Introduction: the growth of ignorance?
... able to keep an eye on them, rather than them remaining in the hills where no one could easily check what they were up to. Such instances abound; and several are documented in the essays below. However, the problems are not simply the failure to achieve sustainable development, or that technologica ...
... able to keep an eye on them, rather than them remaining in the hills where no one could easily check what they were up to. Such instances abound; and several are documented in the essays below. However, the problems are not simply the failure to achieve sustainable development, or that technologica ...
Kant`s moral theory has acquired the reputation of being forbiddingly
... actions, it says, are the ones that produce the most good. But what is good? The classical utilitarian reply is: one thing, and one thing only, namely happiness. As Mill put it, “The utilitarian doctrine is that happiness is desirable, and the only thing desirable, as an end; all other things being ...
... actions, it says, are the ones that produce the most good. But what is good? The classical utilitarian reply is: one thing, and one thing only, namely happiness. As Mill put it, “The utilitarian doctrine is that happiness is desirable, and the only thing desirable, as an end; all other things being ...
Philosophy of Science Summary Chapter 1: Rationalism and
... capacities. Our capacity to think generates ideas and concepts which we cannot arrive at by using our sensory capacities alone. Empiricism: not reason but sense experience is the ultimate source of knowledge. The senses are reliable indicators of what reality is like. Plato’s rationalism o Metaphysi ...
... capacities. Our capacity to think generates ideas and concepts which we cannot arrive at by using our sensory capacities alone. Empiricism: not reason but sense experience is the ultimate source of knowledge. The senses are reliable indicators of what reality is like. Plato’s rationalism o Metaphysi ...
andreas pistorius
... Most certainly Kant does not claim that, in order to secure your self-interest (≈ your happiness), you should obey the moral law. Perhaps if the sceptic recognises his happiness as the only possible reason for action, then Kant’s response is ineffective. Nevertheless if we suppose, as we should, tha ...
... Most certainly Kant does not claim that, in order to secure your self-interest (≈ your happiness), you should obey the moral law. Perhaps if the sceptic recognises his happiness as the only possible reason for action, then Kant’s response is ineffective. Nevertheless if we suppose, as we should, tha ...
What is Transcendentalism?
... "Transcendentalism" meant. I couldn't figure out what the central idea was that held all those authors and poets and philosophers together so that they deserved this categorical name, Transcendentalists. And so, if you're at this page because you're having difficulty: you're not alone. Here's what I ...
... "Transcendentalism" meant. I couldn't figure out what the central idea was that held all those authors and poets and philosophers together so that they deserved this categorical name, Transcendentalists. And so, if you're at this page because you're having difficulty: you're not alone. Here's what I ...
http://pine.kuee.kyoto-u.ac.jp/member/kaufmann/ Draft
... Aristotle (On Interpretation 1:9) noted that the past is “fixed” in a way in which the future is not. Whatever has been, cannot (now) have been otherwise. Consequently, any statement about past facts is unequivocally true or false, regardless of whether its truth value is known or not. The same is n ...
... Aristotle (On Interpretation 1:9) noted that the past is “fixed” in a way in which the future is not. Whatever has been, cannot (now) have been otherwise. Consequently, any statement about past facts is unequivocally true or false, regardless of whether its truth value is known or not. The same is n ...
Two Dogmas of Moral Theory? Comments on Lisa Tessman`s Moral
... for someone who refuses my care, I cannot fulfill my responsibility to care—and the failure is due not to my irresponsibility, but to the sheer moral bad luck of having the responsibility to care for someone who makes it impossible for me to fulfill my moral obligation. I take this to be the point i ...
... for someone who refuses my care, I cannot fulfill my responsibility to care—and the failure is due not to my irresponsibility, but to the sheer moral bad luck of having the responsibility to care for someone who makes it impossible for me to fulfill my moral obligation. I take this to be the point i ...
Panpsychism | uboeschenstein.ch
... that soul or anima was a fundamental part of the world and Patrizi introduced the actual term "panpsychism" into the philosophical vocabulary. According to Giordano Bruno: "There is nothing that does not possess a soul and that has no vital principle."[3] Platonist ideas like the anima mundi also re ...
... that soul or anima was a fundamental part of the world and Patrizi introduced the actual term "panpsychism" into the philosophical vocabulary. According to Giordano Bruno: "There is nothing that does not possess a soul and that has no vital principle."[3] Platonist ideas like the anima mundi also re ...
Responsibility and the Demands of Morality Stephen J. White In
... A second criticism of utilitarianism and other forms of (act-)consequentialism often goes hand-in-hand with the demandingness objection. This is that such theories imply that we are responsible for outcomes we would not normally take ourselves to be responsible for. Actconsequentialist views imply t ...
... A second criticism of utilitarianism and other forms of (act-)consequentialism often goes hand-in-hand with the demandingness objection. This is that such theories imply that we are responsible for outcomes we would not normally take ourselves to be responsible for. Actconsequentialist views imply t ...
1 - David Papineau
... In this section I want to qualify my thesis that philosophy, like science, is concerned with the construction of synthetic theories that gain their ultimate support from empirical evidence. I recognize that there are elements in philosophy that do not fit this characterization. In particular, I have ...
... In this section I want to qualify my thesis that philosophy, like science, is concerned with the construction of synthetic theories that gain their ultimate support from empirical evidence. I recognize that there are elements in philosophy that do not fit this characterization. In particular, I have ...
REVIEW OF CHAPTER NINETHEEN: ENGAGING THE FUTURE IN
... society, Ethics bases on morality, on what is good, or thought to be good ,or simply just feels right ,crucial questions deserve our attention in our quest to see how we can shape human conduct in the society ,analytical and critical tools of philosophy are focused and directed on human actions ,it ...
... society, Ethics bases on morality, on what is good, or thought to be good ,or simply just feels right ,crucial questions deserve our attention in our quest to see how we can shape human conduct in the society ,analytical and critical tools of philosophy are focused and directed on human actions ,it ...
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Medical Ethics VTS mg[1]
... Ethical dilemmas -examples (split into smaller groups) Presenting back to the group – principals highlighted in your ethical dilemmas Summary TEA - BREAK ...
... Ethical dilemmas -examples (split into smaller groups) Presenting back to the group – principals highlighted in your ethical dilemmas Summary TEA - BREAK ...
The thesis at issue here is this: whether or not the Argument from
... irreversible physical processes is computation 2) What computers do is based on irreversible physical processes 3) If the Argument from Irreversibility is sound, what computers do is not computation (1, 2) 4) What computers do is computation 5) The Argument from Irreversibility is unsound. (3, 4) ...
... irreversible physical processes is computation 2) What computers do is based on irreversible physical processes 3) If the Argument from Irreversibility is sound, what computers do is not computation (1, 2) 4) What computers do is computation 5) The Argument from Irreversibility is unsound. (3, 4) ...
Chinese Philosophies
... we have the rights and wrongs of the Confucians and the Mo-ists. What one calls right the other calls wrong; what one calls wrong the other calls right. But if we want to right their wrongs and wrong their rights, then the best thing to use is clarity. ...
... we have the rights and wrongs of the Confucians and the Mo-ists. What one calls right the other calls wrong; what one calls wrong the other calls right. But if we want to right their wrongs and wrong their rights, then the best thing to use is clarity. ...
Action research, stories and practical philosophy
... action. This action will vary dependant on our positions within our educational systems but the action aims to support those teachers who strive to engage with the complex educational problems involved in working and teaching young people at risk of exclusion from education. Secondly such a ‘narrati ...
... action. This action will vary dependant on our positions within our educational systems but the action aims to support those teachers who strive to engage with the complex educational problems involved in working and teaching young people at risk of exclusion from education. Secondly such a ‘narrati ...
Happiness: Lessons from a New Science, by Richard Layard
... to toss books down from an ivory tower and disregard their practical implications. With other intellectuals it might be deemed churlish to ask who they have written for, and on what authority, but not so with Layard. In answer to the first question, this book is clearly targeted at economists, polic ...
... to toss books down from an ivory tower and disregard their practical implications. With other intellectuals it might be deemed churlish to ask who they have written for, and on what authority, but not so with Layard. In answer to the first question, this book is clearly targeted at economists, polic ...
The Future of Human Nature by Jurgen Habermas
... Certainly most humans don’t want cloning or human breeding to become a reality- so where does genetic technology stop? I would think that it would stop at the point of helping cure genetic or hereditary defects- so that a person wouldn’t have to suffer through their life with a horrible disease if i ...
... Certainly most humans don’t want cloning or human breeding to become a reality- so where does genetic technology stop? I would think that it would stop at the point of helping cure genetic or hereditary defects- so that a person wouldn’t have to suffer through their life with a horrible disease if i ...
LCS 11: Introduction to Cognitive Science. Behaviorism
... this process more scientific, participants were trained in introspection through many trials, reporting their subjective experience.5 In particular, participants were instructed to decompose the process into discrete stages: perception of stimulus, a search for a response, identification of response ...
... this process more scientific, participants were trained in introspection through many trials, reporting their subjective experience.5 In particular, participants were instructed to decompose the process into discrete stages: perception of stimulus, a search for a response, identification of response ...
What if all truth is context-dependent?
... but then what grounds would one have for saying that the result contains absolute truths? Each level of establishing truth involving a quantification over contexts is limited to its infinite set of contexts – it is conceivable that such a trans-infinite recursion results in truly universal truths, b ...
... but then what grounds would one have for saying that the result contains absolute truths? Each level of establishing truth involving a quantification over contexts is limited to its infinite set of contexts – it is conceivable that such a trans-infinite recursion results in truly universal truths, b ...
BL5-13 - Additional Information
... Of Hartley's hypothetical vibrations in his hypothetical oscillating ether of the nerves, which is the first and most obvious distinction between his system and that of Aristotle, I shall say little. This, with all other similar attempts to render that an object of the sight which has no relation t ...
... Of Hartley's hypothetical vibrations in his hypothetical oscillating ether of the nerves, which is the first and most obvious distinction between his system and that of Aristotle, I shall say little. This, with all other similar attempts to render that an object of the sight which has no relation t ...
Faith v. Reason? - John Carroll University
... Mis-defining Faith • “Faith means that one considers a particular claim (e.g., ‘God exists’) to be actual knowledge, absolutely certain knowledge. This claim to certainty is held in the absence of adequate evidence, or in direct contradiction to the evidence.” – P. Wesley Edwards, “Understanding Re ...
... Mis-defining Faith • “Faith means that one considers a particular claim (e.g., ‘God exists’) to be actual knowledge, absolutely certain knowledge. This claim to certainty is held in the absence of adequate evidence, or in direct contradiction to the evidence.” – P. Wesley Edwards, “Understanding Re ...
Beauty - CSU, Chico
... Course Description: In this course we will investigate and discuss the concept of beauty. What does it mean to say that something is beautiful, or to say that one finds something beautiful? Are judgments of beauty merely subjective, and if so, why are they so important to us? Should we be suspicious ...
... Course Description: In this course we will investigate and discuss the concept of beauty. What does it mean to say that something is beautiful, or to say that one finds something beautiful? Are judgments of beauty merely subjective, and if so, why are they so important to us? Should we be suspicious ...
A2 Ethics
... all began advancing causal explanations of life, which led to many people questioning traditional Christian ideas about the purpose and meaning of life. With their increasing ability to account for human feelings and emotions, the belief has grown that we, like everything else in the world, act in a ...
... all began advancing causal explanations of life, which led to many people questioning traditional Christian ideas about the purpose and meaning of life. With their increasing ability to account for human feelings and emotions, the belief has grown that we, like everything else in the world, act in a ...
determinism_and_free..
... all began advancing causal explanations of life, which led to many people questioning traditional Christian ideas about the purpose and meaning of life. With their increasing ability to account for human feelings and emotions, the belief has grown that we, like everything else in the world, act in a ...
... all began advancing causal explanations of life, which led to many people questioning traditional Christian ideas about the purpose and meaning of life. With their increasing ability to account for human feelings and emotions, the belief has grown that we, like everything else in the world, act in a ...
scientific imperialism and behaviorist
... fixed properties; however, this belief in a fixed external reality is, and must be, just that, a belief, not something provable as fact. To acknowledge that belief in a stable (if largely unknowable) external world is both unprovable and necessary to almost any epistemology is just another way of ac ...
... fixed properties; however, this belief in a fixed external reality is, and must be, just that, a belief, not something provable as fact. To acknowledge that belief in a stable (if largely unknowable) external world is both unprovable and necessary to almost any epistemology is just another way of ac ...