PLATO: THE SEVENTH LETTER_4
... question and answer without jealousy, at last in a flash understanding of each blazes up, and the mind, as it exerts all its powers to the limit of human capacity, is flooded with light. For this reason no serious man will ever think of writing about serious realities for the general public so as to ...
... question and answer without jealousy, at last in a flash understanding of each blazes up, and the mind, as it exerts all its powers to the limit of human capacity, is flooded with light. For this reason no serious man will ever think of writing about serious realities for the general public so as to ...
Epistemic Reasons II: Basing
... Dancy (2000)'s central argument for non-mentalism begins with a desideratum on any account of φ-ing for reasons: it must be compatible with the fact that we can φ for normative reasons. Dancy argues that mentalists cannot accommodate this desideratum, because normative reasons are, he maintains, typ ...
... Dancy (2000)'s central argument for non-mentalism begins with a desideratum on any account of φ-ing for reasons: it must be compatible with the fact that we can φ for normative reasons. Dancy argues that mentalists cannot accommodate this desideratum, because normative reasons are, he maintains, typ ...
Kafka and Brentano - Buffalo Ontology Site
... By ‘descriptive psychology’ Marty understood the psychology of his teacher Brentano as this is set forth first of all in his Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint and now in Brentano’s lecture notes published under the title Deskriptive Psychologie.18 Brentano begins by advancing a fundamental dis ...
... By ‘descriptive psychology’ Marty understood the psychology of his teacher Brentano as this is set forth first of all in his Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint and now in Brentano’s lecture notes published under the title Deskriptive Psychologie.18 Brentano begins by advancing a fundamental dis ...
Is Mathematics Problem Solving or Theorem Proving? Carlo Cellucci
... conflicting reasonings, the difficulty being whether something is so-and-so or not, there being convincing arguments for both views” (Aristotle, Topica, I, 11, 104 b 12-14). In “regard to them we have no conclusive argument because they are so vast, and we find it difficult to give our reasons” (ibi ...
... conflicting reasonings, the difficulty being whether something is so-and-so or not, there being convincing arguments for both views” (Aristotle, Topica, I, 11, 104 b 12-14). In “regard to them we have no conclusive argument because they are so vast, and we find it difficult to give our reasons” (ibi ...
I, Sim - Simulation Argument
... with ‘Sim’. A Sim is a simulated person living in a simulated world, as in the popular computer game The Sims by renowned game designer Will Wright. I.e. if I believe that the simulation argument is sound and give a high credence to SIM, then I will believe that there is a good chance that I might a ...
... with ‘Sim’. A Sim is a simulated person living in a simulated world, as in the popular computer game The Sims by renowned game designer Will Wright. I.e. if I believe that the simulation argument is sound and give a high credence to SIM, then I will believe that there is a good chance that I might a ...
Was Pyrrho the Founder of Skepticism?
... metaphysical reading, according to which Pyrrho claimed that things in themselves were indeterminate (a kind of dogmatic claim alien to later Pyrrhonism). After a long list of different attempts at interpreting the canonical text of Aristocles, Svavarsson's proposal seems very convincing: Pyrrho doe ...
... metaphysical reading, according to which Pyrrho claimed that things in themselves were indeterminate (a kind of dogmatic claim alien to later Pyrrhonism). After a long list of different attempts at interpreting the canonical text of Aristocles, Svavarsson's proposal seems very convincing: Pyrrho doe ...
Sound Not Light: Levinas and the Elements of Thought
... comes to be cast in a particularly striking way. For Levinas’ philosophy, as we shall see, works to move beyond what can be called a tradition of understanding thinking through the medium of light. What Levinas moves towards, by contrast, is a conception of thinking understood through the medium of ...
... comes to be cast in a particularly striking way. For Levinas’ philosophy, as we shall see, works to move beyond what can be called a tradition of understanding thinking through the medium of light. What Levinas moves towards, by contrast, is a conception of thinking understood through the medium of ...
247E-253A, pp. 269-75 - San Jose State University
... “And the people of old, superior to us and living in closer proximity to the gods, have bequeathed us this tale, that whatever is said to be consists of one and many, having in its nature limit and unlimitedness. Since this is the structure of things, we have to assume that there is in each case alw ...
... “And the people of old, superior to us and living in closer proximity to the gods, have bequeathed us this tale, that whatever is said to be consists of one and many, having in its nature limit and unlimitedness. Since this is the structure of things, we have to assume that there is in each case alw ...
Entitlement, Justification, and the Bootstrapping
... go well beyond the scope of this paper. Instead, I wish to pursue an alternative view that purports to avoid this shortcoming. Turning back to the view we now considering, the suggestion would be that for any given belief B*, one has justification for B* only if one has other beliefs whose contents ...
... go well beyond the scope of this paper. Instead, I wish to pursue an alternative view that purports to avoid this shortcoming. Turning back to the view we now considering, the suggestion would be that for any given belief B*, one has justification for B* only if one has other beliefs whose contents ...
Sophism and Moral Agnosticism, or, How to Tell a Relativist from a
... implied in the very questions which form the title of MacIntyre’s text (Whose Justice, Which Rationality?) as well as its key contentions. Now, the most constructive aspect of MacIntyre’s argument has shown that within a given tradition, there can be internal debate. If at some point the tradition ...
... implied in the very questions which form the title of MacIntyre’s text (Whose Justice, Which Rationality?) as well as its key contentions. Now, the most constructive aspect of MacIntyre’s argument has shown that within a given tradition, there can be internal debate. If at some point the tradition ...
Sophism and Moral Agnosticism, or How to Tell A Relativist from A
... committed to the standards of rational justification integral to the very practice of philosophical inquiry. 4 I will propose that this same understanding and commitment were displayed by Socrates, in his stand against the popular sophistical relativism of his own time. I maintain there is a distinc ...
... committed to the standards of rational justification integral to the very practice of philosophical inquiry. 4 I will propose that this same understanding and commitment were displayed by Socrates, in his stand against the popular sophistical relativism of his own time. I maintain there is a distinc ...
Nietzsche Against the Philosophical Canon
... undermine the dominant morality, which he takes to be incompatible with the realization of various kinds of human excellence Nietzsche makes these same general points throughout his career, in The Birth of Tragedy (e.g. 17-18), in the Untimely Meditations (III:6), in Beyond Good and Evil (e.g. 204-2 ...
... undermine the dominant morality, which he takes to be incompatible with the realization of various kinds of human excellence Nietzsche makes these same general points throughout his career, in The Birth of Tragedy (e.g. 17-18), in the Untimely Meditations (III:6), in Beyond Good and Evil (e.g. 204-2 ...
A Beginner`s Guide to Descartes`s Meditations
... 2 however, as a religious believer, he was knowledge by solely rational means; also keen to find arguments in support of religious doctrine and thereby con 3 This combination of scientific zeal and reli vince non-believers of its truth. gious faith is perhaps difficult for the majority of modern peo ...
... 2 however, as a religious believer, he was knowledge by solely rational means; also keen to find arguments in support of religious doctrine and thereby con 3 This combination of scientific zeal and reli vince non-believers of its truth. gious faith is perhaps difficult for the majority of modern peo ...
The Importance of Being Earnest: Scepticism and the Limits of
... difficult skill consists precisely in being sufficiently critical without being utterly blinded by criticism. In philosophers such as Descartes, Berkeley or Hegel the dialectical tension, and the conceptual resources demanded to resolve it, are in the foreground and hence we can appreciate them almo ...
... difficult skill consists precisely in being sufficiently critical without being utterly blinded by criticism. In philosophers such as Descartes, Berkeley or Hegel the dialectical tension, and the conceptual resources demanded to resolve it, are in the foreground and hence we can appreciate them almo ...
Science and Spirituality - Spiritual Heritage Education Network Inc.
... cessfully practiced without a proper understanding of its underlying philosophy, particularly outside of India because of the absence of the weight of its tradition and the scarcity of knowledgeable people who can serve as guides. However, pursuing the analysis based on our new experience, we sudde ...
... cessfully practiced without a proper understanding of its underlying philosophy, particularly outside of India because of the absence of the weight of its tradition and the scarcity of knowledgeable people who can serve as guides. However, pursuing the analysis based on our new experience, we sudde ...
Sensus communis Clarifications of a Kantian Concept on the Way to
... time universal. This subjective universality, as it cannot be based on an objective principle, is rooted in 'a subjective principle, which determines only by feeling rather than concepts, though nonetheless with universal validity, what is liked or disliked'1. And this principle is called by Kant se ...
... time universal. This subjective universality, as it cannot be based on an objective principle, is rooted in 'a subjective principle, which determines only by feeling rather than concepts, though nonetheless with universal validity, what is liked or disliked'1. And this principle is called by Kant se ...
the cosmology of archelaus of athens
... Social Contract Theory’, Charles Kahn also examined the question when or by whom KL got appended to cosmogony for the first time. He admits that as far as the doxographical evidence goes, Archelaus is clearly the first on record. Kahn, however, firmly denies Archelaus’ originality, and claims, in a ...
... Social Contract Theory’, Charles Kahn also examined the question when or by whom KL got appended to cosmogony for the first time. He admits that as far as the doxographical evidence goes, Archelaus is clearly the first on record. Kahn, however, firmly denies Archelaus’ originality, and claims, in a ...
aiming at virtue in plato
... SV does not by itself rule in or out any non-evaluatively described actiontype, and it says nothing about how to determine what the virtuous action actually is, which is precisely Cleitophon’s complaint. I thus distinguish between establishing the supreme aim of an agent’s action (which is the funct ...
... SV does not by itself rule in or out any non-evaluatively described actiontype, and it says nothing about how to determine what the virtuous action actually is, which is precisely Cleitophon’s complaint. I thus distinguish between establishing the supreme aim of an agent’s action (which is the funct ...
Radical Enactivism, Wittgenstein and the cognitive gap
... argument given in this paper is predicated on one accepting the account of human mentality given by REC and the sorts of claims found in later Wittgenstein’s philosophical writings and interpretations of those writings. Consequently, my argument does not exclude other ways to approach the gap questi ...
... argument given in this paper is predicated on one accepting the account of human mentality given by REC and the sorts of claims found in later Wittgenstein’s philosophical writings and interpretations of those writings. Consequently, my argument does not exclude other ways to approach the gap questi ...
Ineffable, Tacit, Explicable and Explicit
... between tacit and explicit has to be preserved, though it doesn’t show us exactly where the distinction lies or how it works” (TEK, 6). Collins does an excellent job helping us to see where an important distinction lies, but Polanyi is still better about showing how it works. There would appear to b ...
... between tacit and explicit has to be preserved, though it doesn’t show us exactly where the distinction lies or how it works” (TEK, 6). Collins does an excellent job helping us to see where an important distinction lies, but Polanyi is still better about showing how it works. There would appear to b ...
Campbell 1 Cody Campbell Aphorism, Genealogy, Metaphor
... to social and economic disparity can be approached, in other words, an individual needs to understand his own relation to both social and historical forces; we need to rethink our relationship with the external world. In Estrangements, Bloch re-conceptualizes Hegel’s notion of the objective and subj ...
... to social and economic disparity can be approached, in other words, an individual needs to understand his own relation to both social and historical forces; we need to rethink our relationship with the external world. In Estrangements, Bloch re-conceptualizes Hegel’s notion of the objective and subj ...
Arthur`s Bentley obstinate philosophy
... would not spare my best friend if his slaughter seemed important for what I was trying to do» (cited in Ryan 1997: 780-781). Arthur Fisher Bentley, philosopher, political and social scientist, whom John Dewey considered as «one of the most genial men I’ve ever known» (cited ibid. 780), was born in 1 ...
... would not spare my best friend if his slaughter seemed important for what I was trying to do» (cited in Ryan 1997: 780-781). Arthur Fisher Bentley, philosopher, political and social scientist, whom John Dewey considered as «one of the most genial men I’ve ever known» (cited ibid. 780), was born in 1 ...
The Language of Science and the Science of Language: Chomsky
... Almost from its inception, among the most notable features of Noam Chomsky’s “revolution in linguistics” has been his insistence that linguistics, or language itself, or at least the most interesting and important aspects of linguistics, must be understood as parts of natural science.1 Its status a ...
... Almost from its inception, among the most notable features of Noam Chomsky’s “revolution in linguistics” has been his insistence that linguistics, or language itself, or at least the most interesting and important aspects of linguistics, must be understood as parts of natural science.1 Its status a ...
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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 ...
Creative Reasoning
... reasons a belief is based on, most notably perceptual experience, which we share with our cousins throughout the animal world. But for some important epistemic statuses, infinitists think, stopping points exude an air of arbitrariness or indignity. We seem to aspire to something nobler, and sometimes ...
... reasons a belief is based on, most notably perceptual experience, which we share with our cousins throughout the animal world. But for some important epistemic statuses, infinitists think, stopping points exude an air of arbitrariness or indignity. We seem to aspire to something nobler, and sometimes ...
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.