On Worldviews and Philosophy
... everyday experience; in experience itself, they are structurally intertwined and integrated. My conclusion is that “modes of experience” taken in the Dooyeweerdian sense of the word, can never be interpreted as separate acts of human consciousness, or even as opposed faculties of the human mind whic ...
... everyday experience; in experience itself, they are structurally intertwined and integrated. My conclusion is that “modes of experience” taken in the Dooyeweerdian sense of the word, can never be interpreted as separate acts of human consciousness, or even as opposed faculties of the human mind whic ...
KANT`S RESPONSE TO SKEPTICISM
... commitment to transcendental idealism means that he can avoid the need for any such ‘‘remarkable feat’’ and so can avoid the troubling demand for an explanation of how that feat can be achieved, for (on Stroud’s account of Kant’s position) when we claim that our experience depends on ‘‘the world’’ b ...
... commitment to transcendental idealism means that he can avoid the need for any such ‘‘remarkable feat’’ and so can avoid the troubling demand for an explanation of how that feat can be achieved, for (on Stroud’s account of Kant’s position) when we claim that our experience depends on ‘‘the world’’ b ...
My Summary of The Articel
... The initial theory of conceptual change was analogous to Kuhn’s notion of a paradigm shift and Piaget’s notion of an accommodation. The theory of conceptual change concerns only the alteration of conceptions, not altered belief, that are in some way central and organizing in thought and learning. Th ...
... The initial theory of conceptual change was analogous to Kuhn’s notion of a paradigm shift and Piaget’s notion of an accommodation. The theory of conceptual change concerns only the alteration of conceptions, not altered belief, that are in some way central and organizing in thought and learning. Th ...
thical Egoism - Joel Velasco
... we do, not because we want to, but because we feel that we oughl to. For example, I may write my grandmother a letter because I promised my mother I would, even though I don't want to do it. It is sometimes suggested that we do such things because we most want to keep our promises. But that is not t ...
... we do, not because we want to, but because we feel that we oughl to. For example, I may write my grandmother a letter because I promised my mother I would, even though I don't want to do it. It is sometimes suggested that we do such things because we most want to keep our promises. But that is not t ...
Problematising `Ira`: Existential or rational?
... instance scientific. Modern science is a contemporary manifestation of this mathematical project, which “is the basis on which we encounter things as already given” (Glazebrook, 2000, p. 52). Thus the ground that we tend to operate from here in the West – and I include Maori too, as I believe that t ...
... instance scientific. Modern science is a contemporary manifestation of this mathematical project, which “is the basis on which we encounter things as already given” (Glazebrook, 2000, p. 52). Thus the ground that we tend to operate from here in the West – and I include Maori too, as I believe that t ...
4 - Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis
... person is willing to acknowledge their reliance upon inference, and beyond this, the implications of this reliance, however, "there are," in Peirce's judgment, "no such beings as absolute skeptics": "though there are inanimate objects without beliefs [not likely none without habits or dispositions], ...
... person is willing to acknowledge their reliance upon inference, and beyond this, the implications of this reliance, however, "there are," in Peirce's judgment, "no such beings as absolute skeptics": "though there are inanimate objects without beliefs [not likely none without habits or dispositions], ...
Asian Philosophy CH. 10 of AP
... The individual Pure Self is identical to the one real thing Brahman. This is a core Vedic view. Advaita makes good on this claim by saying that there are no substantial selves that are distinct from Brahman. ...
... The individual Pure Self is identical to the one real thing Brahman. This is a core Vedic view. Advaita makes good on this claim by saying that there are no substantial selves that are distinct from Brahman. ...
Veritistic Social Epistemology
... that we are under the influence of the “coercions of the world” such that we feel an “immense pressure of objective control under which our minds perform their operations.”10 But James also points out that the core idea of a correspondence account is not much more than a platitude and as such is of ...
... that we are under the influence of the “coercions of the world” such that we feel an “immense pressure of objective control under which our minds perform their operations.”10 But James also points out that the core idea of a correspondence account is not much more than a platitude and as such is of ...
Contradiction In Madhyamaka Buddhist Argumentation
... there are textual reasons for rejecting the first option.[ii] And the second, apophatic interpretation may be called into question by the point just made about Buddhist uses of bivalence failure. Thus the third option seems the most plausible. Since Buddhists use the term ‘ultimate truth’ to mean bo ...
... there are textual reasons for rejecting the first option.[ii] And the second, apophatic interpretation may be called into question by the point just made about Buddhist uses of bivalence failure. Thus the third option seems the most plausible. Since Buddhists use the term ‘ultimate truth’ to mean bo ...
Interpreting Quantum Mechanics
... kind of reality each would entail. The impetus is that these two interpretations are motivated by the Cartesian dualistic modes of thought seen in the first ice cream pop example. This dualism has been so ingrained in modern thought that it often feels as if the subjective and objective realms are ...
... kind of reality each would entail. The impetus is that these two interpretations are motivated by the Cartesian dualistic modes of thought seen in the first ice cream pop example. This dualism has been so ingrained in modern thought that it often feels as if the subjective and objective realms are ...
The New and Improved Paraphysics
... scientific field of paraphysics has never been clearly defined. Even those physicists who work in the field are regarded to be working in parapsychology rather than paraphysics. None of the standard dictionaries of the English language define paraphysics. The word cannot be found in Webster's, Funk ...
... scientific field of paraphysics has never been clearly defined. Even those physicists who work in the field are regarded to be working in parapsychology rather than paraphysics. None of the standard dictionaries of the English language define paraphysics. The word cannot be found in Webster's, Funk ...
LEARNING TO BE HUMAN: THE IMPLICATIONS OF CONFUCIAN
... personal interests to intervene, even though she or he is intelligent enough to understand the principles of Tao, then, one actually has no possession of these principles (L.Y., XV, 32). In theory, Confucius portrayed a Sage in three dimensions as an ideal end. First, a Sage is the undivided "I' wit ...
... personal interests to intervene, even though she or he is intelligent enough to understand the principles of Tao, then, one actually has no possession of these principles (L.Y., XV, 32). In theory, Confucius portrayed a Sage in three dimensions as an ideal end. First, a Sage is the undivided "I' wit ...
An Evolutionary Path Through William James An Evolutionary Path
... that quite early in his life “James had thus reached a fairly full acceptance of Darwin’s transmutation theory.” (Richardson) Everyone grants that he was in a front row seat for the introduction of, discussion of, and even the general acceptance of evolutionary theory. Though these influences were i ...
... that quite early in his life “James had thus reached a fairly full acceptance of Darwin’s transmutation theory.” (Richardson) Everyone grants that he was in a front row seat for the introduction of, discussion of, and even the general acceptance of evolutionary theory. Though these influences were i ...
Famine, Affluence, and Morality
... will not be enough to provide the needed food, shelter, and medical care. Therefore by giving more than £5 I will prevent more suffering than I would if I gave just £5. It might be thought that this argument has an absurd consequence. Since the situation appears to be that very few people are likel ...
... will not be enough to provide the needed food, shelter, and medical care. Therefore by giving more than £5 I will prevent more suffering than I would if I gave just £5. It might be thought that this argument has an absurd consequence. Since the situation appears to be that very few people are likel ...
hellenic philosophy
... freedom and the concomitant religious tolerance, as experienced in the Hellenic, pre-Christian era in the Mediterranean world, be revived. Such freedom should be fostered in the post-modern world, if our fragile, global, and diverse cultural community is to be preserved and flourish in the dawning n ...
... freedom and the concomitant religious tolerance, as experienced in the Hellenic, pre-Christian era in the Mediterranean world, be revived. Such freedom should be fostered in the post-modern world, if our fragile, global, and diverse cultural community is to be preserved and flourish in the dawning n ...
Fault and No-fault Responsibility for Implicit Prejudice
... Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Vol. 90, No. 5; 784-803. I thank Michael Brownstein for directing me to this research. ...
... Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Vol. 90, No. 5; 784-803. I thank Michael Brownstein for directing me to this research. ...
Mencius - Steve Watson
... Mencius’s criticism of Mo Di and Yang Chu in that passage is simply that if we adopt the theories of those two philosophers we will fail to observe the proper moral relations that exist between people in a wellorganized society. The reason for this, Mencius believes, is that those philosophers were ...
... Mencius’s criticism of Mo Di and Yang Chu in that passage is simply that if we adopt the theories of those two philosophers we will fail to observe the proper moral relations that exist between people in a wellorganized society. The reason for this, Mencius believes, is that those philosophers were ...
Virtue Ethics and the Challenge of Relativity
... contemporary American society where the threat of death in battle or persecution is minimal, it might have more to do with maintaining one’s convictions in the face of cultural pressures. Similarly, although Porter claims that temperance is a perennial virtue, what it means to be temperate in relati ...
... contemporary American society where the threat of death in battle or persecution is minimal, it might have more to do with maintaining one’s convictions in the face of cultural pressures. Similarly, although Porter claims that temperance is a perennial virtue, what it means to be temperate in relati ...
The Hornswoggle Problem
... molecules are moving at high velocity. As an argument against the empirical identification of temperature with mean molecular KE, the thermodynamic thought-experiment is feebleness itself. Is the problem on the ‘hard’ side of the ledger sufficiently well-defined to sustain the division as a fundamen ...
... molecules are moving at high velocity. As an argument against the empirical identification of temperature with mean molecular KE, the thermodynamic thought-experiment is feebleness itself. Is the problem on the ‘hard’ side of the ledger sufficiently well-defined to sustain the division as a fundamen ...
Man as the Measure of All Things:Thoughts on Moral Perfection,
... of Extension, that affect our Senses, carry with them into the Mind the Idea of Finite.” 4 The finite is a concept easily grasped and seen in the world, as it dominates our experience. It is also perhaps unsurprising that we should seek to tame and order such a world: conceptually, scientifically, p ...
... of Extension, that affect our Senses, carry with them into the Mind the Idea of Finite.” 4 The finite is a concept easily grasped and seen in the world, as it dominates our experience. It is also perhaps unsurprising that we should seek to tame and order such a world: conceptually, scientifically, p ...
ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY—a trend in contemporary philosophy with
... ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY—a trend in contemporary philosophy with its own distinct methodology and content. It began in Great Britain at the beginning of the twentieth century (G. E. Moore, B. Russell) in opposition to speculative idealistic philosophy. Several variations of analytic philosophy developed ...
... ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY—a trend in contemporary philosophy with its own distinct methodology and content. It began in Great Britain at the beginning of the twentieth century (G. E. Moore, B. Russell) in opposition to speculative idealistic philosophy. Several variations of analytic philosophy developed ...
Wittgenstein, Reflexivity and the Social Construction of Reality
... in reality (i.e., independent of the languages and theoretical terms used to described or demarcate those phenomena; Greenwood 1992), Wittgenstein (1953) discussed whether it makes sense to say that mathematical truth is “independent of whether human beings know it or not!” (p. 226). The relevance o ...
... in reality (i.e., independent of the languages and theoretical terms used to described or demarcate those phenomena; Greenwood 1992), Wittgenstein (1953) discussed whether it makes sense to say that mathematical truth is “independent of whether human beings know it or not!” (p. 226). The relevance o ...
A Beginner`s Guide to Descartes`s Meditations
... La Haye-Descartes in 1802, and subsequently, in 1967, simply Descartes). His mother having died when he was only one year old, he lived from that time on with his elder brother and sister in the house of his maternal grandmother. Between the ages often and eighteen he attended the Jesuit College of ...
... La Haye-Descartes in 1802, and subsequently, in 1967, simply Descartes). His mother having died when he was only one year old, he lived from that time on with his elder brother and sister in the house of his maternal grandmother. Between the ages often and eighteen he attended the Jesuit College of ...