Functionalism - Cognitive Science Department
... • Maybe the same is true for ‘mind’? Maybe it is more useful to just study perception, reasoning, use of language, etc. without trying to define ‘mind’ (or ‘cognition’ or ‘intelligence’) itself? • Many practicing cognitive scientists see the mind as a multi-dimensional abstraction as implemented by ...
... • Maybe the same is true for ‘mind’? Maybe it is more useful to just study perception, reasoning, use of language, etc. without trying to define ‘mind’ (or ‘cognition’ or ‘intelligence’) itself? • Many practicing cognitive scientists see the mind as a multi-dimensional abstraction as implemented by ...
Logic - Cognitive Science Department
... • The science of reasoning. • The only invincible subject there is. • The basis for all things intellectual, from engineering to computer science to philosophy. • The most challenging subject there is. • A key to riches. • The key to divining the meaning of life (and other such big questions). • The ...
... • The science of reasoning. • The only invincible subject there is. • The basis for all things intellectual, from engineering to computer science to philosophy. • The most challenging subject there is. • A key to riches. • The key to divining the meaning of life (and other such big questions). • The ...
Why Does the Failure to Differentiate Reason from
... the foundation of rational thinking. Logic is only a small part of reason because most rational inferences are not, strictly speaking, logical inferences. Let us take an illustration. You look out of the window, and observe that you can see three houses. You turn back into the room and say “three ho ...
... the foundation of rational thinking. Logic is only a small part of reason because most rational inferences are not, strictly speaking, logical inferences. Let us take an illustration. You look out of the window, and observe that you can see three houses. You turn back into the room and say “three ho ...
glossary of philosophical terms
... Some of the bolded words in the text are mere cognates to the words that appear in this glossary, so if you are unable to find the precise word that was bolded in the text, try looking for cognate words. could turn into a cockroach, so having a human body isn’t one of his essential properties. Some ...
... Some of the bolded words in the text are mere cognates to the words that appear in this glossary, so if you are unable to find the precise word that was bolded in the text, try looking for cognate words. could turn into a cockroach, so having a human body isn’t one of his essential properties. Some ...
Handout 2: The Elements of Moral Philosophy: Chapters 3 and 4
... and the reasons that support them. 3. EM cannot provide such an account. 3. Therefore, EM is not adequate. Argument from Moral Facts 2 1. If EM is true, then reasons have no purpose in making moral judgments. 2. Reasons have a [strong] purpose in making moral judgments. 3. Therefore, EM is false. Ch ...
... and the reasons that support them. 3. EM cannot provide such an account. 3. Therefore, EM is not adequate. Argument from Moral Facts 2 1. If EM is true, then reasons have no purpose in making moral judgments. 2. Reasons have a [strong] purpose in making moral judgments. 3. Therefore, EM is false. Ch ...
Glossary - Oxford University Press
... still be a human being, if he let his hair grow long or shaved it off completely. An essential property is one that a thing has to have to be the thing that it is, or to be the kind of thing it fundamentally is. As a human being, Fred wouldn’t exist unless he had a human body, so having a human body ...
... still be a human being, if he let his hair grow long or shaved it off completely. An essential property is one that a thing has to have to be the thing that it is, or to be the kind of thing it fundamentally is. As a human being, Fred wouldn’t exist unless he had a human body, so having a human body ...
Good
... “In front of these sinister facts, the first lesson of history is the good of evil. Good is a good doctor, but Bad is sometimes a better. ‘Tis the oppressions of William the Norman, savage forest-laws, and crushing despotism, that made possible the inspirations of Magna Charta under John. Edward I. ...
... “In front of these sinister facts, the first lesson of history is the good of evil. Good is a good doctor, but Bad is sometimes a better. ‘Tis the oppressions of William the Norman, savage forest-laws, and crushing despotism, that made possible the inspirations of Magna Charta under John. Edward I. ...
PlatoX6_Commentary-_..
... are inherently endowed with the capacity for absolute truth, and that it can only be educed from them through dialectic. “When something is good, it is so because that thing partakes of an archetypal essence of goodness that is absolute and perfect, that exists on a timeless level that transcends it ...
... are inherently endowed with the capacity for absolute truth, and that it can only be educed from them through dialectic. “When something is good, it is so because that thing partakes of an archetypal essence of goodness that is absolute and perfect, that exists on a timeless level that transcends it ...
Feminist Ethics
... Held: “Rather than interpreting moral problems in terms of what could be handled by applying abstract rules of justice to particular cases, [many women tend] to be more concerned with preserving actual human relationships, and with expressing care for those for whom they feel responsible.” She prop ...
... Held: “Rather than interpreting moral problems in terms of what could be handled by applying abstract rules of justice to particular cases, [many women tend] to be more concerned with preserving actual human relationships, and with expressing care for those for whom they feel responsible.” She prop ...
Mike Maxim
... rationalism came under attack by the British Empiricists for lacking the ability to connect knowledge with experience or reality. The empiricists, led by Hume, claimed the opposite of what the rationalists did. They held that all knowledge was a direct result of experience, and that no innate ideas ...
... rationalism came under attack by the British Empiricists for lacking the ability to connect knowledge with experience or reality. The empiricists, led by Hume, claimed the opposite of what the rationalists did. They held that all knowledge was a direct result of experience, and that no innate ideas ...
Rationalism - LabTec-CS
... innate – can theoretically be discovered or ‘brought out’ (the original meaning of the word “education”) from within the mind of each individual. So, for example, one of Descartes’ arguments for the existence of God is that the idea is present in the mind from birth, left there almost as if an artis ...
... innate – can theoretically be discovered or ‘brought out’ (the original meaning of the word “education”) from within the mind of each individual. So, for example, one of Descartes’ arguments for the existence of God is that the idea is present in the mind from birth, left there almost as if an artis ...
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... So how are we to proceed? A basic intuition is that, like any other concept, to understand the depth and dimensions of the meaning of death—its nature—we must surround the concept with its essential and relational expressions in contexts of use. For example, we can, for specific purposes, referentia ...
... So how are we to proceed? A basic intuition is that, like any other concept, to understand the depth and dimensions of the meaning of death—its nature—we must surround the concept with its essential and relational expressions in contexts of use. For example, we can, for specific purposes, referentia ...
Normative Ethical Theories(W13)
... B. Smith judges that the chair will not break under his weight when he sits in it, C. Brown judges that every even positive integer greater than 2 is the sum of two primes. In each case, in making any one of these judgements, Jones, Smith and Brown decide, respectively, what each thinks is true. Of ...
... B. Smith judges that the chair will not break under his weight when he sits in it, C. Brown judges that every even positive integer greater than 2 is the sum of two primes. In each case, in making any one of these judgements, Jones, Smith and Brown decide, respectively, what each thinks is true. Of ...
science
... not entirely formal demonstrations are called "social proofs". The distinction has led to much examination of current and historical mathematical practice, quasi-empiricism in mathematics, and socalled folk mathematics (in both senses of that term). The philosophy of mathematics is concerned with th ...
... not entirely formal demonstrations are called "social proofs". The distinction has led to much examination of current and historical mathematical practice, quasi-empiricism in mathematics, and socalled folk mathematics (in both senses of that term). The philosophy of mathematics is concerned with th ...
An introduction to philosophy
... • Philosophy here can be interpreted to be quasi-religious in its meaning • Plato uses ideas from one area of philosophy to illuminate another ...
... • Philosophy here can be interpreted to be quasi-religious in its meaning • Plato uses ideas from one area of philosophy to illuminate another ...
Revision Notes Ethical Theory
... The Euthyphro Dilemma • ‘Are actions good because the gods command them, or are they good in themselves?’ • Problem = where does our sense of right and wrong come from? This was the start of moral philosophy • If it comes from the gods, how can we trust it is right, and not just an arbitrary decisi ...
... The Euthyphro Dilemma • ‘Are actions good because the gods command them, or are they good in themselves?’ • Problem = where does our sense of right and wrong come from? This was the start of moral philosophy • If it comes from the gods, how can we trust it is right, and not just an arbitrary decisi ...
III The lecture on Ethics
... words will only express facts”. The problem of life, the meaning of human existence - these very questions are in principle unanswerable; it is impossible for reason to find any solution. Reason can only lead to paradox; faith is needed to overcome it. This difficulties show why all we can do morall ...
... words will only express facts”. The problem of life, the meaning of human existence - these very questions are in principle unanswerable; it is impossible for reason to find any solution. Reason can only lead to paradox; faith is needed to overcome it. This difficulties show why all we can do morall ...
Philosophy 224
... Taylor identifies two features of the epistemological account of personhood which explain why it cannot make the proper distinction between person agents and non-person agents. 1. Representationalism assumes the independence of that which is represented, but that clearly is inadequate as an account ...
... Taylor identifies two features of the epistemological account of personhood which explain why it cannot make the proper distinction between person agents and non-person agents. 1. Representationalism assumes the independence of that which is represented, but that clearly is inadequate as an account ...
18 Classical Indian Metaphysics
... • A conviction that one has the absolute truth, for example, is likely to lead one to be willing – to injure others for its sake, and – to become attached to it ...
... • A conviction that one has the absolute truth, for example, is likely to lead one to be willing – to injure others for its sake, and – to become attached to it ...
Early Greek Philosophy
... A Greek nobleman from Ephesus who proposed another candidate as the basic element: fire. Heraclitus was not simply proposing an alternative to Thales’ water and Anaximenes's air. He wished to call attention to what he thought was the essential feature of reality, namely, that it is ceaselessly chang ...
... A Greek nobleman from Ephesus who proposed another candidate as the basic element: fire. Heraclitus was not simply proposing an alternative to Thales’ water and Anaximenes's air. He wished to call attention to what he thought was the essential feature of reality, namely, that it is ceaselessly chang ...
Is discrimination ethical? - Society of Corporate Compliance and
... complicated. It’s those other characteristics that could be considered wrong according to the moral code practiced by a person or group of people. Some religious and/or cultural moral principles may discriminate between what is believed to be right and wrong, and those don’t always fit into a partic ...
... complicated. It’s those other characteristics that could be considered wrong according to the moral code practiced by a person or group of people. Some religious and/or cultural moral principles may discriminate between what is believed to be right and wrong, and those don’t always fit into a partic ...
Synopsis - PhilPapers
... their call for paper that science has cleared the cobwebs of unreason and superstition and there is now no need for philosophical speculations, much less of religious dogma. There is yet another unstated presumption here: that every religious quest is essentially the same and all religions seek the ...
... their call for paper that science has cleared the cobwebs of unreason and superstition and there is now no need for philosophical speculations, much less of religious dogma. There is yet another unstated presumption here: that every religious quest is essentially the same and all religions seek the ...
Personal Identity and Immortality
... fundamental questions in human existence. Not surprisingly, however, they don’t admit of obvious or simple answers. As you will recall, Descartes argued that he was essentially a thinking thing or a mind (“sum res cogitans”) and that the mind could exist apart from the body. (That is, it is conceptu ...
... fundamental questions in human existence. Not surprisingly, however, they don’t admit of obvious or simple answers. As you will recall, Descartes argued that he was essentially a thinking thing or a mind (“sum res cogitans”) and that the mind could exist apart from the body. (That is, it is conceptu ...