long time: there is something in this which is not given in experience. What is it? It's the expressions: "always", "necessarily", or even the future tense. What experience has given me is, strictly speaking, that each time I have effectively brought water to 1 ...
The Space-Time Contiguity Theory of Consciousness
... instrumentation, although exceedingly sophisticated, has its limitations. Perhaps these limitations correlate to an inability to measure the phenomenon that is consciousness. The question, “will there ever be a technology that will be able to measure abstract ideas or will we remain always at the bo ...
... instrumentation, although exceedingly sophisticated, has its limitations. Perhaps these limitations correlate to an inability to measure the phenomenon that is consciousness. The question, “will there ever be a technology that will be able to measure abstract ideas or will we remain always at the bo ...
(1) Lidt om bogen `Naming and Necessity` som helhed
... Philosophy of mind - here Kripke contributes with an important discussion of the mind-brain identity theory, and the more general question whether mental properties are reducible to physical properties. The book contains an argument against physicalism which is related to arguments of the kind put f ...
... Philosophy of mind - here Kripke contributes with an important discussion of the mind-brain identity theory, and the more general question whether mental properties are reducible to physical properties. The book contains an argument against physicalism which is related to arguments of the kind put f ...
In Favour of Laws that Are Not Ceteris Paribus After All
... The language I use in reconstructing a number of scientific laws in the exact sciences (most notably physics and economics) is the language of powers, capacities or natures and related concepts such as interfere, inhibit, facilitate and trigger. Those of us raised in the joint shadow of the Vienna C ...
... The language I use in reconstructing a number of scientific laws in the exact sciences (most notably physics and economics) is the language of powers, capacities or natures and related concepts such as interfere, inhibit, facilitate and trigger. Those of us raised in the joint shadow of the Vienna C ...
Real, invented or applied? Some reflections on scientific objectivity
... Social scientific objects seem to pose the following ontological challenge to Daston’s catholic view. Given that, according to an applied metaphysics, scientific objects are both real and invented, and that their reality is as a consequence a matter of degrees, what does it mean for social scientif ...
... Social scientific objects seem to pose the following ontological challenge to Daston’s catholic view. Given that, according to an applied metaphysics, scientific objects are both real and invented, and that their reality is as a consequence a matter of degrees, what does it mean for social scientif ...
3. Hume - CSUN.edu
... the universe and imagine dragons as well as horses with wings. But upon further examination, Hume concluded that it its “really confined within very narrow limits.” 2. The contents of the mind can be reduced to the materials given us by the senses and experience, and those materials Hume calls perce ...
... the universe and imagine dragons as well as horses with wings. But upon further examination, Hume concluded that it its “really confined within very narrow limits.” 2. The contents of the mind can be reduced to the materials given us by the senses and experience, and those materials Hume calls perce ...
PHI 110 Lecture 16 1 Hello and welcome to what will be the first of
... Hello and welcome to what will be the first of two lectures on the limits of reason and the philosophy of common sense. After these two lectures we will just have two more lectures within this topic and then we’ll be ready for our second exam. I know it’s hard to believe. Things are moving quickly. ...
... Hello and welcome to what will be the first of two lectures on the limits of reason and the philosophy of common sense. After these two lectures we will just have two more lectures within this topic and then we’ll be ready for our second exam. I know it’s hard to believe. Things are moving quickly. ...