Scientific communication – within and outside
... ??? communication OF science... communication WITHIN science... communication PERFORMED by scientists... ...
... ??? communication OF science... communication WITHIN science... communication PERFORMED by scientists... ...
PRODAMBCH7052206
... tend towards an optimal state of mathematics: ‘We assume that certain fields of mathematics ultimately become stable, even though they may be embedded in ever broader contexts. Now define the limit practice by supposing it to contain all those expressions, statements, reasonings, and methodological ...
... tend towards an optimal state of mathematics: ‘We assume that certain fields of mathematics ultimately become stable, even though they may be embedded in ever broader contexts. Now define the limit practice by supposing it to contain all those expressions, statements, reasonings, and methodological ...
CLASSICAL FOUNDATIONALISM
... intimidating. In addition to justifiably believing E1, we would need to justifiably believe that E1 makes likely P, which we would need to infer from some proposition F1, which we would need to infer from some proposition F2, and so on ad infinitum. We would also need to justifiably believe that F1 ...
... intimidating. In addition to justifiably believing E1, we would need to justifiably believe that E1 makes likely P, which we would need to infer from some proposition F1, which we would need to infer from some proposition F2, and so on ad infinitum. We would also need to justifiably believe that F1 ...
03-Infinite
... B shaves B or B does not shave B [Law of Excluded Middle] If B shaves B, contradiction. If B does not shave B, contradiction. Therefore, contradiction ...
... B shaves B or B does not shave B [Law of Excluded Middle] If B shaves B, contradiction. If B does not shave B, contradiction. Therefore, contradiction ...
LaRock
... disposition to laugh, and the relevant external condition is brought about, then the individual will laugh. For example, if Cherry were to hear just one more joke about the Oompa Loompas’ song and dance, then she would erupt in laughter. One more joke was uttered and Cherry burst out in laughter. A ...
... disposition to laugh, and the relevant external condition is brought about, then the individual will laugh. For example, if Cherry were to hear just one more joke about the Oompa Loompas’ song and dance, then she would erupt in laughter. One more joke was uttered and Cherry burst out in laughter. A ...
The Tension
... We possess an inherent moral sense of what is right and wrong. While non-rational being part in natural law is that their will is determined by God’s. Capacity to reason indicates that humans are created in the image of their creator God. Nonhuman animals, lack this capacity and are justifiabl ...
... We possess an inherent moral sense of what is right and wrong. While non-rational being part in natural law is that their will is determined by God’s. Capacity to reason indicates that humans are created in the image of their creator God. Nonhuman animals, lack this capacity and are justifiabl ...
Moral sentimentalism - MarieLuisaFrick.net
... explain it with reference to the deficiency of the moral sense or emotional intuition. If moral sentimentalism can pave the way both to moral relativism and moral realism or objectivism, which way is the right one and how to determine it? The hypothesis that “emotions can apprehend the axiological l ...
... explain it with reference to the deficiency of the moral sense or emotional intuition. If moral sentimentalism can pave the way both to moral relativism and moral realism or objectivism, which way is the right one and how to determine it? The hypothesis that “emotions can apprehend the axiological l ...
The evolutionary debunking of morality
... and on the face of it nothing like that goes on with moral beliefs. What then are the prospects of using moral nativism to show that moral judgments are untrue? On one interpretation, Michael Ruse advocates such an argument (1986, 2006, 2009). In order to discuss Ruse’s case, we must first introduce ...
... and on the face of it nothing like that goes on with moral beliefs. What then are the prospects of using moral nativism to show that moral judgments are untrue? On one interpretation, Michael Ruse advocates such an argument (1986, 2006, 2009). In order to discuss Ruse’s case, we must first introduce ...
Against Fantology - Buffalo Ontology Site
... At the time when he advanced his Spreadsheet Ontology, Armstrong seems to have believed not only that such an assay is at least in principle possible, but further that its provision is the very goal of physics in its march towards future perfection. Wittgenstein’s Tractatus, too, of course, express ...
... At the time when he advanced his Spreadsheet Ontology, Armstrong seems to have believed not only that such an assay is at least in principle possible, but further that its provision is the very goal of physics in its march towards future perfection. Wittgenstein’s Tractatus, too, of course, express ...
Philosophy Paper
... most do not like translating it simply as suffering. In fact, it is not intended to be viewed as pessimistic or optimistic, but rather more realistic, and I think that’s what makes it a little ...
... most do not like translating it simply as suffering. In fact, it is not intended to be viewed as pessimistic or optimistic, but rather more realistic, and I think that’s what makes it a little ...
Contradiction In Madhyamaka Buddhist Argumentation
... soteriological discourse is clear both from context and from the fact that they make clear reference to some of the Buddha’s most basic teachings. It is thus tempting to suppose that the intention here is likewise to convey that the object of Buddhist wisdom is something inexpressible, perhaps somet ...
... soteriological discourse is clear both from context and from the fact that they make clear reference to some of the Buddha’s most basic teachings. It is thus tempting to suppose that the intention here is likewise to convey that the object of Buddhist wisdom is something inexpressible, perhaps somet ...
Speaking of the Ineffable, East and West
... The historical origins of the catus.kot.i are lost in unrecorded history, but they clearly pre-date Buddhism. Note how the questioner just assumes this framework, and the Buddha accepts it. Now to continue the story. The Buddha, you will note, refused to assent to any of the possibilities. Why? In s ...
... The historical origins of the catus.kot.i are lost in unrecorded history, but they clearly pre-date Buddhism. Note how the questioner just assumes this framework, and the Buddha accepts it. Now to continue the story. The Buddha, you will note, refused to assent to any of the possibilities. Why? In s ...
IS EVIL RATIONAL? - Prager University
... War II to risk his or her life to hide a Jew? We all know that this was moral greatness of the highest order. But was it rational? Not really. You can’t get much more rational than self-preservation. Moreover, in all the studies I have read of non-Jewish rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust -- and ...
... War II to risk his or her life to hide a Jew? We all know that this was moral greatness of the highest order. But was it rational? Not really. You can’t get much more rational than self-preservation. Moreover, in all the studies I have read of non-Jewish rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust -- and ...
Samavaya Inseparable Health May 24 docx
... Thoughts, feelings and emotions are a symptom of the mind and consciousness, further the consciousness motivates the inert gross world into action. No consciousness, no action perceived! A science that discards the world of consciousness as inert is not conscious itself. A thought gives any so-calle ...
... Thoughts, feelings and emotions are a symptom of the mind and consciousness, further the consciousness motivates the inert gross world into action. No consciousness, no action perceived! A science that discards the world of consciousness as inert is not conscious itself. A thought gives any so-calle ...
Challenges for moral enhancement a research proposal
... enhancements will alter the way we think about those problems. This indicates it will often be extremely controversial which interventions count as ‘enhancements’ at all; we may thus want to refrain from performing any moral ‘enhancements’ that affect judgments of such controversies, as it would ...
... enhancements will alter the way we think about those problems. This indicates it will often be extremely controversial which interventions count as ‘enhancements’ at all; we may thus want to refrain from performing any moral ‘enhancements’ that affect judgments of such controversies, as it would ...
your existence
... “Teleological Suspension of the Ethical” Example: God’s Command to Abraham to Sacrifice his son, Isaac. If you remember the Abraham and Isaac story: Abraham really loved his son Isaac, and God asked him to sacrifice Isaac. Kill him for faith. And Abraham, despite loving his son and otherwise being ...
... “Teleological Suspension of the Ethical” Example: God’s Command to Abraham to Sacrifice his son, Isaac. If you remember the Abraham and Isaac story: Abraham really loved his son Isaac, and God asked him to sacrifice Isaac. Kill him for faith. And Abraham, despite loving his son and otherwise being ...
philosophy of language for metaethics
... sentences are about. According to the nonreductive metaethical realist, normative sentences are about a sui generis normative domain, separate from any natural fact investigatable by the rest of the natural or social sciences. Consequently, nonreductive metaethical realists have a large stake in the ...
... sentences are about. According to the nonreductive metaethical realist, normative sentences are about a sui generis normative domain, separate from any natural fact investigatable by the rest of the natural or social sciences. Consequently, nonreductive metaethical realists have a large stake in the ...
God Must Be Evil - Sarah`s ePortfolio
... The problem of evil is one which has plagued philosophers since the fourth century BC. How can God and Evil both exist in the world? To be able to understand this question we must first gain knowledge of what evil is. Evil is often defined as something that is immoral or categorically bad, but can a ...
... The problem of evil is one which has plagued philosophers since the fourth century BC. How can God and Evil both exist in the world? To be able to understand this question we must first gain knowledge of what evil is. Evil is often defined as something that is immoral or categorically bad, but can a ...
PHI 110 Lecture 7 1 Welcome back. We`re talking today about
... The specific kind of linguistic confusion that Ryle thinks is involved in the mind/body problem is what Ryle calls a category mistake. A category mistake is defined as a linguistic error in which one mistakes one type of word for another. And typically, category mistakes occur when the superficial g ...
... The specific kind of linguistic confusion that Ryle thinks is involved in the mind/body problem is what Ryle calls a category mistake. A category mistake is defined as a linguistic error in which one mistakes one type of word for another. And typically, category mistakes occur when the superficial g ...
Aristotle - Start.ca
... We have seen that Greek philosophy was highly speculative, especially in metaphysics (Remember Thales & the others -- the one substance behind all reality is water? air? fire? earth?), where they tried to discover the true nature of the world by reason alone. This had an immediate impact on their et ...
... We have seen that Greek philosophy was highly speculative, especially in metaphysics (Remember Thales & the others -- the one substance behind all reality is water? air? fire? earth?), where they tried to discover the true nature of the world by reason alone. This had an immediate impact on their et ...
Kant`s Epistemology
... – “[W]e indeed, rightly considering objects of sense as mere appearances, confess, thereby, that [the appearances] are based upon a thing in itself, though we know not this thing as it is in itself, but only know its appearances, namely, the way in which our senses are affected by this unknown some ...
... – “[W]e indeed, rightly considering objects of sense as mere appearances, confess, thereby, that [the appearances] are based upon a thing in itself, though we know not this thing as it is in itself, but only know its appearances, namely, the way in which our senses are affected by this unknown some ...
7. “Or”
... can derive that either 2+2=4 or 7=0. But that only seems odd because in normal speech, we have a number of implicit rules. The philosopher Paul Grice described some of these rules, and we call the rules he described “Grice’s Maxims”. He observed that in conversation we expect people to give all the ...
... can derive that either 2+2=4 or 7=0. But that only seems odd because in normal speech, we have a number of implicit rules. The philosopher Paul Grice described some of these rules, and we call the rules he described “Grice’s Maxims”. He observed that in conversation we expect people to give all the ...
Previous Final Examination Questions
... 1. Why did Socrates reject Euthyphro’s account of piety as being loved by all the gods? 2. How did Plato account for human beings’ knowledge of the forms? 3. List Aristotle’s four kinds of causes, and give an example of each. 4. What two ways of existing did Anselm distinguish in preparation for his ...
... 1. Why did Socrates reject Euthyphro’s account of piety as being loved by all the gods? 2. How did Plato account for human beings’ knowledge of the forms? 3. List Aristotle’s four kinds of causes, and give an example of each. 4. What two ways of existing did Anselm distinguish in preparation for his ...
Moral Disagreement among Philosophers Ralph Wedgwood 1. An
... thinkers: one of them (Right-thinker) must have suitable cognitive capacities or virtues and be deploying them in a relevantly favourable environment, while the other thinker (Wrongthinker) must be either failing to deploy suitable capacities and virtues, or else deploying them in a relevantly unfav ...
... thinkers: one of them (Right-thinker) must have suitable cognitive capacities or virtues and be deploying them in a relevantly favourable environment, while the other thinker (Wrongthinker) must be either failing to deploy suitable capacities and virtues, or else deploying them in a relevantly unfav ...
Philosophy Plays
... these may not always be sufficient conditions, as external compliance through an outside agency may also be required in cases where one is both rationally convinced that there is justification for doing something and, moreover, motivated to act on his justified conviction, but fails to do so because ...
... these may not always be sufficient conditions, as external compliance through an outside agency may also be required in cases where one is both rationally convinced that there is justification for doing something and, moreover, motivated to act on his justified conviction, but fails to do so because ...