Why is there Philosophy of Mathematics at all?
... mathematics. Hacking points out that well before any distinction was made between them, there was ‘mixed’ mathematics, even by that name, in Francis Bacon’s work. It meant simply that one can apply Euclidean geometry to ballistics or mechanics, for example, by adjoining an empirical component. The s ...
... mathematics. Hacking points out that well before any distinction was made between them, there was ‘mixed’ mathematics, even by that name, in Francis Bacon’s work. It meant simply that one can apply Euclidean geometry to ballistics or mechanics, for example, by adjoining an empirical component. The s ...
Philosophy without Intuitions, by Herman Cappelen. Oxford: Oxford
... it seems almost impossible to provide an interesting and adequate metaphilosophical outlook. Unless one characterizes at a rather abstract level what all these different approaches in those different areas have in common (which is likely to result in something pretty uninteresting), one will end up ...
... it seems almost impossible to provide an interesting and adequate metaphilosophical outlook. Unless one characterizes at a rather abstract level what all these different approaches in those different areas have in common (which is likely to result in something pretty uninteresting), one will end up ...
Descartes vision of Philosophy Methodic Doubt and the Cogito
... • About method: what is the best/appropriate way to acquire knowledge and learn the truth? Is it by group efforts, based on shared beliefs and common-knowledge, and relying on agreement and universal acceptance? [Socratic Dialectic] Or is it by individual efforts that shun the views of others and bo ...
... • About method: what is the best/appropriate way to acquire knowledge and learn the truth? Is it by group efforts, based on shared beliefs and common-knowledge, and relying on agreement and universal acceptance? [Socratic Dialectic] Or is it by individual efforts that shun the views of others and bo ...
MORAL PHILOSOPHY (Philo 12) - Law, Politics, and Philosophy
... observational, and experiential data in coming up with generalized conclusions. The latter (speculative/deductive), on the other, starts with general ideas and applies them to specific circumstances. The empirical and the speculative modes of thinking are henceforth differentiated in their way of co ...
... observational, and experiential data in coming up with generalized conclusions. The latter (speculative/deductive), on the other, starts with general ideas and applies them to specific circumstances. The empirical and the speculative modes of thinking are henceforth differentiated in their way of co ...
Sophie`s World
... A Greek philosopher who lived more than two thousand years ago believed that philosophy had its origin in man’s sense of wonder. Man thought it was so astonishing to be alive that philosophical questions arose of their own accord. It is like watching a magic trick. We cannot understand how it is don ...
... A Greek philosopher who lived more than two thousand years ago believed that philosophy had its origin in man’s sense of wonder. Man thought it was so astonishing to be alive that philosophical questions arose of their own accord. It is like watching a magic trick. We cannot understand how it is don ...
Change for the Better: Conceptual Engineering and the Task of
... observes, is an understanding of “what would happen for better or worse if changes were made”. The implication is that if we arrive at the conviction that those structures “need dismantling and starting afresh” then the job of the philosopher is not restricted to the investigative phase. If—as Marx ...
... observes, is an understanding of “what would happen for better or worse if changes were made”. The implication is that if we arrive at the conviction that those structures “need dismantling and starting afresh” then the job of the philosopher is not restricted to the investigative phase. If—as Marx ...
On philosophical method and Eastern Philosophy as a pdf file
... philosophy. It is customary to divide Western philosophy into three basic areas of study, and this fits as well in the Eastern sphere of philosophy as in the West. First we find an area known as Epistemology. The term comes from two Greek words, episteme or knowledge and logos or word, theory or acc ...
... philosophy. It is customary to divide Western philosophy into three basic areas of study, and this fits as well in the Eastern sphere of philosophy as in the West. First we find an area known as Epistemology. The term comes from two Greek words, episteme or knowledge and logos or word, theory or acc ...
The Death of Philosophy: Reference and Self
... reluctantly, the early Wittgenstein, before he was replaced by a pod-person called the Later Wittgenstein (...Good times!). After logical positivism self-destructed (by self-referentially showing that it itself was meaningless – our first glimpse of Thomas-Fogiel’s main theme) – we had Quine (episte ...
... reluctantly, the early Wittgenstein, before he was replaced by a pod-person called the Later Wittgenstein (...Good times!). After logical positivism self-destructed (by self-referentially showing that it itself was meaningless – our first glimpse of Thomas-Fogiel’s main theme) – we had Quine (episte ...
Philosophy Years 5 - The da Vinci Decathlon
... Middle ground - Claiming that a compromise or middle point between two arguments is the truth False Cause -Presuming that a real or perceived relationship between things means that one is the cause of the other. Appeal to nature - Making the argument that because something is 'natural' it is therefo ...
... Middle ground - Claiming that a compromise or middle point between two arguments is the truth False Cause -Presuming that a real or perceived relationship between things means that one is the cause of the other. Appeal to nature - Making the argument that because something is 'natural' it is therefo ...
101 Basic Issues in Philosophy [OC-H] This course is an introduction
... social and physical sciences. This course is an in-depth study of philosophical issues surrounding these various modes of inquiry. We will draw upon philosophically relevant data arising in fields as diverse as cognitive, experimental, and clinical psychology, literature, psychiatric medicine, neuro ...
... social and physical sciences. This course is an in-depth study of philosophical issues surrounding these various modes of inquiry. We will draw upon philosophically relevant data arising in fields as diverse as cognitive, experimental, and clinical psychology, literature, psychiatric medicine, neuro ...
An introduction to philosophy
... Is this what Socrates really taught? (Probably not) Is “Socrates” necessarily Plato’s mouthpiece? Do these passages use the Socratic method? How valid is it to join all these ideas together into a ...
... Is this what Socrates really taught? (Probably not) Is “Socrates” necessarily Plato’s mouthpiece? Do these passages use the Socratic method? How valid is it to join all these ideas together into a ...
Asian Philosophy (CH. 1 of AP)
... about these questions, but almost all of us worry about them some of the time. ...
... about these questions, but almost all of us worry about them some of the time. ...
Early Greek Philosophy
... attention to what he thought was the essential feature of reality, namely, that it is ceaselessly changing. He is known for the epigramic sayings "You can't step in the same river twice" and "Everything changes but change itself." There is no reality, he maintained, save the reality of change; perma ...
... attention to what he thought was the essential feature of reality, namely, that it is ceaselessly changing. He is known for the epigramic sayings "You can't step in the same river twice" and "Everything changes but change itself." There is no reality, he maintained, save the reality of change; perma ...
Yvonne Förster - InterCultural Philosophy
... Neurosociology, Neurotheology and many more. Here a new culture of science arises, that is a hybrid of empirical sciences and humanities or social sciences. One could easily say that this is a form of scientific interculturality. It is a question indeed how we should define interculturality. Somethi ...
... Neurosociology, Neurotheology and many more. Here a new culture of science arises, that is a hybrid of empirical sciences and humanities or social sciences. One could easily say that this is a form of scientific interculturality. It is a question indeed how we should define interculturality. Somethi ...
Book Review - Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy
... through an ontological interrogation of appearance and reality. James writes: “They can all be said to rethink the status of the ‘real’, of worldly appearance, or to re-engage in new and highly original ways with the question of ontology” (4). James defines these thinkers’ path not only through thei ...
... through an ontological interrogation of appearance and reality. James writes: “They can all be said to rethink the status of the ‘real’, of worldly appearance, or to re-engage in new and highly original ways with the question of ontology” (4). James defines these thinkers’ path not only through thei ...
transcendentalism
... Do you see the moods of nature? What is the role of nature in your life? What is meant by an individual’s spiritual side? How would you define it? Is there a connection between the individual’s spirit and nature? • What is the connection? • What does it mean to know something intuitively? ...
... Do you see the moods of nature? What is the role of nature in your life? What is meant by an individual’s spiritual side? How would you define it? Is there a connection between the individual’s spirit and nature? • What is the connection? • What does it mean to know something intuitively? ...
The Philosophy of Physics - Trin
... issues; and had a very graceful prose style. The same merits|scienti c and historical scholarship, good philosophical judgment, and stylistic grace|were equally in evidence in Creative Understanding; in which Torretti focussed on speci cally philosophical topics about how physical theories in genera ...
... issues; and had a very graceful prose style. The same merits|scienti c and historical scholarship, good philosophical judgment, and stylistic grace|were equally in evidence in Creative Understanding; in which Torretti focussed on speci cally philosophical topics about how physical theories in genera ...
2. Scientific Renaissance in the sixteenth century: Renewing ancient
... history of ideas by reference to the social and political context in which those ideas were promoted. Three stereotypes about Science: 1. Science proceeds by genius who makes unexpected discoveries. 2. Scientists are autonomous agents working outside social-cultural context 3. Science is itself is v ...
... history of ideas by reference to the social and political context in which those ideas were promoted. Three stereotypes about Science: 1. Science proceeds by genius who makes unexpected discoveries. 2. Scientists are autonomous agents working outside social-cultural context 3. Science is itself is v ...
Building Peace by Unlearning the Habit of “Us and Them”: Would it
... Rethinking Reason and Ethical Action in Western Philosophy of Education Daniel Vokey University of British Columbia Canadian Society for the Study of Education Annual Conference, Ottawa, May 23-26, 2009 ...
... Rethinking Reason and Ethical Action in Western Philosophy of Education Daniel Vokey University of British Columbia Canadian Society for the Study of Education Annual Conference, Ottawa, May 23-26, 2009 ...
Review of Philosophers of Nothingness: An Essay on the Kyoto School
... Press, 1982),2 an explication of the concept sunyata or emptiness, is a bold critique of traditional religion, both Eastern and Western, as well as philosophy. Although Nishitani considered himself a Buddhist, he stopped short of identifying himself as belonging to a particular Buddhist tradition. A ...
... Press, 1982),2 an explication of the concept sunyata or emptiness, is a bold critique of traditional religion, both Eastern and Western, as well as philosophy. Although Nishitani considered himself a Buddhist, he stopped short of identifying himself as belonging to a particular Buddhist tradition. A ...
What`s in a word: philosophy, theology and thinking?
... As an informal educator and one who has been practically involved in helping young people to think about what they ought to be doing with their lives, what is worth living for, and the need for public action, I found much in the book with which I can agree. The book is in three parts, the first two ...
... As an informal educator and one who has been practically involved in helping young people to think about what they ought to be doing with their lives, what is worth living for, and the need for public action, I found much in the book with which I can agree. The book is in three parts, the first two ...
What Does it Mean to Practise Philosophy?
... is a Practical Philosophy. In some respects it is - it seems eminently practical and singularly philosophical - but, as far as individuals discovering something practical which is philosophical or by philosophical means for themselves, it is not. It may be that this is just ‘practising philosophy’. ...
... is a Practical Philosophy. In some respects it is - it seems eminently practical and singularly philosophical - but, as far as individuals discovering something practical which is philosophical or by philosophical means for themselves, it is not. It may be that this is just ‘practising philosophy’. ...
Pursuing Wisdom
... Russell, writes, “Pythagoras was intellectually one of the most important men that ever lived... Mathematics, in the sense of demonstrative deductive argument, begins with him, and in him is intimately connected with a peculiar form of mysticism. The influence of mathematics on philosophy, partly ...
... Russell, writes, “Pythagoras was intellectually one of the most important men that ever lived... Mathematics, in the sense of demonstrative deductive argument, begins with him, and in him is intimately connected with a peculiar form of mysticism. The influence of mathematics on philosophy, partly ...
What is Philosophy, Anyway?
... biology, nursing, economics, or psychology. These students may assume that philosophy is like science, and get frustrated when they are given no standard textbook in philosophy that clearly lists out important facts and formulas to memorize as well as exercises with clear cut problems and SophiaOmni ...
... biology, nursing, economics, or psychology. These students may assume that philosophy is like science, and get frustrated when they are given no standard textbook in philosophy that clearly lists out important facts and formulas to memorize as well as exercises with clear cut problems and SophiaOmni ...
Pre Socratics and The School of Athens PowerPoint
... determining which are depicted is difficult, since Raphael made no designations outside possible likenesses, and no contemporary documents explain the painting. ...
... determining which are depicted is difficult, since Raphael made no designations outside possible likenesses, and no contemporary documents explain the painting. ...