reply to JJ Valberg - Keele Research Repository
... primarily to provide his diagnosis of where others go wrong, and within his own account, it strikes me as merely an awkwardness. For on the one hand, Valberg thinks that the phenomenal conception, since it applies to phenomena, can only apply to the sole repository of phenomena: the objective world. ...
... primarily to provide his diagnosis of where others go wrong, and within his own account, it strikes me as merely an awkwardness. For on the one hand, Valberg thinks that the phenomenal conception, since it applies to phenomena, can only apply to the sole repository of phenomena: the objective world. ...
A SYNTHESIS OF DIFFERENT PSYCHOLOGICAL LEARNING
... This long preamble has seemed necessary to bring out how much I respect Vygotsky’s position on the issue of egocentric speech, even though I cannot agree with him on all points. First, Vygotsky did realize that a real problem was involved, and not merely a question of statistics. Second, he himself ...
... This long preamble has seemed necessary to bring out how much I respect Vygotsky’s position on the issue of egocentric speech, even though I cannot agree with him on all points. First, Vygotsky did realize that a real problem was involved, and not merely a question of statistics. Second, he himself ...
“We always have a beer after the meeting” How norm, customs
... seeks to avoid behaviors they anticipate would likely lead to their being punished by other agents. Punishment can take any form, from killing to avoiding the offending agent. A type of behavior can become a norm or custom if people engage in it because they believe others will punish them if they d ...
... seeks to avoid behaviors they anticipate would likely lead to their being punished by other agents. Punishment can take any form, from killing to avoiding the offending agent. A type of behavior can become a norm or custom if people engage in it because they believe others will punish them if they d ...
2012 atlas shrugged winning essay
... Andrew Sandberg, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN Why does John Galt go on strike when the Starnes heirs take over the Twentieth Century Motor Company? Do you think he is right or wrong to start a strike? Explain. “From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.” This is t ...
... Andrew Sandberg, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN Why does John Galt go on strike when the Starnes heirs take over the Twentieth Century Motor Company? Do you think he is right or wrong to start a strike? Explain. “From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.” This is t ...
SOME MAIN PROBLEMS OF PHILOSOPHY
... think, therefore, you will best realise what these philosophical descriptions of the Universe really mean, by realising how very different they are from the views of Common Sense how far, in some points, they go beyond Common Sense, and how absolutely, in others, they contradict it. I wish, therefor ...
... think, therefore, you will best realise what these philosophical descriptions of the Universe really mean, by realising how very different they are from the views of Common Sense how far, in some points, they go beyond Common Sense, and how absolutely, in others, they contradict it. I wish, therefor ...
ethical egoism - Westmont homepage server
... and Dick and Harry should each do what he wants and not care about what anyone else may want and this doesn’t involve his principle in any inconsistency. Nor need it. But even if he doesn’t, he’s no better off. Just what does he value? Is it the well-being of himself, Tom, Dick and Harry or merely t ...
... and Dick and Harry should each do what he wants and not care about what anyone else may want and this doesn’t involve his principle in any inconsistency. Nor need it. But even if he doesn’t, he’s no better off. Just what does he value? Is it the well-being of himself, Tom, Dick and Harry or merely t ...
value - The Chair Academy
... world and being observable or verifiable especially by scientific methods; expressing or involving the use of facts; derived from sense perception. The objective value is fact based on perception. ...
... world and being observable or verifiable especially by scientific methods; expressing or involving the use of facts; derived from sense perception. The objective value is fact based on perception. ...
1 The Aristotelian Method and Aristotelian Metaphysics
... My conception of metaphysics is what could be called ‘Aristotelian’, as opposed to Kantian. In this paper I will examine what Aristotelian metaphysics amounts to and what is its relationship with contemporary metaphysics. The first thing that should be noted is that we are not so much dealing with t ...
... My conception of metaphysics is what could be called ‘Aristotelian’, as opposed to Kantian. In this paper I will examine what Aristotelian metaphysics amounts to and what is its relationship with contemporary metaphysics. The first thing that should be noted is that we are not so much dealing with t ...
Introduction
... Immediate, intuitive apprehensions of good and bad are not the end of Pascal’s moral philosophy. Rather, they are its beginning. In primis, there is the issue that we might be mistaken in our apprehensions, which may then require correction, as when we hear ‘cabbage’ instead of ‘baggage’ inside a no ...
... Immediate, intuitive apprehensions of good and bad are not the end of Pascal’s moral philosophy. Rather, they are its beginning. In primis, there is the issue that we might be mistaken in our apprehensions, which may then require correction, as when we hear ‘cabbage’ instead of ‘baggage’ inside a no ...
Session 4: Doing philosophy: fallacies
... Introduction to Philosophy Doing Philosophy: Fallacies Subtypes of the ad hominem fallacy Poisoning the well – presenting adverse information about a target person with the intention of discrediting everything that the target person says. Appeal to motive – dismissing an idea by questioning the mot ...
... Introduction to Philosophy Doing Philosophy: Fallacies Subtypes of the ad hominem fallacy Poisoning the well – presenting adverse information about a target person with the intention of discrediting everything that the target person says. Appeal to motive – dismissing an idea by questioning the mot ...
`Among contemporaries the most exciting thinker, masterful
... total disaster, and whose affinity with the Nazis merely indicates the vacuum where, in most other philosophers, there would have been a combination of common sense and rudimentary decency. Neither view allows much compromise. But it was not always so. Shortly after Being and Time was published in 1 ...
... total disaster, and whose affinity with the Nazis merely indicates the vacuum where, in most other philosophers, there would have been a combination of common sense and rudimentary decency. Neither view allows much compromise. But it was not always so. Shortly after Being and Time was published in 1 ...
Introspecting in the Twentieth Century
... experiences in their theorizing. This raises questions about the relationship between the apparently scorching critique of the use of introspection within psychology during the first part of the century, and the continued and relatively easy-going use of introspection in philosophical theorizing. On ...
... experiences in their theorizing. This raises questions about the relationship between the apparently scorching critique of the use of introspection within psychology during the first part of the century, and the continued and relatively easy-going use of introspection in philosophical theorizing. On ...
The Influence of Classification on World View and Epistemology
... As scientific classification usually comes after the formation of concept of universal in the mind, so it is suitable to reconsider the process of perception and epistemology. It is obvious that the basis of our knowledge is one’s self knowledge. And the real perception is the presence of one near h ...
... As scientific classification usually comes after the formation of concept of universal in the mind, so it is suitable to reconsider the process of perception and epistemology. It is obvious that the basis of our knowledge is one’s self knowledge. And the real perception is the presence of one near h ...
1 "Plato on Akrasia and Knowing Your Own Mind" Section 1
... about what the lines of thought that we have explored may suggest about Plato's conception of rationality. Section 2: Issues Raised by Recent Work on Self-Knowledge So now let us turn to the worries to which our lack of awareness of our own minds might give rise. To begin, we are creatures that have ...
... about what the lines of thought that we have explored may suggest about Plato's conception of rationality. Section 2: Issues Raised by Recent Work on Self-Knowledge So now let us turn to the worries to which our lack of awareness of our own minds might give rise. To begin, we are creatures that have ...
From Essentialism to Constructivism: Philosophy of Technology at
... devices? In the former case, we could achieve the "free relation" to technology that Heidegger demands without changing technology itself. But that is an idealistic solution in the bad sense, and one that a generation of environmental action would seem decisively to refute. Heidegger's defenders poi ...
... devices? In the former case, we could achieve the "free relation" to technology that Heidegger demands without changing technology itself. But that is an idealistic solution in the bad sense, and one that a generation of environmental action would seem decisively to refute. Heidegger's defenders poi ...
`I` am a Fiction: An Analysis of the No-Person Theories
... fantastic myth among people in general and philosophers in particular. The clarification that needs to be made here is the difference between reductionistic theories about personal identity and the no-person or no-self theories. Reductionistic theories of personal identity tend to reduce personal id ...
... fantastic myth among people in general and philosophers in particular. The clarification that needs to be made here is the difference between reductionistic theories about personal identity and the no-person or no-self theories. Reductionistic theories of personal identity tend to reduce personal id ...
The Self
... despair to will to be one’s self (13-14).” This form of despair exists in one who only desires to be the self they already are. Rather than the despair in which we hopelessly desire to not be the self we currently are and are left with infinite possibility, those who experience this form of despair ...
... despair to will to be one’s self (13-14).” This form of despair exists in one who only desires to be the self they already are. Rather than the despair in which we hopelessly desire to not be the self we currently are and are left with infinite possibility, those who experience this form of despair ...
WHAT DO „AFFECTIONS IN THE SOUL” RESEMBLE?2 Aristotle`s
... “Now spoken sounds are symbols of affections (παθήματα) in the soul, and written marks symbols of spoken sounds. And just as written marks are not the same for all men, neither are spoken sounds. But what these are in the first place signs (σημεῖα) of–affections of the soul–are the same for all; and ...
... “Now spoken sounds are symbols of affections (παθήματα) in the soul, and written marks symbols of spoken sounds. And just as written marks are not the same for all men, neither are spoken sounds. But what these are in the first place signs (σημεῖα) of–affections of the soul–are the same for all; and ...
Interpretation as Explanation - Philsci
... evidence, which means that the theory one accepts is determined by other factors than mere observations. These other factors are, however, not equally objective, nor do they have an objective ranking. Here personal or shared interests play an important part. In my opinion, explanation should be unde ...
... evidence, which means that the theory one accepts is determined by other factors than mere observations. These other factors are, however, not equally objective, nor do they have an objective ranking. Here personal or shared interests play an important part. In my opinion, explanation should be unde ...
“Ethics Opposes the Biological Struggle for Existence” by T. H. Huxley
... other animals, multiplication goes on without cessation, and involves severe competition for the means of support. The struggle for existence tends to eliminate those less fitted to adapt themselves to the circumstances of their existence. The strongest, the most self-assertive, tend to tread down t ...
... other animals, multiplication goes on without cessation, and involves severe competition for the means of support. The struggle for existence tends to eliminate those less fitted to adapt themselves to the circumstances of their existence. The strongest, the most self-assertive, tend to tread down t ...
A Conception of Ontology - The Cambridge Social Ontology Group
... ontology (in conjunction very often with ontographology/opology) serves not as a substitute for science or substantive theorising but as a Lockean under-labourer for such activity8. Its essential contribution lies in helping clear the ground a little so that substantive theorising can proceed more f ...
... ontology (in conjunction very often with ontographology/opology) serves not as a substitute for science or substantive theorising but as a Lockean under-labourer for such activity8. Its essential contribution lies in helping clear the ground a little so that substantive theorising can proceed more f ...
Aesthetics as Philosophy of Experience
... we have since seen them alternate between institutional definitions, historical definitions and narrative definitions, and various combinations of all of these. It is difficult to imagine anything further from the way the Continental philosophers understood Aesthetics. In the European tradition, the mere ...
... we have since seen them alternate between institutional definitions, historical definitions and narrative definitions, and various combinations of all of these. It is difficult to imagine anything further from the way the Continental philosophers understood Aesthetics. In the European tradition, the mere ...
Commonsense concepts of phenomenal consciousness: Does
... robots as having some agency but little experience. These data seem to sit well with a view that claims that phenomenal states must be realized neurally while non-phenomenal states need not be so understood. After all, God doesn’t have a body (I assume) and an ordinary robot has the wrong sort of bo ...
... robots as having some agency but little experience. These data seem to sit well with a view that claims that phenomenal states must be realized neurally while non-phenomenal states need not be so understood. After all, God doesn’t have a body (I assume) and an ordinary robot has the wrong sort of bo ...
from the perplexity of opposite claims and not run the risk of losing
... Nor could anything be more fatal to morality than that we should wish to derive it from examples. For every example of it that is set before me must be first itself tested by principles of morality, whether it is worthy to serve as an original example, i.e., as a pattern; but by no means can it auth ...
... Nor could anything be more fatal to morality than that we should wish to derive it from examples. For every example of it that is set before me must be first itself tested by principles of morality, whether it is worthy to serve as an original example, i.e., as a pattern; but by no means can it auth ...
James Hill`s `Descartes` Dreaming Argument and why we might be
... phenomenology which is often almost impossible to put into words. When reflecting on dreams we are always in danger of reconstructing them in terms of the everyday perception of objects and people. Their strangeness and otherness is perhaps impossible to capture. What is garbled and chaotic in the d ...
... phenomenology which is often almost impossible to put into words. When reflecting on dreams we are always in danger of reconstructing them in terms of the everyday perception of objects and people. Their strangeness and otherness is perhaps impossible to capture. What is garbled and chaotic in the d ...