Phenomenal Concepts and the Private Language
... To show this, let me proceed slowly. To start with, it certainly looks as if Marianna can coin a new concept Ф, to refer to the kind of phenomenal property that has just been instantiated in her. Thus she might think, after having the experience, I will have Ф again today, or Everybody else I know h ...
... To show this, let me proceed slowly. To start with, it certainly looks as if Marianna can coin a new concept Ф, to refer to the kind of phenomenal property that has just been instantiated in her. Thus she might think, after having the experience, I will have Ф again today, or Everybody else I know h ...
Empathy and Transformative Experiences without the First Person
... play an important role in understanding empathy (Paul, this volume, page numbers to come). We are skeptics about the first person point of view, but we are not skeptics about empathy. In this paper we thus investigate these claims of connections among these notions. We ...
... play an important role in understanding empathy (Paul, this volume, page numbers to come). We are skeptics about the first person point of view, but we are not skeptics about empathy. In this paper we thus investigate these claims of connections among these notions. We ...
Tiffany Price Intro to Philosophy Mr. Izrailevsky http://tiffanyprice
... trials and tribulations that are tough to deal with but things do get better. Lao-tzu advises his readers to lean more towards Yin rather than Yang multiple times. This is not surprising because Lao-tzu is known for possibly being a feminist. Earlier in this paper I gave a few examples of Yin and Ya ...
... trials and tribulations that are tough to deal with but things do get better. Lao-tzu advises his readers to lean more towards Yin rather than Yang multiple times. This is not surprising because Lao-tzu is known for possibly being a feminist. Earlier in this paper I gave a few examples of Yin and Ya ...
Problems in Applying Peirce to Social Sciences
... philosophers, who take inspiration from Peirce while considering modernity, maintain that though we have been modern, this was not any foredoomed cultural fate. An alternative has been available all the time during the course of modernity, and Peirce’s philosophy is one example of it. This is the le ...
... philosophers, who take inspiration from Peirce while considering modernity, maintain that though we have been modern, this was not any foredoomed cultural fate. An alternative has been available all the time during the course of modernity, and Peirce’s philosophy is one example of it. This is the le ...
Applying Peirce to Social Studies – Some Do`s and Don`ts
... philosophers, who take inspiration from Peirce while considering modernity, maintain that though we have been modern, this was not any foredoomed cultural fate. An alternative has been available all the time during the course of modernity, and Peirce’s philosophy is one example of it. This is the le ...
... philosophers, who take inspiration from Peirce while considering modernity, maintain that though we have been modern, this was not any foredoomed cultural fate. An alternative has been available all the time during the course of modernity, and Peirce’s philosophy is one example of it. This is the le ...
The Given - Tim Crane
... when they perceive a pig. It is unfortunate perhaps that the same name has been given to both relations; but once the distinction is made, confusion should evaporate. Having said that the content of experience is propositional, the next question that typically arises is what the nature of these pro ...
... when they perceive a pig. It is unfortunate perhaps that the same name has been given to both relations; but once the distinction is made, confusion should evaporate. Having said that the content of experience is propositional, the next question that typically arises is what the nature of these pro ...
Wittgenstein`s Grammar of Emotions
... Finally, grammatical propositions are arbitrary because they are neither true nor false, neither correct nor incorrect: «If the true is what is grounded, then the ground is not true, nor yet false» (OC: § 205; cf. § 94); «all that a change in grammar can do is to lead us from one such game to anothe ...
... Finally, grammatical propositions are arbitrary because they are neither true nor false, neither correct nor incorrect: «If the true is what is grounded, then the ground is not true, nor yet false» (OC: § 205; cf. § 94); «all that a change in grammar can do is to lead us from one such game to anothe ...
Proposal for Progress
... of the world). But what is implicit to the genre of apocalypse is this: an ethically loaded injunction that the truth of the world is not all that is visible or conceivable by human means9. Understanding apocalypse is vital to a critique of a western philosophy of history, then because apocalypse re ...
... of the world). But what is implicit to the genre of apocalypse is this: an ethically loaded injunction that the truth of the world is not all that is visible or conceivable by human means9. Understanding apocalypse is vital to a critique of a western philosophy of history, then because apocalypse re ...
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... natures or cause, but there is no clear explanation of this doctrine. Like Aristotle, Bacon also considered that true science is knowledge of causes. Aristotle's distinction of four causes is apparently accepted by Bacon because for him this distinction is a correct account of the different ways in ...
... natures or cause, but there is no clear explanation of this doctrine. Like Aristotle, Bacon also considered that true science is knowledge of causes. Aristotle's distinction of four causes is apparently accepted by Bacon because for him this distinction is a correct account of the different ways in ...
The Moral Value of Literature: Defending a Diamondian
... share in the author's sense of humour will shape the world we see. We can summarize this point (and this can help to clearly illustrate where I see morality and emotion overlapping) as follows: Coming to share in a sensibility (a sense of humour or so on) is a legitimate or fully rational part of mo ...
... share in the author's sense of humour will shape the world we see. We can summarize this point (and this can help to clearly illustrate where I see morality and emotion overlapping) as follows: Coming to share in a sensibility (a sense of humour or so on) is a legitimate or fully rational part of mo ...
Psychology and mind in Aquinas
... Aristotle (1993: 8) defines the soul as ‘a substance qua form of a natural body which has life potentially’. As we will see, the soul is what makes the body to be the particular kind of body that it is. Therefore, it is not possible to conceive the existence of a rational soul independently from a b ...
... Aristotle (1993: 8) defines the soul as ‘a substance qua form of a natural body which has life potentially’. As we will see, the soul is what makes the body to be the particular kind of body that it is. Therefore, it is not possible to conceive the existence of a rational soul independently from a b ...
PLATO: THE SEVENTH LETTER_4
... it evidently differs in its nature from the real circle and from the aforementioned three. Of all d these four, understanding approaches nearest in affinity and likeness to the fifth entity, while the others are more remote from it. The same doctrine holds good in regard to shapes and surfaces, bot ...
... it evidently differs in its nature from the real circle and from the aforementioned three. Of all d these four, understanding approaches nearest in affinity and likeness to the fifth entity, while the others are more remote from it. The same doctrine holds good in regard to shapes and surfaces, bot ...
... turned out to be quite simple: the principles that science has already mastered are sufficient to recover common sense, to demonstrate its necessity in a certain sense, and at the same time to establish its limits and those of certain philosphical “principles” derived from it. Thus, despite its forma ...
locke on consciousness
... reality, and some of his views on self-knowledge, are all altered in interesting ways in the light of the SOP interpretation. The alterations are not only interesting, however, but also appear to render Locke’s views more plausible and more clearly consistent. On this part of the case for interpreti ...
... reality, and some of his views on self-knowledge, are all altered in interesting ways in the light of the SOP interpretation. The alterations are not only interesting, however, but also appear to render Locke’s views more plausible and more clearly consistent. On this part of the case for interpreti ...
Understanding Ethics - The Open University
... thought—consequentialism, Kantianism, virtue ethics, contractualism, natural law theory, sentimentalism and others. Not every academic ethicist is aligned with any of these schools, but most are, and all face insistent pressure to become aligned. (For example, appointing committees for ethics jobs o ...
... thought—consequentialism, Kantianism, virtue ethics, contractualism, natural law theory, sentimentalism and others. Not every academic ethicist is aligned with any of these schools, but most are, and all face insistent pressure to become aligned. (For example, appointing committees for ethics jobs o ...
HERE - BasicIncome.com
... empty of comfort. But changes in my philosophy have robbed me of such consolations. It seemed that what we had thought of as laws of nature were only linguistic conventions, and that physics was not really concerned with an external world. I do not mean that I quite believed this, but that it became ...
... empty of comfort. But changes in my philosophy have robbed me of such consolations. It seemed that what we had thought of as laws of nature were only linguistic conventions, and that physics was not really concerned with an external world. I do not mean that I quite believed this, but that it became ...
Determinism - The Information Philosopher
... Determinism is a modern name (coined in the nineteenth-century) for the ancient idea of Democritus that causal deterministic laws control the motion of atoms, and that everything - including human minds - consists merely of atoms in a void. Democritus’ mentor and fellow materialist Leucippus said ab ...
... Determinism is a modern name (coined in the nineteenth-century) for the ancient idea of Democritus that causal deterministic laws control the motion of atoms, and that everything - including human minds - consists merely of atoms in a void. Democritus’ mentor and fellow materialist Leucippus said ab ...
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... Eventually, Husserl inquires into collective consciousness by expanding the solipsist account of intentionality. Exemplars of such inquiries are Husserl’s analysis of socio-historical groups such as cultural communities12 as well as his investigation13 of the transcultural life-world. He thus enrich ...
... Eventually, Husserl inquires into collective consciousness by expanding the solipsist account of intentionality. Exemplars of such inquiries are Husserl’s analysis of socio-historical groups such as cultural communities12 as well as his investigation13 of the transcultural life-world. He thus enrich ...
1929 Davos Disputation - The Dallas Philosophers Forum
... were separated by WWI, which terminated the Age of Enlightenment with the Age of Anxiety and Crisis. Cassirer had written his dissertation on Descartes, his first book on Leibniz, and his Philosophy of Symbolic Forms celebrated the liberation of mankind from primitive bondage to modern freedom throu ...
... were separated by WWI, which terminated the Age of Enlightenment with the Age of Anxiety and Crisis. Cassirer had written his dissertation on Descartes, his first book on Leibniz, and his Philosophy of Symbolic Forms celebrated the liberation of mankind from primitive bondage to modern freedom throu ...
Buddhist metaethics
... in ways that instantiate these qualities or virtues, we should (or ‘ought’ to) attempt to act in these ways. Crucial to Keown’s theory is the rejection of transcendental accounts of buddhahood and nirvāṇa. For Keown, nirvāṇa is the highest and best form of human life and, hence, the Buddha achieved ...
... in ways that instantiate these qualities or virtues, we should (or ‘ought’ to) attempt to act in these ways. Crucial to Keown’s theory is the rejection of transcendental accounts of buddhahood and nirvāṇa. For Keown, nirvāṇa is the highest and best form of human life and, hence, the Buddha achieved ...
The Paradox of Environmental Ethics.
... Nietzsche — who died in 1900 — looked at both nature and morality in a “untimely” way. He thought he was at least one hundred years ahead of his time. That would mean his work is relevant for us. Indeed, I believe that Nietzsche’s work provides us with an illuminating interpretation of some problema ...
... Nietzsche — who died in 1900 — looked at both nature and morality in a “untimely” way. He thought he was at least one hundred years ahead of his time. That would mean his work is relevant for us. Indeed, I believe that Nietzsche’s work provides us with an illuminating interpretation of some problema ...
Beyond the organicist metaphor: Media ecology
... (Innis, McLuhan, Postman, etc.); and instead of formulating yet another interpretation and/or diagnosis about the state of the ecology, understood as a pre-existing domain which forces us to stay still, we are required as analysts to go ‘where the action is’ and follow the “traces” left by the vario ...
... (Innis, McLuhan, Postman, etc.); and instead of formulating yet another interpretation and/or diagnosis about the state of the ecology, understood as a pre-existing domain which forces us to stay still, we are required as analysts to go ‘where the action is’ and follow the “traces” left by the vario ...
Behold the Non-Rabbit: Kant, Quine, Laruelle
... hy way of an examination of Fran<;ois Laruelle's 'non-philosophy', I that llnly a strictly transcendental deternlination of the singular can sever the I Fran~ois Laruelle (born 1937) is arguably one of the Illost remarkable but also least well known of all contemporary French philosophers (none of h ...
... hy way of an examination of Fran<;ois Laruelle's 'non-philosophy', I that llnly a strictly transcendental deternlination of the singular can sever the I Fran~ois Laruelle (born 1937) is arguably one of the Illost remarkable but also least well known of all contemporary French philosophers (none of h ...
Beauty as harmony of the soul: the aesthetic of the Stoics
... In order to extirpate passion from the soul one would develop a certain orientation to the world. This might be achieved by either of two ways, only one of which the Stoics endorsed. According to the first alternative, one might develop the appropriate orientation through habit and training. For exa ...
... In order to extirpate passion from the soul one would develop a certain orientation to the world. This might be achieved by either of two ways, only one of which the Stoics endorsed. According to the first alternative, one might develop the appropriate orientation through habit and training. For exa ...