Maurice Merleau-Ponty`s Criticism on Bergson`s Theory of
... here, exactly, that Deleuze situates the core difference between Bergson’s antidualism and phenomenology’s. Bergson holds that movement has nothing to do with a thing’s transition from one position in space to another; such a view, he argues, denies movement any creative character. After all, accord ...
... here, exactly, that Deleuze situates the core difference between Bergson’s antidualism and phenomenology’s. Bergson holds that movement has nothing to do with a thing’s transition from one position in space to another; such a view, he argues, denies movement any creative character. After all, accord ...
penultimate draft - U
... quantifier. As Zoltán Szabó puts it: The standard view nowadays is that we can adequately capture the meaning of sentences like ‘There are Fs’, ‘Some things are Fs’, or ‘Fs exist’ through existential quantification. As a result, not much credence is given to the idea that we must distinguish between ...
... quantifier. As Zoltán Szabó puts it: The standard view nowadays is that we can adequately capture the meaning of sentences like ‘There are Fs’, ‘Some things are Fs’, or ‘Fs exist’ through existential quantification. As a result, not much credence is given to the idea that we must distinguish between ...
George Herbert Mead Final
... Mead was greatly stimulated by the extent to which relativity theory recognises that time cannot be treated as distinct from actors, or agents, and their separate situations. Thus he came to understand that “any scientific statement about the world of moving bodies also had to take into consideratio ...
... Mead was greatly stimulated by the extent to which relativity theory recognises that time cannot be treated as distinct from actors, or agents, and their separate situations. Thus he came to understand that “any scientific statement about the world of moving bodies also had to take into consideratio ...
Evaluating From a Point of View
... from the point of view of one whose crops will fail without rain, and the producer is assessing things from the point of view of one who needs to complete a movie with outdoor sequences filmed in sunny weather. Each is being rational from within his own point of view, and so long as neither man step ...
... from the point of view of one whose crops will fail without rain, and the producer is assessing things from the point of view of one who needs to complete a movie with outdoor sequences filmed in sunny weather. Each is being rational from within his own point of view, and so long as neither man step ...
Introspecting in the Twentieth Century
... of investigation and as a psychological and epistemic capacity itself. Over the course of the century, these theoretical interests did not always connect well, although they have intersected and influenced each other at different points. But there is no helpful sense in which one might talk of ‘the ...
... of investigation and as a psychological and epistemic capacity itself. Over the course of the century, these theoretical interests did not always connect well, although they have intersected and influenced each other at different points. But there is no helpful sense in which one might talk of ‘the ...
Present, Past, and Future
... finitude – an unsettling fact that is presaged by the ephemerality of our every gesture, our every encounter, and our every occasion. For Mead (1932: 28), then, ‘[d]urations are a continual sliding of presents into each other.’ He later elaborates on this statement in his analysis of the way one ‘he ...
... finitude – an unsettling fact that is presaged by the ephemerality of our every gesture, our every encounter, and our every occasion. For Mead (1932: 28), then, ‘[d]urations are a continual sliding of presents into each other.’ He later elaborates on this statement in his analysis of the way one ‘he ...
EINSTEIN: PHILOSOPHICAL IDEAS
... been quite content to let philosophers decide the terms and rules of philosophical discussion, and how the important questions should be framed. Accordingly, Einstein has often been accused by professional philosophers of being a kind of philosophical dilettante, sometimes doing little more than che ...
... been quite content to let philosophers decide the terms and rules of philosophical discussion, and how the important questions should be framed. Accordingly, Einstein has often been accused by professional philosophers of being a kind of philosophical dilettante, sometimes doing little more than che ...
On the Logic of the Ontological Argument
... eliminable in terms of, any other formulas. In what follows, we use ‘τ ’ to range over all terms: constants, variables, and descriptions. We use ‘ϕτx ’ to designate the result of substituting term τ for each free occurrence of the variable x in formula ϕ. The models of this simple language are stand ...
... eliminable in terms of, any other formulas. In what follows, we use ‘τ ’ to range over all terms: constants, variables, and descriptions. We use ‘ϕτx ’ to designate the result of substituting term τ for each free occurrence of the variable x in formula ϕ. The models of this simple language are stand ...
reply to JJ Valberg - Keele Research Repository
... integral to, and reconciled within, our final account. For although Valberg grants the legitimacy of the phenomenal conception, it has no real place in his account. It serves primarily to provide his diagnosis of where others go wrong, and within his own account, it strikes me as merely an awkwardne ...
... integral to, and reconciled within, our final account. For although Valberg grants the legitimacy of the phenomenal conception, it has no real place in his account. It serves primarily to provide his diagnosis of where others go wrong, and within his own account, it strikes me as merely an awkwardne ...
Our Concept of Time
... concepts, such as persistence and causation; the metaphysics of these latter notions – for some – is thought to bear on the debate over temporal reality. Most importantly, with an analysis of the folk concept of time in hand we can go some way toward determining what the world must be like in order ...
... concepts, such as persistence and causation; the metaphysics of these latter notions – for some – is thought to bear on the debate over temporal reality. Most importantly, with an analysis of the folk concept of time in hand we can go some way toward determining what the world must be like in order ...
Determinism - The Information Philosopher
... The “problem of determinism” looms large in philosophy, where it appears as the powerful alternative to libertarian freedom in the “problem of free will.”1 ...
... The “problem of determinism” looms large in philosophy, where it appears as the powerful alternative to libertarian freedom in the “problem of free will.”1 ...
SOME MAIN PROBLEMS OF PHILOSOPHY
... some of them. There was a time when there were not nearly so many men upon the earth as there are now and when those who were upon it did not know how many there were. They believed only in the existence of a comparatively small number of human bodies beside their own of a comparatively small number ...
... some of them. There was a time when there were not nearly so many men upon the earth as there are now and when those who were upon it did not know how many there were. They believed only in the existence of a comparatively small number of human bodies beside their own of a comparatively small number ...
The Relevance of Kant's Objection to Anselm's Ontological Argument
... well – the object simply fails to exist there. So the object would have no greatness there either. Then (2) could be true without it being possible that an object has some properties (such as omniscience and omnipotence) while lacking existence. I want instead to focus on (1), the assumption that Go ...
... well – the object simply fails to exist there. So the object would have no greatness there either. Then (2) could be true without it being possible that an object has some properties (such as omniscience and omnipotence) while lacking existence. I want instead to focus on (1), the assumption that Go ...
DIRECT REALISM WITHOUT MATERIALISM
... The point is not merely that perceptual judgments are not inferred from, or justified by, judgments about such intermediaries. ...
... The point is not merely that perceptual judgments are not inferred from, or justified by, judgments about such intermediaries. ...
Specious Present - Philsci
... microscope, we could discriminate indefinitely smaller units of time. The fourth and final theme is closely connected to each of the previous three. Those pre‐James authors who most clearly espouse something akin to the specious present doctrine do so as a consequence of endorsing a particular i ...
... microscope, we could discriminate indefinitely smaller units of time. The fourth and final theme is closely connected to each of the previous three. Those pre‐James authors who most clearly espouse something akin to the specious present doctrine do so as a consequence of endorsing a particular i ...
The Environment and Its Ontological Status
... balanced with another important and natural intuition: the need to conceive of truth as potentially revisable (the view known as ‘fallibilism’). 1 As finite beings, we cannot exclude the possibility that an assertion or a belief, even if justified now, could turn out to be false at some point in the ...
... balanced with another important and natural intuition: the need to conceive of truth as potentially revisable (the view known as ‘fallibilism’). 1 As finite beings, we cannot exclude the possibility that an assertion or a belief, even if justified now, could turn out to be false at some point in the ...
The Objectivity of the Past
... III. Davidson’s Deflationary Externalism At first blush, the likelihood of finding a more substantive notion of representation in Davidson’s work does not appear promising. Davidson seems, at times, to have taken a rather dim view of the prospect of a representational relation between language, on t ...
... III. Davidson’s Deflationary Externalism At first blush, the likelihood of finding a more substantive notion of representation in Davidson’s work does not appear promising. Davidson seems, at times, to have taken a rather dim view of the prospect of a representational relation between language, on t ...
Why Hume and Kant were mistaken in rejecting natural theology
... and only to persons (i.e. any rational beings, including for example Martians). This problem is – how general are the ideas which we can form from our experience of the world? The other problem is: in what ways is it permissible to combine ideas so as to form other ideas? Can we combine the idea of ...
... and only to persons (i.e. any rational beings, including for example Martians). This problem is – how general are the ideas which we can form from our experience of the world? The other problem is: in what ways is it permissible to combine ideas so as to form other ideas? Can we combine the idea of ...
Divisibility
... direct ‘contact’ with it, so to speak: the relation between the perceiver and perceived is a part of them both and they are thus parts of one another in some sense (it is an ‘active’ relation, in our above terminology). Such perception does not mean that one thing simply causes another thing, the p ...
... direct ‘contact’ with it, so to speak: the relation between the perceiver and perceived is a part of them both and they are thus parts of one another in some sense (it is an ‘active’ relation, in our above terminology). Such perception does not mean that one thing simply causes another thing, the p ...
Existence is a real
... 'President Obama exists' and 'Elephants (as opposed to dinosaurs) exist'.1 Miller was aware that most philosophers in the Western tradition going back to Greek philosophy have denied that existence is a real property; the only period in which that view was widely held was the high middle ages. (The ...
... 'President Obama exists' and 'Elephants (as opposed to dinosaurs) exist'.1 Miller was aware that most philosophers in the Western tradition going back to Greek philosophy have denied that existence is a real property; the only period in which that view was widely held was the high middle ages. (The ...
Christian Thomas KOHL
... reality. This view has been continually brought into doubt by the modern physical sciences; however, these doubts have not led to a new and complementary concept of reality but to a calamitous separation between philosophy and the modern physical sciences. It has served only to sharpen that dualism ...
... reality. This view has been continually brought into doubt by the modern physical sciences; however, these doubts have not led to a new and complementary concept of reality but to a calamitous separation between philosophy and the modern physical sciences. It has served only to sharpen that dualism ...
Realism, Antirealism and Naturalism AND Evolution
... Realism in modern philosophy is a doctrine according to which ordinary objects perceived by senses, such as tables and chairs, have an existence independent of their being perceived. It is contrary to the idealism of philosophers such as George Berkeley or Immanuel Kant. In its extreme form, also ca ...
... Realism in modern philosophy is a doctrine according to which ordinary objects perceived by senses, such as tables and chairs, have an existence independent of their being perceived. It is contrary to the idealism of philosophers such as George Berkeley or Immanuel Kant. In its extreme form, also ca ...
as pdf - Free Buddhist Audio
... independent existence. He does not refute the empirical existence of things. This is what he is explaining when he states: “MMK 15.10 'It exists' implies grasping after eternity. 'It does not exist' implies the philosophy of annihilation. Therefore, a discerning person should not decide on either ex ...
... independent existence. He does not refute the empirical existence of things. This is what he is explaining when he states: “MMK 15.10 'It exists' implies grasping after eternity. 'It does not exist' implies the philosophy of annihilation. Therefore, a discerning person should not decide on either ex ...
6th-annual-house-bulletin-abstracts-9-oct1
... Direct Visual Acquaintance with Possible Objects There is something subjectively common between a veridical experience (e.g. seeing a red tomato that is front of your eyes) and a matching non-veridical experience (e.g. hallucinating, dreaming of, visually imagining a red tomato.) Disjunctivist direc ...
... Direct Visual Acquaintance with Possible Objects There is something subjectively common between a veridical experience (e.g. seeing a red tomato that is front of your eyes) and a matching non-veridical experience (e.g. hallucinating, dreaming of, visually imagining a red tomato.) Disjunctivist direc ...
THE PRESOCRATIC PHILOSOPHERS AND SOCRATES
... wanted to add items to the common sense worldview, while others wanted to subtract them, and still others wanted to change it completely. By examining even the little of what we know about the Presocratic philosophers we will be in a better position to understand how it was that Socrates rebelled ag ...
... wanted to add items to the common sense worldview, while others wanted to subtract them, and still others wanted to change it completely. By examining even the little of what we know about the Presocratic philosophers we will be in a better position to understand how it was that Socrates rebelled ag ...