meta-ethics and analysis of language
... “absolute” validity which is mysteriously independent of ordinary senseexperience, but because they have not objective validity whatsoever. If a sentence makes no statement at all, there is obviously no sense in asking whether what it says is true or false. And we have seen that sentences which simp ...
... “absolute” validity which is mysteriously independent of ordinary senseexperience, but because they have not objective validity whatsoever. If a sentence makes no statement at all, there is obviously no sense in asking whether what it says is true or false. And we have seen that sentences which simp ...
9. Indispensability arguments in the philosophy of mathematics
... holism,” and neither supposition is correct. In addition, they all assume that my indispensability argument was an argument for “Platonism” in Quine’s sense, and, as I have already pointed out, this was not the case.xix Here follows a brief word about each of them: Re (1): [“The first thing to note ...
... holism,” and neither supposition is correct. In addition, they all assume that my indispensability argument was an argument for “Platonism” in Quine’s sense, and, as I have already pointed out, this was not the case.xix Here follows a brief word about each of them: Re (1): [“The first thing to note ...
The Axiomatic Method
... This is another famous example, in which Russell and Whitehead tried to set down axioms for Mathematical Logic (and, by extension, for all of Mathematics). The project didn’t work out in quite the way they’d hoped; Gödel showed that arithmetic isn’t even fully axiomatizable, let alone all of Mathema ...
... This is another famous example, in which Russell and Whitehead tried to set down axioms for Mathematical Logic (and, by extension, for all of Mathematics). The project didn’t work out in quite the way they’d hoped; Gödel showed that arithmetic isn’t even fully axiomatizable, let alone all of Mathema ...
read - daniel tarr
... abdicate the task of refining the consensus. He considers philosophy itself a therapeutic process rather than a constructive metascience. Instead of building up grand solutions, he dissolves problems critically, finding the inconsistencies in the terms of the question. He perceives perplexity, 'misk ...
... abdicate the task of refining the consensus. He considers philosophy itself a therapeutic process rather than a constructive metascience. Instead of building up grand solutions, he dissolves problems critically, finding the inconsistencies in the terms of the question. He perceives perplexity, 'misk ...
Moral Theories
... Autonomy is accepted by most people although in a heavier or lighter way For the sake of morality autonomy is very precious ...
... Autonomy is accepted by most people although in a heavier or lighter way For the sake of morality autonomy is very precious ...
1 “A Counter-Example to Contextualism about Justificatory
... case” (5) I don’t see why one cannot say that Mary and John’s remaining in the same higher context at t2 as at t1 destroys the passenger Smith’s doxastic justification at t2 for that context. To recap, Smith’s knowledge that p, their plane will stop in Chicago, based on checking his itinerary, as yo ...
... case” (5) I don’t see why one cannot say that Mary and John’s remaining in the same higher context at t2 as at t1 destroys the passenger Smith’s doxastic justification at t2 for that context. To recap, Smith’s knowledge that p, their plane will stop in Chicago, based on checking his itinerary, as yo ...
Virtuism: Philosophy and the Aesthetics of Virtue
... towards society, while they are discovering their theories. It is the idea that philosophical truth is only complete if it incorporates into its structure not only epistemological truth (the virtue of its arguments) but truisms about the experiential relationship of human reasoning and the lives of ...
... towards society, while they are discovering their theories. It is the idea that philosophical truth is only complete if it incorporates into its structure not only epistemological truth (the virtue of its arguments) but truisms about the experiential relationship of human reasoning and the lives of ...
How To Write an A.P. U.S. History Thesis Statement
... answering of the question. Contestants in that pageant will often merely restate the question in the form of a statement and add a couple of words. This rewording of the question is overly simplistic and does not allow the writer to show analysis. Readers of the APUSH exam want to see a welldeve ...
... answering of the question. Contestants in that pageant will often merely restate the question in the form of a statement and add a couple of words. This rewording of the question is overly simplistic and does not allow the writer to show analysis. Readers of the APUSH exam want to see a welldeve ...
Concordia University Management of Criminal Justice
... employee: The performance of a discretionary function; The adoption and enforcement of or failure to adopt or enforce a law, unless the act of enforcement constitutes false arrest or false imprisonment; and an act or omission performed in good faith and without malice under the apparent authority of ...
... employee: The performance of a discretionary function; The adoption and enforcement of or failure to adopt or enforce a law, unless the act of enforcement constitutes false arrest or false imprisonment; and an act or omission performed in good faith and without malice under the apparent authority of ...
Hinduism
... appears to be two because it can be approached by looking for the ground of things, or looking for the ground of the Self. Seeking to understand the ultimate nature of the world and the Self, it had been discovered that the same Self exists within all beings. Each person shares his or her deepest be ...
... appears to be two because it can be approached by looking for the ground of things, or looking for the ground of the Self. Seeking to understand the ultimate nature of the world and the Self, it had been discovered that the same Self exists within all beings. Each person shares his or her deepest be ...
Hinduism
... appears to be two because it can be approached by looking for the ground of things, or looking for the ground of the Self. Seeking to understand the ultimate nature of the world and the Self, it had been discovered that the same Self exists within all beings. Each person shares his or her deepest be ...
... appears to be two because it can be approached by looking for the ground of things, or looking for the ground of the Self. Seeking to understand the ultimate nature of the world and the Self, it had been discovered that the same Self exists within all beings. Each person shares his or her deepest be ...
Concordia University Management of Criminal Justice
... employee: The performance of a discretionary function; The adoption and enforcement of or failure to adopt or enforce a law, unless the act of enforcement constitutes false arrest or false imprisonment; and an act or omission performed in good faith and without malice under the apparent authority of ...
... employee: The performance of a discretionary function; The adoption and enforcement of or failure to adopt or enforce a law, unless the act of enforcement constitutes false arrest or false imprisonment; and an act or omission performed in good faith and without malice under the apparent authority of ...
Problem of Non-existence
... To my ear, these are fairly obvious truisms. (Not everyone will agree; but in what follows I will say something against those who disagree.) Yet the idea that there are truths about non-existent things seems to be in conflict with another apparently obvious truism: the entire world – the real world, ...
... To my ear, these are fairly obvious truisms. (Not everyone will agree; but in what follows I will say something against those who disagree.) Yet the idea that there are truths about non-existent things seems to be in conflict with another apparently obvious truism: the entire world – the real world, ...
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... In the last book of his Republic Plato presents a puzzling myth, which some modern commentators regard as an anticlimactic, while other as a well-suited and illuminating end of the great dialogue. Be that as it may, the Myth of Er remains a fascinating reading, due to both its artistic excellence, a ...
... In the last book of his Republic Plato presents a puzzling myth, which some modern commentators regard as an anticlimactic, while other as a well-suited and illuminating end of the great dialogue. Be that as it may, the Myth of Er remains a fascinating reading, due to both its artistic excellence, a ...
On Moral Progress: A Response to Richard Rorty
... If the religious or metaphysical conception was not their own, they would view it as a conception that shows disrespect to them and treats them as unequals. On the other hand, citizens with differing conceptions of life, whether religious or secular, can accept, as a conception that respects them, a ...
... If the religious or metaphysical conception was not their own, they would view it as a conception that shows disrespect to them and treats them as unequals. On the other hand, citizens with differing conceptions of life, whether religious or secular, can accept, as a conception that respects them, a ...
here - News @ Wesleyan
... find this reasoning to be fully convincing on its own terms, yet I have also come to realize that “belief ” is not a central analytic category to the philosophical and theological texts with which I tend to work. In fact, many of these texts explicitly reject belief as inimical to thinking itself. So ...
... find this reasoning to be fully convincing on its own terms, yet I have also come to realize that “belief ” is not a central analytic category to the philosophical and theological texts with which I tend to work. In fact, many of these texts explicitly reject belief as inimical to thinking itself. So ...
Philosophy 1050: Introduction to Philosophy
... believe that in about fifty years' time it will be possible to programme computers, with a storage capacity of about 109, to make them play the imitation game so well that an average interrogator will not have more than 70 per cent chance of making the right identification after five minutes of ques ...
... believe that in about fifty years' time it will be possible to programme computers, with a storage capacity of about 109, to make them play the imitation game so well that an average interrogator will not have more than 70 per cent chance of making the right identification after five minutes of ques ...
Ethics Paper
... pursuit of happiness. Aristotle’s opening sentence of the essay states: “Every Art and every inquiry, equally practice and pursuit, seem to be aimed at some good, on account of which it has been nobly said that the good is that at which all things aim.” There is no debate that the supreme Good is ha ...
... pursuit of happiness. Aristotle’s opening sentence of the essay states: “Every Art and every inquiry, equally practice and pursuit, seem to be aimed at some good, on account of which it has been nobly said that the good is that at which all things aim.” There is no debate that the supreme Good is ha ...
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... person, that person is only said to know if the knowledge ‘is something dependent on the nature of the existent, because the true is [when] one believes something to be as it is in existence.’ 13 Thus our two authors are, at root, at odds with one another over the epistemic question: what are the c ...
... person, that person is only said to know if the knowledge ‘is something dependent on the nature of the existent, because the true is [when] one believes something to be as it is in existence.’ 13 Thus our two authors are, at root, at odds with one another over the epistemic question: what are the c ...
Denial of Virtue
... percent of participants helped their neighbors when allowed to develop a reputation for helping; 37 percent helped even if they were not allowed to gain such a reputation.23 There is a very considerable and complex literature on the reasons gifts are given in earlier societies and in this day and ag ...
... percent of participants helped their neighbors when allowed to develop a reputation for helping; 37 percent helped even if they were not allowed to gain such a reputation.23 There is a very considerable and complex literature on the reasons gifts are given in earlier societies and in this day and ag ...
Nowadays when we hear the term “prudence”
... the maintenance of sound social life. But he only is such an agent by way of being a participant. His contribution, even over a lifetime, generally is not necessary or sufficient to provide for the social conditions of a successful life, either his own or anyone else’s. So there is still a break, in ...
... the maintenance of sound social life. But he only is such an agent by way of being a participant. His contribution, even over a lifetime, generally is not necessary or sufficient to provide for the social conditions of a successful life, either his own or anyone else’s. So there is still a break, in ...
MORAL POINT OF VIEW THEORIES Moral Point of View Theories
... life, though not being compatible with rationality plainly would. But it has not been shown that morality is incompatible with rationality, only that it is not required by it. That we cannot show that all thoroughly intelligent and rational persons must also be morally committed persons does not sho ...
... life, though not being compatible with rationality plainly would. But it has not been shown that morality is incompatible with rationality, only that it is not required by it. That we cannot show that all thoroughly intelligent and rational persons must also be morally committed persons does not sho ...
A Vindication of the Rights of Machines
... identification, or some other spurious criteria. As Singer (1999, 87) describes it, "the biological facts upon which the boundary of our species is drawn do not have moral significance," and to decide questions of moral agency on this ground "would put us in the same position as racists who give pre ...
... identification, or some other spurious criteria. As Singer (1999, 87) describes it, "the biological facts upon which the boundary of our species is drawn do not have moral significance," and to decide questions of moral agency on this ground "would put us in the same position as racists who give pre ...
Ethics Discussion Thomas N. Davidson, JD
... and should be avoided. Intrinsic goodness is the highest level of goodness and should be sought. Summum bonum is the highest moral choice and should be sought. If intrinsic goodness cannot be achieved, the highest level of non-intrinsic goodness should be sought. Whenever intrinsic evil can be avoid ...
... and should be avoided. Intrinsic goodness is the highest level of goodness and should be sought. Summum bonum is the highest moral choice and should be sought. If intrinsic goodness cannot be achieved, the highest level of non-intrinsic goodness should be sought. Whenever intrinsic evil can be avoid ...