Moore, the Skeptic, and the Philosophical Context
... argument against the skeptic as a person, rather than an attempted refutation of skepticism. Its anti-skeptical force consists in its exposing the trouble the skeptic must be in. This interpretation on the one hand respects Moore’s disclaimer that his proof of an external world is not a proof that s ...
... argument against the skeptic as a person, rather than an attempted refutation of skepticism. Its anti-skeptical force consists in its exposing the trouble the skeptic must be in. This interpretation on the one hand respects Moore’s disclaimer that his proof of an external world is not a proof that s ...
Capitalism and Morality
... individual in meeting his or her ultimate goal or end, happiness. Lastly, once decided which action will best fit the end, the individual voluntarily engages in the action. Once discussing how a man may act in a morally responsible and proper way, Aristotle furthers his discussion of moral action b ...
... individual in meeting his or her ultimate goal or end, happiness. Lastly, once decided which action will best fit the end, the individual voluntarily engages in the action. Once discussing how a man may act in a morally responsible and proper way, Aristotle furthers his discussion of moral action b ...
On the Indispensable Premises of the Indispensability - Hal-SHS
... i) We ought rationally to believe in the existence of any entity which plays an indispensable explanatory role in our best scientific theories; ii) Mathematical objects play an indispensable explanatory role in science; -----------------------------iii) Hence, we ought rationally to believe in the e ...
... i) We ought rationally to believe in the existence of any entity which plays an indispensable explanatory role in our best scientific theories; ii) Mathematical objects play an indispensable explanatory role in science; -----------------------------iii) Hence, we ought rationally to believe in the e ...
Outline Truth and Lie
... is, I believe, that Nietzsche is ultimately not interested in (theories of) truth. This is not to say that Nietzsche is not acutely concerned with the role that the concept and rhetoric of truth has played within various cultures. Before beginning I should briefly digress to say a few words about an ...
... is, I believe, that Nietzsche is ultimately not interested in (theories of) truth. This is not to say that Nietzsche is not acutely concerned with the role that the concept and rhetoric of truth has played within various cultures. Before beginning I should briefly digress to say a few words about an ...
ARISTOTLE'S PHILOSOPHY OF HUMAN LIFE Sotshangane
... murder, betrayal, adultery, etc. are not subject to the mean at al/. Now the question is, how would we know that one course of action will be more right than any other or how would we know that a ...
... murder, betrayal, adultery, etc. are not subject to the mean at al/. Now the question is, how would we know that one course of action will be more right than any other or how would we know that a ...
Ethics—The Basics by John Mizzoni
... • SOCIAL SCIENCES (e.g. anthropology, social psychology, and sociology) also approach morality through a variety of disciplinary perspectives. • They describe the morality of different people at various times and in various places. This descriptive ethics is another subset of morality. ...
... • SOCIAL SCIENCES (e.g. anthropology, social psychology, and sociology) also approach morality through a variety of disciplinary perspectives. • They describe the morality of different people at various times and in various places. This descriptive ethics is another subset of morality. ...
67 A Realistic Constraint on Authorial Creativity
... human beings to react in a crazy situation. But how can we be justified in assuming that Arthur Dent’s psychology is ordinary human psychology, when after all, he’s the product of a supercomputer made by mice? The Reality Principle doesn’t explain why we simply assume that the psychology of Arthur D ...
... human beings to react in a crazy situation. But how can we be justified in assuming that Arthur Dent’s psychology is ordinary human psychology, when after all, he’s the product of a supercomputer made by mice? The Reality Principle doesn’t explain why we simply assume that the psychology of Arthur D ...
Environmental Ethics Anthropocentrism
... 3) provide for free will: the mechanistic view of nature enabled control over nature, but it was necessary to insist that the soul is a different substance from the body in order to account for free will. Free will is necessary for moral responsibility. As Aquinas had said it is because human beings ...
... 3) provide for free will: the mechanistic view of nature enabled control over nature, but it was necessary to insist that the soul is a different substance from the body in order to account for free will. Free will is necessary for moral responsibility. As Aquinas had said it is because human beings ...
philosophical skepticism at the end of the 20th century
... knowledge; in ethics, for instance, abstention is further active: “[…] the skeptic philosopher, noticing such a great diversity in considering things, refrains from asserting that there is something better or worse by nature and, in general, if one must or must not act; by refraining from the rush o ...
... knowledge; in ethics, for instance, abstention is further active: “[…] the skeptic philosopher, noticing such a great diversity in considering things, refrains from asserting that there is something better or worse by nature and, in general, if one must or must not act; by refraining from the rush o ...
MODULE: Argument Analysis
... that can convince us to accept the conclusion. Unless the premises of an argument are all true, we would have no reason to accept its conclusion. Criterion #2 : A good argument must be either valid or strong Is validity a necessary condition for a good argument? Certainly many good arguments are val ...
... that can convince us to accept the conclusion. Unless the premises of an argument are all true, we would have no reason to accept its conclusion. Criterion #2 : A good argument must be either valid or strong Is validity a necessary condition for a good argument? Certainly many good arguments are val ...
As a Matter of Fact: Empirical Perspectives on Ethics
... spirit, ‘surrender of the ethical burden to psychology’. And so far as we know, neither is anyone else. Ethics must not—indeed cannot—be psychology, but it does not follow that ethics should ignore psychology. The most obvious, and most compelling, motivation for our perspective is simply this: It i ...
... spirit, ‘surrender of the ethical burden to psychology’. And so far as we know, neither is anyone else. Ethics must not—indeed cannot—be psychology, but it does not follow that ethics should ignore psychology. The most obvious, and most compelling, motivation for our perspective is simply this: It i ...
Positive and Negative Relevance
... because the crossing keeper (positively) osed the gate rather than because he (negatively) did not close it. You might object that ‘ose’ is negative under the skin, since the sceptic explained it with the aid of ‘close’ and ‘not.’ But he could reply that things might have been different in such a wa ...
... because the crossing keeper (positively) osed the gate rather than because he (negatively) did not close it. You might object that ‘ose’ is negative under the skin, since the sceptic explained it with the aid of ‘close’ and ‘not.’ But he could reply that things might have been different in such a wa ...
KANT - ARISTOTLE lecture
... period in which modern science arose (i.e. since the seventeenth century), Kant’s view is more problematic than Plato’s. In this view the physical world is a vast machine in which everything that happens is determined by the physical laws of nature. Our minds exist, but we don’t know how to connect ...
... period in which modern science arose (i.e. since the seventeenth century), Kant’s view is more problematic than Plato’s. In this view the physical world is a vast machine in which everything that happens is determined by the physical laws of nature. Our minds exist, but we don’t know how to connect ...
26 November 2013 Liberalism: A Challenge to Religion Professor
... opposed to chosen, set of goals or natural ends which constitute human flourishing and fulfilment. Rather what we take to be goals is a matter of subjective choice. They are not goals which, as it were, are embedded in human life. If God is assumed to be redundant in an account of human life and th ...
... opposed to chosen, set of goals or natural ends which constitute human flourishing and fulfilment. Rather what we take to be goals is a matter of subjective choice. They are not goals which, as it were, are embedded in human life. If God is assumed to be redundant in an account of human life and th ...
Parsimony Arguments in Science and Philosophy
... This question is a test case for Naturalismp, which is the thesis that philosophical theories and scientific theories should be evaluated by the same criteria. In this paper, I describe the justifications that attach to two types of parsimony argument in science. In the first, parsimony is a surroga ...
... This question is a test case for Naturalismp, which is the thesis that philosophical theories and scientific theories should be evaluated by the same criteria. In this paper, I describe the justifications that attach to two types of parsimony argument in science. In the first, parsimony is a surroga ...
Nietzsche study guide a) What is significant about the title On the
... claim that the English Psychologists are bad historians? Why does Nz claim that the English Psychologists are bad psychologists? Does Nz believe that the idea of the good has a univocal, constant, trans-historical meaning? How does Nz challenge the assumption made by the English psychologists that t ...
... claim that the English Psychologists are bad historians? Why does Nz claim that the English Psychologists are bad psychologists? Does Nz believe that the idea of the good has a univocal, constant, trans-historical meaning? How does Nz challenge the assumption made by the English psychologists that t ...
Rationally Speaking #159: Colin Allen on, “Do fish feel pain?” Julia
... there are ways of doing it which, for some of them, will just make it a matter of definition that it's not something that's empirically studyable. As you pointed out, there are also ordinary senses of the term, such as the difference between being asleep and awake, or even awake and sleepwalking, in ...
... there are ways of doing it which, for some of them, will just make it a matter of definition that it's not something that's empirically studyable. As you pointed out, there are also ordinary senses of the term, such as the difference between being asleep and awake, or even awake and sleepwalking, in ...
Edwards on the Will: A Century of American Theological Debate
... intellect first, and conceived of thought as a process in which the intellect synthesizes the information provided by perception and judgment and gives the will orders to follow or to flee from the object of thought. The intellect, then, was clearly considered to be superior to the will, which exist ...
... intellect first, and conceived of thought as a process in which the intellect synthesizes the information provided by perception and judgment and gives the will orders to follow or to flee from the object of thought. The intellect, then, was clearly considered to be superior to the will, which exist ...
When Faith and Reason Clash: Evolution and the
... can't be both a particle and a wave. According to Niels Bohr, the father of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics, the solution is to be found in the idea of complementarity. We must recognize that there can be descriptions of the same object or phenomenon which are both true, and relev ...
... can't be both a particle and a wave. According to Niels Bohr, the father of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics, the solution is to be found in the idea of complementarity. We must recognize that there can be descriptions of the same object or phenomenon which are both true, and relev ...
The origin of concepts and the nature of knowledge revision boo
... experience them, and not before (Locke). It explains why people who lack certain kinds of sensation also lack the corresponding ideas – e.g. why blind people have no ideas of colours, and deaf people no idea of sounds (Hume). It gives us a way of resolving philosophical problems – clarify the id ...
... experience them, and not before (Locke). It explains why people who lack certain kinds of sensation also lack the corresponding ideas – e.g. why blind people have no ideas of colours, and deaf people no idea of sounds (Hume). It gives us a way of resolving philosophical problems – clarify the id ...
SievertHumanism
... his essential needs. This Humanist temper holds that men should place their faith in man himself, in his infinite possibilities. In a word, faith in intelligence and in man is Humanism. Three major factors according to Randall comprise the Humanist temper. “There is, in the first place, an emphasis ...
... his essential needs. This Humanist temper holds that men should place their faith in man himself, in his infinite possibilities. In a word, faith in intelligence and in man is Humanism. Three major factors according to Randall comprise the Humanist temper. “There is, in the first place, an emphasis ...
Here
... how our consciousness perceives it: our sense of sight, for example, which informs us about our environment more than any other sense, presents to us an illuminated and colorful world. But light is nothing but tiny particles (photons) emitted from a light source, bouncing from the bodies around us t ...
... how our consciousness perceives it: our sense of sight, for example, which informs us about our environment more than any other sense, presents to us an illuminated and colorful world. But light is nothing but tiny particles (photons) emitted from a light source, bouncing from the bodies around us t ...
If killing isn`t wrong, then nothing is: A naturalistic defence of basic
... To my ears, and I’m sure also to the ears of non-philosophers too, there is something deeply peculiar about these purported explanations. They evince in me the same kind of reaction as that reported by Wittgenstein in response to the empirical certainties exhibited by Moore: “even though I find it q ...
... To my ears, and I’m sure also to the ears of non-philosophers too, there is something deeply peculiar about these purported explanations. They evince in me the same kind of reaction as that reported by Wittgenstein in response to the empirical certainties exhibited by Moore: “even though I find it q ...
Commonsense concepts of phenomenal consciousness: Does
... robots as having some agency but little experience. These data seem to sit well with a view that claims that phenomenal states must be realized neurally while non-phenomenal states need not be so understood. After all, God doesn’t have a body (I assume) and an ordinary robot has the wrong sort of bo ...
... robots as having some agency but little experience. These data seem to sit well with a view that claims that phenomenal states must be realized neurally while non-phenomenal states need not be so understood. After all, God doesn’t have a body (I assume) and an ordinary robot has the wrong sort of bo ...
How Robust can Inconsistency Get?
... causes trouble on any scale that would remotely approach the trouble caused by a Currylike result for consistency. The reason for this is that he thinks that his proof doesn’t generalize in the way that I’ve suggested. What he does think is that the proof succeeds in showing that “it is only in prac ...
... causes trouble on any scale that would remotely approach the trouble caused by a Currylike result for consistency. The reason for this is that he thinks that his proof doesn’t generalize in the way that I’ve suggested. What he does think is that the proof succeeds in showing that “it is only in prac ...