Discussion Questions
... relativism is paradoxical? 6. Isn’t relativism paradoxical in another sense? 7. Don’t we all instinctively believe that some things are universally right and wrong? ...
... relativism is paradoxical? 6. Isn’t relativism paradoxical in another sense? 7. Don’t we all instinctively believe that some things are universally right and wrong? ...
Chapter 6 Introducing Metaphysics
... Substance something with independent existence the basic element of which things are made ...
... Substance something with independent existence the basic element of which things are made ...
Knowledge structuring in scholarly discourse
... The author`s text, perhaps, will not even mention or use the concept of representation. The problem therefore introduced is that someone at the beginning of their studies in this field will be left obscured from a possible counterposition in the discussion. Just because a concept is not used we cann ...
... The author`s text, perhaps, will not even mention or use the concept of representation. The problem therefore introduced is that someone at the beginning of their studies in this field will be left obscured from a possible counterposition in the discussion. Just because a concept is not used we cann ...
Philosophy 224
... What have we seen? • Our consideration of DCT and ER has revealed that these two very common "moral theories" do not satisfy the evaluative constraints which moral theories should satisfy. • At the very least, this fact calls into question the ability of these two ways of thinking about morality to ...
... What have we seen? • Our consideration of DCT and ER has revealed that these two very common "moral theories" do not satisfy the evaluative constraints which moral theories should satisfy. • At the very least, this fact calls into question the ability of these two ways of thinking about morality to ...
Presentation
... – Determinism is not a view that can be chosen, since those who believe it have no choice but to believe it. If so, the determinist cannot say that this view is independently better than another. ...
... – Determinism is not a view that can be chosen, since those who believe it have no choice but to believe it. If so, the determinist cannot say that this view is independently better than another. ...
Genes, Categories, and Species
... With over twenty-five species concepts currently in circulation, the “species problem” is alive and well. Frustrated by the preponderance of concepts, evolutionary geneticist Jody Hey proposes a resolution by diagnosising current ills in terms of the gap between scientific theories and cognitive cat ...
... With over twenty-five species concepts currently in circulation, the “species problem” is alive and well. Frustrated by the preponderance of concepts, evolutionary geneticist Jody Hey proposes a resolution by diagnosising current ills in terms of the gap between scientific theories and cognitive cat ...
Are there universal moral rules
... Many people want there to be a single right answer to ethical questions. They find moral ambiguity hard to live with because they genuinely want to do the 'right' thing, and even if they can't work out what that right thing is, they like the idea that 'somewhere' there is one right answer. But often ...
... Many people want there to be a single right answer to ethical questions. They find moral ambiguity hard to live with because they genuinely want to do the 'right' thing, and even if they can't work out what that right thing is, they like the idea that 'somewhere' there is one right answer. But often ...
Waking Life
... that there’s not much room for free will. Classic philosophers believed that God set things up in advance. More contemporary philosophers maintain that humans are just a system of molecules. The big bang set up the initial conditions, and our human lives are just the playing out of the subatomic par ...
... that there’s not much room for free will. Classic philosophers believed that God set things up in advance. More contemporary philosophers maintain that humans are just a system of molecules. The big bang set up the initial conditions, and our human lives are just the playing out of the subatomic par ...
What is Philosophy?
... (Though, one might argue, some of the greatest scientists of all time, including Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking to name but just two, were only able to develop their theories because they blended the empirical with the deeply conceptual.) Philosophy is reflecting critically on the way things ar ...
... (Though, one might argue, some of the greatest scientists of all time, including Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking to name but just two, were only able to develop their theories because they blended the empirical with the deeply conceptual.) Philosophy is reflecting critically on the way things ar ...
The Brotherhood of Doctrines - The Institute of General Semantics
... It may also be recommended to the thoughtful reader for yet another reason: it furnishes us a scientific base for our own great Masonic doctrine of Brotherhood. This is an exceedingly important thing, as a moment of reflection will prove. Roughly speaking, and from the present point of view, science ...
... It may also be recommended to the thoughtful reader for yet another reason: it furnishes us a scientific base for our own great Masonic doctrine of Brotherhood. This is an exceedingly important thing, as a moment of reflection will prove. Roughly speaking, and from the present point of view, science ...
In human life, there are many things people think they know with
... certainty. Is it really so? Can anybody be really sure about knowing something? What make us know something? Is there any knowledge in the world that is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it? According to Bertrand Russell, this last question, which at first sight might not seem difficult, ...
... certainty. Is it really so? Can anybody be really sure about knowing something? What make us know something? Is there any knowledge in the world that is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it? According to Bertrand Russell, this last question, which at first sight might not seem difficult, ...
Was Wittgenstein Right?
... startling discoveries to be made of facts, not open to the methods of science, yet accessible “from the armchair” through some blend of intuition, pure reason and conceptual analysis. Indeed the whole idea of a subject that could yield such results is based on confusion and wishful thinking. This a ...
... startling discoveries to be made of facts, not open to the methods of science, yet accessible “from the armchair” through some blend of intuition, pure reason and conceptual analysis. Indeed the whole idea of a subject that could yield such results is based on confusion and wishful thinking. This a ...
January 30 Reading - Are We Really So Modern
... Some were professionals: Baruch Spinoza ground lenses for optical equipment; John Locke was a doctor and a diplomat. And some were literary writers, like David Hume, who was better known in his lifetime for his “History of England” than for his philosophical works. Usually, they overlapped several ...
... Some were professionals: Baruch Spinoza ground lenses for optical equipment; John Locke was a doctor and a diplomat. And some were literary writers, like David Hume, who was better known in his lifetime for his “History of England” than for his philosophical works. Usually, they overlapped several ...
Class #2
... Philosophy is the willingness to ask questions about what we have assumed we already know. ...
... Philosophy is the willingness to ask questions about what we have assumed we already know. ...
YESHIVAT HAR ETZION
... opinion about previously existent crude material coupled with the opinion that our world was preceded by many other worlds, it would not taint his belief that our world came into being only a certain period of time ago, and that its first human inhabitants were Adam and Noah." The Torah accepts the ...
... opinion about previously existent crude material coupled with the opinion that our world was preceded by many other worlds, it would not taint his belief that our world came into being only a certain period of time ago, and that its first human inhabitants were Adam and Noah." The Torah accepts the ...
Reason and experience
... meaning that they are known in advance , or independently, of experience. It is when we encounter the idea of a priori intuition that innate ideas may be thought important. Descartes would probably have said that the reason we are able to know that all right angles are equal to one another is that w ...
... meaning that they are known in advance , or independently, of experience. It is when we encounter the idea of a priori intuition that innate ideas may be thought important. Descartes would probably have said that the reason we are able to know that all right angles are equal to one another is that w ...
Stove`s Discovery of the Worst Argument in the World
... In his marking scheme, half the marks went to the degree of badness of the argument, half to the degree of its endorsement by philosophers. Thus an argument was sought that was both very bad, and very prevalent. He awarded the prize to himself, for the following argument.1 We can know things only ● ...
... In his marking scheme, half the marks went to the degree of badness of the argument, half to the degree of its endorsement by philosophers. Thus an argument was sought that was both very bad, and very prevalent. He awarded the prize to himself, for the following argument.1 We can know things only ● ...
Are We Really So Modern - Northampton Community College
... Their thought was informed not just by previous philosophy but by politics, religion, and science—the whole intellectual and spiritual life of their times. And it was because these times were so tumultuous that they were able to think in such a radical way. Eras in which everything is up for grabs ...
... Their thought was informed not just by previous philosophy but by politics, religion, and science—the whole intellectual and spiritual life of their times. And it was because these times were so tumultuous that they were able to think in such a radical way. Eras in which everything is up for grabs ...
Class #1
... What is the structure, reliability and kinds of knowledge we have? What is the meaning of truth? Is scientific knowledge different than other forms of knowledge? ...
... What is the structure, reliability and kinds of knowledge we have? What is the meaning of truth? Is scientific knowledge different than other forms of knowledge? ...
Excerpt from Deborah L
... particular group or sect; as such, they are only supposed or presumed to be 'generallyaccepted beliefs'. Sophistical premises are those accepted because of some misleading resemblance to another type of premise, and poetic premises are those that produce a motion in the faculty of imagination (al-ta ...
... particular group or sect; as such, they are only supposed or presumed to be 'generallyaccepted beliefs'. Sophistical premises are those accepted because of some misleading resemblance to another type of premise, and poetic premises are those that produce a motion in the faculty of imagination (al-ta ...
Philosophy in Lincoln-‐Douglas Debate
... • Importance in LD-‐ while these terms are clearly epistemic, it is important for a debater to understand what it takes to qualify as truth for their given philosopher, as well as their opponents ...
... • Importance in LD-‐ while these terms are clearly epistemic, it is important for a debater to understand what it takes to qualify as truth for their given philosopher, as well as their opponents ...
Skepticism
... the side of which we could not place a false presentation that is indistinguishable from the true b. Impressions of sense are, therefore, not infallible, and the Stoics cannot look to reason as a remedy, since they themselves admit that concepts are founded on experience. c. We are unable to prove a ...
... the side of which we could not place a false presentation that is indistinguishable from the true b. Impressions of sense are, therefore, not infallible, and the Stoics cannot look to reason as a remedy, since they themselves admit that concepts are founded on experience. c. We are unable to prove a ...
Knowing justice and acting justly What is the source of virtue in
... Plato’s argument in the Republic as a whole develops an account of what the perfect state would be like. How would it be organized? In the next section, we will see that Plato argues that in the perfect state, philosophers must be rulers. This is the main political implication of the theory of the F ...
... Plato’s argument in the Republic as a whole develops an account of what the perfect state would be like. How would it be organized? In the next section, we will see that Plato argues that in the perfect state, philosophers must be rulers. This is the main political implication of the theory of the F ...