actions-products
... analysis of attitude reports will provide both a way of avoiding the linguistic problems and a basis for an ontological account of attitudinal objects, within a more general trope-based account of actions and products. I will finally mention some important applications of attitudinal objects to issu ...
... analysis of attitude reports will provide both a way of avoiding the linguistic problems and a basis for an ontological account of attitudinal objects, within a more general trope-based account of actions and products. I will finally mention some important applications of attitudinal objects to issu ...
Epistemological Vs - Birkbeck, University of London
... Mostly in this book I have speculated on causes, not justifications . . . . Even in the case of bodies, . . . , I offered no hope of justification. I entertained no thought of translating talk of bodies into talk of sense impressions, . . . I asked how, given our stimulations, we might have develope ...
... Mostly in this book I have speculated on causes, not justifications . . . . Even in the case of bodies, . . . , I offered no hope of justification. I entertained no thought of translating talk of bodies into talk of sense impressions, . . . I asked how, given our stimulations, we might have develope ...
Joseph Conrad and the Aesthetics of Music - DigiNole!
... Nicolson (London: Hogarth, 1980), 426. Woolf would write to Ethel Smyth later in the same year with the ...
... Nicolson (London: Hogarth, 1980), 426. Woolf would write to Ethel Smyth later in the same year with the ...
A Theory of Sentience - sikkim university library
... tangled hierarchy or semi-ordering of processes, some of which are ‘early’ and others of which are ‘late’. ‘Early vision’ is generally taken to include processes in the visual nervous system from transduction up to and including tertiary visual association areas in the neocortex. Those areas have co ...
... tangled hierarchy or semi-ordering of processes, some of which are ‘early’ and others of which are ‘late’. ‘Early vision’ is generally taken to include processes in the visual nervous system from transduction up to and including tertiary visual association areas in the neocortex. Those areas have co ...
Aristotle`s Account of the Virtue of Courage in
... This passage makes several claims. First, the passage indicates that a courageous person fears the right things, the right way, and at the right time. So the parameters of courage include objects, amount, and frequency of fear. Fear is a function of these three variables. This aspect of courage may ...
... This passage makes several claims. First, the passage indicates that a courageous person fears the right things, the right way, and at the right time. So the parameters of courage include objects, amount, and frequency of fear. Fear is a function of these three variables. This aspect of courage may ...
The Idealism of Mary Whiton Calkins
... understands uniqueness given that the person in question contingently exists. Since nothing is distinct from the Absolute, it seems that the Absolute has no environment. But perhaps Calkins could respond that a person’s environment consists in those things numerically distinct from her that are also ...
... understands uniqueness given that the person in question contingently exists. Since nothing is distinct from the Absolute, it seems that the Absolute has no environment. But perhaps Calkins could respond that a person’s environment consists in those things numerically distinct from her that are also ...
quine`s argument from despair
... abandonment of a ‘first philosophy’ prior to science. The Quinean naturalist argues that all inquiry starts from within our scientific conceptual scheme and that we ought to repudiate “the Cartesian dream of a foundation for scientific certainty firmer than scientific method itself” (1990, 19). Wher ...
... abandonment of a ‘first philosophy’ prior to science. The Quinean naturalist argues that all inquiry starts from within our scientific conceptual scheme and that we ought to repudiate “the Cartesian dream of a foundation for scientific certainty firmer than scientific method itself” (1990, 19). Wher ...
Dennett and Phenomenology - Center for Subjectivity Research
... because he advocates a version of the theory-theory of mind and considers experiencing a form of theorizing and experiential states such as emotions, perceptions, and intentions, theoretically postulated entities. For the heterophenomenologist, the subjects’ reports about their conscious experiences ...
... because he advocates a version of the theory-theory of mind and considers experiencing a form of theorizing and experiential states such as emotions, perceptions, and intentions, theoretically postulated entities. For the heterophenomenologist, the subjects’ reports about their conscious experiences ...
Heidegger, Žižek and Revolution
... Žižek claim that everything depends on thinking, and, moreover, right now.1 Philosophy as action is absolutely decisive, urgent and world-historical. Here we find the most crucial connection between Heidegger and Žižek: for both, truth is partisan. Truth is accessible only from a limited, engaged, a ...
... Žižek claim that everything depends on thinking, and, moreover, right now.1 Philosophy as action is absolutely decisive, urgent and world-historical. Here we find the most crucial connection between Heidegger and Žižek: for both, truth is partisan. Truth is accessible only from a limited, engaged, a ...
Consciousness, Self and World: Husserl and the Phenomenological
... irremediably compromised by two problematic, and related, methodological commitments: (1) a form of ‘Cartesian’ content internalism, according to which a subject can have thoughts about itself and the world without having any warranted beliefs about a world of real external (spatial) objects; (2) th ...
... irremediably compromised by two problematic, and related, methodological commitments: (1) a form of ‘Cartesian’ content internalism, according to which a subject can have thoughts about itself and the world without having any warranted beliefs about a world of real external (spatial) objects; (2) th ...
maimon and deleuze: the viewpoint of internal genesis and the
... “[A]ppearances could after all be so constituted that the understanding would not find them in accord with the conditions of its unity, and everything would then lie in such confusion that, e.g., in the succession of appearances nothing would offer itself that would furnish a rule of synthesis and t ...
... “[A]ppearances could after all be so constituted that the understanding would not find them in accord with the conditions of its unity, and everything would then lie in such confusion that, e.g., in the succession of appearances nothing would offer itself that would furnish a rule of synthesis and t ...
The Beautiful Soul and the Autocratic Agent: Schilleris
... sensibility and reason are united, and is realized in voluntary movements when they give the impression of grace. Thus, Schiller begins his essay by conceiving of an ideal existence that is not strictly inspired by ethics. Nevertheless, Schiller clearly moves from this account of grace inspired by t ...
... sensibility and reason are united, and is realized in voluntary movements when they give the impression of grace. Thus, Schiller begins his essay by conceiving of an ideal existence that is not strictly inspired by ethics. Nevertheless, Schiller clearly moves from this account of grace inspired by t ...
Scepticism with regard to Reason* David Owen, University of
... demonstrative argument, not just that it might be unsound, but that it actually turns into a probable argument. Fogelin (Fogelin 1993) argues that this is a consequence of Hume’s claim that “knowledge degenerates into probability”. Against Hume, Fogelin argues that “the fact that there may be some c ...
... demonstrative argument, not just that it might be unsound, but that it actually turns into a probable argument. Fogelin (Fogelin 1993) argues that this is a consequence of Hume’s claim that “knowledge degenerates into probability”. Against Hume, Fogelin argues that “the fact that there may be some c ...
imagination, metaphor and mythopoeia in the poetry of three
... level of discourse rather than on the word or sentence level and rejects a distinction between subject and object, the human mind and reality, language and reality and thus between ‘the literal and ‘the metaphorical.’ In “The Philosophy of Rhetoric” I. A. Richards argues that all ‘meanings’ are univ ...
... level of discourse rather than on the word or sentence level and rejects a distinction between subject and object, the human mind and reality, language and reality and thus between ‘the literal and ‘the metaphorical.’ In “The Philosophy of Rhetoric” I. A. Richards argues that all ‘meanings’ are univ ...
Of a mythical philosophical anthropology: the transcendental and
... propriety [or properness]’ (TT1,133). This can be remedied only if it is supplemented by technics: ‘“human nature” consists only in its technicity, in its denaturalisation’ (TT1,148; see also, TT1,157, 216). Man needs external technical objects to act as mirrors that reflect him and thus allow him ...
... propriety [or properness]’ (TT1,133). This can be remedied only if it is supplemented by technics: ‘“human nature” consists only in its technicity, in its denaturalisation’ (TT1,148; see also, TT1,157, 216). Man needs external technical objects to act as mirrors that reflect him and thus allow him ...
Merleau-Ponty`s transcendental theory of perception - SAS
... engaged, like the philosopher of mind, in making claims about their essential nature, necessary and sufficient or constitutive conditions, and so on. Accordingly it seems reasonable to expect that, allowing for differences of vocabulary and methodology, on matters of substance numerous points of con ...
... engaged, like the philosopher of mind, in making claims about their essential nature, necessary and sufficient or constitutive conditions, and so on. Accordingly it seems reasonable to expect that, allowing for differences of vocabulary and methodology, on matters of substance numerous points of con ...
The “Silence” of Wittgenstein and Kraus
... The most significant change in how he went about it is the replacement of analysis by context as the dominant crux of clarification, as elaborated in the opening sixty-five sections of the Philosophical Investigations.6 Analysis may still be a method of clarification where truth-claims are involved ...
... The most significant change in how he went about it is the replacement of analysis by context as the dominant crux of clarification, as elaborated in the opening sixty-five sections of the Philosophical Investigations.6 Analysis may still be a method of clarification where truth-claims are involved ...
Taking reincarnation seriously
... us and for a short time the whole project depends upon us. Our life thus has urgent meaning.’25 But this image, of course, encourages the thought that there is some ‘thing’ that remains the same from one life to the next, which is the very thought that many Buddhists have deliberately tried to disc ...
... us and for a short time the whole project depends upon us. Our life thus has urgent meaning.’25 But this image, of course, encourages the thought that there is some ‘thing’ that remains the same from one life to the next, which is the very thought that many Buddhists have deliberately tried to disc ...
DAMIAN ILODIGWE OAKESHOTT`S CRITIQUE OF SOVEREIGNTY
... there are mysteries in life that are in excess of its possibilities, so that the bound of meaning and truth is not co-extensive with the bound of reason.9 In other words logic cannot impose itself on life but must allow itself to be guided by the inherent template of life.10 Thus it emerges that pre ...
... there are mysteries in life that are in excess of its possibilities, so that the bound of meaning and truth is not co-extensive with the bound of reason.9 In other words logic cannot impose itself on life but must allow itself to be guided by the inherent template of life.10 Thus it emerges that pre ...
Kant and the Role of Pleasure in Moral Action
... feeling only because respect for the law is more powerful [mächtiger] than all such feelings together” (MM 6:408). But if respect does not move us as a moral feeling, then in what sense is it “more powerful” than feelings arising from our sensibility? This evidence for the idea that respect motivate ...
... feeling only because respect for the law is more powerful [mächtiger] than all such feelings together” (MM 6:408). But if respect does not move us as a moral feeling, then in what sense is it “more powerful” than feelings arising from our sensibility? This evidence for the idea that respect motivate ...
Searle`s Ontology of the Mind and the Universe
... we think of as especially mental—whether perception, learning, inference, decision making, problem solving, the emotions, etc.—are in one way or another crucially related to consciousness.” (Searle 1992: 22) Descartes: “By the word ‘thought’ I understand all those things which occur in us while we a ...
... we think of as especially mental—whether perception, learning, inference, decision making, problem solving, the emotions, etc.—are in one way or another crucially related to consciousness.” (Searle 1992: 22) Descartes: “By the word ‘thought’ I understand all those things which occur in us while we a ...
If killing isn`t wrong, then nothing is: A naturalistic defence of basic
... To my ears, and I’m sure also to the ears of non-philosophers too, there is something deeply peculiar about these purported explanations. They evince in me the same kind of reaction as that reported by Wittgenstein in response to the empirical certainties exhibited by Moore: “even though I find it q ...
... To my ears, and I’m sure also to the ears of non-philosophers too, there is something deeply peculiar about these purported explanations. They evince in me the same kind of reaction as that reported by Wittgenstein in response to the empirical certainties exhibited by Moore: “even though I find it q ...
The Rosewood Report on Practical Wisdom
... they endorse when making judgments about punishment. Eddy reminded us (and confirmed – despite some clever experiments designed to make the folk look more principled!) that people make moral judgments on the basis of intuitions and then rationalize them after the fact. Rachana discussed studies that ...
... they endorse when making judgments about punishment. Eddy reminded us (and confirmed – despite some clever experiments designed to make the folk look more principled!) that people make moral judgments on the basis of intuitions and then rationalize them after the fact. Rachana discussed studies that ...
Irwin`s Routledge Encyclopedia article on Aristotle
... disciplines, Aristotle describes a universal ‘science of being qua being’, the concern of the Metaphysics. Part of this universal science examines the foundations of inquiry into nature. Aristotle formulates his doctrine of substance, which he explains through the connected contrasts between form an ...
... disciplines, Aristotle describes a universal ‘science of being qua being’, the concern of the Metaphysics. Part of this universal science examines the foundations of inquiry into nature. Aristotle formulates his doctrine of substance, which he explains through the connected contrasts between form an ...
A Phenomenological Critique of the Idea of Social Science
... Here we strike upon our second term in need of clarification – “Geist”. Both Lauer and Carr translate “Geist” as “spirit” as it is the lesser evil in comparison to the alternative “mind” or “mentality” (in Husserl, 1965b:152; 1980:6). The issue is that both “spirit” and “Geist” can carry certain met ...
... Here we strike upon our second term in need of clarification – “Geist”. Both Lauer and Carr translate “Geist” as “spirit” as it is the lesser evil in comparison to the alternative “mind” or “mentality” (in Husserl, 1965b:152; 1980:6). The issue is that both “spirit” and “Geist” can carry certain met ...