1 - David Papineau
... We can distinguish two characteristics which differentiate philosophical problems from scientific ones. As it happens, both of these characteristics mean that solutions to philosophical problems will not normally derive from the availability of new empirical data. This is no doubt why scientists do ...
... We can distinguish two characteristics which differentiate philosophical problems from scientific ones. As it happens, both of these characteristics mean that solutions to philosophical problems will not normally derive from the availability of new empirical data. This is no doubt why scientists do ...
Socrates and Plato - Metaphysics and Epistemology
... Xenophon. It is unclear how Socrates earned a living. According to Xenophon's Symposium, Socrates is reported as saying he devotes himself only to what he regards as the most important art or occupation: discussing philosophy. Xenophon and Aristophanes respectively portray Socrates as accepting paym ...
... Xenophon. It is unclear how Socrates earned a living. According to Xenophon's Symposium, Socrates is reported as saying he devotes himself only to what he regards as the most important art or occupation: discussing philosophy. Xenophon and Aristophanes respectively portray Socrates as accepting paym ...
Hokchhay Tann Philosophy 101 Topic: Analysis of contemporary
... person is usually very short that I only get to know the basics about the person such as name and contact. So many times, I confirm this kind of request just to be polite or because I may need to contact the person at a later time. I also found that most of the time I go online, I do not contact my ...
... person is usually very short that I only get to know the basics about the person such as name and contact. So many times, I confirm this kind of request just to be polite or because I may need to contact the person at a later time. I also found that most of the time I go online, I do not contact my ...
Descartes, Mathematics and Music
... vom Steckenpferd (The Knight of the Rockinghorse), one of the wildest and most syncopated of the series, which ends abruptly in a manner that is decidedly not pleasant to the ear. Music, like life, is full of surprises. It frequently suspends gratification, changes keys and modes to avoid monotony o ...
... vom Steckenpferd (The Knight of the Rockinghorse), one of the wildest and most syncopated of the series, which ends abruptly in a manner that is decidedly not pleasant to the ear. Music, like life, is full of surprises. It frequently suspends gratification, changes keys and modes to avoid monotony o ...
Bernard Williams` Rejection of Morality
... desires central to projects essential to an agent — but are presupposed by it. 24 The notion of a will that arises above all emotion and social influences holds out the hope that agents can transcend luck and the natural lotteries of life. ‘But the idea of a value that lies beyond all luck is an ill ...
... desires central to projects essential to an agent — but are presupposed by it. 24 The notion of a will that arises above all emotion and social influences holds out the hope that agents can transcend luck and the natural lotteries of life. ‘But the idea of a value that lies beyond all luck is an ill ...
The origin of concepts and the nature of knowledge revision boo
... ‘Let us then suppose the mind to have no ideas in it, to be like white paper with nothing written on it. How then does it come to be written on? From where does it get that vast store which the busy and boundless imagination of man has painted on it – all the materials of reason and knowledge? To th ...
... ‘Let us then suppose the mind to have no ideas in it, to be like white paper with nothing written on it. How then does it come to be written on? From where does it get that vast store which the busy and boundless imagination of man has painted on it – all the materials of reason and knowledge? To th ...
View - Fr. Anthony Akinwale, OP
... a dualist and functionalist anthropology that reduces the human being to a machine. These assertions call for explanation. By way of explanation, I suggest, with a brief review of the history of western philosophy, that what we are dealing with here can be traced to the dualism that came from the Gr ...
... a dualist and functionalist anthropology that reduces the human being to a machine. These assertions call for explanation. By way of explanation, I suggest, with a brief review of the history of western philosophy, that what we are dealing with here can be traced to the dualism that came from the Gr ...
In the history of philosophy, Francis Bacon is credited with the
... hearing, they need to be articulated in a propositional form and many of these complaints and demands are largely ineffable. In other words, they cannot be articulated in a propositional format and therefore what is needed in order to obtain social justice is for implicit knowledge to be given a hea ...
... hearing, they need to be articulated in a propositional form and many of these complaints and demands are largely ineffable. In other words, they cannot be articulated in a propositional format and therefore what is needed in order to obtain social justice is for implicit knowledge to be given a hea ...
Chapter 2 Metaphysics, Fideism, Speculation
... N. K. Smith (London: Macmillan), Preface to the Second Edition, B xxvi-xxvii, p. 27. ...
... N. K. Smith (London: Macmillan), Preface to the Second Edition, B xxvi-xxvii, p. 27. ...
Specious Present - Philsci
... and the constraints it places on the kind of physical processes that could ground it. The problems with which philosophers struggled, and that gave rise to different views on what the experienced present moment might be, are reflected in the contemporary debate. There are multiple distinct ways i ...
... and the constraints it places on the kind of physical processes that could ground it. The problems with which philosophers struggled, and that gave rise to different views on what the experienced present moment might be, are reflected in the contemporary debate. There are multiple distinct ways i ...
what is refuge recovery?
... 1. Addiction creates suffering. We come to understand, Action: Take refuge in the community, practice and potential of acknowledge, admit and accept all of the ways that our addictions or your own recovery. Study and apply the principles of the Eightaddictive behaviors have caused suffering in our l ...
... 1. Addiction creates suffering. We come to understand, Action: Take refuge in the community, practice and potential of acknowledge, admit and accept all of the ways that our addictions or your own recovery. Study and apply the principles of the Eightaddictive behaviors have caused suffering in our l ...
Communitarianism and Confucianism – In Search of
... life. But virtues - they are practical wisdom (phronesis), justice, courage, and prudence - are not just means to an end, the good life itself is nothing but the practice of virtues. ...
... life. But virtues - they are practical wisdom (phronesis), justice, courage, and prudence - are not just means to an end, the good life itself is nothing but the practice of virtues. ...
A Realist Theory of Science
... natural necessity. Knowledge and the world may be viewed as surfaces whose points are in isomorphic correspondence or, in the case of phenomenalism, actually fused. On this conception, science is conceived as a kind of automatic or behavioural response to the stimulus of given facts and their conjun ...
... natural necessity. Knowledge and the world may be viewed as surfaces whose points are in isomorphic correspondence or, in the case of phenomenalism, actually fused. On this conception, science is conceived as a kind of automatic or behavioural response to the stimulus of given facts and their conjun ...
Fourteen pieces on eastern and western philosophy
... From the 11th century AD neo-Confucianism tried to develop a new synthesis, with a reabsorption of Confucianism. This was inspired, in part, by the fear that Taoist metaphysical speculation would go overboard at the expense of practical things, and ‘the negative attitude of the Buddhists toward life ...
... From the 11th century AD neo-Confucianism tried to develop a new synthesis, with a reabsorption of Confucianism. This was inspired, in part, by the fear that Taoist metaphysical speculation would go overboard at the expense of practical things, and ‘the negative attitude of the Buddhists toward life ...
Samavaya Inseparable Health May 24 docx
... known as prajnan-aparadha, ‘mistake of the intellect’ and saw an oasis but actually it was a desert. When the time came to become happy with wealth, money and objects, it appears happiness was not included as a purchasable commodity or by-product of wealth. In search of rekindling some happiness by ...
... known as prajnan-aparadha, ‘mistake of the intellect’ and saw an oasis but actually it was a desert. When the time came to become happy with wealth, money and objects, it appears happiness was not included as a purchasable commodity or by-product of wealth. In search of rekindling some happiness by ...
Glendinning , Simon. 'Varieties of Neoliberalism' LEQS Paper No. 89, March 2015
... humanity of man, as rational subjectivity. I am going to come back to Plato shortly, to an incredible moment in an incredible philosophical text, a text which (incredibly) helped decisively to shape the whole intellectual culture of Europe. But first, I want to note, with Husserl, that none of these ...
... humanity of man, as rational subjectivity. I am going to come back to Plato shortly, to an incredible moment in an incredible philosophical text, a text which (incredibly) helped decisively to shape the whole intellectual culture of Europe. But first, I want to note, with Husserl, that none of these ...
OBJECTIONS TO REALISM Introduction: There are a bewildering
... can be trivially "Yes." If we form thoughts today that we didn't have yesterday, the world will be different just in so far as today it contains thoughts that didn't exist yesterday. I Even though I’m a realist about truth, I have no qualms about admitting even that there is a sense in which the wor ...
... can be trivially "Yes." If we form thoughts today that we didn't have yesterday, the world will be different just in so far as today it contains thoughts that didn't exist yesterday. I Even though I’m a realist about truth, I have no qualms about admitting even that there is a sense in which the wor ...
glossary of philosophical terms
... psychology, behaviorism was a twentieth-century movement that maintained that the study of behavior is the best or even the only way to study mental phenomena scientifically. It is opposed to the introspective methods for the study of the mind emphasized in much psychology of the nineteenth century. ...
... psychology, behaviorism was a twentieth-century movement that maintained that the study of behavior is the best or even the only way to study mental phenomena scientifically. It is opposed to the introspective methods for the study of the mind emphasized in much psychology of the nineteenth century. ...
Essential properties of language, or why language is not a
... As may be seen, the emphasis in this definition is laid on the phenomenological nature of signs (including linguistic signs), that is, their cognitive dynamics - the one aspect that until recently has been outside the scope of interest of language sciences. However, even Heraclitus paid attention to ...
... As may be seen, the emphasis in this definition is laid on the phenomenological nature of signs (including linguistic signs), that is, their cognitive dynamics - the one aspect that until recently has been outside the scope of interest of language sciences. However, even Heraclitus paid attention to ...
Bacon - American University of Beirut
... also from wrong laws of demonstration. These I call Idols of the Theater, because in my judgment all the received systems are but so many stage plays, representing worlds of their own creation after an unreal and scenic fashion. Nor is it only of the systems now in vogue, or only of the ancient sect ...
... also from wrong laws of demonstration. These I call Idols of the Theater, because in my judgment all the received systems are but so many stage plays, representing worlds of their own creation after an unreal and scenic fashion. Nor is it only of the systems now in vogue, or only of the ancient sect ...
The Mysteries in Hellenistic astrology
... Additional 30 years are spent in the 9th, 10th and 11th houses. It is the period between the 30 and 60 years of age. Once you lived the 11th house it is time for your second initiation: ‐you’ll have to jump to the 6th House, the illnesses of the body, which will prepare you for death, which will hap ...
... Additional 30 years are spent in the 9th, 10th and 11th houses. It is the period between the 30 and 60 years of age. Once you lived the 11th house it is time for your second initiation: ‐you’ll have to jump to the 6th House, the illnesses of the body, which will prepare you for death, which will hap ...
The Apology and Crito
... emphasizes is an awareness of how little he does know. If we allow that, correlated with human knowledge, there is a kind of human virtue (which is less than divine virtue and divine knowledge), then we can say that Socrates has this sort of human virtue. So: human knowledge, like human virtue, is f ...
... emphasizes is an awareness of how little he does know. If we allow that, correlated with human knowledge, there is a kind of human virtue (which is less than divine virtue and divine knowledge), then we can say that Socrates has this sort of human virtue. So: human knowledge, like human virtue, is f ...
A Divine Ecology Natural Life: Thoreau`s Worldly Transcendentalism
... bring us back to our basic awareness and prepare us for the “big death.” In his last chapter on eternity, Mills makes extensive reference to the work of Csikszentmihalyi (1988) and the idea of flow. Flow is the state of egolessness where we are in harmony with Nature and Humanity. Eternity is then t ...
... bring us back to our basic awareness and prepare us for the “big death.” In his last chapter on eternity, Mills makes extensive reference to the work of Csikszentmihalyi (1988) and the idea of flow. Flow is the state of egolessness where we are in harmony with Nature and Humanity. Eternity is then t ...
Vol 3 - Whitwell - Essays on the Origins of Western Music
... The real center piece of all this weird science is the pineal gland, a small gland in the brain, to which Descartes assigned nearly everything for which he could not otherwise discover a physical location. To be fair to Descartes, we must note that the medical profession, after two thousand years of ...
... The real center piece of all this weird science is the pineal gland, a small gland in the brain, to which Descartes assigned nearly everything for which he could not otherwise discover a physical location. To be fair to Descartes, we must note that the medical profession, after two thousand years of ...
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... its contents, what struck me forcefully was that while most of Plato’s conjectures concerning the nature of the physical world are pretty much orthogonal to what modern science would suggest, the “questions” he raises have not changed Vol. 4, No. 1 March 2014 ...
... its contents, what struck me forcefully was that while most of Plato’s conjectures concerning the nature of the physical world are pretty much orthogonal to what modern science would suggest, the “questions” he raises have not changed Vol. 4, No. 1 March 2014 ...