UNIVERSAL CONSCIOUSNESS = ALEXIS KARPOUZOS
... The birth of modern science was preceded and accompanied by a development of philosophical thought which led to an extreme formulation of the spirit/matter dualism. This formulation appeared in the seventeenth century in the philosophy of René Descartes who based his view of nature on a fundamental ...
... The birth of modern science was preceded and accompanied by a development of philosophical thought which led to an extreme formulation of the spirit/matter dualism. This formulation appeared in the seventeenth century in the philosophy of René Descartes who based his view of nature on a fundamental ...
1 Graham Priest. One: Being an investigation into the Unity of
... could also serve as a panoramic introduction to Priest’s work generally. But a review of this size can only highlight its peaks at the expense of details in the valleys. Unities are more than just the sum of their parts. The parts must also be appropriately related. But merely relating is insufficie ...
... could also serve as a panoramic introduction to Priest’s work generally. But a review of this size can only highlight its peaks at the expense of details in the valleys. Unities are more than just the sum of their parts. The parts must also be appropriately related. But merely relating is insufficie ...
*A escola aqui dentro e *A escola lá fora*: compreendendo o
... for changing the other. One of the results is that you look apathetic to people. Now, those who do not live with objectivity in parentheses have a passion for changing the other. So they have this passion and you do not. For example, at the university where I work, people may say, ‘Humberto is not r ...
... for changing the other. One of the results is that you look apathetic to people. Now, those who do not live with objectivity in parentheses have a passion for changing the other. So they have this passion and you do not. For example, at the university where I work, people may say, ‘Humberto is not r ...
Quine. “Two Dogmas of Empiricism” - University of San Diego Home
... science…the issue over there being classes seems more a question of convenient conceptual scheme; the issue over there being centaurs, or brick houses on Elm Street, seems more a question of fact. But I have been urging that this difference is only one of degree, and that it turns upon our vaguely p ...
... science…the issue over there being classes seems more a question of convenient conceptual scheme; the issue over there being centaurs, or brick houses on Elm Street, seems more a question of fact. But I have been urging that this difference is only one of degree, and that it turns upon our vaguely p ...
What Is It Like to Be a Bat?
... one to fly around at dusk and dawn catching insects in one's mouth; that one has very poor vision, and perceives the surrounding world by a system of reflectedhigh-frequencysound signals; and that one spends the day hanging upside down by one's feetin an attic. In so far as I can imagine this (which ...
... one to fly around at dusk and dawn catching insects in one's mouth; that one has very poor vision, and perceives the surrounding world by a system of reflectedhigh-frequencysound signals; and that one spends the day hanging upside down by one's feetin an attic. In so far as I can imagine this (which ...
The Moral Philosophy of Bernard Williams
... look as much like a skeptic of moral philosophy as he was a moral skeptic (another distinction that might annoy the ethicist). But it would be strange to suggest that the arguments that Williams made in his Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy and other works were somehow out-of-touch. What were thos ...
... look as much like a skeptic of moral philosophy as he was a moral skeptic (another distinction that might annoy the ethicist). But it would be strange to suggest that the arguments that Williams made in his Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy and other works were somehow out-of-touch. What were thos ...
Reality and Appearance
... This state of affairs means that many of the most important concepts and terms used by Plato, and also the Presocratics, no longer have their original meaning in modern thinking. Indeed, “thought” itself has changed meaning, and so the understanding of words like “knowledge”, “truth”, “being”, “real ...
... This state of affairs means that many of the most important concepts and terms used by Plato, and also the Presocratics, no longer have their original meaning in modern thinking. Indeed, “thought” itself has changed meaning, and so the understanding of words like “knowledge”, “truth”, “being”, “real ...
Week 2
... Equivocation: Spivak is suggesting that we have to be sure in the theoretical rigour of our use of terms. We need to avoid using terms that have multiple meanings. She wants us to avoid equivocation. Subaltern: The individual that is oppressed has limited hegemonic power or accessibility to the noti ...
... Equivocation: Spivak is suggesting that we have to be sure in the theoretical rigour of our use of terms. We need to avoid using terms that have multiple meanings. She wants us to avoid equivocation. Subaltern: The individual that is oppressed has limited hegemonic power or accessibility to the noti ...
Creating the Human Past - Paleoanthropology Society
... Creating the Human Past allocates a great deal of space and effort into what are termed archaeology’s “mistakes.” There is space for the usual suspects (Piltdown Man and Glozel) but the discussion moves beyond fraud to mistakes of preservation of sites and rock art locales, to what Bednarik terms “A ...
... Creating the Human Past allocates a great deal of space and effort into what are termed archaeology’s “mistakes.” There is space for the usual suspects (Piltdown Man and Glozel) but the discussion moves beyond fraud to mistakes of preservation of sites and rock art locales, to what Bednarik terms “A ...
History and Moral Exempla in Enlightenment
... implies a thorough apprehension of human possibilities within a general historical continuum. History can instruct its contemporaries or descendants on how to become more prudent or relatively better, but only as long as the given assumptions and conditions are fundamentally the same. Until the eigh ...
... implies a thorough apprehension of human possibilities within a general historical continuum. History can instruct its contemporaries or descendants on how to become more prudent or relatively better, but only as long as the given assumptions and conditions are fundamentally the same. Until the eigh ...
Moral and Social Philosophy
... • The environment suits us not because of a Designer but because we gradually adapted to the environment. • However some argue that in order for any life to exist the earth and the whole universe must be very special. • Some say the design argument still does have force because the whole universe is ...
... • The environment suits us not because of a Designer but because we gradually adapted to the environment. • However some argue that in order for any life to exist the earth and the whole universe must be very special. • Some say the design argument still does have force because the whole universe is ...
Cognitive Illusions and the Welcome Psychologism of Logicist
... However, there’s a reading of Johnson-Laird’s response that provides him with a possible escape, and points the way toward a welcome version of psychologism. To begin, we need to be more precise about what an illusion is. Let E1, E2, … denote declarative sentences in English (actually, any natural l ...
... However, there’s a reading of Johnson-Laird’s response that provides him with a possible escape, and points the way toward a welcome version of psychologism. To begin, we need to be more precise about what an illusion is. Let E1, E2, … denote declarative sentences in English (actually, any natural l ...
Mussolini on Fascism Primary Source and ?`s
... State which is not fundamentally a concept of life; philosophy or intuition, a system of ideas which develops logically or is gathered up into a vision or into a faith, but which is always, at least virtually, an organic conception of the world. 2. Thus Fascism could not be understood in many of its ...
... State which is not fundamentally a concept of life; philosophy or intuition, a system of ideas which develops logically or is gathered up into a vision or into a faith, but which is always, at least virtually, an organic conception of the world. 2. Thus Fascism could not be understood in many of its ...
PHI 110 Lecture 16 1 Hello and welcome to what will be the first of
... held a view very much like this. They were called the Pyrrhonists. Their view was called Pyrrhonism. Those modern 18th century thinkers — skeptical thinkers were often referred to also as Pyrrhonists. Finally — and this is only finally with respect to my list. This by no means represents the last of ...
... held a view very much like this. They were called the Pyrrhonists. Their view was called Pyrrhonism. Those modern 18th century thinkers — skeptical thinkers were often referred to also as Pyrrhonists. Finally — and this is only finally with respect to my list. This by no means represents the last of ...
A Refutation of Moral Relativism
... he really does believe in these two objective values after all. If he does not do this, if he protests merely in the name of his alternative value system, which he has created, then his protest against your selfishness and megalomania is no better than your protest against his justice and truth. And ...
... he really does believe in these two objective values after all. If he does not do this, if he protests merely in the name of his alternative value system, which he has created, then his protest against your selfishness and megalomania is no better than your protest against his justice and truth. And ...
Some Remarks on Moral Rules - Università degli Studi di Trieste
... normativity of the concept of ‘normal infant’ and of the concept of ‘belonging to the human species’. We think with many good reasons, both scientific and moral ones, that we have a more complete concept of ‘human being’ such that we must reject those practices. In rejecting them, we do not do nothi ...
... normativity of the concept of ‘normal infant’ and of the concept of ‘belonging to the human species’. We think with many good reasons, both scientific and moral ones, that we have a more complete concept of ‘human being’ such that we must reject those practices. In rejecting them, we do not do nothi ...
Conversation with Johanna Seibt
... (‘Johanna-ing’) and there is only one spatial region where the activity occurs now. But that is contingent, as in principle this sort of dynamic could actually be multiply occurrent in space. You might say now: but what have we gained if we switch from location-individuated (i.e, particular) individ ...
... (‘Johanna-ing’) and there is only one spatial region where the activity occurs now. But that is contingent, as in principle this sort of dynamic could actually be multiply occurrent in space. You might say now: but what have we gained if we switch from location-individuated (i.e, particular) individ ...
How Valuable Could a Material Object Be?
... a judgment about the irrelevance of materiality to value along these lines: Bridge: If we have inherent moral worth irrespective of whether we possess a physical body, then our materiality is irrelevant to our value. From Reason Says and Bridge, this much follows immediately: Intermediate Conclusion ...
... a judgment about the irrelevance of materiality to value along these lines: Bridge: If we have inherent moral worth irrespective of whether we possess a physical body, then our materiality is irrelevant to our value. From Reason Says and Bridge, this much follows immediately: Intermediate Conclusion ...
How can we be moral when we are so irrational - Philsci
... Philosophy and rationality are in a long-term relationship and have been so for thousands of years – since Plato’s time at least. The core of this relationship is a commitment by philosophers to advance their investigations by rational means. And although there are parts of philosophy where people h ...
... Philosophy and rationality are in a long-term relationship and have been so for thousands of years – since Plato’s time at least. The core of this relationship is a commitment by philosophers to advance their investigations by rational means. And although there are parts of philosophy where people h ...
Knowledge and belief : an agent-oriented view
... inadequacy of naïve induction, then the final step in construing belief as the concept of primary utility had its origin in the advent of the computer during the 1940s and Turing's 1950 paper [Tu] on the possibility of machine intelligence. Discussions of scientific reasoning were concerned only wit ...
... inadequacy of naïve induction, then the final step in construing belief as the concept of primary utility had its origin in the advent of the computer during the 1940s and Turing's 1950 paper [Tu] on the possibility of machine intelligence. Discussions of scientific reasoning were concerned only wit ...
CONTENDING WITH STANLEY CAVELL
... papers), whereas we all recognize cases of significant philosophical voices who have no institutional credentials for their authorization to compose philosophy. Nietzsche is perhaps the most lurid modern case here; Rousseau and Hume would be other interesting cases. Suppose we say that the criterion ...
... papers), whereas we all recognize cases of significant philosophical voices who have no institutional credentials for their authorization to compose philosophy. Nietzsche is perhaps the most lurid modern case here; Rousseau and Hume would be other interesting cases. Suppose we say that the criterion ...
A National Event open to all U3A Members
... This is an introduction to metaphysics which is probably the most abstract branch of philosophy. Metaphysics covers fundamental concepts of human existence. Such things as identity, reality, causality and that which exists. A closely related issue is that concerned with how we can reliably know abou ...
... This is an introduction to metaphysics which is probably the most abstract branch of philosophy. Metaphysics covers fundamental concepts of human existence. Such things as identity, reality, causality and that which exists. A closely related issue is that concerned with how we can reliably know abou ...
- National Affairs
... the members are poor and miserable. It is but equity, besides, that they who feed, clothe and lodge the whole body of the people should have such a share of the produce of their own labour as to be themselves tolerably well fed, clothed and lodged. ...
... the members are poor and miserable. It is but equity, besides, that they who feed, clothe and lodge the whole body of the people should have such a share of the produce of their own labour as to be themselves tolerably well fed, clothed and lodged. ...
Logos, Ethos and Pathos
... • Those who wish to persuade you will play with your emotions. They may persuade you with fear, love, patriotism, guilt, hate or joy. • Although the use of pathos can be manipulative, it is the cornerstone of moving people to action and it will continue to be used again and ...
... • Those who wish to persuade you will play with your emotions. They may persuade you with fear, love, patriotism, guilt, hate or joy. • Although the use of pathos can be manipulative, it is the cornerstone of moving people to action and it will continue to be used again and ...
Veritistic Social Epistemology
... Goldman’s veritistic social epistemology sharply contrasts with certain postmodern and radical constructivist positions in which knowledge is, according to Goldman, exclusively determined by interpersonal and cultural processes and in which a realistic conception of truth as a cross-culturally conce ...
... Goldman’s veritistic social epistemology sharply contrasts with certain postmodern and radical constructivist positions in which knowledge is, according to Goldman, exclusively determined by interpersonal and cultural processes and in which a realistic conception of truth as a cross-culturally conce ...