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... weight on ‘conventional’ knowledge (i.e. that kind of ‘knowledge’ which is based on customary connection), and on the fact that the imagination is ‘indolent’. As Smith put it, men ‘have seldom had the curiosity to inquire by what process of intermediate events’ a given change is brought about, where ...
... weight on ‘conventional’ knowledge (i.e. that kind of ‘knowledge’ which is based on customary connection), and on the fact that the imagination is ‘indolent’. As Smith put it, men ‘have seldom had the curiosity to inquire by what process of intermediate events’ a given change is brought about, where ...
Heidegger`s Method: Philosophical Concepts as Formal Indications
... sense of all philosophical That "funda concepts." as mental of philosophical sense" insofar concepts they are "formal is based ...
... sense of all philosophical That "funda concepts." as mental of philosophical sense" insofar concepts they are "formal is based ...
Popper`s Double Standard of Scientificity in
... explanation, explanations require general statements that, in order to be scientific, must survive severe empirical tests; if they do not survive, they are removed and replaced by others. This theory of Popper’s comes exclusively from a consideration of the natural sciences. However, when Popper tri ...
... explanation, explanations require general statements that, in order to be scientific, must survive severe empirical tests; if they do not survive, they are removed and replaced by others. This theory of Popper’s comes exclusively from a consideration of the natural sciences. However, when Popper tri ...
Dane Rudhyar and Alan Leo Platonistic roots
... than the one fixed from eternity is impossible1. This definition of determinism is Laplacian (if all the laws of the universe are known and all the knowledge of the universe is known then all future events can also be known – the universe is complicated but ultimately understandable like a machine). ...
... than the one fixed from eternity is impossible1. This definition of determinism is Laplacian (if all the laws of the universe are known and all the knowledge of the universe is known then all future events can also be known – the universe is complicated but ultimately understandable like a machine). ...
1929 Davos Disputation - The Dallas Philosophers Forum
... Second Round: Cassirer briefly defended Cohen and his own commitment to mathematical natural science, then proceeded to attack positions Heidegger presented in Being and Time: Cassirer denounced Heidegger’s description of human finitude, arguing that symbolic imagination and Kant’s Categorical Imper ...
... Second Round: Cassirer briefly defended Cohen and his own commitment to mathematical natural science, then proceeded to attack positions Heidegger presented in Being and Time: Cassirer denounced Heidegger’s description of human finitude, arguing that symbolic imagination and Kant’s Categorical Imper ...
is discontinuous bergsonism possible?
... out in the Essai, “all dynamic representation is distasteful to reflective consciousness”.6 However, “concepts are necessary [to reach intuition], for all the other sciences work as a rule with concepts, and metaphysics cannot dispense with other sciences. But it is only truly itself when it goes be ...
... out in the Essai, “all dynamic representation is distasteful to reflective consciousness”.6 However, “concepts are necessary [to reach intuition], for all the other sciences work as a rule with concepts, and metaphysics cannot dispense with other sciences. But it is only truly itself when it goes be ...
Bill - Kyoo Lee
... Many people believe death to be a terrible thing. After sentenced to death, Socrates did not beg or plead for his fellow Athenians to spare his life. Rather, he considered death as a blessing in disguise. “It is one of two things: either the dead are nothing and have no perception of anything, or it ...
... Many people believe death to be a terrible thing. After sentenced to death, Socrates did not beg or plead for his fellow Athenians to spare his life. Rather, he considered death as a blessing in disguise. “It is one of two things: either the dead are nothing and have no perception of anything, or it ...
Simmel and Weber as ideal- typical founders of sociology
... hidden epistemological, ontological and ideological presuppositions of sociology and to reconstruct them in a systematic way. Arguing with Simmel against Weber, I would like to plead in this paper for a large conception of sociology, which does not exclude but explicitly includes the more philosophi ...
... hidden epistemological, ontological and ideological presuppositions of sociology and to reconstruct them in a systematic way. Arguing with Simmel against Weber, I would like to plead in this paper for a large conception of sociology, which does not exclude but explicitly includes the more philosophi ...
HOBBES AND THE WOLF MAN: MELANCHOLY AND ANIMALITY
... can get a better grasp of Hobbes’s political theory as a whole. A few examples of how the human-animal divide has been discussed in recent Hobbes’s scholarship might illustrate my point. For instance, David Gauthier’s contributions to established topics in Hobbes’s studies are formulated in a way th ...
... can get a better grasp of Hobbes’s political theory as a whole. A few examples of how the human-animal divide has been discussed in recent Hobbes’s scholarship might illustrate my point. For instance, David Gauthier’s contributions to established topics in Hobbes’s studies are formulated in a way th ...
Alexander of Aphrodisias`s Account of Universals and
... one human being exists, the universal, human being, does not exist. The universal exists only when more than one human being exists. On this interpretation, the contrast between Callias and a human being can be expressed as a distinction between what is (non-homonymously) predicated of only one thin ...
... one human being exists, the universal, human being, does not exist. The universal exists only when more than one human being exists. On this interpretation, the contrast between Callias and a human being can be expressed as a distinction between what is (non-homonymously) predicated of only one thin ...
Nietzsche and God (Part II) - The Richmond Philosophy Pages
... acknowledges ontological realism (i.e., there is a reality to be known), but at the same time affirms epistemic relativism (i.e., that any acknowledgement of reality is necessarily from a particular perspective or viewpoint, and this shapes how reality is acknowledged). Nietzsche’s critique of the ‘ ...
... acknowledges ontological realism (i.e., there is a reality to be known), but at the same time affirms epistemic relativism (i.e., that any acknowledgement of reality is necessarily from a particular perspective or viewpoint, and this shapes how reality is acknowledged). Nietzsche’s critique of the ‘ ...
Kant`s Account of Moral Education
... The second problem is that the idea of education, as it is usually understood, implies the possibility of influencing someone else’s processes of learning. According to Kant’s view, however, the human self can only be seen as free if it is not influenced by empirical causes, that is, if it stands ou ...
... The second problem is that the idea of education, as it is usually understood, implies the possibility of influencing someone else’s processes of learning. According to Kant’s view, however, the human self can only be seen as free if it is not influenced by empirical causes, that is, if it stands ou ...
Simmel and Weber as ideal- typical founders of sociology
... hidden epistemological, ontological and ideological presuppositions of sociology and to reconstruct them in a systematic way. Arguing with Simmel against Weber, I would like to plead in this paper for a large conception of sociology, which does not exclude but explicitly includes the more philosophi ...
... hidden epistemological, ontological and ideological presuppositions of sociology and to reconstruct them in a systematic way. Arguing with Simmel against Weber, I would like to plead in this paper for a large conception of sociology, which does not exclude but explicitly includes the more philosophi ...
reply to JJ Valberg - Keele Research Repository
... Central to Valberg’s own position is his distinction between the phenomenal and horizonal conceptions of consciousness. As he explains in his paper, we think about consciousness with the phenomenal conception when we think of an experience as ‘some kind of phenomenon (state or process or activity et ...
... Central to Valberg’s own position is his distinction between the phenomenal and horizonal conceptions of consciousness. As he explains in his paper, we think about consciousness with the phenomenal conception when we think of an experience as ‘some kind of phenomenon (state or process or activity et ...
Articles Plato and Aristophanes: Poets of Hope
... completing the oracle and deciding that it meant little about the man Socrates. Instead, Plato’s Socrates fades from view as an individual and becomes a character in a larger human drama, standing in for all human beings. In the twisted comedy of human life, Socrates holds up a mirror for us all, co ...
... completing the oracle and deciding that it meant little about the man Socrates. Instead, Plato’s Socrates fades from view as an individual and becomes a character in a larger human drama, standing in for all human beings. In the twisted comedy of human life, Socrates holds up a mirror for us all, co ...
the cosmology of archelaus of athens
... cosmogonical narratives – it could, however, have a significant effect also on this aspect of the tradition. Surely, individual Presocratics could have their own theoretical and other reasons for not going beyond anthropogony. These possible individual motivations notwithstanding, there seems to be ...
... cosmogonical narratives – it could, however, have a significant effect also on this aspect of the tradition. Surely, individual Presocratics could have their own theoretical and other reasons for not going beyond anthropogony. These possible individual motivations notwithstanding, there seems to be ...
Alfarabi`s Conversion of Plato`s Republic
... is so organized that it brings the citizens as close as they can be to the condition of ethical excellence. Because Alfarabi lays the emphasis on the individual’s struggle for excellence, the inquiry into the ideal state cannot be a political program per se; it is rather the project of bringing to l ...
... is so organized that it brings the citizens as close as they can be to the condition of ethical excellence. Because Alfarabi lays the emphasis on the individual’s struggle for excellence, the inquiry into the ideal state cannot be a political program per se; it is rather the project of bringing to l ...
Is Organismic Fitness at the Basis of Evolutionary Theory?
... Second is what we will call the conceptual role of fitness—that is, fitness as an element of the causal or explanatory structure of evolutionary theory. It is this sense of fitness to which Abrams appeals when he says that “the kind of fitness relevant to natural selection is fitness of types, that is, p ...
... Second is what we will call the conceptual role of fitness—that is, fitness as an element of the causal or explanatory structure of evolutionary theory. It is this sense of fitness to which Abrams appeals when he says that “the kind of fitness relevant to natural selection is fitness of types, that is, p ...
School of Philosophical & Anthropological ... Head of School Degree Programmes
... of 90 credits drawn from Social Anthropology honours modules (including a total of at least 40 credits drawn from modules with credit ratings of 20 or more). Major Degree in Social Anthropology: SA3502, SA3505, either SA3030 or SA3031, and at minimum a further 40 credits in Social Anthropology hono ...
... of 90 credits drawn from Social Anthropology honours modules (including a total of at least 40 credits drawn from modules with credit ratings of 20 or more). Major Degree in Social Anthropology: SA3502, SA3505, either SA3030 or SA3031, and at minimum a further 40 credits in Social Anthropology hono ...
predication theory: classical vs modern
... "predication". (My distinction seems to correspond to that between "linguistic" and "metaphysic" predication in Bogen, Introduction, in Bogen 1985). It is in the ontological sense that one may say, with Cocchiarella, that "predication has been a central, if not the central, issue in philosophy since ...
... "predication". (My distinction seems to correspond to that between "linguistic" and "metaphysic" predication in Bogen, Introduction, in Bogen 1985). It is in the ontological sense that one may say, with Cocchiarella, that "predication has been a central, if not the central, issue in philosophy since ...
Quining Naturalism
... distinguish two conceptions of Quine’s prescription for metaphysics and ontology, which seem to me to have been systematically confused. Only the weaker conception is really defensible by Quinean lights, I shall argue, and this amounts to the deflationary view. In the second matter, Quine is not off ...
... distinguish two conceptions of Quine’s prescription for metaphysics and ontology, which seem to me to have been systematically confused. Only the weaker conception is really defensible by Quinean lights, I shall argue, and this amounts to the deflationary view. In the second matter, Quine is not off ...
1 FROM FIRST EFFICIENT CAUSE TO GOD: SCOTUS ON THE
... which case the argument turns out to be an ontological, rather than cosmological argument, with a more limited conclusion than traditional arguments of this type. In this paper, I examine some main threads of the identification stage of Scotus's project in the fourth chapter of De Primo, where he tr ...
... which case the argument turns out to be an ontological, rather than cosmological argument, with a more limited conclusion than traditional arguments of this type. In this paper, I examine some main threads of the identification stage of Scotus's project in the fourth chapter of De Primo, where he tr ...
ON KNOCKDOWN ARGUMENTS 1. Introduction A
... A knockdown argument is, roughly, one that convinces all rational comers. In non-philosophical domains such as science, history, and mathematics, knockdown arguments abound. But according to David Lewis and Peter van Inwagen, there are no knockdown arguments for substantive philosophical conclusions ...
... A knockdown argument is, roughly, one that convinces all rational comers. In non-philosophical domains such as science, history, and mathematics, knockdown arguments abound. But according to David Lewis and Peter van Inwagen, there are no knockdown arguments for substantive philosophical conclusions ...
Autonomy of the Other: on Kant, Levinas, and Universality
... provoked by the object of the action rather than respect for the moral law, are irrational and “pathological”. To act on a pathological basis is to act out of inclination rather than reason. Pathological acts are unfree as they are ultimately explainable by reference to the heteronomous laws of natu ...
... provoked by the object of the action rather than respect for the moral law, are irrational and “pathological”. To act on a pathological basis is to act out of inclination rather than reason. Pathological acts are unfree as they are ultimately explainable by reference to the heteronomous laws of natu ...
Natural philosophy
Natural philosophy or the philosophy of nature (from Latin philosophia naturalis) was the philosophical study of nature and the physical universe that was dominant before the development of modern science. It is considered to be the precursor of natural sciences.From the ancient world, starting with Aristotle, to the 19th century, the term ""natural philosophy"" was the common term used to describe the practice of studying nature. It was in the 19th century that the concept of ""science"" received its modern shape with new titles emerging such as ""biology"" and ""biologist"", ""physics"" and ""physicist"" among other technical fields and titles; institutions and communities were founded, and unprecedented applications to and interactions with other aspects of society and culture occurred. Isaac Newton's book Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (1687), whose title translates to ""Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy"", reflects the then-current use of the words ""natural philosophy"", akin to ""systematic study of nature"". Even in the 19th century, a treatise by Lord Kelvin and Peter Guthrie Tait's, which helped define much of modern physics, was titled Treatise on Natural Philosophy (1867).In the German tradition, naturphilosophie or nature philosophy persisted into the 18th and 19th century as an attempt to achieve a speculative unity of nature and spirit. Some of the greatest names in German philosophy are associated with this movement, including Spinoza, Goethe, Hegel and Schelling.