Virtue, Knowledge, and Goodness
... This thesis consists of three parts. Part one responds to an argument by Jason Baehr that virtues of intellectual character which make their possessor good qua person can also figure as virtues in reliabilist accounts of knowledge. I analyze his argument with special attention to the cases he uses t ...
... This thesis consists of three parts. Part one responds to an argument by Jason Baehr that virtues of intellectual character which make their possessor good qua person can also figure as virtues in reliabilist accounts of knowledge. I analyze his argument with special attention to the cases he uses t ...
xxvii conferenza italiana di scienze regionali
... The definition of the nature of knowledge is the main concern of the branch of philosophy which is named epistemology. What is important in the context of this paper, in particular, is a reflection on the types of knowledge with regard to its transferability, as it has been developed, mainly, in kno ...
... The definition of the nature of knowledge is the main concern of the branch of philosophy which is named epistemology. What is important in the context of this paper, in particular, is a reflection on the types of knowledge with regard to its transferability, as it has been developed, mainly, in kno ...
Psychology 100.18
... – Algorithms and Heuristics >The representiveness heuristic E.g., Flip a coin 6 times, which is more likely HHHHHH or HHTHTT Which lottery ticket is most likely to win the next 6-49? 04-11-19-29-33-39 or 01-02-03-04-05-06 The representativeness heuristic - samples are like the populations that ...
... – Algorithms and Heuristics >The representiveness heuristic E.g., Flip a coin 6 times, which is more likely HHHHHH or HHTHTT Which lottery ticket is most likely to win the next 6-49? 04-11-19-29-33-39 or 01-02-03-04-05-06 The representativeness heuristic - samples are like the populations that ...
- International Migration Institute
... Critical realism is an increasingly influential approach in the social sciences and although its initial impact has been restricted to theoretical debates, more interest is now being shown in the empirical application of critical realism. One rival perspective to critical realism in the social scien ...
... Critical realism is an increasingly influential approach in the social sciences and although its initial impact has been restricted to theoretical debates, more interest is now being shown in the empirical application of critical realism. One rival perspective to critical realism in the social scien ...
The Emergence of Self-Awareness
... what kind of external forces impinge on the careenium’s external walls. Thus the behaviour of simmballs inside the careenium comes to reflect conditions outside it. Our minds, says Hofstadter, work in just this way. Inside the cranium (careenium) are millions of nervous cells whose behaviour is more ...
... what kind of external forces impinge on the careenium’s external walls. Thus the behaviour of simmballs inside the careenium comes to reflect conditions outside it. Our minds, says Hofstadter, work in just this way. Inside the cranium (careenium) are millions of nervous cells whose behaviour is more ...
ume and the Modern View of Human Nature
... We can begin to see this when we consider Hume’s account of virtue. In a discussion of a paired set of virtue and vice (humility and pride), Hume makes clear that regardless of the source of the disposition (in “natural and original principles” or “from interest and education” (133), it is evide ...
... We can begin to see this when we consider Hume’s account of virtue. In a discussion of a paired set of virtue and vice (humility and pride), Hume makes clear that regardless of the source of the disposition (in “natural and original principles” or “from interest and education” (133), it is evide ...
Supplemental Notes on Aristotle Philosophy 2
... 3. Agent perceives that some particular means can be done here and now. 4. Agent chooses this means that presents itself to him as practicable here and now 5. Agent does the act. If virtuous activity is always voluntary and virtue and vice are in our power, then it must follow that Socrates’ doctrin ...
... 3. Agent perceives that some particular means can be done here and now. 4. Agent chooses this means that presents itself to him as practicable here and now 5. Agent does the act. If virtuous activity is always voluntary and virtue and vice are in our power, then it must follow that Socrates’ doctrin ...
sophisms and insolubles
... The dominant original use of sophisms was educational, and so collections of sophisms started to circulate as teaching aids that were not tied to any particular theoretical approach or school. Possibly the earliest surviving collection is a manuscript written by several hands from the twelfth centur ...
... The dominant original use of sophisms was educational, and so collections of sophisms started to circulate as teaching aids that were not tied to any particular theoretical approach or school. Possibly the earliest surviving collection is a manuscript written by several hands from the twelfth centur ...
The Issue of Correspondence between Scientific Law and Ultimate
... Theaetetus’ aporia as gap between phenomenal knowledge and higher knowing In the Theaetetus, Socrates and his bright young interlocutor seek to understand what constitutes knowledge. In trying to get at the essence of knowledge, they formulate various definitions, introducing multiple metaphors to p ...
... Theaetetus’ aporia as gap between phenomenal knowledge and higher knowing In the Theaetetus, Socrates and his bright young interlocutor seek to understand what constitutes knowledge. In trying to get at the essence of knowledge, they formulate various definitions, introducing multiple metaphors to p ...
Grendel BY John gardner
... “Importance is primarily monistic in its reference to the universe. Importance, limited to a finite individual occasion, ceases to be important...But expression is founded on the finite occasion.” In Chapter 5, the dragon’s ideas exalt the individual and present moment over caring for others or the ...
... “Importance is primarily monistic in its reference to the universe. Importance, limited to a finite individual occasion, ceases to be important...But expression is founded on the finite occasion.” In Chapter 5, the dragon’s ideas exalt the individual and present moment over caring for others or the ...
Forbidden Knowledge: Public Controversy and the Production of
... On rare occasion, scientists may also act to suppress knowledge production through such means as the 1975 Asilomar moratorium on recombinant DNA (Holton and Morrison, 1979). Some scientists have also come to see free flows of information—a vital part of any normative view of science—as dangerous in a ...
... On rare occasion, scientists may also act to suppress knowledge production through such means as the 1975 Asilomar moratorium on recombinant DNA (Holton and Morrison, 1979). Some scientists have also come to see free flows of information—a vital part of any normative view of science—as dangerous in a ...
Simplicity - Heythrop College Publications
... attempt to deny this unhappy feature of human encounters would have been perceived as an unenlightened form of self-deception. Cusa would have agreed with the Romantics that our comparative rationality is bound to fail whenever it tries to relate to the principle of unity that holds everything toge ...
... attempt to deny this unhappy feature of human encounters would have been perceived as an unenlightened form of self-deception. Cusa would have agreed with the Romantics that our comparative rationality is bound to fail whenever it tries to relate to the principle of unity that holds everything toge ...
Paper titles and abstracts Dan Arnold: "Perception and the
... difference: instead of assuming essential and intrinsic properties that things really share, this commonness is stated to be always reducible to the more fundamental notion of exclusion (apoha): two things are the same only insofar as they are excluded from a third set of things. Whilst the ontologi ...
... difference: instead of assuming essential and intrinsic properties that things really share, this commonness is stated to be always reducible to the more fundamental notion of exclusion (apoha): two things are the same only insofar as they are excluded from a third set of things. Whilst the ontologi ...
Thesis Abstract
... validating certain philosophical theses. Their rhetorical force consists of transferring the burden of proof from the original arguer to the reader or contender. Such “appeals” may have positive or negative form. In some cases, the reader is invited to verify for himself a certain philosophical clai ...
... validating certain philosophical theses. Their rhetorical force consists of transferring the burden of proof from the original arguer to the reader or contender. Such “appeals” may have positive or negative form. In some cases, the reader is invited to verify for himself a certain philosophical clai ...
Chapter 8 - Barbara Gail Montero
... consciousness arises out of entirely physical processes in the brain? Some philosophers—the Cartesian dualists from Chapter 2—say that we know the solution to the mind-body problem: the mind, including consciousness, causally affects physical features of the world, but is not itself a physical featu ...
... consciousness arises out of entirely physical processes in the brain? Some philosophers—the Cartesian dualists from Chapter 2—say that we know the solution to the mind-body problem: the mind, including consciousness, causally affects physical features of the world, but is not itself a physical featu ...
Here
... science tells us that there is a significant gap between the physical nature of the world and how our consciousness perceives it: our sense of sight, for example, which informs us about our environment more than any other sense, presents to us an illuminated and colorful world. But light is nothing ...
... science tells us that there is a significant gap between the physical nature of the world and how our consciousness perceives it: our sense of sight, for example, which informs us about our environment more than any other sense, presents to us an illuminated and colorful world. But light is nothing ...
INTRODUCTION
... New Guinea, Cuba, or Kenya. Even so, not all explicit knowledge is constituted in the same way, with the same purposes in mind, and within the same sets of binding parameters. It is an ethnographic task to inquire into the different nature of the different forms and modes of constituting knowledge ( ...
... New Guinea, Cuba, or Kenya. Even so, not all explicit knowledge is constituted in the same way, with the same purposes in mind, and within the same sets of binding parameters. It is an ethnographic task to inquire into the different nature of the different forms and modes of constituting knowledge ( ...
Review: The Bhagavad Gita: A New Translation
... who is a professor of “Hindu” Studies at Britain’s Oxford University, spares us the fetters of Orientalism, the bane of Cambridge School scholarship on South Asian history. This translation, which he calls “New,” is really not that new. There are innumerable translations of this well-known Brahmanic ...
... who is a professor of “Hindu” Studies at Britain’s Oxford University, spares us the fetters of Orientalism, the bane of Cambridge School scholarship on South Asian history. This translation, which he calls “New,” is really not that new. There are innumerable translations of this well-known Brahmanic ...
Purva Mimamsa and Vedanta
... we mean by a proof is a sequence of logical implications beginning with axioms that have been assumed without question. Explanation only means this. We relate it to what has been known before or what has been deduced before. We associate it with past impressions. When it comes to existential questio ...
... we mean by a proof is a sequence of logical implications beginning with axioms that have been assumed without question. Explanation only means this. We relate it to what has been known before or what has been deduced before. We associate it with past impressions. When it comes to existential questio ...
What Is It Like to Be a Bat?
... as a bat behaves. But that is not the question. I want to know what it is like for a bat to be a bat. Yet if I tryto imagine this,I am restrictedto the resources of my own mind, and those resources are inadequate to the task. I cannot performit either by imagining additions to my present experience, ...
... as a bat behaves. But that is not the question. I want to know what it is like for a bat to be a bat. Yet if I tryto imagine this,I am restrictedto the resources of my own mind, and those resources are inadequate to the task. I cannot performit either by imagining additions to my present experience, ...
Hinduism
... If you recall our discussion of the Hedonic Calculus, and ‘orgasmatron’ thought-experiment, Hinduism not only has considered such a life, but, according to Smith, claims we all will experience such life “in due course.” Smith, p14 The “worlds above this one, where pleasures increase by powers of a m ...
... If you recall our discussion of the Hedonic Calculus, and ‘orgasmatron’ thought-experiment, Hinduism not only has considered such a life, but, according to Smith, claims we all will experience such life “in due course.” Smith, p14 The “worlds above this one, where pleasures increase by powers of a m ...
Hinduism
... to ask, Who knows it? Because the Self being sought is the ultimate knowing subject, the “Who” that is known cannot be the ultimate subject because it has become an “it,” an object of knowledge. ...
... to ask, Who knows it? Because the Self being sought is the ultimate knowing subject, the “Who” that is known cannot be the ultimate subject because it has become an “it,” an object of knowledge. ...
N 31
... observing two closely related events - because it is her own child, whom she knows more about and has watched more carefully and consistently than a doctor ever could - even though she may not know why, that is, the nature of any connection between them.9 This brings us to the third point: for both ...
... observing two closely related events - because it is her own child, whom she knows more about and has watched more carefully and consistently than a doctor ever could - even though she may not know why, that is, the nature of any connection between them.9 This brings us to the third point: for both ...
Apr 7
... Buddhist text), we find the Buddha teaching the transitory nature of worldly pursuits in contrast with the time-transcending value of Nirvana. “Universal momentariness” seems gradually to have assumed the status of a core Buddhist belief. Within Dharmakirti's broad argument for momentariness, there ...
... Buddhist text), we find the Buddha teaching the transitory nature of worldly pursuits in contrast with the time-transcending value of Nirvana. “Universal momentariness” seems gradually to have assumed the status of a core Buddhist belief. Within Dharmakirti's broad argument for momentariness, there ...
View PDF - Andrew.cmu.edu
... Having shifted the focus in this way, Giaquinto adopts a broader epistemological stand whereby a true belief is considered knowledge if it is obtained as a result of a reliable epistemic process.6 This is the sort of justification one wants if knowledge is to be understood as a basis for rational a ...
... Having shifted the focus in this way, Giaquinto adopts a broader epistemological stand whereby a true belief is considered knowledge if it is obtained as a result of a reliable epistemic process.6 This is the sort of justification one wants if knowledge is to be understood as a basis for rational a ...
Plato's Problem
Plato's Problem is the term given by Noam Chomsky to the gap between knowledge and experience. It presents the question of how we account for our knowledge when environmental conditions seem to be an insufficient source of information. It is used in linguistics to refer to the ""argument from poverty of the stimulus"" (APS). In a more general sense, Plato's Problem refers to the problem of explaining a ""lack of input"". Solving Plato's Problem involves explaining the gap between what one knows and the apparent lack of substantive input from experience (the environment). Plato's Problem is most clearly illustrated in the Meno dialogue, in which Socrates demonstrates that an uneducated boy nevertheless understands geometric principles.