Answer Sheet Day 1
... Now, something else I value is teaching. Why? Well, it brings in a modest income, but I could make more money doing other things. I'd do it even if they didn't pay me. I just enjoy teaching. In that sense it's an end to itself. But teaching's not something that has intrinsic value for all people - a ...
... Now, something else I value is teaching. Why? Well, it brings in a modest income, but I could make more money doing other things. I'd do it even if they didn't pay me. I just enjoy teaching. In that sense it's an end to itself. But teaching's not something that has intrinsic value for all people - a ...
Essay 98
... has not yet been discovered entirely, however this does not mean harmony is not a question of human lives even today. To follow a path, to believe in a higher being, to live prosperously, to be lead, to try to find harmony in diversities… These are modes of lives introduced to mankind by mostly reli ...
... has not yet been discovered entirely, however this does not mean harmony is not a question of human lives even today. To follow a path, to believe in a higher being, to live prosperously, to be lead, to try to find harmony in diversities… These are modes of lives introduced to mankind by mostly reli ...
dworkin on external skepticism
... that the world contains no moral features at all are best understood as thinking that there is some sort of non-obvious incoherence in ordinary moral thought. In so far as we have moral beliefs, we are committed to the truth of a number of claims that cannot be true in conjunction together: the mora ...
... that the world contains no moral features at all are best understood as thinking that there is some sort of non-obvious incoherence in ordinary moral thought. In so far as we have moral beliefs, we are committed to the truth of a number of claims that cannot be true in conjunction together: the mora ...
Essay 98 II) The Unbearable Heaviness of Being „The only question
... entirely, one must take the red pill instead of the blue one and delve into the realms of uncertainties. Dialectically, death and life, success and failure, poverty and wealth all depend on each other`s existence. Zhuangzi took a further step and claimed that our harmony depends on the existence of ...
... entirely, one must take the red pill instead of the blue one and delve into the realms of uncertainties. Dialectically, death and life, success and failure, poverty and wealth all depend on each other`s existence. Zhuangzi took a further step and claimed that our harmony depends on the existence of ...
A Dilemma for Deliberative Democracy: A Problem with Procedure
... Thus, there is at least one answer which could be produced by a deliberative democracy which is morally incorrect. But (6) and (2) entail a contradiction – i.e. whatever falls out of a deliberative democracy is both right and not right. Therefore, not-(a). Therefore, by disjunct elimination, (b). ...
... Thus, there is at least one answer which could be produced by a deliberative democracy which is morally incorrect. But (6) and (2) entail a contradiction – i.e. whatever falls out of a deliberative democracy is both right and not right. Therefore, not-(a). Therefore, by disjunct elimination, (b). ...
Skepticism and Perceptual Faith: Henry David Thoreau and Stanley
... miseries of human existence, but it also counts as another piece of evidence in favor of skeptical doubt! In this context, Hume may be alluding to religious belief in particular, but if the term “superstition” refers more generally to any ill-founded or gratuitous belief, then Hume must classify as ...
... miseries of human existence, but it also counts as another piece of evidence in favor of skeptical doubt! In this context, Hume may be alluding to religious belief in particular, but if the term “superstition” refers more generally to any ill-founded or gratuitous belief, then Hume must classify as ...
Normative Ethics and Metaethics
... One important and central question in metaethics concerns the nature of the meaning of moral words like ‘good’, ‘ought’, and ‘wrong’. One important and central answer to this question is that we can get the most illuminating gloss on what gives these words their meanings, without either using these ...
... One important and central question in metaethics concerns the nature of the meaning of moral words like ‘good’, ‘ought’, and ‘wrong’. One important and central answer to this question is that we can get the most illuminating gloss on what gives these words their meanings, without either using these ...
Chapter 5, Meaning
... and the answer would most likely be one of the following. The meaning of a word is said to be one of: (1) Something that the word ‘stands for’ as ‘Lenin’ stands for my friend Jon’s cat, (2) An idea either in the mind of the person using the word, or to be evoked in the mind of the person hearing the ...
... and the answer would most likely be one of the following. The meaning of a word is said to be one of: (1) Something that the word ‘stands for’ as ‘Lenin’ stands for my friend Jon’s cat, (2) An idea either in the mind of the person using the word, or to be evoked in the mind of the person hearing the ...
Ethics and Morality
... specially in everyday language, the distinction between the terms ‘ethics’ and ‘morality’ is not always clear. Even in some philosophical texts both are used synonymously, while others seem to draw a clear distinction between them. Historically, the term ‘ethics’ comes from Greek ethos which means t ...
... specially in everyday language, the distinction between the terms ‘ethics’ and ‘morality’ is not always clear. Even in some philosophical texts both are used synonymously, while others seem to draw a clear distinction between them. Historically, the term ‘ethics’ comes from Greek ethos which means t ...
Journal - Vassar Philosophy
... plan communities “where each building is a live thing and a natural extension of others. Together they will make the places where a man can realize what he wishes to be” (Smithson 3). For the architect to tap into the truest form of architecture, she had to reimagine architecture as an organic exten ...
... plan communities “where each building is a live thing and a natural extension of others. Together they will make the places where a man can realize what he wishes to be” (Smithson 3). For the architect to tap into the truest form of architecture, she had to reimagine architecture as an organic exten ...
Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals
... • Hypothetical imperatives are possible because willing the ends requires willing the means (that in one’s power) to the ends • But how do we will the end of happiness? • There is immense confusion over which means will promote it • Wealth, knowledge, even health all can lead to unhappiness • So the ...
... • Hypothetical imperatives are possible because willing the ends requires willing the means (that in one’s power) to the ends • But how do we will the end of happiness? • There is immense confusion over which means will promote it • Wealth, knowledge, even health all can lead to unhappiness • So the ...
Disagreement and the Ethics of Belief
... Weight View and the recommendations coming from the psychology of group inquiry are concerned with our doxastic lives from the epistemic perspective. Each is concerned with the goals of believing truths and disbelieving falsehoods. For each, the goal is to arrive at true conclusions and to avoid fal ...
... Weight View and the recommendations coming from the psychology of group inquiry are concerned with our doxastic lives from the epistemic perspective. Each is concerned with the goals of believing truths and disbelieving falsehoods. For each, the goal is to arrive at true conclusions and to avoid fal ...
The Vedanta concept of maya
... The relation of this process to modern quantum theory was discussed by Close (2000). An object is presented to an observer as a spectrum of potentials or possibilities according to a quantum mechanical process. Further, all processes at the scale of the atom are quantized, and these include the sens ...
... The relation of this process to modern quantum theory was discussed by Close (2000). An object is presented to an observer as a spectrum of potentials or possibilities according to a quantum mechanical process. Further, all processes at the scale of the atom are quantized, and these include the sens ...
Skeptical Hypotheses and Moral Skepticism
... are no moral facts. The analog of moral nihilism in the debate about perceptual skepticism is something like idealism, which let’s just stipulate is the view that there are no mind-independent objects. Of course, idealists might not put it this way. They would likely maintain that we do have hands b ...
... are no moral facts. The analog of moral nihilism in the debate about perceptual skepticism is something like idealism, which let’s just stipulate is the view that there are no mind-independent objects. Of course, idealists might not put it this way. They would likely maintain that we do have hands b ...
analysis of knowledge, assertion, verification
... that notion requires. Once the rational reconstruction has been fixed as a criterion of material adequacy, one can apply a particular theory (with its philosophical and empirical assumptions) which saves the phenomena explicated in the rational reconstruction. Of course, there can exists cases in wh ...
... that notion requires. Once the rational reconstruction has been fixed as a criterion of material adequacy, one can apply a particular theory (with its philosophical and empirical assumptions) which saves the phenomena explicated in the rational reconstruction. Of course, there can exists cases in wh ...
The Asymmetric Magnets Problem
... that seem to have metaphysical interest. In particular, it highlights the importance of three distinctions that are easy to blur when doing metaphysics. It will make the exposition of the puzzle easier to place these distinctions up front. The first distinction is between features and properties. Mo ...
... that seem to have metaphysical interest. In particular, it highlights the importance of three distinctions that are easy to blur when doing metaphysics. It will make the exposition of the puzzle easier to place these distinctions up front. The first distinction is between features and properties. Mo ...
Foucault on modernity
... critique that, on the one hand, takes rise in response to certain highly specific historical conditions, while on the other hand claiming to transcend those conditions through an exercise of the human faculties — of understanding, reason, and judgment — deduced a priori as a matter of timeless, self ...
... critique that, on the one hand, takes rise in response to certain highly specific historical conditions, while on the other hand claiming to transcend those conditions through an exercise of the human faculties — of understanding, reason, and judgment — deduced a priori as a matter of timeless, self ...
A Realist Theory of Science
... science, it tacitly takes over the empiricist account of being. This ontological legacy is expressed most succintly in its commitment to empirical realism, and thus to the concept of the ‘empirical world’. For the transcendental realist this concept embodies a sequence of related philosophical mis ...
... science, it tacitly takes over the empiricist account of being. This ontological legacy is expressed most succintly in its commitment to empirical realism, and thus to the concept of the ‘empirical world’. For the transcendental realist this concept embodies a sequence of related philosophical mis ...
A Review Essay of Personal Identity and Buddhist Philosophy: Empty Persons
... character. He provides—as Parfit does not—a clear statement of what he takes Reductionism to be, placing it between Non-Reductionism and Eliminativism. On Reductionist premises, the person is found to be dispensible by way of being “reducible”—yet to have, for all that, a certain utility. In contras ...
... character. He provides—as Parfit does not—a clear statement of what he takes Reductionism to be, placing it between Non-Reductionism and Eliminativism. On Reductionist premises, the person is found to be dispensible by way of being “reducible”—yet to have, for all that, a certain utility. In contras ...
Are real numbers the same for physicists and mathematicians?
... instead of counting configurations, and this is currently the preferred attitude. One must however admit that the discrete intuition served Boltzmann remarkably well, and also fit the later quantum ideas. Boltzmann’s ideas about discretizing real numbers were of course linked with his ideas about th ...
... instead of counting configurations, and this is currently the preferred attitude. One must however admit that the discrete intuition served Boltzmann remarkably well, and also fit the later quantum ideas. Boltzmann’s ideas about discretizing real numbers were of course linked with his ideas about th ...
Can Activist Scholars Learn Research Methods from Rumi
... commentaries even to begin to comprehend the gap between thought and language.8 While thought is developed through epistemologies (scholarship), language has grown from deep ontological/cosmological conceptions of the world9. To the extent that modernist knowledge wrenches people from the ontologica ...
... commentaries even to begin to comprehend the gap between thought and language.8 While thought is developed through epistemologies (scholarship), language has grown from deep ontological/cosmological conceptions of the world9. To the extent that modernist knowledge wrenches people from the ontologica ...
Can We Believe Without Sufficient Evidence? The James/Clifford
... Clifford could respond affirming that, even if there are beneficial consequences following beliefs upon insufficient evidence, that proves neither that we are fulfilling our epistemic duties nor that the belief in question is rational, given that to justify them James brings to light only the passio ...
... Clifford could respond affirming that, even if there are beneficial consequences following beliefs upon insufficient evidence, that proves neither that we are fulfilling our epistemic duties nor that the belief in question is rational, given that to justify them James brings to light only the passio ...
Lessons from Kant: On Knowledge, Morality, and Beauty
... contrast, passive enjoyment of sensations and pleasure that does not involve our imagination (our free play with the perceived sensation) do not amount to an experience of beauty. On Kant’s method. Turning back to philosophy, let me note that in all three cases (which are treated in Kant’s correspon ...
... contrast, passive enjoyment of sensations and pleasure that does not involve our imagination (our free play with the perceived sensation) do not amount to an experience of beauty. On Kant’s method. Turning back to philosophy, let me note that in all three cases (which are treated in Kant’s correspon ...
Python_lesson - Computing4School
... Is grammatically wrong or has what we call a syntax error. "Green" is an adjective, not a verb. Errors like this (or even misspellings) can’t be understood. They are nonsense! Similarly, if you enter a VB statement that the compiler cannot understand, you have committed a syntax error. ...
... Is grammatically wrong or has what we call a syntax error. "Green" is an adjective, not a verb. Errors like this (or even misspellings) can’t be understood. They are nonsense! Similarly, if you enter a VB statement that the compiler cannot understand, you have committed a syntax error. ...
Does Changing the Subject From A to B Really
... some practitioners aver, serve as beliefs which the ensuing analysis must not contravene. The idea of concepts as analysanda predates 1900 by two millennia and then some. Nobody thinks that Plato’s focus was on the data of concern to botanists or ornithologists. Plato was interested in concepts and ...
... some practitioners aver, serve as beliefs which the ensuing analysis must not contravene. The idea of concepts as analysanda predates 1900 by two millennia and then some. Nobody thinks that Plato’s focus was on the data of concern to botanists or ornithologists. Plato was interested in concepts and ...