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... DESCRIPTION: Egalitarians believe that distributive justice requires the equal distribution of certain goods. This view has some initial attractions, such as, for example, its appeal to our sense of fairness and to our sense that distributive justice should pay particular attention to the worst-off ...
... DESCRIPTION: Egalitarians believe that distributive justice requires the equal distribution of certain goods. This view has some initial attractions, such as, for example, its appeal to our sense of fairness and to our sense that distributive justice should pay particular attention to the worst-off ...
Bertrand Russell - UOWM Open eClass
... founding figure in the analytic movement in Anglo-American philosophy, and recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1950. Russell’s contributions to logic, epistemology, and the philosophy of mathematics established him as one of the foremost philosophers of the 20th century. To the general pu ...
... founding figure in the analytic movement in Anglo-American philosophy, and recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1950. Russell’s contributions to logic, epistemology, and the philosophy of mathematics established him as one of the foremost philosophers of the 20th century. To the general pu ...
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... However, the corpuscles did not have color, taste, smell, sound, or warmth. These other qualities were explained as the effects of the corpuscles on our sensory organs. For example, heat is just the motion of corpuscles, but this motion causes us to experience the sensation of warmth. ...
... However, the corpuscles did not have color, taste, smell, sound, or warmth. These other qualities were explained as the effects of the corpuscles on our sensory organs. For example, heat is just the motion of corpuscles, but this motion causes us to experience the sensation of warmth. ...
Reading Guide for Dewey, “Art as Experience”
... actually, not just potentially, a work of art only when it lives in some individualized experience….[It] is recreated every time it is esthetically experienced.” This means that works necessarily change through time, because it’s impossible for us to experience the Parthenon, for example, in the way ...
... actually, not just potentially, a work of art only when it lives in some individualized experience….[It] is recreated every time it is esthetically experienced.” This means that works necessarily change through time, because it’s impossible for us to experience the Parthenon, for example, in the way ...
Extremes meet each other: Artificial General Intelligence
... by John Laird, Allen Newell and Paul Rosenbloom at Carnegie Mellon University. Since its beginnings in 1983 and later on its presentation in 1987, it has been widely used by AI researchers to model different aspects of human behavior. Soar is another effort to be grasping at the goal of human-level ...
... by John Laird, Allen Newell and Paul Rosenbloom at Carnegie Mellon University. Since its beginnings in 1983 and later on its presentation in 1987, it has been widely used by AI researchers to model different aspects of human behavior. Soar is another effort to be grasping at the goal of human-level ...
PHILOSOPHY RESEARCH SEMINAR, PHILOSOPHY TEA AND
... Philosophy is often perceived as an aggressive, combative discipline, to the delight of some, and the despair of many others. These rival perceptions reflect competing metaphilosophical claims about the proper aims, nature, and practice of philosophy that are often expressed using certain metaphors. ...
... Philosophy is often perceived as an aggressive, combative discipline, to the delight of some, and the despair of many others. These rival perceptions reflect competing metaphilosophical claims about the proper aims, nature, and practice of philosophy that are often expressed using certain metaphors. ...
Examining Different Ethical Systems In this session we will be
... end in itself but as a means to other ends. As an example we can take the concept of ‘health’ and the act of going to the dentist. Health is an intrinsic value because it is an end worth pursuing for its own sake; the human organism will live a happier life in general if it is healthy, therefore he ...
... end in itself but as a means to other ends. As an example we can take the concept of ‘health’ and the act of going to the dentist. Health is an intrinsic value because it is an end worth pursuing for its own sake; the human organism will live a happier life in general if it is healthy, therefore he ...
Donovan Essay
... Bertrand Russell supported this idea and put forward the example of being in love with someone. We often feel that out intuition tells us about the other person and their love for us but often, we can be sadly misled by our intuition. Donovan’s article is based on the premise that the sense of knowl ...
... Bertrand Russell supported this idea and put forward the example of being in love with someone. We often feel that out intuition tells us about the other person and their love for us but often, we can be sadly misled by our intuition. Donovan’s article is based on the premise that the sense of knowl ...
Chapter 2: You are what you do Key Terms Agent
... theory but at the current time it is far from being solidified and convincing. Artificial intelligence People have been trying to create artificial intelligence since the 1940s, but how do you create a machine that is intelligent? The first person to bring the possibility to the table was Alan Turin ...
... theory but at the current time it is far from being solidified and convincing. Artificial intelligence People have been trying to create artificial intelligence since the 1940s, but how do you create a machine that is intelligent? The first person to bring the possibility to the table was Alan Turin ...
Good, Self, and Unselfing - Reflections on Iris Murdoch`s Moral
... necessary for all thinking. In order to understand any domain of life, we have to be able to relate things to each other, classify them as better or worse, important or not - in short, evaluate. As so often in her philosophy, Murdoch here takes art as an example. Learning to understand some art form ...
... necessary for all thinking. In order to understand any domain of life, we have to be able to relate things to each other, classify them as better or worse, important or not - in short, evaluate. As so often in her philosophy, Murdoch here takes art as an example. Learning to understand some art form ...
phaedo selection - Westmont homepage server
... which they will speak to one another in such words as these: We have found, they will say, a path of speculation which seems to bring us and the argument to the conclusion that while we are in the body, and while the soul is mingled with this mass of evil, our desire will not be satisfied, and our d ...
... which they will speak to one another in such words as these: We have found, they will say, a path of speculation which seems to bring us and the argument to the conclusion that while we are in the body, and while the soul is mingled with this mass of evil, our desire will not be satisfied, and our d ...
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
... concerning their personal identity. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind’s main vice for giving philosophical insight towards personal identity is through the use of color symbolism. Colors throughout the film assign quantifiable, measurable reflections of each of the character’s personal identitie ...
... concerning their personal identity. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind’s main vice for giving philosophical insight towards personal identity is through the use of color symbolism. Colors throughout the film assign quantifiable, measurable reflections of each of the character’s personal identitie ...
Objectivity of Oughts Matjaž Potrč, University of Ljubljana The
... Meinongian objects. Countering this species of strong realism is irrealism and the adjoined error theory, which flatly denies the existence of such abstract objects. Another way to go embraces naturalist material physical world as the basis of unique occurrences featuring deontic situations. Abstrac ...
... Meinongian objects. Countering this species of strong realism is irrealism and the adjoined error theory, which flatly denies the existence of such abstract objects. Another way to go embraces naturalist material physical world as the basis of unique occurrences featuring deontic situations. Abstrac ...
8. Handout on Plato`s Theory of Forms - Elly Pirocacos
... “time” before our physical existence. These Forms then, are the entities that our a priori truths are about. 3) Forms are the entities to which the objects of our sensory experience correspond. Sensory objects themselves are only IMPERFECTLY black or equal and so on, since under different circumstan ...
... “time” before our physical existence. These Forms then, are the entities that our a priori truths are about. 3) Forms are the entities to which the objects of our sensory experience correspond. Sensory objects themselves are only IMPERFECTLY black or equal and so on, since under different circumstan ...
Cosmological principle, and my view on philosophy “Cosmological
... observational evidence. Moreover, they argue their stance through words, while physicists argue their cases through math. I have a very strong doubt about arguments based on words, because philosophers, who argue through words, often contradict the hard result of physics. This doubt started when I f ...
... observational evidence. Moreover, they argue their stance through words, while physicists argue their cases through math. I have a very strong doubt about arguments based on words, because philosophers, who argue through words, often contradict the hard result of physics. This doubt started when I f ...
Philosophy as Quest - Oregon State University
... is that philosophy encourages questioning and seeks explanations and evidence, even for that which seems obvious, while traditionalism maintains that believing a certain story and being able to tell it is all the explanation or evidence that is ever required. Philosophy is an activity involving inqu ...
... is that philosophy encourages questioning and seeks explanations and evidence, even for that which seems obvious, while traditionalism maintains that believing a certain story and being able to tell it is all the explanation or evidence that is ever required. Philosophy is an activity involving inqu ...
Altruism and Selfsacrifice
... The Virus Case is like the Bomb Case in nearly all respects. The crucial difference is that in the Bomb Case, the self-sacrificing action is required in order to save people from serious harm that is the result of the gross immorality of another agent. In the Virus Case, the self-sacrificing action ...
... The Virus Case is like the Bomb Case in nearly all respects. The crucial difference is that in the Bomb Case, the self-sacrificing action is required in order to save people from serious harm that is the result of the gross immorality of another agent. In the Virus Case, the self-sacrificing action ...
this PDF file - Spontaneous Generations
... seems also not to have been a real substance–its existence was instead very likely inferred based on certain disease patterns (Nutton 2004, 84). Likewise the great Hellenistic (physical) causal entity called pneuma was often imperceptible, usually because it was not (as we should say) actually there ...
... seems also not to have been a real substance–its existence was instead very likely inferred based on certain disease patterns (Nutton 2004, 84). Likewise the great Hellenistic (physical) causal entity called pneuma was often imperceptible, usually because it was not (as we should say) actually there ...
Why I am an Objectivist about Ethics (And Why You... David Enoch
... seems to me to make perfect sense, and I suspect it makes sense to you too. And this is why there's nothing funny about it. OK, then, why is the spinach version funny and the others are not? Usually, our attitude towards our own likings and dislikings (when it comes to food, for instance) is that i ...
... seems to me to make perfect sense, and I suspect it makes sense to you too. And this is why there's nothing funny about it. OK, then, why is the spinach version funny and the others are not? Usually, our attitude towards our own likings and dislikings (when it comes to food, for instance) is that i ...
Word - The Smallings
... Empty space would exist even if nothing else did. We need not try to prove or explain them. They just are. Time is another example of a primordial reality. If we define time as the relative rate of change between material objects, then it follows that time could not exist without matter. Or, that th ...
... Empty space would exist even if nothing else did. We need not try to prove or explain them. They just are. Time is another example of a primordial reality. If we define time as the relative rate of change between material objects, then it follows that time could not exist without matter. Or, that th ...
Unavoidable Today? Is Protagoras' Moral Relativism
... peeuliar to myself and eonnot be imparted to other people; that they bind no one to myself; reason I share with other rational beings, it is a law not only for me, but for all others; it is one and the same reason in me and other humons (Stace: 114). Protagoras denies this: as measure of all things, ...
... peeuliar to myself and eonnot be imparted to other people; that they bind no one to myself; reason I share with other rational beings, it is a law not only for me, but for all others; it is one and the same reason in me and other humons (Stace: 114). Protagoras denies this: as measure of all things, ...
PowerPoint No.9 -- The Moral Argument
... get his/her just desserts. – “If there is no immortality, then all things are permitted.” Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karmazov ...
... get his/her just desserts. – “If there is no immortality, then all things are permitted.” Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karmazov ...
Process Ontology in Early American Pragmatism, Buddhism, and
... William James introduced his notion of “radical empiricism” as the basis for Pragmatism after coming to realize that Western philosophy had been going in the wrong direction since (at least) Descartes’ absolutist dualism had firmly taken hold of mainstream philosophical thought. James was a committe ...
... William James introduced his notion of “radical empiricism” as the basis for Pragmatism after coming to realize that Western philosophy had been going in the wrong direction since (at least) Descartes’ absolutist dualism had firmly taken hold of mainstream philosophical thought. James was a committe ...
Philosophy and concept formation in narrative therapy An
... and the persons who consult us produce their own life through their actions? This reminds me of a joke: I was walking down fifth avenue in New York, when I stopped to listen to a man playing the saxophone. He played wonderful jazz standards. Actually I was on my way to Carnegie Hall to buy some tick ...
... and the persons who consult us produce their own life through their actions? This reminds me of a joke: I was walking down fifth avenue in New York, when I stopped to listen to a man playing the saxophone. He played wonderful jazz standards. Actually I was on my way to Carnegie Hall to buy some tick ...
Reviews
... asserts (102, 104) that in perception the pot and its qualities are all apprehended simultaneously, he misses the key problem for apoha semantics that the pure particularity of the svalakùana means that in it, no distinction may be drawn between property and property-possessor. The svalakùanaÕs uni ...
... asserts (102, 104) that in perception the pot and its qualities are all apprehended simultaneously, he misses the key problem for apoha semantics that the pure particularity of the svalakùana means that in it, no distinction may be drawn between property and property-possessor. The svalakùanaÕs uni ...