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... ferent means and with different results — sets him apart from both mainstream philosophers of film as well as film theorists engaging with philosophy. So how to make sense of Cavell’s claim that the “marriage” between film and philosophy is grounded in their responses to scepticism? It is not that t ...
... ferent means and with different results — sets him apart from both mainstream philosophers of film as well as film theorists engaging with philosophy. So how to make sense of Cavell’s claim that the “marriage” between film and philosophy is grounded in their responses to scepticism? It is not that t ...
Person, Eros, Critical Ontology
... presupposes and is based on the epistemology on which it is built, i.e., the criteria through which knowledge is considered as valid or invalid. That is why, he remarks, that ‘we conclude from history that common epistemology (incorporated in the everyday life of the people) and not common ontology ...
... presupposes and is based on the epistemology on which it is built, i.e., the criteria through which knowledge is considered as valid or invalid. That is why, he remarks, that ‘we conclude from history that common epistemology (incorporated in the everyday life of the people) and not common ontology ...
BL5-13 - Additional Information
... mutton, for the remainder! But if we waive this, and pre-suppose the actual existence of such a disposition; two cases are possible. Either, every idea has its own nerve and correspondent oscillation, or this is not the case. If the latter be the truth, we should gain nothing by these dispositions; ...
... mutton, for the remainder! But if we waive this, and pre-suppose the actual existence of such a disposition; two cases are possible. Either, every idea has its own nerve and correspondent oscillation, or this is not the case. If the latter be the truth, we should gain nothing by these dispositions; ...
INTRODUCTION (A) Mind in Indian philosophy
... The nervous system of the body provides the channels through which the mind travels; the direction in which it moves is determined by its desires and tendencies. When the mind becomes pure and desireless it takes the upward course and at the time of departing passes out through the imperceptible ope ...
... The nervous system of the body provides the channels through which the mind travels; the direction in which it moves is determined by its desires and tendencies. When the mind becomes pure and desireless it takes the upward course and at the time of departing passes out through the imperceptible ope ...
- Philsci
... alone, the emergence of increasing theoretical unity being a surprising and purely empirical discovery - unifying theories just being much more empirically successful than disunified rivals. Nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, in connection with every accepted unifying theory - NT, CE ...
... alone, the emergence of increasing theoretical unity being a surprising and purely empirical discovery - unifying theories just being much more empirically successful than disunified rivals. Nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, in connection with every accepted unifying theory - NT, CE ...
nothingness.plato.stanford.edu
... All concrete things appear to be contingent beings. For instance, the Earth would not have existed had the matter which now constitutes our solar system formed, as usual, two stars instead of one. If no concrete thing is a necessary being, then none of them can explain the existence of concrete thin ...
... All concrete things appear to be contingent beings. For instance, the Earth would not have existed had the matter which now constitutes our solar system formed, as usual, two stars instead of one. If no concrete thing is a necessary being, then none of them can explain the existence of concrete thin ...
Aristotle and the Problem of Human Knowledge
... expresses a fact about humanity’s place in the cosmos, one that imposes strict conditions on what we may know, with what degree of certainty, and in what areas. While passages bearing on human knowledge are familiar, looking at them collectively and in comparison with certain other well known Aristo ...
... expresses a fact about humanity’s place in the cosmos, one that imposes strict conditions on what we may know, with what degree of certainty, and in what areas. While passages bearing on human knowledge are familiar, looking at them collectively and in comparison with certain other well known Aristo ...
My Slides - Thatmarcusfamily.org
... P “Though we do the utmost we can to secure the belief of matter, though, when reason forsakes us, we endeavor to support our opinion on the bare possibility of the thing, and though we indulge ourselves in the full scope of an imagination not regulated by reason to make out that poor possibility, y ...
... P “Though we do the utmost we can to secure the belief of matter, though, when reason forsakes us, we endeavor to support our opinion on the bare possibility of the thing, and though we indulge ourselves in the full scope of an imagination not regulated by reason to make out that poor possibility, y ...
THE UNTRUTH AND THE TRUTH OF SKEPTICISM
... such a relation were present it would surely be readily discernible. I am now reading this page of my paper. Is the page I am holding now in my hands the same as the page I held a few moments ago? Of course. I have no doubt that it is. But is my confidence based on my discerning a relation of ident ...
... such a relation were present it would surely be readily discernible. I am now reading this page of my paper. Is the page I am holding now in my hands the same as the page I held a few moments ago? Of course. I have no doubt that it is. But is my confidence based on my discerning a relation of ident ...
Review of Peter Loptson, Reality: Fundamental Topics in Metaphysics
... of the concept of identity imply that between the so-called "two" things there is a relation that might be called identity. Let us consider some cases so simple that if such a relation were present it would surely be readily discernible. I am now reading this page of my paper. Is the page I am hold ...
... of the concept of identity imply that between the so-called "two" things there is a relation that might be called identity. Let us consider some cases so simple that if such a relation were present it would surely be readily discernible. I am now reading this page of my paper. Is the page I am hold ...
naturalistic theory
... Naturalism has no precise meaning in the contemporary philosophy. The self proclaimed “naturalists” from the early period were: John Dewey, Ernest Nagel, Sidney Hook and Roy Wood Sellars. It relates scientific method to philosophy by affirming all beings and events in the universe are natural. ...
... Naturalism has no precise meaning in the contemporary philosophy. The self proclaimed “naturalists” from the early period were: John Dewey, Ernest Nagel, Sidney Hook and Roy Wood Sellars. It relates scientific method to philosophy by affirming all beings and events in the universe are natural. ...
From Controversies to Conflicts between Worlds
... world differences prevent the parties of getting an understanding of the other party´s stance, a preliminary task of common ground building is required. Only in case this usually difficult phase ends successfully, we will say that a “primitive” form of conflict has been transformed into a more sophi ...
... world differences prevent the parties of getting an understanding of the other party´s stance, a preliminary task of common ground building is required. Only in case this usually difficult phase ends successfully, we will say that a “primitive” form of conflict has been transformed into a more sophi ...
Death On The Grand Scale
... work. In the Phenomenology of Spirit, the famous pages on "Self-consciousness" had argued that mutual recognition would never have arisen if there had not been, at a more primordial stage of history, and at a more primordial level of spiritual self-consciousness, a battle to the death betweeen two s ...
... work. In the Phenomenology of Spirit, the famous pages on "Self-consciousness" had argued that mutual recognition would never have arisen if there had not been, at a more primordial stage of history, and at a more primordial level of spiritual self-consciousness, a battle to the death betweeen two s ...
Greater Reality Achieved Through Consciousness
... That is (we may interpret) that you can truly “get away” (“upward”) only by immersing yourself (“downward”) in what you’re getting away from. In regard to matter and mind, it’s because of Hegel’s conception of true infinity and his corresponding understanding of Spirit that he is neither a dualist a ...
... That is (we may interpret) that you can truly “get away” (“upward”) only by immersing yourself (“downward”) in what you’re getting away from. In regard to matter and mind, it’s because of Hegel’s conception of true infinity and his corresponding understanding of Spirit that he is neither a dualist a ...
IOSR Journal Of Humanities And Social Science (IOSR-JHSS)
... is known as substance dualism. By „substance‟ he means such thing which exists by itself and which requires nothing for its existence. In his own language he defines substance thus – “Everything in which there resides immediately, as in a subject, or by means of which there exists anything that we p ...
... is known as substance dualism. By „substance‟ he means such thing which exists by itself and which requires nothing for its existence. In his own language he defines substance thus – “Everything in which there resides immediately, as in a subject, or by means of which there exists anything that we p ...
ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY LECTURE THALES, HERACLITUS
... physical world. Logos, which is often translated as “account,” or “explanation,” or “word,” are inadequate, but the idea is that logos can capture the objective truth about the world. Moreover, unlike some skeptical stances about the intelligibility of the world, Heraclitus holds that logos is capab ...
... physical world. Logos, which is often translated as “account,” or “explanation,” or “word,” are inadequate, but the idea is that logos can capture the objective truth about the world. Moreover, unlike some skeptical stances about the intelligibility of the world, Heraclitus holds that logos is capab ...
hellenic philosophy
... This task can be accomplished by reviving the Hellenic spirit of freely theorizing about nature and culture. Such revival would acknowledge no other authority but that of human reason in both its Hellenic forms, as logos and nous, (that is, discursive reasoning and intuitive seeing), and of rational ...
... This task can be accomplished by reviving the Hellenic spirit of freely theorizing about nature and culture. Such revival would acknowledge no other authority but that of human reason in both its Hellenic forms, as logos and nous, (that is, discursive reasoning and intuitive seeing), and of rational ...
Metaphysics of Motion
... categories of being—substance, quality, quantity, relation, position, and so on—are used to distinguish different kinds of change and to prevent confusion between them: ruling out the possibility of transition from nothing to something in the category of substance (so that the cosmos as a whole cann ...
... categories of being—substance, quality, quantity, relation, position, and so on—are used to distinguish different kinds of change and to prevent confusion between them: ruling out the possibility of transition from nothing to something in the category of substance (so that the cosmos as a whole cann ...
Ionian Philosophers
... 1. Having thus proven to his satisfaction that he, things, and God existed he proceeded to examine the relationship between the mind and the body. His approach is described as dualistic. a. Descartes believed that mind and body were composed of two different substances. Descartes defined substance a ...
... 1. Having thus proven to his satisfaction that he, things, and God existed he proceeded to examine the relationship between the mind and the body. His approach is described as dualistic. a. Descartes believed that mind and body were composed of two different substances. Descartes defined substance a ...
Preface to Lying, Misleading and What is Said
... and ethics, in the case of metaethics. Indeed, much of metaethics arguably is a sort of philosophy of language. A few philosophers have recently explored connections between philosophy of language, applied ethics and normative political philosophy— for example, work by Hornsby, Langton, and others i ...
... and ethics, in the case of metaethics. Indeed, much of metaethics arguably is a sort of philosophy of language. A few philosophers have recently explored connections between philosophy of language, applied ethics and normative political philosophy— for example, work by Hornsby, Langton, and others i ...
T - Philosophy at Hertford College
... “But as this interruption of their existence is contrary to their perfect identity, and makes us regard the first impression as annihilated, and the second as newly created, we find ourselves somewhat at a loss, and are involv’d in a kind of contradiction. In order to free ourselves from this diffi ...
... “But as this interruption of their existence is contrary to their perfect identity, and makes us regard the first impression as annihilated, and the second as newly created, we find ourselves somewhat at a loss, and are involv’d in a kind of contradiction. In order to free ourselves from this diffi ...
Why naturalize consciousness?
... conceived only as a framework in which to examine various metaphysical issues. While physics and other sciences might have a role in determining what counts as physical, physicalism does not guide scientific inquiry and “is not directly, or necessarily, connected to physics or its findings” (Crook & ...
... conceived only as a framework in which to examine various metaphysical issues. While physics and other sciences might have a role in determining what counts as physical, physicalism does not guide scientific inquiry and “is not directly, or necessarily, connected to physics or its findings” (Crook & ...
here
... term a poly-ontology — that is to say, a non-Cartesian-Kantian form of pluralism (Scott, 2007a, 2007b). Arosi, I have argued, experience their socio-cosmic order as formed of external relations among a plurality of independently arising and matrilineally reproduced autochthonous categories of being. ...
... term a poly-ontology — that is to say, a non-Cartesian-Kantian form of pluralism (Scott, 2007a, 2007b). Arosi, I have argued, experience their socio-cosmic order as formed of external relations among a plurality of independently arising and matrilineally reproduced autochthonous categories of being. ...
`I` am a Fiction: An Analysis of the No-Person Theories
... what is it that makes us know that certain perceptions are ours and not others. If humankind is a bundle of perceptions, what is it that binds together a particular set of perceptions as a bundle or person? What about more complicated mental events: beliefs, desires and intentions – all of them pres ...
... what is it that makes us know that certain perceptions are ours and not others. If humankind is a bundle of perceptions, what is it that binds together a particular set of perceptions as a bundle or person? What about more complicated mental events: beliefs, desires and intentions – all of them pres ...
M METHO ODOL LOGY
... everything that happened in the past, but what could be said about the past. There is a basic dilemma between whether history is a study of human affairs in the past or that of the natural events. By discovering manuscripts or by recovering the details of any significant happening, a historian may c ...
... everything that happened in the past, but what could be said about the past. There is a basic dilemma between whether history is a study of human affairs in the past or that of the natural events. By discovering manuscripts or by recovering the details of any significant happening, a historian may c ...