The Emergence of Conventionalism - Philsci
... and the philosophy of mathematics. Not only proponents of conventionalism, such as the logical positivists, were influenced by Poincaré, but also outspoken critics of conventionalism, such as Quine and Putnam, were inspired by his daring position. Indeed, during the twentieth century, most philosoph ...
... and the philosophy of mathematics. Not only proponents of conventionalism, such as the logical positivists, were influenced by Poincaré, but also outspoken critics of conventionalism, such as Quine and Putnam, were inspired by his daring position. Indeed, during the twentieth century, most philosoph ...
Performance Philosophy: Figures of Doing
... For those of you to whom this term may be unfamiliar, Performance Philosophy is an emerging field of interdisciplinary research in arts practice and scholarship open to all those concerned with the relationship between performance and philosophy. The first inklings of this development began in aroun ...
... For those of you to whom this term may be unfamiliar, Performance Philosophy is an emerging field of interdisciplinary research in arts practice and scholarship open to all those concerned with the relationship between performance and philosophy. The first inklings of this development began in aroun ...
Metaphysics As Speculative Nonsense
... is relevant to their truth? This would be odd, since the core of the claim is that something was the case, not that it is now. So Ayer argues that claims about the past are claims that certain observations would have been possible or occurred under certain conditions. GETTING RID OF METAPHYSICS The ...
... is relevant to their truth? This would be odd, since the core of the claim is that something was the case, not that it is now. So Ayer argues that claims about the past are claims that certain observations would have been possible or occurred under certain conditions. GETTING RID OF METAPHYSICS The ...
1 Philosophy of New Times. Rationalism and empiricism
... knowledge, the knowledge of physics, required experience of the world, aided by the scientific method. He also argued that although dreams appear as real as sense experience, these dreams cannot provide persons with knowledge. Also, since conscious sense experience can be the cause of illusions, th ...
... knowledge, the knowledge of physics, required experience of the world, aided by the scientific method. He also argued that although dreams appear as real as sense experience, these dreams cannot provide persons with knowledge. Also, since conscious sense experience can be the cause of illusions, th ...
Philosophy without Intuitions, by Herman Cappelen. Oxford: Oxford
... Cappelen’s selection of cases is odd, if one is familiar with the literature on thought experiments, which would treat these cases as outliers (since they are ‘thought experiments’ that only seem to serve a certain heuristic function, and thus do not lead to the interesting ...
... Cappelen’s selection of cases is odd, if one is familiar with the literature on thought experiments, which would treat these cases as outliers (since they are ‘thought experiments’ that only seem to serve a certain heuristic function, and thus do not lead to the interesting ...
Editorial
... several fields: cultural, religious, individual. śūnyatā (vacuity) is from Buddhist origin. It came to China through Taoism, since the monk Sêng Chao, who was first Taoist and then Buddhist, introduced it. His interpretation of the concept nothingness or emptiness “brought a huge influence on the ri ...
... several fields: cultural, religious, individual. śūnyatā (vacuity) is from Buddhist origin. It came to China through Taoism, since the monk Sêng Chao, who was first Taoist and then Buddhist, introduced it. His interpretation of the concept nothingness or emptiness “brought a huge influence on the ri ...
Anaxagoras 500 - 428, came to Athens in 480
... Aristotle defined wisdom as knowledge of certain principles and causes (Metaph. 982 a2-3). He commenced his investigation of the wisdom of the philosophers who preceded him, with Thales, the first philosopher, and described Thales as the founder of natural philosophy (Metaph. 983 b21-22). He recorde ...
... Aristotle defined wisdom as knowledge of certain principles and causes (Metaph. 982 a2-3). He commenced his investigation of the wisdom of the philosophers who preceded him, with Thales, the first philosopher, and described Thales as the founder of natural philosophy (Metaph. 983 b21-22). He recorde ...
WHAT EVERY HINDU OUGHT TO KNOW
... Sindhu. Whenever in Sanskrit there is an S, in ancient Persian it changes into H, so that Sindhu became Hindu, and you are all aware how the Greeks found it hard to pronounce H and dropped it altogether, so that we became known as Indians." Some modern scholars, however, are of the opinion that this ...
... Sindhu. Whenever in Sanskrit there is an S, in ancient Persian it changes into H, so that Sindhu became Hindu, and you are all aware how the Greeks found it hard to pronounce H and dropped it altogether, so that we became known as Indians." Some modern scholars, however, are of the opinion that this ...
ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY—a trend in contemporary philosophy with
... methodology and content. It began in Great Britain at the beginning of the twentieth century (G. E. Moore, B. Russell) in opposition to speculative idealistic philosophy. Several variations of analytic philosophy developed primarily in countries where English is the primary language (esp. in the Uni ...
... methodology and content. It began in Great Britain at the beginning of the twentieth century (G. E. Moore, B. Russell) in opposition to speculative idealistic philosophy. Several variations of analytic philosophy developed primarily in countries where English is the primary language (esp. in the Uni ...
Dewey Experience and Philosophic Method
... wrought havoc in philosophy.” It is true that attitudes themselves independently of their objects may be the subject-matter of reflective experience: they cannot be the subjectmatter of primary experience. When they are not abstracted we get truths like that the person who hates finds the object of ...
... wrought havoc in philosophy.” It is true that attitudes themselves independently of their objects may be the subject-matter of reflective experience: they cannot be the subjectmatter of primary experience. When they are not abstracted we get truths like that the person who hates finds the object of ...
christian worldview
... there is no such thing as absolute truth, anything is true if it works for you personally. In other words, truth cannot be objectively known, but I can arrive at “my truth,” which is what works for me. A relativist is sometimes similar to a deist, believing there to be a God, but, again, not the God ...
... there is no such thing as absolute truth, anything is true if it works for you personally. In other words, truth cannot be objectively known, but I can arrive at “my truth,” which is what works for me. A relativist is sometimes similar to a deist, believing there to be a God, but, again, not the God ...
Eleven Reasons Why Philosophy is Important
... people because they are often successful at doing so. We know that there is bad science that can't be trusted. There is good reasoning and bad reasoning and it's possible to learn more about the difference between the two. Once we learn the difference, we will be able to identify deception, avoid d ...
... people because they are often successful at doing so. We know that there is bad science that can't be trusted. There is good reasoning and bad reasoning and it's possible to learn more about the difference between the two. Once we learn the difference, we will be able to identify deception, avoid d ...
contents
... rudiments of spontaneous materialist views are recorded date back to the end of the third and beginning of the second millenium B.C. That was the period that the first slave societies, namely Egypt and Babylon, reached their apex. Interesting views on life were expressed in the “Song of a Harp Playe ...
... rudiments of spontaneous materialist views are recorded date back to the end of the third and beginning of the second millenium B.C. That was the period that the first slave societies, namely Egypt and Babylon, reached their apex. Interesting views on life were expressed in the “Song of a Harp Playe ...
SPECIAL NOTES: This is a comparison/contrast paper
... but atoms and the empty space in which they endlessly move. Universes, including our own, and all in them are just chance concatenations or chains of atoms, which are always coming into existence and being dissolved infinite space” (505). To compromise his own view with society's, Epicurus further s ...
... but atoms and the empty space in which they endlessly move. Universes, including our own, and all in them are just chance concatenations or chains of atoms, which are always coming into existence and being dissolved infinite space” (505). To compromise his own view with society's, Epicurus further s ...
considerations on knowledge philosophy during the
... The renaissant sciences are governed by the principle of sympathetic magic. Knowledge becomes a ritual again, as it was described by the Platonic and Neoplatonic tradition. The renaissant sciences accept the idea of the unknown, of the unfathomable, of knowledge daimon. The renaissant science logos ...
... The renaissant sciences are governed by the principle of sympathetic magic. Knowledge becomes a ritual again, as it was described by the Platonic and Neoplatonic tradition. The renaissant sciences accept the idea of the unknown, of the unfathomable, of knowledge daimon. The renaissant science logos ...
Class #3 - 12/18/13
... identifying a single underlying principle or source of material reality. Thales claimed it was water. Anaximenes proposed that it was air and Heraclitus suggested that it was fire. Democritus even proposed an atomic theory for how the elementary components were structured. Typically, most monists ar ...
... identifying a single underlying principle or source of material reality. Thales claimed it was water. Anaximenes proposed that it was air and Heraclitus suggested that it was fire. Democritus even proposed an atomic theory for how the elementary components were structured. Typically, most monists ar ...
Powerpoint - History and Philosophy of Science @ UCD
... bound in conscience to seek truth and to look for certainty by modes of proof which, when reduced to the shape of formal propositions, fail to satisfy the serene requisites of science. Newman, 1870 Grammar of Assent ...
... bound in conscience to seek truth and to look for certainty by modes of proof which, when reduced to the shape of formal propositions, fail to satisfy the serene requisites of science. Newman, 1870 Grammar of Assent ...
The Life of the Body-Heart-Mind-Spirit: Cross
... philosophers usually take for granted. Specifically, as the title of my talk suggests, I want to advance a more holistic view of education. Modern academic philosophers have tended to forget that philosophy was for the ancient Greeks, not just an intellectual exercise, but a transformative way of l ...
... philosophers usually take for granted. Specifically, as the title of my talk suggests, I want to advance a more holistic view of education. Modern academic philosophers have tended to forget that philosophy was for the ancient Greeks, not just an intellectual exercise, but a transformative way of l ...
The Essentials of Hindu Dharma
... Such a statement originates from a wrong understanding of Hindu Dharma. I would not even use the word monotheism - worshipping one God – to describe Hinduism. It is something much more than that. In Hindu Dharma, there are not multiple Gods. One may argue that there is not even one God. The true ess ...
... Such a statement originates from a wrong understanding of Hindu Dharma. I would not even use the word monotheism - worshipping one God – to describe Hinduism. It is something much more than that. In Hindu Dharma, there are not multiple Gods. One may argue that there is not even one God. The true ess ...
meth-XI
... their occasional refluence (and though, as in successive schematisms of Becher, Stahl, and Lavoisier,174 the varying stream may for a time appear to comprehend and inisle some particular department of knowledge which even then it only peninsulates) are yet flowing towards this mid channel, and will ...
... their occasional refluence (and though, as in successive schematisms of Becher, Stahl, and Lavoisier,174 the varying stream may for a time appear to comprehend and inisle some particular department of knowledge which even then it only peninsulates) are yet flowing towards this mid channel, and will ...
Plato
... recognizes the difference between particular things and the essences (or forms) of which particular things are likenesses (e.g., beautiful things vs. Beauty itself). One of Plato’s major metaphysical theories is known as the “Theory of Forms.” According to that theory, ultimate reality is a realm of ...
... recognizes the difference between particular things and the essences (or forms) of which particular things are likenesses (e.g., beautiful things vs. Beauty itself). One of Plato’s major metaphysical theories is known as the “Theory of Forms.” According to that theory, ultimate reality is a realm of ...
Plato
... recognizes the difference between particular things and the essences (or forms) of which particular things are likenesses (e.g., beautiful things vs. Beauty itself). One of Plato's major metaphysical theories is known as the "Theory of Forms." According to that theory, ultimate reality is a realm of ...
... recognizes the difference between particular things and the essences (or forms) of which particular things are likenesses (e.g., beautiful things vs. Beauty itself). One of Plato's major metaphysical theories is known as the "Theory of Forms." According to that theory, ultimate reality is a realm of ...
File
... Hinduism believes in transmigration of the soul. Such transmigration is what results in reincarnation. This, in short, is the popular theory of Karma. Karma and rebirth are interrelated concepts in Indian philosophy. According to the theory of Karma, we are all part of a cycle of births and rebirths ...
... Hinduism believes in transmigration of the soul. Such transmigration is what results in reincarnation. This, in short, is the popular theory of Karma. Karma and rebirth are interrelated concepts in Indian philosophy. According to the theory of Karma, we are all part of a cycle of births and rebirths ...
What is Philosophy? Minds and Machines
... able to create as well as destroy ideas or beliefs. The philosopher thus must be both imaginative as well as reserved, liberal as well as conservative, ‘artsy’ as well as ‘nerdy’ (indeed, there are links from philosophy to literature as well as science), creative as well as rational. In sum, the phi ...
... able to create as well as destroy ideas or beliefs. The philosopher thus must be both imaginative as well as reserved, liberal as well as conservative, ‘artsy’ as well as ‘nerdy’ (indeed, there are links from philosophy to literature as well as science), creative as well as rational. In sum, the phi ...
What is Philosophy?
... able to create as well as destroy ideas or beliefs. The philosopher thus must be both imaginative as well as reserved, liberal as well as conservative, ‘artsy’ as well as ‘nerdy’ (indeed, there are links from philosophy to literature as well as science), creative as well as rational. In sum, the phi ...
... able to create as well as destroy ideas or beliefs. The philosopher thus must be both imaginative as well as reserved, liberal as well as conservative, ‘artsy’ as well as ‘nerdy’ (indeed, there are links from philosophy to literature as well as science), creative as well as rational. In sum, the phi ...