Session 1 Rationalism –v
... – what mix of deduction and induction is being used – how and where each of deduction and induction are applied – whether the conclusions are more deductive or inductive ...
... – what mix of deduction and induction is being used – how and where each of deduction and induction are applied – whether the conclusions are more deductive or inductive ...
Selection vs. Drift: A Response to Brandon`s Reply
... definitions make sense of studies such as Grant and Grant's (1989). The quote cited above, stating that my definitions do not map well onto those of biologists, is immediately followed by an abstract discussion of sampling balls from an urn rather than an actual biological example. More to the point ...
... definitions make sense of studies such as Grant and Grant's (1989). The quote cited above, stating that my definitions do not map well onto those of biologists, is immediately followed by an abstract discussion of sampling balls from an urn rather than an actual biological example. More to the point ...
Sameness and Referential Opacity in Aristotle Francis Jeffry
... modern notion of identity to being something we would not wish.to call 'identity' at alJ.l In the Topics, an early work, we find hints of something we would recognize (although Aristotle is still claimed to have a "weak grip" on the concept); in Metaphysics V (late) we can find only a series of pron ...
... modern notion of identity to being something we would not wish.to call 'identity' at alJ.l In the Topics, an early work, we find hints of something we would recognize (although Aristotle is still claimed to have a "weak grip" on the concept); in Metaphysics V (late) we can find only a series of pron ...
- Philsci
... Why is it legitimate in this case to regard the field as one unified entity, the electromagnetic field, and not two distinct entities, the electric field and the magnetic field? In part unity arises from the symmetrical way in which changes in the electric field produce a magnetic field, and changes ...
... Why is it legitimate in this case to regard the field as one unified entity, the electromagnetic field, and not two distinct entities, the electric field and the magnetic field? In part unity arises from the symmetrical way in which changes in the electric field produce a magnetic field, and changes ...
Is Science Neurotic?
... heated in a platinum flask to a temperature of 500oC, in which case gravitation will instantly become a repulsive force everywhere. There is no limit to the number of rivals to NT that can be concocted in this way, each of which has all the predictive success of NT as far as observed phenomena are c ...
... heated in a platinum flask to a temperature of 500oC, in which case gravitation will instantly become a repulsive force everywhere. There is no limit to the number of rivals to NT that can be concocted in this way, each of which has all the predictive success of NT as far as observed phenomena are c ...
PDF - UNT Digital Library
... production and reproduction of things. For this reason, some scholars translate cheng as creativity. Tu Wei-Ming explains cheng in terms of the creativity: … can be conceived as a form of creativity…. it is that which brings about the transforming and nourishing processes of heaven and earth. As cre ...
... production and reproduction of things. For this reason, some scholars translate cheng as creativity. Tu Wei-Ming explains cheng in terms of the creativity: … can be conceived as a form of creativity…. it is that which brings about the transforming and nourishing processes of heaven and earth. As cre ...
Lesson 6
... justice, truth. Have we made any progress? Yes and no. Plato believed that it was in the nature of such questions that we have to puzzle them out for ourselves. (The answer is worth nothing unless we think it out for ourselves). ...
... justice, truth. Have we made any progress? Yes and no. Plato believed that it was in the nature of such questions that we have to puzzle them out for ourselves. (The answer is worth nothing unless we think it out for ourselves). ...
Mencius - Steve Watson
... of all were equally important, while for the followers of Yang Chu one’s own interests were all-important. It’s sometimes thought to be odd that Mencius should have mentioned Yang Chu so prominently in that passage, because Yang does not really seem to have been of much importance at this time – or, ...
... of all were equally important, while for the followers of Yang Chu one’s own interests were all-important. It’s sometimes thought to be odd that Mencius should have mentioned Yang Chu so prominently in that passage, because Yang does not really seem to have been of much importance at this time – or, ...
Feeling Moral Obligation and Living in an Organic Unity: Virginia
... properties and it is an essential characteristic of our thought about moral properties.’20 We ‘see’ a thing as good in relation with other natural properties of the same thing. The crucial point is that unlike ethical naturalism as Rachels defines it, Moore does not believe that natural and nonnatur ...
... properties and it is an essential characteristic of our thought about moral properties.’20 We ‘see’ a thing as good in relation with other natural properties of the same thing. The crucial point is that unlike ethical naturalism as Rachels defines it, Moore does not believe that natural and nonnatur ...
Hegel`s Phenomenology of Spirit Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
... where he was friends with Holderlin and Schelling) he compared the writings of Schelling and Fichte and hence gave the impression that he was a disciple of Schelling. With Schelling he edited the Critical Journal of Philosophy (1802-03), but his lectures at Jena (which were not published until the 2 ...
... where he was friends with Holderlin and Schelling) he compared the writings of Schelling and Fichte and hence gave the impression that he was a disciple of Schelling. With Schelling he edited the Critical Journal of Philosophy (1802-03), but his lectures at Jena (which were not published until the 2 ...
Meaning before truth
... This accounts for the ambiguity of (7). But it does not explain why (7) has no reading on which it implies (7c). We need some further theoretical claims according to which the structure indicated in (7b) does not support the following interpretation: the millionaire is both someone who called the se ...
... This accounts for the ambiguity of (7). But it does not explain why (7) has no reading on which it implies (7c). We need some further theoretical claims according to which the structure indicated in (7b) does not support the following interpretation: the millionaire is both someone who called the se ...
Aristotle and the Early Stoics on Moral Responsibility
... first for those studying virtue and second for legislators for assigning honor and punishment (1109b30-35, quoted above). Both these reasons involve only adult humans. In NE 3.2-3 Aristotle turns his analysis to the activity peculiar to adult humans, “choice” (proairesis). Choice is a sort of volunt ...
... first for those studying virtue and second for legislators for assigning honor and punishment (1109b30-35, quoted above). Both these reasons involve only adult humans. In NE 3.2-3 Aristotle turns his analysis to the activity peculiar to adult humans, “choice” (proairesis). Choice is a sort of volunt ...
Walden: Philosophy and Knowledge of Humankind
... 6 . So what is Thoreau teaching, what knowledge is he proffering? Knowledge of humankind. He stakes his claim to this knowledge, to expert judgement or at least better judgement, in the opening passages of Walden. Consider the diagnoses. "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation"; or "I would ...
... 6 . So what is Thoreau teaching, what knowledge is he proffering? Knowledge of humankind. He stakes his claim to this knowledge, to expert judgement or at least better judgement, in the opening passages of Walden. Consider the diagnoses. "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation"; or "I would ...
The History of the Free Will Problem
... about gods controlling the human will into arguments about preexisting causal laws controlling it. The cosmological problem became a psychological problem. Some saw a causal chain of events leading back to a first cause (later taken by many religious thinkers to be God). Other physiologoi held that ...
... about gods controlling the human will into arguments about preexisting causal laws controlling it. The cosmological problem became a psychological problem. Some saw a causal chain of events leading back to a first cause (later taken by many religious thinkers to be God). Other physiologoi held that ...
From Essentialism to Constructivism: Philosophy of Technology at
... devices? In the former case, we could achieve the "free relation" to technology that Heidegger demands without changing technology itself. But that is an idealistic solution in the bad sense, and one that a generation of environmental action would seem decisively to refute. Heidegger's defenders poi ...
... devices? In the former case, we could achieve the "free relation" to technology that Heidegger demands without changing technology itself. But that is an idealistic solution in the bad sense, and one that a generation of environmental action would seem decisively to refute. Heidegger's defenders poi ...
PDF, 135kb - Early Modern Texts
... our use of words once we have given them a precise meaning, but until then we must use them carefully so as not to be led astray by ambiguities. [Of Latin’s two words for ‘motion’, Leibniz ...
... our use of words once we have given them a precise meaning, but until then we must use them carefully so as not to be led astray by ambiguities. [Of Latin’s two words for ‘motion’, Leibniz ...
Princeton University Press 2009. xv + 525 pages $99.95 (cloth ISBN
... Although he recognized the value of passions, Machiavelli also saw how easily they could be manipulated and how they could lead people to ruin if not allied with careful reflection and analysis. Two passions he saw as most dangerous, most liable to lead to conflict: “dispositions to dominate or comm ...
... Although he recognized the value of passions, Machiavelli also saw how easily they could be manipulated and how they could lead people to ruin if not allied with careful reflection and analysis. Two passions he saw as most dangerous, most liable to lead to conflict: “dispositions to dominate or comm ...
Morality and Virtue In Poetry and Philosophy
... phenomenon is puzzling, for it is not clear how literally the ancient audience of Homer took such divine interventions, and certainly the modern reader cannot possibly believe that such poetic descriptions are true. Nevertheless, we can leave this question behind for the moment, since the considerat ...
... phenomenon is puzzling, for it is not clear how literally the ancient audience of Homer took such divine interventions, and certainly the modern reader cannot possibly believe that such poetic descriptions are true. Nevertheless, we can leave this question behind for the moment, since the considerat ...
Introduction - davidhume.org
... Hume’s first publication, A Treatise of Human Nature (1739-40), began as ‘an attempt to introduce the experimental method of reasoning into moral subjects’. But in both advocating and pursuing the empirical study of the human world, the juvenile Hume ‘was carry’d away by the Heat of Youth & Inventi ...
... Hume’s first publication, A Treatise of Human Nature (1739-40), began as ‘an attempt to introduce the experimental method of reasoning into moral subjects’. But in both advocating and pursuing the empirical study of the human world, the juvenile Hume ‘was carry’d away by the Heat of Youth & Inventi ...
Are Colors Secondary Qualities?
... There are two importantly different ways of specifying the manifestation of the disposition, the “visual experiences of kind K” (cf. Boghossian and Velleman 1989: 84–5). The specification may be non-reductive: the visual experiences are as of a green object. Put more plainly, the experiences consist ...
... There are two importantly different ways of specifying the manifestation of the disposition, the “visual experiences of kind K” (cf. Boghossian and Velleman 1989: 84–5). The specification may be non-reductive: the visual experiences are as of a green object. Put more plainly, the experiences consist ...
Truth and Friendship: The Importance of the Conversation of Friends
... for ourselves, or do as well for ourselves, we will do or do better because of our friends. Now this certainly applies in the case of pursuing insight into the highest things. Thus friends inspire one another to pursue wisdom, and encourage one another when the road seems long. How many times would ...
... for ourselves, or do as well for ourselves, we will do or do better because of our friends. Now this certainly applies in the case of pursuing insight into the highest things. Thus friends inspire one another to pursue wisdom, and encourage one another when the road seems long. How many times would ...
Induction Synonyms epagōgē, inductio Abstract How induction was
... Thomas Wilson tried. His Rule of Reason was the first logic textbook in English. The first edition was published in London in 1551 and except for characteristically Protestant examples and use of some of Agricola’s language, what Wilson said about induction in that edition was not particularly unusu ...
... Thomas Wilson tried. His Rule of Reason was the first logic textbook in English. The first edition was published in London in 1551 and except for characteristically Protestant examples and use of some of Agricola’s language, what Wilson said about induction in that edition was not particularly unusu ...
DERRIDA/CIXOUS, CIXOUS/DERRIDA Prof. Claire Colebrook
... wrote philosophy and died. This approach to a philosopher’s life, when we are doing philosophy, is in accord with the body of Derrida’s own work. Derrida will attend to seemingly irrelevant textual details, such as metaphor, example, excuse, misquotation or sounds, but he makes little mention of bio ...
... wrote philosophy and died. This approach to a philosopher’s life, when we are doing philosophy, is in accord with the body of Derrida’s own work. Derrida will attend to seemingly irrelevant textual details, such as metaphor, example, excuse, misquotation or sounds, but he makes little mention of bio ...
Positivism, Cerebralism and Voluntarism in William James
... in religion to go out and get that evidence, thereby putting their cherished ideas at empirical risk” (Hollinger 1997, 81). He takes this as reason to reject the “spheres of belief” reading of James, or what is being called here the context–specific conception of evidence. However, the evidence for ...
... in religion to go out and get that evidence, thereby putting their cherished ideas at empirical risk” (Hollinger 1997, 81). He takes this as reason to reject the “spheres of belief” reading of James, or what is being called here the context–specific conception of evidence. However, the evidence for ...
Capitalism and Morality
... However, most critics do not even realize Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) has a vague economic theory. Instead, Hobbes is viewed as the philosopher that sees government as a living entity, a Leviathan. Although Leviathan is political philosophy (and an early political science), it alludes to an economic t ...
... However, most critics do not even realize Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) has a vague economic theory. Instead, Hobbes is viewed as the philosopher that sees government as a living entity, a Leviathan. Although Leviathan is political philosophy (and an early political science), it alludes to an economic t ...
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.