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... attitudinal object. Attitudinal objects are entities like ‘John’s belief that S’, John’s claim that S’, ‘John’s desire that S’, or ‘John’s request that S’. Attitudinal objects, though they form an ontological category of their own, are entities that share properties both with mental events and with ...
... attitudinal object. Attitudinal objects are entities like ‘John’s belief that S’, John’s claim that S’, ‘John’s desire that S’, or ‘John’s request that S’. Attitudinal objects, though they form an ontological category of their own, are entities that share properties both with mental events and with ...
The Zombie Argument - Utrecht University Repository
... way that non-physical properties play any role in the explanation of physical effects. So far, all the evidence suggests that the whole physical world is closed under causation.5 However, I will not discuss the causal closure of the physical any further in this thesis, but take it as an important th ...
... way that non-physical properties play any role in the explanation of physical effects. So far, all the evidence suggests that the whole physical world is closed under causation.5 However, I will not discuss the causal closure of the physical any further in this thesis, but take it as an important th ...
Mimesis, Eros, and Mania
... is diversely mediated by mimesis, eros and mania, and diversely intermediated because of the nature of the originals as other, as well as of human originality as participating in a more ultimate original. Nor does a philosophy of the metaxu exclude consideration of what ruptures or exceeds our self- ...
... is diversely mediated by mimesis, eros and mania, and diversely intermediated because of the nature of the originals as other, as well as of human originality as participating in a more ultimate original. Nor does a philosophy of the metaxu exclude consideration of what ruptures or exceeds our self- ...
Popper`s Double Standard of Scientificity in
... difference regarding the status of a theory or hypothesis. What makes the difference is the failing of any of the tests: refutation or falsification is the only means Popper allows for the control of scientific knowledge. This essential qualification is Popper’s criterion of the demarcation between ...
... difference regarding the status of a theory or hypothesis. What makes the difference is the failing of any of the tests: refutation or falsification is the only means Popper allows for the control of scientific knowledge. This essential qualification is Popper’s criterion of the demarcation between ...
the liberalism of karl popper
... ... both a unity and a parallelism, and also an asymmetry and strain between Popper’s philosophy of science and his social theory. His social ethic consists of the commendation of the virtue of openness, which is the social equivalent of falsifiability - the holding of social principles without rigi ...
... ... both a unity and a parallelism, and also an asymmetry and strain between Popper’s philosophy of science and his social theory. His social ethic consists of the commendation of the virtue of openness, which is the social equivalent of falsifiability - the holding of social principles without rigi ...
Leo Strauss and the Crisis of Rationalism
... in the first instance, Jacobi’s concept of reason: instead of making Jacobi into one of the Schwärmerei or a partisan of illuminism, which would be to conflate the German and French Enlightenments, Strauss sees what is at stake in Jacobi’s distinction between understanding and reason. The understand ...
... in the first instance, Jacobi’s concept of reason: instead of making Jacobi into one of the Schwärmerei or a partisan of illuminism, which would be to conflate the German and French Enlightenments, Strauss sees what is at stake in Jacobi’s distinction between understanding and reason. The understand ...
HISTORY OF LOGICAL CONSEQUENCE 1. Introduction
... More generally, however, we can investigate whether a collection of conclusions is a consequence of a collection of premises. Any theorist of consequence needs to answer the following questions: (1) What sort of entity can play the role of a premise or of a conclusion? That is, what are propositions ...
... More generally, however, we can investigate whether a collection of conclusions is a consequence of a collection of premises. Any theorist of consequence needs to answer the following questions: (1) What sort of entity can play the role of a premise or of a conclusion? That is, what are propositions ...
The General Point of View
... First, we may object that love surely has something to do with caring about a person’s welfare, and that the idea of taking pleasure in the thought of a person does not include or necessarily imply this important element of love. Hume is aware of this objection and he has a rather astonishing reply ...
... First, we may object that love surely has something to do with caring about a person’s welfare, and that the idea of taking pleasure in the thought of a person does not include or necessarily imply this important element of love. Hume is aware of this objection and he has a rather astonishing reply ...
The `normativity of content` thesis is not about the normativity of
... how CUCA follows from the premises. Along with doing so I will investigate what is constrained by 'ought' in the thesis and then I will show that the widespread idea (see for example Gluer and Wikforss 2009, forthcoming and Miller 2008) that the thesis is a separate normativity thesis to the normati ...
... how CUCA follows from the premises. Along with doing so I will investigate what is constrained by 'ought' in the thesis and then I will show that the widespread idea (see for example Gluer and Wikforss 2009, forthcoming and Miller 2008) that the thesis is a separate normativity thesis to the normati ...
Comments on Ismael`s “Doublemindedness: A model for a
... One is tempted to answer by saying that the features of a state that enter into the presentational content are those features that are conscious or phenomenal. But of course this would eliminate the possibility of explaining consciousness or phenomenality in terms of self-representation. Ismael also ...
... One is tempted to answer by saying that the features of a state that enter into the presentational content are those features that are conscious or phenomenal. But of course this would eliminate the possibility of explaining consciousness or phenomenality in terms of self-representation. Ismael also ...
WELFARISM AND UTILITARIANISM: A REHABILITATION*
... Here, a sentient is defined as a being that is capable of being happy or miserable. Thus, a sentient must be a conscious being but a conscious being need not be a sentient. For example, one can logically imagine beings that can perceive lights or even see and feel (the existence of) things without b ...
... Here, a sentient is defined as a being that is capable of being happy or miserable. Thus, a sentient must be a conscious being but a conscious being need not be a sentient. For example, one can logically imagine beings that can perceive lights or even see and feel (the existence of) things without b ...
Autonomy of the Other: on Kant, Levinas, and Universality
... rational moral law. This notion of freedom is one which is equated with being rational and morally good, rather than with the choice of whether to be good or bad. This appears at one level to run counter to the common understanding of freedom as precisely involving such a choice. However, Kantian au ...
... rational moral law. This notion of freedom is one which is equated with being rational and morally good, rather than with the choice of whether to be good or bad. This appears at one level to run counter to the common understanding of freedom as precisely involving such a choice. However, Kantian au ...
Foucault and Rorty on Truth and Ideology: A
... I will argue that even with a deflationary view of truth (which will be elaborated in section four) and even with an acceptance of anti-representationalism — the denial or the putting aside of the two ‘problem-defining assumptions’ mentioned by Ramberg — there remains a non-misleading way to think o ...
... I will argue that even with a deflationary view of truth (which will be elaborated in section four) and even with an acceptance of anti-representationalism — the denial or the putting aside of the two ‘problem-defining assumptions’ mentioned by Ramberg — there remains a non-misleading way to think o ...
John Charvet - The Nature and Limits of Human Equality
... equality follows from their particular commitment to and justification of basic equality. It is in this field that Charvet sees the surplus his book delivers. The first chapter sets the scene for the argument of the book. Charvet starts from the observation that nowadays equality h ...
... equality follows from their particular commitment to and justification of basic equality. It is in this field that Charvet sees the surplus his book delivers. The first chapter sets the scene for the argument of the book. Charvet starts from the observation that nowadays equality h ...
What are the recursion theoretic properties of a set of axioms
... also called “the theory”, a recursively enumerable (or equivalently Σ01 ) set of axioms, (possibly) a partial recursive function that extends the sets of axioms, a function that checks the correctness of a proof. This is a partial recursive function check(p) such that, if p is a proof, the computati ...
... also called “the theory”, a recursively enumerable (or equivalently Σ01 ) set of axioms, (possibly) a partial recursive function that extends the sets of axioms, a function that checks the correctness of a proof. This is a partial recursive function check(p) such that, if p is a proof, the computati ...
D. C. Schindler Plato`s Critique of Impure Reason: On Goodness
... Thrasymachus sufficient credit to recognize that he cannot assent to Cleitophon’s option without becoming bankrupt of power. To my mind, however, Schindler would do well to meditate on the fact that Thrasymachus is a sophist and thereby claims to possess determinate knowledge in the form of techne. ...
... Thrasymachus sufficient credit to recognize that he cannot assent to Cleitophon’s option without becoming bankrupt of power. To my mind, however, Schindler would do well to meditate on the fact that Thrasymachus is a sophist and thereby claims to possess determinate knowledge in the form of techne. ...
johannes bronkhorst trv murti`s reason
... central teaching of Buddha. Here too two influences may be seen at work. One, the passion for consistency: the very dynamism of the nairåtmyavåda must have made the realist phase (the Theory of the Elements) seem just a step. Then there was the Såµkhya and probably the other systems which conceived ...
... central teaching of Buddha. Here too two influences may be seen at work. One, the passion for consistency: the very dynamism of the nairåtmyavåda must have made the realist phase (the Theory of the Elements) seem just a step. Then there was the Såµkhya and probably the other systems which conceived ...
Edith Stein: On the Problem of Empathy - Kris McDaniel`s
... provided by experience, we would be in a much better position to engage in any sort of theorizing that takes us beyond the data. We could in principle have a kind of scientific community of philosophers, provided that the phenomenological method is one that can be taught and hence propagated. 23 Ind ...
... provided by experience, we would be in a much better position to engage in any sort of theorizing that takes us beyond the data. We could in principle have a kind of scientific community of philosophers, provided that the phenomenological method is one that can be taught and hence propagated. 23 Ind ...
Act Naturally - Integral Program
... The idea of a pure moral philosophy can be opposed to the civil religious authority offered by Vico. Kant asserts that the only things we can deem “good” are those that are generated from a good will: “Nothing can possibly be conceived in the world, or even out of it, which can be called good withou ...
... The idea of a pure moral philosophy can be opposed to the civil religious authority offered by Vico. Kant asserts that the only things we can deem “good” are those that are generated from a good will: “Nothing can possibly be conceived in the world, or even out of it, which can be called good withou ...
Principles in moral judgment.
... in separatist approach to judgment. On the other hand, as we said, there is expressivism, which treats moral judgments as expressions of attitudes, perhaps as some kind of emotional reactions. In this sense, expressivism is close to phenomenological side of separatist engaged in the overall approach ...
... in separatist approach to judgment. On the other hand, as we said, there is expressivism, which treats moral judgments as expressions of attitudes, perhaps as some kind of emotional reactions. In this sense, expressivism is close to phenomenological side of separatist engaged in the overall approach ...
abstracts
... “as soon as we form a clear and distinct idea of it”. What, exactly, does the acquiring of distinct ideas of the passions involve? The distinct idea of the passive affect, presumably, replaces the confused one, transforming the formerly passive affect into an active affect or emotion of joy. This do ...
... “as soon as we form a clear and distinct idea of it”. What, exactly, does the acquiring of distinct ideas of the passions involve? The distinct idea of the passive affect, presumably, replaces the confused one, transforming the formerly passive affect into an active affect or emotion of joy. This do ...
Arthur`s Bentley obstinate philosophy
... would not spare my best friend if his slaughter seemed important for what I was trying to do» (cited in Ryan 1997: 780-781). Arthur Fisher Bentley, philosopher, political and social scientist, whom John Dewey considered as «one of the most genial men I’ve ever known» (cited ibid. 780), was born in 1 ...
... would not spare my best friend if his slaughter seemed important for what I was trying to do» (cited in Ryan 1997: 780-781). Arthur Fisher Bentley, philosopher, political and social scientist, whom John Dewey considered as «one of the most genial men I’ve ever known» (cited ibid. 780), was born in 1 ...
Determinism - The Information Philosopher
... Despite the fact that quantum physics seems to have shown that the microscopic world at least is ontologically indeterministic, the critics of quantum theory, who have developed several alternative “interpretations” of quantum mechanics, are equally divided into those who accept the indeterminism an ...
... Despite the fact that quantum physics seems to have shown that the microscopic world at least is ontologically indeterministic, the critics of quantum theory, who have developed several alternative “interpretations” of quantum mechanics, are equally divided into those who accept the indeterminism an ...
1.Kant`s Account of the Unity
... interpret Kant's transcendental self in a physical way - either by saying that the awareness of this "I" is nothing else than the awareness of one's own body, or by trying to give a neurological explanation of the issue. The second and third chapter will deal with an important issue of rethinking Ka ...
... interpret Kant's transcendental self in a physical way - either by saying that the awareness of this "I" is nothing else than the awareness of one's own body, or by trying to give a neurological explanation of the issue. The second and third chapter will deal with an important issue of rethinking Ka ...