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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 ...
Greater Reality Achieved Through Consciousness
... articulating a line of thought that’s already at work in Plato and in Plotinus. Considering “reality” as such, PPH suggest that a crucial distinction needs to be made. It seems that some things (or qualities, or whatever) are real as themselves, because what they are is somehow attributable to thems ...
... articulating a line of thought that’s already at work in Plato and in Plotinus. Considering “reality” as such, PPH suggest that a crucial distinction needs to be made. It seems that some things (or qualities, or whatever) are real as themselves, because what they are is somehow attributable to thems ...
Intuition, Entitlement and the Epistemology of Logical Laws
... hopeless? In a number of recent papers,2 Paul Boghossian has resourcefully argued that it is not. His considerations are various, ranging from the reflection that we credit intelligent 2 In addition to his paper cited, see Boghossian [2000a]. and [2000b]. ...
... hopeless? In a number of recent papers,2 Paul Boghossian has resourcefully argued that it is not. His considerations are various, ranging from the reflection that we credit intelligent 2 In addition to his paper cited, see Boghossian [2000a]. and [2000b]. ...
Adam Smith`s common-sense philosophical
... According to Smith communication involves not only an exchange of ideas, as may be claimed of the Habermasian theory of communicative action, but it conveys the whole information about the historically and socially conditioned circumstances of individuals in a situation of communicative action. In S ...
... According to Smith communication involves not only an exchange of ideas, as may be claimed of the Habermasian theory of communicative action, but it conveys the whole information about the historically and socially conditioned circumstances of individuals in a situation of communicative action. In S ...
Microsoft Word - AC, Introduction, Cogprints
... experience, cannot properly be said to coincide or differ numerically –, we have to unearth the hidden logical structure of ordinary-language identity statements and their denegations. So the logico-linguistic propaedeutic offered in the first three of the following papers, written in 2005–2006, sho ...
... experience, cannot properly be said to coincide or differ numerically –, we have to unearth the hidden logical structure of ordinary-language identity statements and their denegations. So the logico-linguistic propaedeutic offered in the first three of the following papers, written in 2005–2006, sho ...
Conceptualism and Non-Conceptualism in Kant`s Theory
... The above discussion has not explained, however, what role is played by sensibility in experience, or what contribution it brings to it in its purely receptive capacity. We have seen already that Kant takes that contribution to be indispensable: without it concepts would be “empty” and understanding ...
... The above discussion has not explained, however, what role is played by sensibility in experience, or what contribution it brings to it in its purely receptive capacity. We have seen already that Kant takes that contribution to be indispensable: without it concepts would be “empty” and understanding ...
Empty Selves: A Zen Buddhist Analysis of the Dissociative Self
... and ‘Other’ in Ch’an Buddhism,” “[the problem with the Field-Focus model is that] persons are still seen extrinsically, as objectifiable ‘things’ arising on or out of a surrounding field of relationships.”vi It is true that it is conventionally appropriate to distinguish between the self and other. ...
... and ‘Other’ in Ch’an Buddhism,” “[the problem with the Field-Focus model is that] persons are still seen extrinsically, as objectifiable ‘things’ arising on or out of a surrounding field of relationships.”vi It is true that it is conventionally appropriate to distinguish between the self and other. ...
George Herbert Mead Final
... interactionism, was an enthusiastic follower of Mead, but he claimed it was necessary to break away from some of the more radically processual aspects of Mead’s ideas. In so doing, he lost touch with Mead’s conception of intersubjectivity as a pre-condition for, rather than an outcome of, communicat ...
... interactionism, was an enthusiastic follower of Mead, but he claimed it was necessary to break away from some of the more radically processual aspects of Mead’s ideas. In so doing, he lost touch with Mead’s conception of intersubjectivity as a pre-condition for, rather than an outcome of, communicat ...
Animal Affects: Spinoza and the Frontiers of the Human
... nature and origin of the human mind. Without getting into the obscurity of his account of the “foundations of our reasoning” (called “common notions”), we can observe that reason depends upon our having sustained contact with those similar beings with whom we can, according to Spinoza, “agree in nat ...
... nature and origin of the human mind. Without getting into the obscurity of his account of the “foundations of our reasoning” (called “common notions”), we can observe that reason depends upon our having sustained contact with those similar beings with whom we can, according to Spinoza, “agree in nat ...
The Many Problems of Representation
... head, but include interactions with the world, e.g. behaviour towards cows for a COW representation. Another problem with functional role semantics is how learning anything new, by changing the inferences one is disposed to draw, may change the meaning of all one’s representations (a consequence cal ...
... head, but include interactions with the world, e.g. behaviour towards cows for a COW representation. Another problem with functional role semantics is how learning anything new, by changing the inferences one is disposed to draw, may change the meaning of all one’s representations (a consequence cal ...
Lecture notes on Immanuel Kant
... as an active participator in observation. More radically, the consequence of this theory was that the mind creates and shapes its experiences. The world that we know is very much a product of the organizing effort of the mind. How Kant arrived at these conclusions will be explored in this series of ...
... as an active participator in observation. More radically, the consequence of this theory was that the mind creates and shapes its experiences. The world that we know is very much a product of the organizing effort of the mind. How Kant arrived at these conclusions will be explored in this series of ...
A Defense of Epiphenomenalism
... change of behavior or physical state will appear even before we actually remind the plan that we made in the past. Thus, we can even explain the long-term decision with epiphenomenalism. Another example is an electric current that stimulates laughter. According to Itzhak Fied et al., an electric cu ...
... change of behavior or physical state will appear even before we actually remind the plan that we made in the past. Thus, we can even explain the long-term decision with epiphenomenalism. Another example is an electric current that stimulates laughter. According to Itzhak Fied et al., an electric cu ...
The “Idyllic Sublime”: Point/Counterpoint A Dialog between Michael
... Log of a Cowboy (1903), who had participated in cattle drives as a youth: “There is such a thing as cowboy music. It is a hybrid between the weirdness of an Indian cry and the croon of a darky mammy. It expresses the open, the prairie, the immutable desert.” 1 Adams said this in 1907 just a few yea ...
... Log of a Cowboy (1903), who had participated in cattle drives as a youth: “There is such a thing as cowboy music. It is a hybrid between the weirdness of an Indian cry and the croon of a darky mammy. It expresses the open, the prairie, the immutable desert.” 1 Adams said this in 1907 just a few yea ...
Fall 2015 - The American Philosophical Association
... argues that real entities exist prior to the relations in which they stand, and that they exist independently of those relations. Kant, on his view, sees that things exist only in relation to consciousness in some sense, but Bradley completes this ascent. He does so, on Mukerji’s view, by arguing th ...
... argues that real entities exist prior to the relations in which they stand, and that they exist independently of those relations. Kant, on his view, sees that things exist only in relation to consciousness in some sense, but Bradley completes this ascent. He does so, on Mukerji’s view, by arguing th ...
Epicurean and Stoic Views of Happiness
... and that the severe dualism of the Stoics is a principal cause of some of the other problems in their philosophy. While it is true that our reactions to events are in general more capable of being brought under control than the events themselves, this is by no means always the case; often external c ...
... and that the severe dualism of the Stoics is a principal cause of some of the other problems in their philosophy. While it is true that our reactions to events are in general more capable of being brought under control than the events themselves, this is by no means always the case; often external c ...
Spencerism and the Causal Theory of Reference
... Contrary to what Spencer held, organisms do not “adapt themselves” to changing circumstances (although it may be true that it constructs its environment, another matter). They “do” no such thing, do not “react” to an environment. Rather, they vary. Supplied with an internal structure, whatever its o ...
... Contrary to what Spencer held, organisms do not “adapt themselves” to changing circumstances (although it may be true that it constructs its environment, another matter). They “do” no such thing, do not “react” to an environment. Rather, they vary. Supplied with an internal structure, whatever its o ...
Realism, Antirealism, Irrealism, Quasi
... empiricism-inspired theories of concept-formation. Hume, for instance, believed that there is no way whereby we can form a properly perspicuous notion of causation except at the cost of not including all the features that popular thought attributes to it. Hence, understood as popularly intended, sta ...
... empiricism-inspired theories of concept-formation. Hume, for instance, believed that there is no way whereby we can form a properly perspicuous notion of causation except at the cost of not including all the features that popular thought attributes to it. Hence, understood as popularly intended, sta ...
william wordsworth and idealism - Bangladesh Research Publications
... The above extract from the poem ‘Immortality Ode’ expressing the poet’s yearning to reach world of the true ideas. He wants to be united with that world but he wants to do so through the events of nature_ he will join the ecstasy of the ‘bird’s song’ and feel the ‘gladness of May’ via his thought. T ...
... The above extract from the poem ‘Immortality Ode’ expressing the poet’s yearning to reach world of the true ideas. He wants to be united with that world but he wants to do so through the events of nature_ he will join the ecstasy of the ‘bird’s song’ and feel the ‘gladness of May’ via his thought. T ...
roberta de monticelli
... places, the portion of matter that are taken up by its existence. So for example, Socrates is a man, and he necessarily enjoys all properties characteristic of that nature, or implied by that concept. But this represents exactly what Socrates shares with others men, as opposed to the set of his acci ...
... places, the portion of matter that are taken up by its existence. So for example, Socrates is a man, and he necessarily enjoys all properties characteristic of that nature, or implied by that concept. But this represents exactly what Socrates shares with others men, as opposed to the set of his acci ...
DIRECT REALISM WITHOUT MATERIALISM
... awareness, such as hallucinations and dreams (I shall call it the ontological objection); and (5) the assumption that direct realism cannot explain how we may distinguish between veridical and nonveridical perceptual awareness (I shall call it the epistemological objection). The power of skepticism ...
... awareness, such as hallucinations and dreams (I shall call it the ontological objection); and (5) the assumption that direct realism cannot explain how we may distinguish between veridical and nonveridical perceptual awareness (I shall call it the epistemological objection). The power of skepticism ...
A Conceptual Framework for Postmodernism
... response to a condition of the postmodern. Postmodernism means the philosophical criticism of “great narratives” (Turner 1999, 51). Thus, if the postmodern condition testifies to the general condition that has arisen in connection with social, economic, and political orderings appearing after the Sec ...
... response to a condition of the postmodern. Postmodernism means the philosophical criticism of “great narratives” (Turner 1999, 51). Thus, if the postmodern condition testifies to the general condition that has arisen in connection with social, economic, and political orderings appearing after the Sec ...
Gandhi, the Philosopher - Centre for the Study of Culture and Society
... which science became set on a path, which seemed destined to lead to cumulative results, building to a progressively complete understanding of the world in which we lived, a world which we could as a result control. It is a familiar point that there is no understanding Gandhi, the anti-colonial nat ...
... which science became set on a path, which seemed destined to lead to cumulative results, building to a progressively complete understanding of the world in which we lived, a world which we could as a result control. It is a familiar point that there is no understanding Gandhi, the anti-colonial nat ...
IMPROVISATION AND ETHICS - The University of Chicago Divinity School
... ethical thought of philosophers such as Martha Nussbaum, Barbara Herman and Cora Diamond. What is this idea all about? Our moral lives are said to be improvisatory insofar as we do not approach situations with a script, so to speak; instead, we respond to situations in a way that is reminiscent of t ...
... ethical thought of philosophers such as Martha Nussbaum, Barbara Herman and Cora Diamond. What is this idea all about? Our moral lives are said to be improvisatory insofar as we do not approach situations with a script, so to speak; instead, we respond to situations in a way that is reminiscent of t ...
The Historical Significance and Contemporary Relevance of the
... This will of course require me to say something about the nature of the debate itself, but almost everything I say in this regard will be aimed at explicating its significance. On the one hand, I want to describe why I think those involved in the Four-Seven Debate took it so seriously and were inspi ...
... This will of course require me to say something about the nature of the debate itself, but almost everything I say in this regard will be aimed at explicating its significance. On the one hand, I want to describe why I think those involved in the Four-Seven Debate took it so seriously and were inspi ...
Touch, Communication, Community: Jean
... nontotalizing discourse where the problems and shortfalls of both classical philosophy and contemporary theory meet with insights into existential, psychological, and aesthetic issues that were consciously bracketed and excluded after the structuralist turn» (p. xii). 11 LANIGAN 1992, 114. 12 HAND 2 ...
... nontotalizing discourse where the problems and shortfalls of both classical philosophy and contemporary theory meet with insights into existential, psychological, and aesthetic issues that were consciously bracketed and excluded after the structuralist turn» (p. xii). 11 LANIGAN 1992, 114. 12 HAND 2 ...