Does Comparative Philosophy have a Fusion Future? Responses
... with one or more strains of thought found in other cultures outside the Western tradition. 1 At the same time, fusion philosophy, unlike comparative philosophy, denies the utility of long training in non-Western cultures and sustained reflections upon methodological problems, resting content with is ...
... with one or more strains of thought found in other cultures outside the Western tradition. 1 At the same time, fusion philosophy, unlike comparative philosophy, denies the utility of long training in non-Western cultures and sustained reflections upon methodological problems, resting content with is ...
Answers to Practice Quiz #3 - Langara iWeb
... 2. (i) What is the interaction problem for Cartesian dualism? Cartesian dualism says the mind and body are radically different, one purely physical and the other not physical at all. So how could they interact? ...
... 2. (i) What is the interaction problem for Cartesian dualism? Cartesian dualism says the mind and body are radically different, one purely physical and the other not physical at all. So how could they interact? ...
Preface to Chapter 1, (on Realism and Mind as a Non
... forcefully argued, that we can have no consciousness -we are all automatons "zombies"! Simply put, there is no way that one part of a spatially and ...
... forcefully argued, that we can have no consciousness -we are all automatons "zombies"! Simply put, there is no way that one part of a spatially and ...
Extremes meet each other: Artificial General Intelligence
... by John Laird, Allen Newell and Paul Rosenbloom at Carnegie Mellon University. Since its beginnings in 1983 and later on its presentation in 1987, it has been widely used by AI researchers to model different aspects of human behavior. Soar is another effort to be grasping at the goal of human-level ...
... by John Laird, Allen Newell and Paul Rosenbloom at Carnegie Mellon University. Since its beginnings in 1983 and later on its presentation in 1987, it has been widely used by AI researchers to model different aspects of human behavior. Soar is another effort to be grasping at the goal of human-level ...
Good, Self, and Unselfing - Reflections on Iris Murdoch`s Moral
... other, classify them as better or worse, important or not - in short, evaluate. As so often in her philosophy, Murdoch here takes art as an example. Learning to understand some art form means learning to evaluate its objects according to degrees of excellence. This activity also reveals that there i ...
... other, classify them as better or worse, important or not - in short, evaluate. As so often in her philosophy, Murdoch here takes art as an example. Learning to understand some art form means learning to evaluate its objects according to degrees of excellence. This activity also reveals that there i ...
Chapter 1 - Computer Science & Information Technology
... (p10) • Several theories that embody the moral point of view • Kant describes the principle that we must respect humanity in all our choices and actions • Rights-based theories discuss core human goods in terms of protection of human rights like life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness • Utilitar ...
... (p10) • Several theories that embody the moral point of view • Kant describes the principle that we must respect humanity in all our choices and actions • Rights-based theories discuss core human goods in terms of protection of human rights like life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness • Utilitar ...
The present as an empirically testable hypothesis: a case study in
... line found in Newton’s work, in which more and more questions previously taken to be a priori metaphysical questions are transformed into empirical ones. What makes this appropriate for an &HPS conference is that it is by situating Newton’s physics within history of philosophy, with philosophical qu ...
... line found in Newton’s work, in which more and more questions previously taken to be a priori metaphysical questions are transformed into empirical ones. What makes this appropriate for an &HPS conference is that it is by situating Newton’s physics within history of philosophy, with philosophical qu ...
Dec. 9, 2013 One Writer's Beginning s, Part II
... see new things that I had not seen before; I became more attentive to the details. And by appreciating these details, I got a totally different impression from the same object. For example, when I first looked at the junk piano, it just looked disorderly and chaotic, but after observing for a while ...
... see new things that I had not seen before; I became more attentive to the details. And by appreciating these details, I got a totally different impression from the same object. For example, when I first looked at the junk piano, it just looked disorderly and chaotic, but after observing for a while ...
Big Questions Affirmative Evidence
... team of physicists (Gerlich et al, Nature Communications 2:263, 2011) showed that quantum weirdness also occurs in the human-scale world. They studied huge compounds composed of up to 430 atoms, and confirmed that this strange quantum behavior extends into the larger world we live in. Importantly, t ...
... team of physicists (Gerlich et al, Nature Communications 2:263, 2011) showed that quantum weirdness also occurs in the human-scale world. They studied huge compounds composed of up to 430 atoms, and confirmed that this strange quantum behavior extends into the larger world we live in. Importantly, t ...
The Buddhist Notion of Emptiness and its Potential Contribution to
... extrapolated to characterize the nature of all existence as emptiness—empty of substance, of properties that suggest solidity in identity, and of definitive characterization. It was Nāgārjuna, writing in the 2nd/3rd cent. CE (Murti, 1980), with his collected aphorisms and dialectic analyses, who inge ...
... extrapolated to characterize the nature of all existence as emptiness—empty of substance, of properties that suggest solidity in identity, and of definitive characterization. It was Nāgārjuna, writing in the 2nd/3rd cent. CE (Murti, 1980), with his collected aphorisms and dialectic analyses, who inge ...
Introduction to Roman Philosophy
... furnishes us with propriety of words and arguments, and the faculty of distinguishing, that we may not be imposed upon with tricks and fallacies. The causes of things fall under natural philosophy, arguments under rational, and actions under moral. Moral philosophy is again divided into matter of ju ...
... furnishes us with propriety of words and arguments, and the faculty of distinguishing, that we may not be imposed upon with tricks and fallacies. The causes of things fall under natural philosophy, arguments under rational, and actions under moral. Moral philosophy is again divided into matter of ju ...
introduction: the task of thinking reality
... However, knowledge is not of oneself, but of an object, a determinate something that can be apprehended by the intellect. It is this object that is taken up into the human mind with respect to its intelligible nature. For Maritain, following Aristotle and Thomas, the knower becomes the object in the ...
... However, knowledge is not of oneself, but of an object, a determinate something that can be apprehended by the intellect. It is this object that is taken up into the human mind with respect to its intelligible nature. For Maritain, following Aristotle and Thomas, the knower becomes the object in the ...
Stove`s Discovery of the Worst Argument in the World
... story about the wiring inside, which explains why 4 is displayed. But the explanation cannot avoid mention of the fact that 2+2 is 4. On the contrary, the wiring is set up exactly to implement the laws of arithmetic, which are true in the abstract. The causal apparatus is designed specifically to be ...
... story about the wiring inside, which explains why 4 is displayed. But the explanation cannot avoid mention of the fact that 2+2 is 4. On the contrary, the wiring is set up exactly to implement the laws of arithmetic, which are true in the abstract. The causal apparatus is designed specifically to be ...
Philosophy and concept formation in narrative therapy An
... and the persons who consult us produce their own life through their actions? This reminds me of a joke: I was walking down fifth avenue in New York, when I stopped to listen to a man playing the saxophone. He played wonderful jazz standards. Actually I was on my way to Carnegie Hall to buy some tick ...
... and the persons who consult us produce their own life through their actions? This reminds me of a joke: I was walking down fifth avenue in New York, when I stopped to listen to a man playing the saxophone. He played wonderful jazz standards. Actually I was on my way to Carnegie Hall to buy some tick ...
What is it like to be a robot?
... and...the system is attuned to produce the best compromise among the competing demands” (p. 123). He says, “The fundamental difference between the two views is that in the automaton view the quantity maximized is implicit, while in the hedonic view it is explicit” (p. 123). But are these views as di ...
... and...the system is attuned to produce the best compromise among the competing demands” (p. 123). He says, “The fundamental difference between the two views is that in the automaton view the quantity maximized is implicit, while in the hedonic view it is explicit” (p. 123). But are these views as di ...
RealistsvsNominalists
... term, such as ‘man,’ is shared by many individuals because of a common nature intrinsic to all or is the common character imputed to things by the mind? Or might it be due to both? In answering the above question, Abaelard outlines his answer to the controversy as to whether universals are res or vo ...
... term, such as ‘man,’ is shared by many individuals because of a common nature intrinsic to all or is the common character imputed to things by the mind? Or might it be due to both? In answering the above question, Abaelard outlines his answer to the controversy as to whether universals are res or vo ...
Psychological Egoism - K
... actions can be motivated simply by a desire for pleasure, without some prior concern with things other than one’s own pleasure, where the satisfaction of these other-regarding desires is what brings pleasure. The idea is simply that the best way to find happiness is not to seek it, but rather seek s ...
... actions can be motivated simply by a desire for pleasure, without some prior concern with things other than one’s own pleasure, where the satisfaction of these other-regarding desires is what brings pleasure. The idea is simply that the best way to find happiness is not to seek it, but rather seek s ...
3. Hume - CSUN.edu
... 1. At first consideration, the mind would seem to be limitless and unrestrained by experience and even reality. For example, with the mind one can explore the out regions of the universe and imagine dragons as well as horses with wings. But upon further examination, Hume concluded that it its “real ...
... 1. At first consideration, the mind would seem to be limitless and unrestrained by experience and even reality. For example, with the mind one can explore the out regions of the universe and imagine dragons as well as horses with wings. But upon further examination, Hume concluded that it its “real ...
Knowledge
... Questioning Is it possible that we have any knowledge at the level of certitude? one of the most difficult subject in epistemology ...
... Questioning Is it possible that we have any knowledge at the level of certitude? one of the most difficult subject in epistemology ...
What Is It Like to Be a Bat?
... one to fly around at dusk and dawn catching insects in one's mouth; that one has very poor vision, and perceives the surrounding world by a system of reflectedhigh-frequencysound signals; and that one spends the day hanging upside down by one's feetin an attic. In so far as I can imagine this (which ...
... one to fly around at dusk and dawn catching insects in one's mouth; that one has very poor vision, and perceives the surrounding world by a system of reflectedhigh-frequencysound signals; and that one spends the day hanging upside down by one's feetin an attic. In so far as I can imagine this (which ...
Mohandas Gandhi
... 2. Gandhi seems to identify the terms “ahimsā,” “truth,” and “God.” What, in your view, is his purpose in doing so? If these terms all amount to the same thing (i.e. they all refer to the same entity or conception) then why employ different terms at all? 3. Gandhi claims, “means to be means must alw ...
... 2. Gandhi seems to identify the terms “ahimsā,” “truth,” and “God.” What, in your view, is his purpose in doing so? If these terms all amount to the same thing (i.e. they all refer to the same entity or conception) then why employ different terms at all? 3. Gandhi claims, “means to be means must alw ...
Metaphysics As Speculative Nonsense
... prove; should they be taken to mean that there is something we can now experience that is relevant to their truth? This would be odd, since the core of the claim is that something was the case, not that it is now. So Ayer argues that claims about the past are claims that certain observations would h ...
... prove; should they be taken to mean that there is something we can now experience that is relevant to their truth? This would be odd, since the core of the claim is that something was the case, not that it is now. So Ayer argues that claims about the past are claims that certain observations would h ...
Thesis Abstract
... experience much more often than philosophers who contemplate mental operations. Perhaps, the reason thereof is that observing “operations” is supposed to furnish data about the mind itself; it serves primarily as a foundation of an experimental science of the mind (psychology). The study of images, ...
... experience much more often than philosophers who contemplate mental operations. Perhaps, the reason thereof is that observing “operations” is supposed to furnish data about the mind itself; it serves primarily as a foundation of an experimental science of the mind (psychology). The study of images, ...
Asian Philosophy (CH. 1 of AP)
... scope of science through a special method, such as conceptual analysis, that is distinct from, but similar to religious inquiry. Philosophy does inquire into a question by looking at various contributions that are relevant to answering the question, and it does employ a variety of methods. In contem ...
... scope of science through a special method, such as conceptual analysis, that is distinct from, but similar to religious inquiry. Philosophy does inquire into a question by looking at various contributions that are relevant to answering the question, and it does employ a variety of methods. In contem ...
Class #2
... it can rely on to define any domain of study. Thus, metaphysics is more accurately “a collection of questions that seem to group together about what is real and what reality is like.” ...
... it can rely on to define any domain of study. Thus, metaphysics is more accurately “a collection of questions that seem to group together about what is real and what reality is like.” ...