013 Prima facie argument against formalism
... partition is a finite set of numbers, but we are quantifying over sequences of these, so over sets of sets, which are equivalent to a second-order property; we have a relation between partitions (first-order sets) of refinement – so that relation is second-order. In the proof we see that it progress ...
... partition is a finite set of numbers, but we are quantifying over sequences of these, so over sets of sets, which are equivalent to a second-order property; we have a relation between partitions (first-order sets) of refinement – so that relation is second-order. In the proof we see that it progress ...
Eleven Reasons Why Philosophy is Important
... causation, the nature of mathematics, the nature of morality, and controversial applied ethics involves a great deal of knowledge. In particular, we can realize that certain hypotheses are untenable even when we have no way of knowing the absolute truth once and for all. This is not much different f ...
... causation, the nature of mathematics, the nature of morality, and controversial applied ethics involves a great deal of knowledge. In particular, we can realize that certain hypotheses are untenable even when we have no way of knowing the absolute truth once and for all. This is not much different f ...
Abū Hāmid Muhammad al-Ghazālī - American University of Beirut
... The fact that such a supra-intellectual apprehension has not manifested itself is no proof that it is impossible'. My ego hesitated a little about the reply to that, and sense-perception heightened the difficulty by referring to dreams. 'Do you not see', it said, 'how, when you are asleep you believ ...
... The fact that such a supra-intellectual apprehension has not manifested itself is no proof that it is impossible'. My ego hesitated a little about the reply to that, and sense-perception heightened the difficulty by referring to dreams. 'Do you not see', it said, 'how, when you are asleep you believ ...
Josef Früchtl Professor in Philosophy University of Amsterdam
... After my return from Italy I got employed as assistent of Prof. Scheer at the Philosophical Department of the University of Frankfurt/M., financed by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. The research project had the title: „Aesthetics and Morality“. From this work arose my book Ästhetische Erfahrung ...
... After my return from Italy I got employed as assistent of Prof. Scheer at the Philosophical Department of the University of Frankfurt/M., financed by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. The research project had the title: „Aesthetics and Morality“. From this work arose my book Ästhetische Erfahrung ...
Answers to Practice Quiz #3 - Langara iWeb
... Conway denied that the body was purely physical. She thought it somewhat spiritual, suffused with “vital forces”, more sublime than a mere mechanism. In this way, its interaction with the mind is less problematic. ...
... Conway denied that the body was purely physical. She thought it somewhat spiritual, suffused with “vital forces”, more sublime than a mere mechanism. In this way, its interaction with the mind is less problematic. ...
ethics in public administration - prof. Enrico Calossi
... official. The official is on both sides of the "deal.“ Outside employment, in which the interests of one job contradict another, Family interests, in which some close relative are employed (or applies for employment) or where goods or services are purchased from these relatives or a firm controlled ...
... official. The official is on both sides of the "deal.“ Outside employment, in which the interests of one job contradict another, Family interests, in which some close relative are employed (or applies for employment) or where goods or services are purchased from these relatives or a firm controlled ...
動物與道德 - 動物權台灣
... • 史賓諾沙 Baruch Spinoza (1632–1677) notably held that nothing is inherently good or evil. • 休姆 David Hume (1711–1776) distinguished between matters of fact and matters of value, and suggested that moral judgments consist of the latter, for they do not deal with verifiable facts obtained in the world, ...
... • 史賓諾沙 Baruch Spinoza (1632–1677) notably held that nothing is inherently good or evil. • 休姆 David Hume (1711–1776) distinguished between matters of fact and matters of value, and suggested that moral judgments consist of the latter, for they do not deal with verifiable facts obtained in the world, ...
Agreement-Based Practical Justification: A Comment on Wolff S
... slogan on its head: wanting to change the world is not sufficient; philosophers also ought to try harder to interpret it (191). Wolff points out, rightly, that the bottom-up, issue-based approach has become more common in moral and political philosophy in recent years. But he adds a well-placed warn ...
... slogan on its head: wanting to change the world is not sufficient; philosophers also ought to try harder to interpret it (191). Wolff points out, rightly, that the bottom-up, issue-based approach has become more common in moral and political philosophy in recent years. But he adds a well-placed warn ...
The Good the Bad and the Ugly of Corporate Responsibility
... corporate responsibility is just disingenuous blather. In fact, with so many interpretations, corporate social responsibility as a term is almost without common meaning. And as an inadequately defined and understood concept it tends to be divisive. So let’s move on from the confusing and divisive la ...
... corporate responsibility is just disingenuous blather. In fact, with so many interpretations, corporate social responsibility as a term is almost without common meaning. And as an inadequately defined and understood concept it tends to be divisive. So let’s move on from the confusing and divisive la ...
Is There a God?
... not omnipotent or, if He were omnipotent, He could decree the end without troubling about means. I do not myself perceive any consummation toward which the universe is tending. According to the physicists, energy will be gradually more evenly distributed and as it becomes more evenly distributed it ...
... not omnipotent or, if He were omnipotent, He could decree the end without troubling about means. I do not myself perceive any consummation toward which the universe is tending. According to the physicists, energy will be gradually more evenly distributed and as it becomes more evenly distributed it ...
Epistemology 1
... mathematics) B. From pure thought is proceeds to the idea (mathematical knowledge to dialectical science C. From the ideal to the realm beyond (from ideas to the Good) ...
... mathematics) B. From pure thought is proceeds to the idea (mathematical knowledge to dialectical science C. From the ideal to the realm beyond (from ideas to the Good) ...
Philosophy 220
... ● However, it does nothing to satisfy the explanatory aim. ● Why should we honor our parents? ● To say that “It pleases God.” just pushes the question back a level. Why does/should it please God? God’s willing it is no explanation of why it is the right thing to will. Insisting that God is good does ...
... ● However, it does nothing to satisfy the explanatory aim. ● Why should we honor our parents? ● To say that “It pleases God.” just pushes the question back a level. Why does/should it please God? God’s willing it is no explanation of why it is the right thing to will. Insisting that God is good does ...
The 21st. CENTURY ARTILECT Moral Dilemmas Concerning the
... "measured" according to the survivability criterion. It is just possible that there may be no other alternative for the artilect, than taking the same route. Survivability however, only has meaning in a context in which the concept of death has meaning. But would not an artilect be essentially immor ...
... "measured" according to the survivability criterion. It is just possible that there may be no other alternative for the artilect, than taking the same route. Survivability however, only has meaning in a context in which the concept of death has meaning. But would not an artilect be essentially immor ...
Session 1 – Introduction to Philosophy
... nature. Likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men committing what is shameful, and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was due. And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them ove ...
... nature. Likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men committing what is shameful, and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was due. And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them ove ...
How do logic and argument play a role in developing humour
... news. In his opinion the fact that the fish tasted nice was good news even thought to the other character there would have been no good news because his fish had been killed. This argument presented in the comic is not apart from an argument chain. The only conclusion that arises is the fish’s death ...
... news. In his opinion the fact that the fish tasted nice was good news even thought to the other character there would have been no good news because his fish had been killed. This argument presented in the comic is not apart from an argument chain. The only conclusion that arises is the fish’s death ...
OBJECTIONS TO REALISM Introduction: There are a bewildering
... without believing that it is a picture of Lincoln. The classic example discussed to illustrate this notion of seeing, one invoked by Kuhn himself (p.113), is Wittgenstein's famous duck/rabbit drawing. The very same lines can "strike one" as a picture of a rabbit or as a picture of a duck. There are ...
... without believing that it is a picture of Lincoln. The classic example discussed to illustrate this notion of seeing, one invoked by Kuhn himself (p.113), is Wittgenstein's famous duck/rabbit drawing. The very same lines can "strike one" as a picture of a rabbit or as a picture of a duck. There are ...
Ethics Power Point slides Lecture Notes Page
... Intellectual virtues: can learn from a teacher -Moral virtues: can only learn through experience and habit 2. Aim for the Golden Mean The Golden Mean is the midpoint between extremes, between deficiency and excess ...
... Intellectual virtues: can learn from a teacher -Moral virtues: can only learn through experience and habit 2. Aim for the Golden Mean The Golden Mean is the midpoint between extremes, between deficiency and excess ...
Beyond the axioms: The question of objectivity in mathematics
... were precisely the conditions that Hilbert placed on axiom systems. If these two conditions could be met, it would provide a very satisfactory conception of mathematics: no matter what intuitions we may have about the natural numbers or the reals, say, with a consistent and complete axiom system, we ...
... were precisely the conditions that Hilbert placed on axiom systems. If these two conditions could be met, it would provide a very satisfactory conception of mathematics: no matter what intuitions we may have about the natural numbers or the reals, say, with a consistent and complete axiom system, we ...
Jeopardy 4 - WordPress.com
... of human knowledge alone. If your wish is to become really a man of science, and not merely a petty experimentalist, I should advice you to apply to every branch of ...
... of human knowledge alone. If your wish is to become really a man of science, and not merely a petty experimentalist, I should advice you to apply to every branch of ...
A puzzle on the Greek philosophers
... of a student of mine to give them a sense of my philosophy. My death from hemlock poisoning arose directly as a result of the challenge that my ethical philosophy posed to the democracy in Athens. Accused falsely of introducing new gods and corrupting the youth I was found guilty by an Athenian cour ...
... of a student of mine to give them a sense of my philosophy. My death from hemlock poisoning arose directly as a result of the challenge that my ethical philosophy posed to the democracy in Athens. Accused falsely of introducing new gods and corrupting the youth I was found guilty by an Athenian cour ...
Kinds of Things—Towards a Bestiary of the
... of chmess as there are of chess, namely, an infinity of them. And no doubt they would be roughly as difficult to discover and to prove as the higherorder truths of chess. There are people who make a living working out the truths of chess and certainly it’s been a big avocation for many other people. B ...
... of chmess as there are of chess, namely, an infinity of them. And no doubt they would be roughly as difficult to discover and to prove as the higherorder truths of chess. There are people who make a living working out the truths of chess and certainly it’s been a big avocation for many other people. B ...
Human Personhood from a Kantian Perspective
... is sleeping is also a non-person, because they are not self-aware. One cannot generalize this rule for everyone based on this example and still have it be true; therefore it is not a moral act. From the ontological viewpoint, Kantian Ethics seems to support the idea that all humans are persons as me ...
... is sleeping is also a non-person, because they are not self-aware. One cannot generalize this rule for everyone based on this example and still have it be true; therefore it is not a moral act. From the ontological viewpoint, Kantian Ethics seems to support the idea that all humans are persons as me ...
Ethics: What Is Right?
... as guns or nuclear weapons are essentially non-moral. The old cliché, “Guns don’t kill people, people do,” therefore, is correct because guns themselves are neither moral nor immoral. Searching for Objective Criteria There’s more to ethics than simple making claims about what is right and wrong. In ...
... as guns or nuclear weapons are essentially non-moral. The old cliché, “Guns don’t kill people, people do,” therefore, is correct because guns themselves are neither moral nor immoral. Searching for Objective Criteria There’s more to ethics than simple making claims about what is right and wrong. In ...
Ethical Criticism
... Miller is criticised because: ethics equals narrative unreadablity, reduces all questions of truth, responsibility and self-knowledge to a play of rhetorical codes and figurations; as if reading occured in a vacuum, unaffected by the institutional, political, social and historical world of the reade ...
... Miller is criticised because: ethics equals narrative unreadablity, reduces all questions of truth, responsibility and self-knowledge to a play of rhetorical codes and figurations; as if reading occured in a vacuum, unaffected by the institutional, political, social and historical world of the reade ...
Handout
... think that even the ancient Greeks experienced truth just as correctness. In this 1962 essay, Heidegger also admits that it was a mistake for him (in Being and Time and elsewhere) to have used the word “truth” for un-concealment. He writes that using the word “truth” for anything but correctness was ...
... think that even the ancient Greeks experienced truth just as correctness. In this 1962 essay, Heidegger also admits that it was a mistake for him (in Being and Time and elsewhere) to have used the word “truth” for un-concealment. He writes that using the word “truth” for anything but correctness was ...