Luc Bovens, `Interview.` In: Epistemology: 5 Questions. Edited by
... As a graduate student in the University of Minnesota, I became interested in Rational Choice Theory and had the opportunity to work with Jon Elster while holding a fellowship at the University of Oslo. I was trying to write a dissertation entitled ‘Reasons for Preferences’ and was stuck for month af ...
... As a graduate student in the University of Minnesota, I became interested in Rational Choice Theory and had the opportunity to work with Jon Elster while holding a fellowship at the University of Oslo. I was trying to write a dissertation entitled ‘Reasons for Preferences’ and was stuck for month af ...
Becky Clay Dr. Doug Deaver 4-14
... states that a proposition is true if it accurately reflects reality. While this method seems to get us closer to defining truth compared to the universal theory, it still raises more questions such as, “What is accuracy?” and “What is reality?” Another possible resolution to defining truth is to sa ...
... states that a proposition is true if it accurately reflects reality. While this method seems to get us closer to defining truth compared to the universal theory, it still raises more questions such as, “What is accuracy?” and “What is reality?” Another possible resolution to defining truth is to sa ...
Karin Dahlberg
... she never knows for sure what time they come. What she does is that she lifts and carries and stows her things in to the right places – but without saying anything. She plays a game with the unknowing carers, covering up her real existence with a show-up. This is the worst part of her being ill, she ...
... she never knows for sure what time they come. What she does is that she lifts and carries and stows her things in to the right places – but without saying anything. She plays a game with the unknowing carers, covering up her real existence with a show-up. This is the worst part of her being ill, she ...
Skepticism and Perceptual Faith: Henry David Thoreau and Stanley
... trust in those who have deceived us even once,”3 Descartes uses the language of intimate betrayal to characterize his own relationship with sensory experience. Never again, he tells us, will he be so naïve as to rely upon the evidence of the senses, because they have violated his trust before. In Wa ...
... trust in those who have deceived us even once,”3 Descartes uses the language of intimate betrayal to characterize his own relationship with sensory experience. Never again, he tells us, will he be so naïve as to rely upon the evidence of the senses, because they have violated his trust before. In Wa ...
(Sydney, Australia) 3(60) (25 Feb. 1871): 234a-234b
... intelligences in the universe, some higher intelligence may have directed the process by which the human race was developed by means of more subtle agencies than we are acquainted with. At the same time I must confess that this theory has the disadvantage of requiring the intervention of some distin ...
... intelligences in the universe, some higher intelligence may have directed the process by which the human race was developed by means of more subtle agencies than we are acquainted with. At the same time I must confess that this theory has the disadvantage of requiring the intervention of some distin ...
Class #5 - 1/15/14
... But the problem still seems to remain! No matter how small a physical object is, it is of course still a physical object. ...
... But the problem still seems to remain! No matter how small a physical object is, it is of course still a physical object. ...
EMPIRICISM John Locke`s Radical Empiricism Contents Ideas
... and solubility in aqua regia, which make our complex idea signi ed by the word gold.” This claim was much more in uential when Hume repeated it 50 years later. ...
... and solubility in aqua regia, which make our complex idea signi ed by the word gold.” This claim was much more in uential when Hume repeated it 50 years later. ...
What is an Anthropology of the Contemporary?
... Practices occupy the domain of already given pragmatic relations to the self, to others as well as to things. These relations are singular in the content but universal in their form” (Ibid). ...
... Practices occupy the domain of already given pragmatic relations to the self, to others as well as to things. These relations are singular in the content but universal in their form” (Ibid). ...
Class #1
... he dispenses with a view of reality, knowledge, the good, but no one can implement this credo. The reason is that man, by his nature as a conceptual being, cannot function at all without some form of philosophy to serve as his guide. …Leonard Peikoff ...
... he dispenses with a view of reality, knowledge, the good, but no one can implement this credo. The reason is that man, by his nature as a conceptual being, cannot function at all without some form of philosophy to serve as his guide. …Leonard Peikoff ...
Two Senses of Common Sense
... of conceptual consensus, one that I have here associated with an appeal to “common sense”, refers to some underlying norms of reasoning that are rooted in our form of life even if no-one notices them. His analyses invite a common sense of a “second nature”, an ideal or a guiding norm for philosophy. ...
... of conceptual consensus, one that I have here associated with an appeal to “common sense”, refers to some underlying norms of reasoning that are rooted in our form of life even if no-one notices them. His analyses invite a common sense of a “second nature”, an ideal or a guiding norm for philosophy. ...
The Dialectical Interplay of Reason and Aaron Trappett
... to believe, only they know not what; or, those who believe, yet know not why. The dialect terminates in the overwhelming subjective appropriation of that which is believed, concerning which reason inevitably reconnoiters its impotence in Ankst, or ...
... to believe, only they know not what; or, those who believe, yet know not why. The dialect terminates in the overwhelming subjective appropriation of that which is believed, concerning which reason inevitably reconnoiters its impotence in Ankst, or ...
Eleven Reasons Why Philosophy is Important
... causation, the nature of mathematics, the nature of morality, and controversial applied ethics involves a great deal of knowledge. In particular, we can realize that certain hypotheses are untenable even when we have no way of knowing the absolute truth once and for all. This is not much different f ...
... causation, the nature of mathematics, the nature of morality, and controversial applied ethics involves a great deal of knowledge. In particular, we can realize that certain hypotheses are untenable even when we have no way of knowing the absolute truth once and for all. This is not much different f ...
Bold hypothesis by Popper
... In Popper's philosophy of science, if a statement cannot even in principle be proved wrong, it cannot be a scientific statement. Thus, in Popper's eyes, the falsifiability criterion clearly demarcates "science" from "non-science". This Popperian idea has been very controversial, however. The reason ...
... In Popper's philosophy of science, if a statement cannot even in principle be proved wrong, it cannot be a scientific statement. Thus, in Popper's eyes, the falsifiability criterion clearly demarcates "science" from "non-science". This Popperian idea has been very controversial, however. The reason ...
Lecture 6 : The Concept of Mind in Upanisads
... the world are causally explainable. The origin of things in the world and their end make them finite. Since the Brahman is atemporal is not bound by time. The knowledge about the world is sense experiential where as the knowledge about the atman is not derived through any sense experience, rather it ...
... the world are causally explainable. The origin of things in the world and their end make them finite. Since the Brahman is atemporal is not bound by time. The knowledge about the world is sense experiential where as the knowledge about the atman is not derived through any sense experience, rather it ...
Ionian Philosophers
... to a step in the series of which our understanding is not sufficiently well able to have an intuitive cognition, we must stop short there.” 5. Descartes’ method was Rationalistic basing its knowledge on the processes of the mind apart from the senses (Empiricism), which he believed could only confus ...
... to a step in the series of which our understanding is not sufficiently well able to have an intuitive cognition, we must stop short there.” 5. Descartes’ method was Rationalistic basing its knowledge on the processes of the mind apart from the senses (Empiricism), which he believed could only confus ...
Duties to oneself
... they do not want to subject themselves to the rights of people, but to view them simply as objects of magnanimity. It is not all one under what title I get something. What properly belongs to me must not be accorded to me merely as something I beg for” (Notes Ak 19:145). D. “[In] the formal principl ...
... they do not want to subject themselves to the rights of people, but to view them simply as objects of magnanimity. It is not all one under what title I get something. What properly belongs to me must not be accorded to me merely as something I beg for” (Notes Ak 19:145). D. “[In] the formal principl ...
existentialist philosophies and political decline
... The interpreters of the crisis situation may be separated into two main jroups. The first, of which Barth and Marcel may be considered representative, agree with Kierkegaard, and have led in a movement toward neo-orthodox Christianity. Barth, who has influenced profoundly Reinhold Niebuhr, is credit ...
... The interpreters of the crisis situation may be separated into two main jroups. The first, of which Barth and Marcel may be considered representative, agree with Kierkegaard, and have led in a movement toward neo-orthodox Christianity. Barth, who has influenced profoundly Reinhold Niebuhr, is credit ...
NC-Contractualism
... how to treat others, only how they feel about certain things. The individual requires input from others to understand what sort of actions they find acceptable. And, humans have a need to justify their actions to one another. Even the worst murderers like Hitler and Stalin attempt to give justifica ...
... how to treat others, only how they feel about certain things. The individual requires input from others to understand what sort of actions they find acceptable. And, humans have a need to justify their actions to one another. Even the worst murderers like Hitler and Stalin attempt to give justifica ...
THE PROBLEM OF KNOWLEDGE
... memory, or testimony, or other forms of evidence are reliable. And this would be a very complicated matter, if indeed it could be done at all. Moreover, we cannot assume that, even in particular instances, an answer to the question How do you know? will always be forthcoming. There may very well be ...
... memory, or testimony, or other forms of evidence are reliable. And this would be a very complicated matter, if indeed it could be done at all. Moreover, we cannot assume that, even in particular instances, an answer to the question How do you know? will always be forthcoming. There may very well be ...
Theme 3
... problems of communication, teaching public speaking and political activities, as well as specific scientific and philosophical knowledge. Some sophists taught the techniques and forms of belief and evidence, regardless of the question of truth. Make a point, and even resorted to absurd passages of t ...
... problems of communication, teaching public speaking and political activities, as well as specific scientific and philosophical knowledge. Some sophists taught the techniques and forms of belief and evidence, regardless of the question of truth. Make a point, and even resorted to absurd passages of t ...
Lessons from Kant: On Knowledge, Morality, and Beauty
... operational theories regarding the apparatus in use etc.). In scholarly settings, which are actually far more dominant (since almost all that we know comes from texts not from raw data), the relevant theories include also “theories” regarding the trustworthiness of various sources. In both cases, w ...
... operational theories regarding the apparatus in use etc.). In scholarly settings, which are actually far more dominant (since almost all that we know comes from texts not from raw data), the relevant theories include also “theories” regarding the trustworthiness of various sources. In both cases, w ...
The 21st. CENTURY ARTILECT Moral Dilemmas Concerning the
... This problem is universal for biological systems. Quality, in a biological context, is defined as increased survivability. Structural innovations such as reproduction, mutation, sex, death, etc., are all "measured" according to the survivability criterion. It is just possible that there may be no ot ...
... This problem is universal for biological systems. Quality, in a biological context, is defined as increased survivability. Structural innovations such as reproduction, mutation, sex, death, etc., are all "measured" according to the survivability criterion. It is just possible that there may be no ot ...
YESHIVAT HAR ETZION
... with the opinion that our world was preceded by many other worlds, it would not taint his belief that our world came into being only a certain period of time ago, and that its first human inhabitants were Adam and Noah." The Torah accepts the position of generation. ...
... with the opinion that our world was preceded by many other worlds, it would not taint his belief that our world came into being only a certain period of time ago, and that its first human inhabitants were Adam and Noah." The Torah accepts the position of generation. ...
Chapter IX The Illative Sense
... Newman quotes some of these experts who have commented on the situation: “Ingenuity and labour can produce nothing but hypotheses and conjectures, which may be supported by analogies, but can never rest upon the solid foundation of proof.” ...
... Newman quotes some of these experts who have commented on the situation: “Ingenuity and labour can produce nothing but hypotheses and conjectures, which may be supported by analogies, but can never rest upon the solid foundation of proof.” ...
Rationalist Epistemology
... • A well-ordered, good, soul is one in which Reason rules. Such a soul, at its best, exercises virtue effortlessly as a result of the transformative experience of Goodness itself. Such a soul is psychically integrated, happiest, sanest, most moral, most free, and most fully human. Plato’s answer to ...
... • A well-ordered, good, soul is one in which Reason rules. Such a soul, at its best, exercises virtue effortlessly as a result of the transformative experience of Goodness itself. Such a soul is psychically integrated, happiest, sanest, most moral, most free, and most fully human. Plato’s answer to ...