Intentional psychologism - California State University, Los Angeles
... propositions.1 In PC I held that the distinctive phenomenology of a thought is responsible for its expressing the proposition it does. That is, I held that a thought’s phenomenal content—viz., its intrinsic phenomenal features—determines its intentional content—which proposition it expresses. (I did ...
... propositions.1 In PC I held that the distinctive phenomenology of a thought is responsible for its expressing the proposition it does. That is, I held that a thought’s phenomenal content—viz., its intrinsic phenomenal features—determines its intentional content—which proposition it expresses. (I did ...
nothingness.plato.stanford.edu
... all cast a suspicious eye on ‘Why there is something rather than nothing?’ ...
... all cast a suspicious eye on ‘Why there is something rather than nothing?’ ...
Ethics of terminology
... meanings, not of all ideas, but only of what I call "intellectual concepts" (CP 5.467). Peirce’s pragmaticistic concept of meaning is special type of logical meaning meaning is a ‘proposition’ that can be used as guiding the possible action. It contains information what would be rational to act in e ...
... meanings, not of all ideas, but only of what I call "intellectual concepts" (CP 5.467). Peirce’s pragmaticistic concept of meaning is special type of logical meaning meaning is a ‘proposition’ that can be used as guiding the possible action. It contains information what would be rational to act in e ...
Connectivism Blog
... First, a new idea is often an old idea in today's context. For example, what is the new idea in constructivism? That people construct their own knowledge? Or the social, situated nature of learning? Or that knowledge is not something that exists outside of a knower? (i.e. there is no "there" out the ...
... First, a new idea is often an old idea in today's context. For example, what is the new idea in constructivism? That people construct their own knowledge? Or the social, situated nature of learning? Or that knowledge is not something that exists outside of a knower? (i.e. there is no "there" out the ...
Essay 98
... and those face a harsher existential crisis than others do, which is one of the reasons why they commit suicide. If, so to speak, death and life are “the transformations of events” then how can harmony be defined when an individual chooses to blur the line between those concepts, by committing suici ...
... and those face a harsher existential crisis than others do, which is one of the reasons why they commit suicide. If, so to speak, death and life are “the transformations of events” then how can harmony be defined when an individual chooses to blur the line between those concepts, by committing suici ...
Essay 98 II) The Unbearable Heaviness of Being „The only question
... being the “absurd” human and those face a harsher existential crisis than others do, which is one of the reasons why they commit suicide. If, so to speak, death and life are “the transformations of events” then how can harmony be defined when an individual chooses to blur the line between those conc ...
... being the “absurd” human and those face a harsher existential crisis than others do, which is one of the reasons why they commit suicide. If, so to speak, death and life are “the transformations of events” then how can harmony be defined when an individual chooses to blur the line between those conc ...
Chapter 5, Meaning
... been plausibly argued that it has never been conclusively verified, and never could be. When I discuss science in the next chapter it will become apparent that almost everyone interested in the logical basis of science now agrees with the late Sir Karl Popper that the relation of scientific theories ...
... been plausibly argued that it has never been conclusively verified, and never could be. When I discuss science in the next chapter it will become apparent that almost everyone interested in the logical basis of science now agrees with the late Sir Karl Popper that the relation of scientific theories ...
Real, invented or applied? Some reflections on scientific objectivity
... Social scientific objects seem to pose the following ontological challenge to Daston’s catholic view. Given that, according to an applied metaphysics, scientific objects are both real and invented, and that their reality is as a consequence a matter of degrees, what does it mean for social scientif ...
... Social scientific objects seem to pose the following ontological challenge to Daston’s catholic view. Given that, according to an applied metaphysics, scientific objects are both real and invented, and that their reality is as a consequence a matter of degrees, what does it mean for social scientif ...
Wittgenstein Tests Mr. Justice Holmes
... important to their community. 3 From a more modem perspective, however, we can pursue these questions with a Wittgensteinian emphasis rather than a Socratic one; that is, we can ask whether Wittgenstein's later philosophy might afford us help in assessing the interest or the value of one of Holmes's ...
... important to their community. 3 From a more modem perspective, however, we can pursue these questions with a Wittgensteinian emphasis rather than a Socratic one; that is, we can ask whether Wittgenstein's later philosophy might afford us help in assessing the interest or the value of one of Holmes's ...
Mimesis, Eros, and Mania
... last point when he tells us that the listeners to a poem often seemed to be in a better position to gave an account of it than its makers or rhapsodic performers (Apology, 22b–c). The question of creative otherness is at stake in the quarrel of poets and philosophers: poets, so to say, articulate wh ...
... last point when he tells us that the listeners to a poem often seemed to be in a better position to gave an account of it than its makers or rhapsodic performers (Apology, 22b–c). The question of creative otherness is at stake in the quarrel of poets and philosophers: poets, so to say, articulate wh ...
Morality and Virtue In Poetry and Philosophy
... in the poem, the act of utmost barbarity and cruelty—both the victor and the loser seem to be dehumanised, one as beast and the other as mere object. Symbolically, the fate of Troy is sealed, since Hector is portrayed as the sole defender of the city. As a warrior, Achilles proves his excellence in ...
... in the poem, the act of utmost barbarity and cruelty—both the victor and the loser seem to be dehumanised, one as beast and the other as mere object. Symbolically, the fate of Troy is sealed, since Hector is portrayed as the sole defender of the city. As a warrior, Achilles proves his excellence in ...
ON PHENOMENOLOGICAL SOCIOLOGY
... nature of the phenomenological enterprise and its relationship to sociology. Turning back to the original formulation of this relationship by Husserl, we discover problems of transcendental intersubjectivity, of type and essence, and of objectivism. We then point out the existence of sociologies whi ...
... nature of the phenomenological enterprise and its relationship to sociology. Turning back to the original formulation of this relationship by Husserl, we discover problems of transcendental intersubjectivity, of type and essence, and of objectivism. We then point out the existence of sociologies whi ...
Body Movement and Body Image Work
... standing against the wall, with the paper taped to the wall. Trace the client. Be sure to check-in throughout to see if the client feels safe and is comfortable. Remind her that she can stop at any ...
... standing against the wall, with the paper taped to the wall. Trace the client. Be sure to check-in throughout to see if the client feels safe and is comfortable. Remind her that she can stop at any ...
Freedom and Universality: Hegel`s Republican Conception of
... This paper outlines Hegel’s vision of what we can call a republican understanding of modernity. By this I mean that Hegel stands at the apex of a tradition of thought that saw the modern social world as defined by a kind of reason that allowed the individual to reach a higher conceptual grasp of him ...
... This paper outlines Hegel’s vision of what we can call a republican understanding of modernity. By this I mean that Hegel stands at the apex of a tradition of thought that saw the modern social world as defined by a kind of reason that allowed the individual to reach a higher conceptual grasp of him ...
Chapter 23 Immanuel Kant`s Ethical Theory
... law is a law of reason. He treats man as fundamentally a rational being and therefore, to obey the dictates of reason is not only desirable, but is categorical. Moreover, the universe where man finds himself is also constructed on rational principles. Hence the ultimate criterion that makes an actio ...
... law is a law of reason. He treats man as fundamentally a rational being and therefore, to obey the dictates of reason is not only desirable, but is categorical. Moreover, the universe where man finds himself is also constructed on rational principles. Hence the ultimate criterion that makes an actio ...
What if all truth is context-dependent?
... a utterly impractical process (how does one ever know that there will not be another more general context in which a particular truth is false?), this notion has already assumed the possibility of such universal notions as quantification over contexts in order to establish the possibility of definin ...
... a utterly impractical process (how does one ever know that there will not be another more general context in which a particular truth is false?), this notion has already assumed the possibility of such universal notions as quantification over contexts in order to establish the possibility of definin ...
The4 - Homestead
... in the attempt to conceptually understand the forms as participating in some way in those items in the world that are instantiated under them?ix I would argue that pure transcendence as a concept cannot be entertained without also entertaining its correlative of immanence. This does not mean we cann ...
... in the attempt to conceptually understand the forms as participating in some way in those items in the world that are instantiated under them?ix I would argue that pure transcendence as a concept cannot be entertained without also entertaining its correlative of immanence. This does not mean we cann ...
Thinking Animals and the Reference of
... you ever know which one you are? You may think you’re the person: the whole human being. But whatever you think, your head thinks also. So your head would seem to believe that it, too, is a whole person. It has all the same reasons for thinking so as you have. Yet it is mistaken. If you were the hea ...
... you ever know which one you are? You may think you’re the person: the whole human being. But whatever you think, your head thinks also. So your head would seem to believe that it, too, is a whole person. It has all the same reasons for thinking so as you have. Yet it is mistaken. If you were the hea ...
The Philosopher and the Sage: Plato and Lao
... way, just as in the Republic, the philosopher makes himself good by imitating the Good. That is, by harmonizing limit and unlimited in himself through the causal activity of his intellect, he lives the mixed life according to the model of the cosmic mixture, and so brings the symmetry, beauty, and ...
... way, just as in the Republic, the philosopher makes himself good by imitating the Good. That is, by harmonizing limit and unlimited in himself through the causal activity of his intellect, he lives the mixed life according to the model of the cosmic mixture, and so brings the symmetry, beauty, and ...
Interspecies Etiquette: An Ethics of Paying Attention to Animals
... What becomes almost immediately evident is that an ethical praxis of paying attention requires much more than mere politeness or mildly observing. Indeed, such acts are often precisely what we should not do, particularly when approaching individuals of another species. Rather, the kind of attentiven ...
... What becomes almost immediately evident is that an ethical praxis of paying attention requires much more than mere politeness or mildly observing. Indeed, such acts are often precisely what we should not do, particularly when approaching individuals of another species. Rather, the kind of attentiven ...
abstracts
... sketch the metaphysical setting of Spinoza’s treatment of reason, intellection and freedom. I focus on the ethical significance of reason and intellection. Spinoza’s rejection of Cartesian volition and voluntas, which reflect Christian metaphysical psychology and are integrally connected to substanc ...
... sketch the metaphysical setting of Spinoza’s treatment of reason, intellection and freedom. I focus on the ethical significance of reason and intellection. Spinoza’s rejection of Cartesian volition and voluntas, which reflect Christian metaphysical psychology and are integrally connected to substanc ...
No Slide Title
... which humans evolved (i.e., of high likelihood of survival and reproductive success in the environments of human evolutionary history).” [Thornhill 1998, p. 544] Part of scientific aesthetics Other approaches to aesthetics philosophy, literature, art: may use other ideas about the meaning and p ...
... which humans evolved (i.e., of high likelihood of survival and reproductive success in the environments of human evolutionary history).” [Thornhill 1998, p. 544] Part of scientific aesthetics Other approaches to aesthetics philosophy, literature, art: may use other ideas about the meaning and p ...
Ethics bedfellows
... method. It is a good method caught in a bad relationship. For its presumptive metaethical companion, realism, would have us believe that intuitions support beliefs about real, stance-independent facts of the matter. That strikes many as dubious. After sorting through some relevant concerns in this v ...
... method. It is a good method caught in a bad relationship. For its presumptive metaethical companion, realism, would have us believe that intuitions support beliefs about real, stance-independent facts of the matter. That strikes many as dubious. After sorting through some relevant concerns in this v ...
"Wittgenstein, Ludwig" In: The International Encyclopedia of Ethics
... Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus – like its other philosophical sentences, about the existence of objects, for example – express what would be true if, per impossibile, they could be said. On an alternative view, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus does its dialectical work by curing us of illusions of und ...
... Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus – like its other philosophical sentences, about the existence of objects, for example – express what would be true if, per impossibile, they could be said. On an alternative view, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus does its dialectical work by curing us of illusions of und ...
NEITHER BEGINNING, NOR END - THE ANARCHO
... necessity and freedom, oikos and polis, cannot be the model for Arendt’s concept of natality if only because she clearly says that it names a capacity “which Greek antiquity ignored altogether.” (1998, 247) Moreover, in The Promise of Politics, Arendt openly criticizes the Aristotelian distinction b ...
... necessity and freedom, oikos and polis, cannot be the model for Arendt’s concept of natality if only because she clearly says that it names a capacity “which Greek antiquity ignored altogether.” (1998, 247) Moreover, in The Promise of Politics, Arendt openly criticizes the Aristotelian distinction b ...