Wittgenstein, Reflexivity and the Social Construction of Reality
... the problems of mathematics to those of psychology. Reconsidering the detail of these neglected remarks contrasts with the enduring legacy of logical positivist comparisons of psychology with natural sciences such as physics. While Wittgenstein denied that metamathematics has the philosophical signi ...
... the problems of mathematics to those of psychology. Reconsidering the detail of these neglected remarks contrasts with the enduring legacy of logical positivist comparisons of psychology with natural sciences such as physics. While Wittgenstein denied that metamathematics has the philosophical signi ...
KANT - ARISTOTLE lecture
... philosophy AND modern science, and so on. I trust you will be so kind as to take my word that whether or not his explanation is correct, he does have such an explanation and Kant and the other modern philosophers do not. Hence, Kant has to POSIT free will and the mind’s ability to move the body, but ...
... philosophy AND modern science, and so on. I trust you will be so kind as to take my word that whether or not his explanation is correct, he does have such an explanation and Kant and the other modern philosophers do not. Hence, Kant has to POSIT free will and the mind’s ability to move the body, but ...
Lecture notes in PPT - Lakeside Institute of Theology
... best way for people to live?” and “What actions are right or wrong in particular circumstances?” ...
... best way for people to live?” and “What actions are right or wrong in particular circumstances?” ...
Plato and the Presocratics
... alludes to a ‘Prometheus like figure’ who taught that ‘all things consist of a one and many, and have in their nature a conjunction of limit and unlimited’ and that ‘we must go from one form to look for two, if the case admits of there being two, otherwise for three or some other number of forms.' A ...
... alludes to a ‘Prometheus like figure’ who taught that ‘all things consist of a one and many, and have in their nature a conjunction of limit and unlimited’ and that ‘we must go from one form to look for two, if the case admits of there being two, otherwise for three or some other number of forms.' A ...
Kinds of Things—Towards a Bestiary of the
... One of the weaknesses of auto-anthropology is that one’s own intuitions are apt to be distorted by one’s theoretical predilections. Linguists have known for a long time that they get so wrapped up in their theories that they are no longer reliable sources of linguistic intuition. Their raw, untutore ...
... One of the weaknesses of auto-anthropology is that one’s own intuitions are apt to be distorted by one’s theoretical predilections. Linguists have known for a long time that they get so wrapped up in their theories that they are no longer reliable sources of linguistic intuition. Their raw, untutore ...
Document
... Questioning Is it possible that we have any knowledge at the level of certitude? one of the most difficult subject in epistemology ...
... Questioning Is it possible that we have any knowledge at the level of certitude? one of the most difficult subject in epistemology ...
Plato and Vedanta
... which are ethical in nature and con only be answered by on evaluation of the faets, which con be established through scientific empiricism. But the question "Ought we to return a verdiet of guilty?" is really not a scientific or legal question ... it is a morcl one that no number of faets can solve. ...
... which are ethical in nature and con only be answered by on evaluation of the faets, which con be established through scientific empiricism. But the question "Ought we to return a verdiet of guilty?" is really not a scientific or legal question ... it is a morcl one that no number of faets can solve. ...
The experimenters` regress: from skepticism to - Archipel
... that both agreed to find an absolute foundation to knowledge, albeit of a different sort than the one offered by Aristotle. For our purposes, the position of mitigated skepticism is the most interesting, and Mersenne and Gassendi are the prominent representatives of this position. For them, the skep ...
... that both agreed to find an absolute foundation to knowledge, albeit of a different sort than the one offered by Aristotle. For our purposes, the position of mitigated skepticism is the most interesting, and Mersenne and Gassendi are the prominent representatives of this position. For them, the skep ...
`Among contemporaries the most exciting thinker, masterful
... finest subsequent work in the humanities. If you are not, he is a dismal windbag, whose influence has been a total disaster, and whose affinity with the Nazis merely indicates the vacuum where, in most other philosophers, there would have been a combination of common sense and rudimentary decency. N ...
... finest subsequent work in the humanities. If you are not, he is a dismal windbag, whose influence has been a total disaster, and whose affinity with the Nazis merely indicates the vacuum where, in most other philosophers, there would have been a combination of common sense and rudimentary decency. N ...
Nietzsche`s critique of past philosophers
... power. How are philosophers’ values are supposed to express their ‘instincts’ and create ‘favourable conditions’ for philosophers? In fact, Nietzsche only hints at this idea in Beyond Good and Evil, but spells it out in his next book On the Genealogy of Morals. In brief, philosophy requires a lifest ...
... power. How are philosophers’ values are supposed to express their ‘instincts’ and create ‘favourable conditions’ for philosophers? In fact, Nietzsche only hints at this idea in Beyond Good and Evil, but spells it out in his next book On the Genealogy of Morals. In brief, philosophy requires a lifest ...
Philosophy
... Ancient Greek philosophy is dominated by three very famous men: Socrates, Plato and Aristotle All three of these lived in Athens for most of their lives, and they knew each other. Socrates came first, and Plato was his student, around 400 BC. Socrates was killed in 399 BC, and Plato began his work b ...
... Ancient Greek philosophy is dominated by three very famous men: Socrates, Plato and Aristotle All three of these lived in Athens for most of their lives, and they knew each other. Socrates came first, and Plato was his student, around 400 BC. Socrates was killed in 399 BC, and Plato began his work b ...
Death On The Grand Scale
... superstition and error, who suppose that we are all inclined to credulity, and that we need the discipline of criticism and analysis which they will supply. But there are others who make a different appraisal of our everyday life, and who take a different view of the task of philosophy. According to ...
... superstition and error, who suppose that we are all inclined to credulity, and that we need the discipline of criticism and analysis which they will supply. But there are others who make a different appraisal of our everyday life, and who take a different view of the task of philosophy. According to ...
1 - David Papineau
... intuitions will reflect some well-grounded theoretical principle, and to that extent should be respected. But other intuitions can be misbegotten, resting on unsubstantiated assumptions, or some natural but fallible modes of thought, and in such cases it will be legitimate to reject them. For exampl ...
... intuitions will reflect some well-grounded theoretical principle, and to that extent should be respected. But other intuitions can be misbegotten, resting on unsubstantiated assumptions, or some natural but fallible modes of thought, and in such cases it will be legitimate to reject them. For exampl ...
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... become disrespectful to their elders (always asking questions, etc.), of the gods, and encouraged them to be selfish and power hungry. Mostly this was because of several of his students who ended up doing some dishonorable things, like Alcibiades, a favorite student of Socrates, who betrayed the A ...
... become disrespectful to their elders (always asking questions, etc.), of the gods, and encouraged them to be selfish and power hungry. Mostly this was because of several of his students who ended up doing some dishonorable things, like Alcibiades, a favorite student of Socrates, who betrayed the A ...
A Critical Analysis of Empiricism
... sense data. According to Russell’s view all knowledge is in some degree doubtful and we cannot say what degree of doubtfulness makes it to be knowledge (Yudin, 1967). He points out that all particular facts that are known without inference are facts known by perception or memory, that is to say, thr ...
... sense data. According to Russell’s view all knowledge is in some degree doubtful and we cannot say what degree of doubtfulness makes it to be knowledge (Yudin, 1967). He points out that all particular facts that are known without inference are facts known by perception or memory, that is to say, thr ...
Richard Bernstein, “Beyond Objectivism and Relativism: An Overview.”
... taken not as evidence for the dubiousness of the project of grounding philosophy but rather as a sign of the "scandal" of philosophy that demanded resolution. But as we follow the internal development in the twentieth century of both Anglo-American and continental philosophy, we can detect increasin ...
... taken not as evidence for the dubiousness of the project of grounding philosophy but rather as a sign of the "scandal" of philosophy that demanded resolution. But as we follow the internal development in the twentieth century of both Anglo-American and continental philosophy, we can detect increasin ...
Eleven Reasons Why Philosophy is Important
... that people accept certain moral commandments, then we must know why it is reasonable to accept those commandments. We can't demand that everyone trust our moral commandments without a good argument any more than we can be expected to accept the moral commandments of others without a good argument. ...
... that people accept certain moral commandments, then we must know why it is reasonable to accept those commandments. We can't demand that everyone trust our moral commandments without a good argument any more than we can be expected to accept the moral commandments of others without a good argument. ...
Does Comparative Philosophy have a Fusion Future? Responses
... least as the field is presently conceived—“from a Western, customary, traditional, scholarly perspective” (Levine 2016: 213). The text-oriented approach to knowledge in modern Western disciplines poses particular problems for those of us who wrestle daily with attempts to retrieve meaning from texts ...
... least as the field is presently conceived—“from a Western, customary, traditional, scholarly perspective” (Levine 2016: 213). The text-oriented approach to knowledge in modern Western disciplines poses particular problems for those of us who wrestle daily with attempts to retrieve meaning from texts ...
8. Handout on Plato`s Theory of Forms - Elly Pirocacos
... II. From an epistemological point of view Plato, siding with PARMENIDES, will hold that “knowledge is of what is” and “knowledge (unlike mere belief) is infallible”. These two premises are basic to Plato’s epistemological theory, so remember them. Parmenides was struck by the problem of being able t ...
... II. From an epistemological point of view Plato, siding with PARMENIDES, will hold that “knowledge is of what is” and “knowledge (unlike mere belief) is infallible”. These two premises are basic to Plato’s epistemological theory, so remember them. Parmenides was struck by the problem of being able t ...
Socrates - Ms. Clancy`s Social Studies
... Thought the best kind of government was a mix between a few people running it and the whole people Founders of US Constitution tried to create this balance ...
... Thought the best kind of government was a mix between a few people running it and the whole people Founders of US Constitution tried to create this balance ...
Preface - PhilPapers
... worse, dogma and religious fundamentalism? What, in any case, is wisdom? Is not all this just an abstract philosophical fantasy? The answer, as I have already said, lies locked away in what may seem a highly improbably place: science! This will seem especially improbable to many of those most aware ...
... worse, dogma and religious fundamentalism? What, in any case, is wisdom? Is not all this just an abstract philosophical fantasy? The answer, as I have already said, lies locked away in what may seem a highly improbably place: science! This will seem especially improbable to many of those most aware ...
Boundaries between Informative and Creative Writing in Children`s
... might find a single exact definition for aesthetic beauty and art. The problem was that each one of them naturally insisted on their own definition of these subjects. But in the more recent times providing an exact and definitive definition has been avoided. In fact the changes in the fields of art ...
... might find a single exact definition for aesthetic beauty and art. The problem was that each one of them naturally insisted on their own definition of these subjects. But in the more recent times providing an exact and definitive definition has been avoided. In fact the changes in the fields of art ...
The Death of Philosophy: Reference and Self
... into a science in good standing, like, say, neuroscience. Professor Thomas-Fogiel has written a book about this group and their arguments, a book which discusses at some length philosophy’s penchant for suicide. She has an interesting insight about this phenomenon. She argues that all claims about t ...
... into a science in good standing, like, say, neuroscience. Professor Thomas-Fogiel has written a book about this group and their arguments, a book which discusses at some length philosophy’s penchant for suicide. She has an interesting insight about this phenomenon. She argues that all claims about t ...
Epistemology, introduction
... out there waiting to be discovered? In this view, facts exist independently of any theories or human observation. This perspective dominates Western philosophical tradition which provides the foundation of Western science: reality is assumed to be objective, that is, it exists outside our perception ...
... out there waiting to be discovered? In this view, facts exist independently of any theories or human observation. This perspective dominates Western philosophical tradition which provides the foundation of Western science: reality is assumed to be objective, that is, it exists outside our perception ...
From Controversies to Conflicts between Worlds
... of rules to become an agent. Kompridis has dubbed this upgraded awareness “second-order disclosure”, thereby distinguishing it from the pre-reflective process of constitution of the subject and her world (“first-order disclosure”). Let us distinguish between conflicts in which the parties share the ...
... of rules to become an agent. Kompridis has dubbed this upgraded awareness “second-order disclosure”, thereby distinguishing it from the pre-reflective process of constitution of the subject and her world (“first-order disclosure”). Let us distinguish between conflicts in which the parties share the ...
Obscurantism
Obscurantism (/ɵbˈskjʊərəntɪsm/) is the practice of deliberately preventing the facts or the full details of some matter from becoming known. There are two common historical and intellectual denotations to Obscurantism: (1) deliberately restricting knowledge—opposition to the spread of knowledge, a policy of withholding knowledge from the public; and, (2) deliberate obscurity—an abstruse style (as in literature and art) characterized by deliberate vagueness. The name comes from French: obscurantisme, from the Latin obscurans, ""darkening"".The term obscurantism derives from the title of the 16th-century satire Epistolæ Obscurorum Virorum (Letters of Obscure Men), based upon the intellectual dispute between the German humanist Johann Reuchlin and Dominican monks, such as Johannes Pfefferkorn, about whether or not all Jewish books should be burned as un-Christian. Earlier, in 1509, the monk Pfefferkorn had obtained permission from Maximilian I (1486–1519), the Holy Roman Emperor, to incinerate all copies of the Talmud (Jewish law and Jewish ethics) known to be in the Holy Roman Empire (AD 926–1806); the Letters of Obscure Men satirized the Dominican monks' arguments at burning ""un-Christian"" works.In the 18th century, Enlightenment philosophers used the term ""obscurantism"" to denote the enemies of the Enlightenment and its concept of the liberal diffusion of knowledge. Moreover, in the 19th century, in distinguishing the varieties of obscurantism found in metaphysics and theology from the ""more subtle"" obscurantism of the critical philosophy of Immanuel Kant, and of modern philosophical skepticism, Friedrich Nietzsche said: ""The essential element in the black art of obscurantism is not that it wants to darken individual understanding, but that it wants to blacken our picture of the world, and darken our idea of existence.""