Foucault and Rorty on Truth and Ideology: A
... In his ‘Two Lectures’ Foucault expressed scepticism about the critique of ideology partly on the grounds that power in modern society has much less to do with ideology than critical theorists assume. Instead of focusing on the role of ideological belief-systems in the manner of critical theorists, F ...
... In his ‘Two Lectures’ Foucault expressed scepticism about the critique of ideology partly on the grounds that power in modern society has much less to do with ideology than critical theorists assume. Instead of focusing on the role of ideological belief-systems in the manner of critical theorists, F ...
‘Boghossian’s Blind Reasoning’, Conditionalization, and Thick Concepts. A Functional Model Olga Ramírez
... 1.2. Williams, Williamson and the problem of ratification Against the inferentialist position, Williamson (2003, 2009) has been claiming that one can understand a concept without actually being willing to infer according to the rules that the inferentialist sees the concept to be constituted by. He ...
... 1.2. Williams, Williamson and the problem of ratification Against the inferentialist position, Williamson (2003, 2009) has been claiming that one can understand a concept without actually being willing to infer according to the rules that the inferentialist sees the concept to be constituted by. He ...
Session 1 Rationalism –v
... What is Philosophy? MMUBS Mres Epistemology, session 1, 30 October 2003, http://cfpm.org/~bruce slide-11 ...
... What is Philosophy? MMUBS Mres Epistemology, session 1, 30 October 2003, http://cfpm.org/~bruce slide-11 ...
Cornelius Castoriadis on Social Imaginary and Truth*
... The question concerning knowledge and theory can be posed only from within this primarily practical framework, which is determined by the social imaginary. What are the problems – concerning the question of truth – which this position entails? Given that, as we said, there has always been a fusion o ...
... The question concerning knowledge and theory can be posed only from within this primarily practical framework, which is determined by the social imaginary. What are the problems – concerning the question of truth – which this position entails? Given that, as we said, there has always been a fusion o ...
Hope and Moral Motivation in Leibniz
... his conceptual framework is different. For him, pleasure and pain are notable perceptions which affect us. But they are not simple ideas, as they are built from aggregates or condensations of minute and confused perceptions.3 A single unconscious, minute perception does not have much effect on its o ...
... his conceptual framework is different. For him, pleasure and pain are notable perceptions which affect us. But they are not simple ideas, as they are built from aggregates or condensations of minute and confused perceptions.3 A single unconscious, minute perception does not have much effect on its o ...
scheler and philosophical anthropology
... and students of philosophy and in this article argue for a renewed interest in the work of Scheler. Scheler's philosophical career is generally divided into three periods according to his primary interests. The first period ends in 1912 and is characterized by his interest in Neo-Kantianism and ethi ...
... and students of philosophy and in this article argue for a renewed interest in the work of Scheler. Scheler's philosophical career is generally divided into three periods according to his primary interests. The first period ends in 1912 and is characterized by his interest in Neo-Kantianism and ethi ...
Truth and Perspectivism
... If Nietzsche is right about the kind of world we live in, then he is justified in claiming that most thoughts or statements we take to be true (e.g. “That leaf is green) cannot correspond to the world. But in one way, Nietzsche seems to be taking too narrow a view of what thought and language presu ...
... If Nietzsche is right about the kind of world we live in, then he is justified in claiming that most thoughts or statements we take to be true (e.g. “That leaf is green) cannot correspond to the world. But in one way, Nietzsche seems to be taking too narrow a view of what thought and language presu ...
Norms, Selves, and Concepts
... but rather as marking the force of the speech act. Calling something good is thought of as doing something distinctive: commending. Geach first asks what the limits of this ploy are. He points to the lovely archaic English verb “to macarize”, which means to characterize someone as happy. Does the po ...
... but rather as marking the force of the speech act. Calling something good is thought of as doing something distinctive: commending. Geach first asks what the limits of this ploy are. He points to the lovely archaic English verb “to macarize”, which means to characterize someone as happy. Does the po ...
Abstract Tragedy versus Comedy. On Why Comedy is the Equal of
... involves a dynamic transformation and moral regeneration of a protagonist’s thought and action via a dramatic reversal of fortune and the recognition of moral error through suffering. By contrast, it tends to be assumed that comedy involves neither such a complicated interplay between the protagonis ...
... involves a dynamic transformation and moral regeneration of a protagonist’s thought and action via a dramatic reversal of fortune and the recognition of moral error through suffering. By contrast, it tends to be assumed that comedy involves neither such a complicated interplay between the protagonis ...
the liberalism of karl popper
... most distinctive features, to comment on its relationship with the philosophy of science, and to evaluate its contribution to some of the central problem-areas of contemporary ...
... most distinctive features, to comment on its relationship with the philosophy of science, and to evaluate its contribution to some of the central problem-areas of contemporary ...
Imagination and Organization: A Review of Cornelius Castoriadis`s
... imaginary that determines the health of both individuals and societies for Castoriadis. What he would denounce in a series of later essays critical of modern society is precisely: “The denial of the instituting dimension of society, the covering up of the instituting imaginary by the instituted imag ...
... imaginary that determines the health of both individuals and societies for Castoriadis. What he would denounce in a series of later essays critical of modern society is precisely: “The denial of the instituting dimension of society, the covering up of the instituting imaginary by the instituted imag ...
The New Organon
... that the heart acts as a pneumatic pump, driving the blood in a perpetual circuit around the body of an animal, whatever its size. The anatomical investigations which clinched his revolutionary discovery were, of course, conducted on much larger-scale organisms. As Physician Extraordinary to James I ...
... that the heart acts as a pneumatic pump, driving the blood in a perpetual circuit around the body of an animal, whatever its size. The anatomical investigations which clinched his revolutionary discovery were, of course, conducted on much larger-scale organisms. As Physician Extraordinary to James I ...
An Aristotelian View of Marx`s Method Nathaniel Cline William
... the the flower and, subsequently, the fruit of the plant are should not be seen a refutations of the previous form, each moving closer to the ‘truth’ of the plant. Instead, Hegel’s tells us that “their fluid nature makes them moments of an organic unity in which they not only do no conflict, but in ...
... the the flower and, subsequently, the fruit of the plant are should not be seen a refutations of the previous form, each moving closer to the ‘truth’ of the plant. Instead, Hegel’s tells us that “their fluid nature makes them moments of an organic unity in which they not only do no conflict, but in ...
View - OhioLINK ETD
... the place (basho) of absolute Nothingness.14 Odin takes note of the obvious influence of William James on Nishida’s early ideas on the self and pure experience. In 1911 with the publication of An Inquiry into the Good, Nishida brought forth his adaptation of James’ idea of pure experience derived fr ...
... the place (basho) of absolute Nothingness.14 Odin takes note of the obvious influence of William James on Nishida’s early ideas on the self and pure experience. In 1911 with the publication of An Inquiry into the Good, Nishida brought forth his adaptation of James’ idea of pure experience derived fr ...
Evolutionary Theory and Morality: Why the Science Doesn`t Settle
... which will now thankfully be settled for us by evolutionary biologists. But that is a confusion and it leads to a great deal of overreaching in the name of science, both by some scientists and by some philosophers who appeal to the science to advance certain deflationary philosophical conclusions ab ...
... which will now thankfully be settled for us by evolutionary biologists. But that is a confusion and it leads to a great deal of overreaching in the name of science, both by some scientists and by some philosophers who appeal to the science to advance certain deflationary philosophical conclusions ab ...
Moore, the Skeptic, and the Philosophical Context
... way that we have many thoughts, actions, feelings and emotions, as well as human interactions and relationships that are essentially motivated, structured, or explained by our knowledge-beliefs. Since this whole dimension of thoughts, actions, feelings and emotions, and interpersonal relationships i ...
... way that we have many thoughts, actions, feelings and emotions, as well as human interactions and relationships that are essentially motivated, structured, or explained by our knowledge-beliefs. Since this whole dimension of thoughts, actions, feelings and emotions, and interpersonal relationships i ...
Existentialism – A Definition
... Existentialism in the broader sense is a 20th century philosophy that is centered upon the analysis of existence and of the way humans find themselves existing in the world. The notion is that humans exist first and then each individual spends a lifetime changing their essence or nature. In simpler ...
... Existentialism in the broader sense is a 20th century philosophy that is centered upon the analysis of existence and of the way humans find themselves existing in the world. The notion is that humans exist first and then each individual spends a lifetime changing their essence or nature. In simpler ...
Machiavellian Philosophy of Wealth Acquisition in
... appears, there is always a silver lining. Thus, in the face of the corrupt nature of the Nigerian society, there is still the possibility of acquiring morally upright wealth in Nigeria and there are many morally upright wealthy Nigerians. That is to say that the values of morality and wealth still e ...
... appears, there is always a silver lining. Thus, in the face of the corrupt nature of the Nigerian society, there is still the possibility of acquiring morally upright wealth in Nigeria and there are many morally upright wealthy Nigerians. That is to say that the values of morality and wealth still e ...
A Study Guide to Descartes` Meditations
... says ‘the whole of philosophy is like a tree of which the roots are metaphysics, the trunk is physics, and the branches emerging from the trunk are all the other sciences’. You will notice that Descartes is using the word ‘philosophy’ in this passage to describe the whole of knowledge, including phy ...
... says ‘the whole of philosophy is like a tree of which the roots are metaphysics, the trunk is physics, and the branches emerging from the trunk are all the other sciences’. You will notice that Descartes is using the word ‘philosophy’ in this passage to describe the whole of knowledge, including phy ...
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5. Conformism and analytic philosophy[11]
... conformist transmission is at loggerheads with certain traditional philosophical ideals. In fact, from an historically well-represented point of view in philosophy, these two problems with conformist transmission fuse into one. From this point of view, to adopt or engage in any beliefs, attitudes or ...
... conformist transmission is at loggerheads with certain traditional philosophical ideals. In fact, from an historically well-represented point of view in philosophy, these two problems with conformist transmission fuse into one. From this point of view, to adopt or engage in any beliefs, attitudes or ...
Moral Disagreement among Philosophers Ralph Wedgwood 1. An
... Theorists who wish to use this sort of argument to raise problems for non-sceptical moral realism typically claim that it is not plausible to postulate any such asymmetry between the two thinkers. If there is no asymmetry of this sort, then either (a) there is no non-relative truth that the two side ...
... Theorists who wish to use this sort of argument to raise problems for non-sceptical moral realism typically claim that it is not plausible to postulate any such asymmetry between the two thinkers. If there is no asymmetry of this sort, then either (a) there is no non-relative truth that the two side ...
What Can We Know A Priori?1 C.S.I. Jenkins Draft only. Please
... to use the term to refer to the view that ‘epistemology is part of science’ (Devitt 2010, p. 271, fn. 1). On other occasions he uses it to refer to the view that ‘all knowledge is [justified by experience]; there is only one way of knowing’ (2005a, p. 105). In correspondence, Devitt has confirmed t ...
... to use the term to refer to the view that ‘epistemology is part of science’ (Devitt 2010, p. 271, fn. 1). On other occasions he uses it to refer to the view that ‘all knowledge is [justified by experience]; there is only one way of knowing’ (2005a, p. 105). In correspondence, Devitt has confirmed t ...
WHAT (GOOD) ARE THINKING DISPOSITIONS?
... “scientifically respectable”) properties are characterizable ultimately in terms of fundamental physical theory -in order to see that dispositions are not mysterious or metaphysically dubious entities, but rather are properties just like other properties. They differ from other properties only in th ...
... “scientifically respectable”) properties are characterizable ultimately in terms of fundamental physical theory -in order to see that dispositions are not mysterious or metaphysically dubious entities, but rather are properties just like other properties. They differ from other properties only in th ...
The Ethical Significance of the Aesthetic Experience of Non
... The line between what counts as active and what counts as passive engagement is perhaps just as controversial as the line between representational and non-representational art. However, I wish to use „active‟ in more than in its minimal sense. Although most cognitive scientists see perception itsel ...
... The line between what counts as active and what counts as passive engagement is perhaps just as controversial as the line between representational and non-representational art. However, I wish to use „active‟ in more than in its minimal sense. Although most cognitive scientists see perception itsel ...
Hume on Monkish Virtue
... discovered or invented. (Hume might wish they had stayed in society and missed their insights.) Similarly, many of our great thinkers have embraced solitude for the sake of their ideas. Newton remained predominantly a recluse for extended times, with little social contact and no close relationships; ...
... discovered or invented. (Hume might wish they had stayed in society and missed their insights.) Similarly, many of our great thinkers have embraced solitude for the sake of their ideas. Newton remained predominantly a recluse for extended times, with little social contact and no close relationships; ...