The Objectivity of the Past
... revisiting his earlier article, Dummett describes the view as ‘coherent but repugnant’ (Dummett 2005: 672), as “it involved, in language unacceptable to a proponent of that doctrine, that past events, the memory of and evidence for which had dissipated, were expunged, not merely from our knowledge, ...
... revisiting his earlier article, Dummett describes the view as ‘coherent but repugnant’ (Dummett 2005: 672), as “it involved, in language unacceptable to a proponent of that doctrine, that past events, the memory of and evidence for which had dissipated, were expunged, not merely from our knowledge, ...
Cosmological Argument
... • Why is there something rather than nothing? • Why does the universe the form it does, and not some other form? • How can the series of events that are the universe be explained? ...
... • Why is there something rather than nothing? • Why does the universe the form it does, and not some other form? • How can the series of events that are the universe be explained? ...
John Stuart Mill
... the rules of action... is a good topic for discussion in class. Mill says that both the intuitionist school and the induction schools of ethics have failed to produce a fundamental first principle from which all other general rules are deducible. I.e., an intuitionist might say: we have a moral insi ...
... the rules of action... is a good topic for discussion in class. Mill says that both the intuitionist school and the induction schools of ethics have failed to produce a fundamental first principle from which all other general rules are deducible. I.e., an intuitionist might say: we have a moral insi ...
DIRECT REALISM WITHOUT MATERIALISM
... At least five reasons have been given for the belief that direct realism is false, that we are never ("directly") aware of material objects: (1) the commonsense fact of perceptual relativity (I shall call it the objection from perceptual relativity); (2) the scientific facts about the circumstances ...
... At least five reasons have been given for the belief that direct realism is false, that we are never ("directly") aware of material objects: (1) the commonsense fact of perceptual relativity (I shall call it the objection from perceptual relativity); (2) the scientific facts about the circumstances ...
c1w3 - GEOCITIES.ws
... • Plato believed that learning is recollection • Prior to birth, the soul knows everything but in the process of birth, it forgets what it knew • So Meno’s search was an attempt to remember what the soul knows but has forgotten • Plato denied the 2nd premise, not the 3rd – 2- If we know what we are ...
... • Plato believed that learning is recollection • Prior to birth, the soul knows everything but in the process of birth, it forgets what it knew • So Meno’s search was an attempt to remember what the soul knows but has forgotten • Plato denied the 2nd premise, not the 3rd – 2- If we know what we are ...
Common Sense Philosophy and American Political Theology
... American political theology receives its most important public expression in the Declaration of Independence. God is referenced four times in the Declaration: as Supreme Lawgiver ("the laws of nature and of nature's God"), as Creator and Giver of human rights ("all men are created equal and endowed ...
... American political theology receives its most important public expression in the Declaration of Independence. God is referenced four times in the Declaration: as Supreme Lawgiver ("the laws of nature and of nature's God"), as Creator and Giver of human rights ("all men are created equal and endowed ...
Civilization Sequence 201
... Medicine. However, wealth or fame are goods that are external to the practice of Medicine because they could be attained by practicing other professions or performing other activities. ...
... Medicine. However, wealth or fame are goods that are external to the practice of Medicine because they could be attained by practicing other professions or performing other activities. ...
Aristotle
... Medicine. However, wealth or fame are goods that are external to the practice of Medicine because they could be attained by practicing other professions or performing other activities. ...
... Medicine. However, wealth or fame are goods that are external to the practice of Medicine because they could be attained by practicing other professions or performing other activities. ...
Going beyond good and evil
... audacious, lively, and world-affirming human being, one who has learned not only to accept and bear that which has been and is, but who also wants to have it over again, just as it was and is, throughout all eternity’ (§56). The ability to say ‘Yes’ to life is the ultimate mark of someone who is ‘hi ...
... audacious, lively, and world-affirming human being, one who has learned not only to accept and bear that which has been and is, but who also wants to have it over again, just as it was and is, throughout all eternity’ (§56). The ability to say ‘Yes’ to life is the ultimate mark of someone who is ‘hi ...
Class #9 - 5/7/14
... “The golden rule is best seen as a consistency principle. It doesn't replace regular moral norms. It isn't an infallible guide on which actions are right or wrong; it doesn't give all the answers. It only prescribes consistency -- that we not have our actions (toward another) be out of harmony with ...
... “The golden rule is best seen as a consistency principle. It doesn't replace regular moral norms. It isn't an infallible guide on which actions are right or wrong; it doesn't give all the answers. It only prescribes consistency -- that we not have our actions (toward another) be out of harmony with ...
Intuition, Entitlement and the Epistemology of Logical Laws
... characterisation one offers of the conditions under which blind inference is knowledgeproductive. Let C be a correct such characterisation. So if an inference meets conditions C, then the inferrer gets to know its conclusion if she knows its premises. The question is how this result might get us wha ...
... characterisation one offers of the conditions under which blind inference is knowledgeproductive. Let C be a correct such characterisation. So if an inference meets conditions C, then the inferrer gets to know its conclusion if she knows its premises. The question is how this result might get us wha ...
- Philsci
... one big, persistent assumption about the universe, namely that it is such that no disunified or aberrant theory is true. It assumes that the universe is such that there are no pockets of peculiarity, at specific times and places, or when specific conditions arise (gold spheres, gold and diamond dust ...
... one big, persistent assumption about the universe, namely that it is such that no disunified or aberrant theory is true. It assumes that the universe is such that there are no pockets of peculiarity, at specific times and places, or when specific conditions arise (gold spheres, gold and diamond dust ...
introphil_Week 4 – Morality: Objective, Relative or
... of things that can be true or false, and what makes them true or false are facts that are generally independent of who we are or what cultural groups we belong to – they are objective moral facts. ...
... of things that can be true or false, and what makes them true or false are facts that are generally independent of who we are or what cultural groups we belong to – they are objective moral facts. ...
this PDF file - Philosophical Inquiries
... showing how this appeal is indeed deeply problematic, emphasizing the many ways in which experiences and life can emotionally and reflexively touch and be significant from the point of view of an agent; all these thoughts and feelings about experience are, in Williams’ view, constitutively connected ...
... showing how this appeal is indeed deeply problematic, emphasizing the many ways in which experiences and life can emotionally and reflexively touch and be significant from the point of view of an agent; all these thoughts and feelings about experience are, in Williams’ view, constitutively connected ...
Essay - IPO2012
... Given this further distinction of inequality among humans as well, one might – out of purely human intentions of good-will – conclude that such favoritism out of ‘sensitivity’ is not an adequate basis for driving a hedge further into human society or the animal kingdom. In continuation of this view, ...
... Given this further distinction of inequality among humans as well, one might – out of purely human intentions of good-will – conclude that such favoritism out of ‘sensitivity’ is not an adequate basis for driving a hedge further into human society or the animal kingdom. In continuation of this view, ...
Right
... • Morality—Concerns beliefs about right and wrong actions and good and bad persons or character. • Philosophy—The systematic exploration of life’s big questions using critical thinking and logical argument. ...
... • Morality—Concerns beliefs about right and wrong actions and good and bad persons or character. • Philosophy—The systematic exploration of life’s big questions using critical thinking and logical argument. ...
Phaedo
... My words, too, are only an echo; but I am very willing to say what I have heard: and indeed, as I am going to another place, I ought to be thinking and talking of the nature of the pilgrimage which I am about to make. What can I do better in the interval between this and the setting of the sun? Then ...
... My words, too, are only an echo; but I am very willing to say what I have heard: and indeed, as I am going to another place, I ought to be thinking and talking of the nature of the pilgrimage which I am about to make. What can I do better in the interval between this and the setting of the sun? Then ...
Minimal Epistemology: Beyond Terminal Philosophy to Truth
... social constructivism. All are untenable, when denied their transitivity-presupposing circularity and regress arguments. Minimal epistemology starts by conceding to the skeptic, provisionally, not only that nothing is known, but that nothing is justified even in the weak sense of being merely more l ...
... social constructivism. All are untenable, when denied their transitivity-presupposing circularity and regress arguments. Minimal epistemology starts by conceding to the skeptic, provisionally, not only that nothing is known, but that nothing is justified even in the weak sense of being merely more l ...
Semantics in Philosophy and Computer Science
... In this way, it is possible to eliminate antinomies. However, this is not a proof that a definition of the ‘true’ predicate is working in that way. There are still sentences possible that are not determinable such as: “The color is too late.” In order to investigate a language and solve the truth pr ...
... In this way, it is possible to eliminate antinomies. However, this is not a proof that a definition of the ‘true’ predicate is working in that way. There are still sentences possible that are not determinable such as: “The color is too late.” In order to investigate a language and solve the truth pr ...
Sophie`s World by Jostein Gaarder
... which Jostein Gaarder hopes to teach us something about basic Western philosophy. I believe that if we have a basic grasp of philosophers' questions, we will also have an understanding of artists' questions, for they are often the same. By improving our view of the history of thought, we will improv ...
... which Jostein Gaarder hopes to teach us something about basic Western philosophy. I believe that if we have a basic grasp of philosophers' questions, we will also have an understanding of artists' questions, for they are often the same. By improving our view of the history of thought, we will improv ...
chapter 2 - Test Bank
... those affected by performing the action or following a rule. Once this is done, there are at least two different important issues that you can raise for the students to discuss: a. In considering the consequences, we are considering the effects that performing an action or following a rule can have. ...
... those affected by performing the action or following a rule. Once this is done, there are at least two different important issues that you can raise for the students to discuss: a. In considering the consequences, we are considering the effects that performing an action or following a rule can have. ...
Intentionality
... The significance of intentionality Why is intentionality philosophically interesting? One reason is that it provides us with a way of answering Richard Rorty’s question: what unifies the concept of the mental? What is it that pains and beliefs have in common that justifies us in calling them ‘mental ...
... The significance of intentionality Why is intentionality philosophically interesting? One reason is that it provides us with a way of answering Richard Rorty’s question: what unifies the concept of the mental? What is it that pains and beliefs have in common that justifies us in calling them ‘mental ...
An Evaluation of Paul Churchland`s Responses to The Knowledge
... that something is the case. Maybe Churchland’s objection in The Rediscovery of Light and as described by Jackson in What Mary Didn’t Know is something like this: (1)’’’ If the Mary story shows physicalism to be false, then Mary must come to know a new proposition upon leaving the room (since physica ...
... that something is the case. Maybe Churchland’s objection in The Rediscovery of Light and as described by Jackson in What Mary Didn’t Know is something like this: (1)’’’ If the Mary story shows physicalism to be false, then Mary must come to know a new proposition upon leaving the room (since physica ...
9/5/2006 - University of Pittsburgh
... the fighting faith of a second Enlightenment. For the pragmatists, like their Enlightenment predecessors, reason is the sovereign force in human life. And for the later philosophes, as for the earlier, reason in that capacity is to be understood on the model provided by the forms of understanding di ...
... the fighting faith of a second Enlightenment. For the pragmatists, like their Enlightenment predecessors, reason is the sovereign force in human life. And for the later philosophes, as for the earlier, reason in that capacity is to be understood on the model provided by the forms of understanding di ...
The private language argument
... • words represent speakers' translation of their internal mental vocabularies (ideas) into sounds, and are meaningful if the hearers can re-translate them into their own internal vocabularies • words represent speakers' translation of their internal mental vocabularies (ideas) into sounds, and are m ...
... • words represent speakers' translation of their internal mental vocabularies (ideas) into sounds, and are meaningful if the hearers can re-translate them into their own internal vocabularies • words represent speakers' translation of their internal mental vocabularies (ideas) into sounds, and are m ...