Fall 2015 - The American Philosophical Association
... undermined the only basis upon which all forms of realism must ultimately stand, and consequently the realistic and empirical philosophies of our time, in spite of what value they may possess for students of philosophy, do not represent a real development of thought. If we attempt a brief formulatio ...
... undermined the only basis upon which all forms of realism must ultimately stand, and consequently the realistic and empirical philosophies of our time, in spite of what value they may possess for students of philosophy, do not represent a real development of thought. If we attempt a brief formulatio ...
nothingness.plato.stanford.edu
... worlds is as likely as any other. There have been metaphysical systems that favor less populated worlds Gottfried Leibniz pictured possible things as competing to become actual. The more a thing competes with other things, the more likely that there will be something that stops it from becoming real ...
... worlds is as likely as any other. There have been metaphysical systems that favor less populated worlds Gottfried Leibniz pictured possible things as competing to become actual. The more a thing competes with other things, the more likely that there will be something that stops it from becoming real ...
Animal Affects: Spinoza and the Frontiers of the Human
... Descartes and his followers receive dubious recognition for disenchanting the natural world and tearing humanity from the fabric of a more integrated relationship to the cosmic order.3 With early modernity, the gods were pulled from the heavens only to be allowed to tyrannize the earth under the ban ...
... Descartes and his followers receive dubious recognition for disenchanting the natural world and tearing humanity from the fabric of a more integrated relationship to the cosmic order.3 With early modernity, the gods were pulled from the heavens only to be allowed to tyrannize the earth under the ban ...
Science and Spirituality - Spiritual Heritage Education Network Inc.
... and the scarcity of knowledgeable people who can serve as guides. However, pursuing the analysis based on our new experience, we suddenly see some light for the resolution of our dilemma because of the conviction that if Hindu philosophy has an intrinsic universal appeal, as it professes to have, th ...
... and the scarcity of knowledgeable people who can serve as guides. However, pursuing the analysis based on our new experience, we suddenly see some light for the resolution of our dilemma because of the conviction that if Hindu philosophy has an intrinsic universal appeal, as it professes to have, th ...
The lives of Plato and Socrates - School of Practical Philosophy
... Plato is considered by many to be the greatest of all Western philosophers. The eminent modern philosopher Alfred North Whitehead concluded that: “The safest general characterization of the Western philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.” And Ralph Waldo Emerso ...
... Plato is considered by many to be the greatest of all Western philosophers. The eminent modern philosopher Alfred North Whitehead concluded that: “The safest general characterization of the Western philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.” And Ralph Waldo Emerso ...
CLASSICAL FOUNDATIONALISM
... by belief-independent unconditionally reliable processes. These beliefs in turn can be processed by conditionally reliable belief-dependent processes to yield additional justified beliefs. On Nozick's tracking analysis of knowledge, some beliefs track facts where the tracking mechanism does not invo ...
... by belief-independent unconditionally reliable processes. These beliefs in turn can be processed by conditionally reliable belief-dependent processes to yield additional justified beliefs. On Nozick's tracking analysis of knowledge, some beliefs track facts where the tracking mechanism does not invo ...
Immanuel Kant-Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals
... All trades, arts, and handiworks have gained by division of labour, namely, when, instead of one man doing everything, each confines himself to a certain kind of work distinct from others in the treatment it requires, so as to be able to perform it with greater facility and in the greatest perfecti ...
... All trades, arts, and handiworks have gained by division of labour, namely, when, instead of one man doing everything, each confines himself to a certain kind of work distinct from others in the treatment it requires, so as to be able to perform it with greater facility and in the greatest perfecti ...
The Futility of any Anti-Metaphysical Position
... transgress the bounds of science. But in adopting this position, Carnap forgets that metaphysical systems, be they materialistic or idealistic, deal essentially with first principles which though may support empirical research, but are not in any way empirical. It is in this very sense of first pri ...
... transgress the bounds of science. But in adopting this position, Carnap forgets that metaphysical systems, be they materialistic or idealistic, deal essentially with first principles which though may support empirical research, but are not in any way empirical. It is in this very sense of first pri ...
Hope and Moral Motivation in Leibniz
... be a kind of strong endeavour which is utterly thwarted, resulting in violent conflict and much displeasure” (RB, 167). If this is applied to its opposite, one might say that hope is an endeavour, a general desire which brings about pleasure. In Leibniz’s words, it is an “undetectable spur which urg ...
... be a kind of strong endeavour which is utterly thwarted, resulting in violent conflict and much displeasure” (RB, 167). If this is applied to its opposite, one might say that hope is an endeavour, a general desire which brings about pleasure. In Leibniz’s words, it is an “undetectable spur which urg ...
The objective-subjective dichotomy and its use in - Philsci
... but it was Cournot (1843, v) who first introduced the familiar terms, when he wrote that it was necessary for him to use “les deux épithètes d’objective et de subjective” in order to discuss the meaning of probability3 (emphasis in original). Cournot’s work led to the development of the frequentist ...
... but it was Cournot (1843, v) who first introduced the familiar terms, when he wrote that it was necessary for him to use “les deux épithètes d’objective et de subjective” in order to discuss the meaning of probability3 (emphasis in original). Cournot’s work led to the development of the frequentist ...
Specious Present - Philsci
... The first theme is a distinction between a strict or philosophical versus a ‘vulgar’ or popular conception of the present. In the strict or philosophical sense, the present moment is punctate, even thought it may not appear to be so. If one were to advocate a strict notion of the present in expe ...
... The first theme is a distinction between a strict or philosophical versus a ‘vulgar’ or popular conception of the present. In the strict or philosophical sense, the present moment is punctate, even thought it may not appear to be so. If one were to advocate a strict notion of the present in expe ...
SI Hayakawa, Charles Sanders Peirce and the Scientific Method
... The other three methods fail to meet the test of experience. 1. The method of tenacity, for instance, turns out to be unworkable because it isolates people within the narrow confines of their preconceived thoughts and is therefore at odds with the larger social life of the human community. In Peirce ...
... The other three methods fail to meet the test of experience. 1. The method of tenacity, for instance, turns out to be unworkable because it isolates people within the narrow confines of their preconceived thoughts and is therefore at odds with the larger social life of the human community. In Peirce ...
DAMIAN ILODIGWE OAKESHOTT`S CRITIQUE OF SOVEREIGNTY
... philosophy of experience as articulated in Experience and its Modes, we begin to see that Oakeshott’s concern in his critique of rationalism is to separate political activity from political theorization and ground ideology in tradition, so that with a bit of detachment from political experience, the ...
... philosophy of experience as articulated in Experience and its Modes, we begin to see that Oakeshott’s concern in his critique of rationalism is to separate political activity from political theorization and ground ideology in tradition, so that with a bit of detachment from political experience, the ...
Connectivism Blog
... response takes a bit longer than the 140 characters allowed by Twitter, so I'll tackle it here. First, a new idea is often an old idea in today's context. For example, what is the new idea in constructivism? That people construct their own knowledge? Or the social, situated nature of learning? Or th ...
... response takes a bit longer than the 140 characters allowed by Twitter, so I'll tackle it here. First, a new idea is often an old idea in today's context. For example, what is the new idea in constructivism? That people construct their own knowledge? Or the social, situated nature of learning? Or th ...
A Study Guide to Descartes` Meditations
... and that this made him think that the ‘whole edifice’ of his beliefs was ‘highly doubtful’. The realization that he has been mistaken leads him to think that the whole edifice of his beliefs may be threatened. What is his response to the threat of scepticism? ‘I realized that it was necessary, once ...
... and that this made him think that the ‘whole edifice’ of his beliefs was ‘highly doubtful’. The realization that he has been mistaken leads him to think that the whole edifice of his beliefs may be threatened. What is his response to the threat of scepticism? ‘I realized that it was necessary, once ...
Sidestepping the holes of holism
... will omit a version of this view according to which for an expression to be meaningful it suffices to play a role in some inferences (so-called strong inferentialism in the sense of Brandom), since according to this view even brackets and dots are extremely meaningful expressions. Let us concentrate ...
... will omit a version of this view according to which for an expression to be meaningful it suffices to play a role in some inferences (so-called strong inferentialism in the sense of Brandom), since according to this view even brackets and dots are extremely meaningful expressions. Let us concentrate ...
heraclitean critique of kantian and enlightenment ethics through the
... ABSTRACT: Kant makes a much-unexpected confession in a much-unexpected place. In the Criticism of the third paralogism of transcendental psychology of the first Critique Kant accepts the irrefutability of the Heraclitean notion of universal becoming or the transitory nature of all things, admitting ...
... ABSTRACT: Kant makes a much-unexpected confession in a much-unexpected place. In the Criticism of the third paralogism of transcendental psychology of the first Critique Kant accepts the irrefutability of the Heraclitean notion of universal becoming or the transitory nature of all things, admitting ...
Sensus communis Clarifications of a Kantian Concept on the Way to
... Common belief is despised by Kant because it is guided by obscure principles. Here Kant clearly identifies common sense with mere opinion, uncultivated and vulgar, a kind of Platonic doxa, which is badly in need of clarification and a kind of maieutics, which liberates it from prejudices. Thirdly, s ...
... Common belief is despised by Kant because it is guided by obscure principles. Here Kant clearly identifies common sense with mere opinion, uncultivated and vulgar, a kind of Platonic doxa, which is badly in need of clarification and a kind of maieutics, which liberates it from prejudices. Thirdly, s ...
Some Aspects of Human Nature As Viewed by Cardinal
... these disciplines of the mind, by means of its own method, may view human nature. Here is how Newman says it. Let us take, for instance, man himself as our object of contemplation; then at once we shall find we can view him in a variety of relations; and according to those relations are the sciences ...
... these disciplines of the mind, by means of its own method, may view human nature. Here is how Newman says it. Let us take, for instance, man himself as our object of contemplation; then at once we shall find we can view him in a variety of relations; and according to those relations are the sciences ...
ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY LECTURE THALES, HERACLITUS
... From roughly 600 BC to 400 BC, Western civilization underwent a novel way of thinking about the world and human beings. Prior to the emergence of the Pre-Socratics, thinkers mainly followed the religious tradition of their day to explain why things happen. There is a clear example of this style of e ...
... From roughly 600 BC to 400 BC, Western civilization underwent a novel way of thinking about the world and human beings. Prior to the emergence of the Pre-Socratics, thinkers mainly followed the religious tradition of their day to explain why things happen. There is a clear example of this style of e ...
Moral Sense - JustWarTheory.com
... the life of virtue. The ‘universal benevolence’ that delights moral sense is itself sufficient to the task of producing social cohesion through the gravitational pull of particular attachments (II.v.2). Acting out of this instinctual form of benevolence improves one’s own state of well-being when, u ...
... the life of virtue. The ‘universal benevolence’ that delights moral sense is itself sufficient to the task of producing social cohesion through the gravitational pull of particular attachments (II.v.2). Acting out of this instinctual form of benevolence improves one’s own state of well-being when, u ...
1 - PhilPapers
... philosophical scene who claims to know something about entities spatiotemporally isolated from us. Famously, it is also a practice of philosophers of mathematics to nontrivially consider the realm on (abstract) entities being in no relevant relation to us. They treat numbers, classes, sets or functi ...
... philosophical scene who claims to know something about entities spatiotemporally isolated from us. Famously, it is also a practice of philosophers of mathematics to nontrivially consider the realm on (abstract) entities being in no relevant relation to us. They treat numbers, classes, sets or functi ...
Handout
... traditional “problems” as really pseudo-problems – especially as they appear in their modern form, starting with Descartes. Section 43a In this section, Heidegger applies his analysis of being-in-the-world to the traditional problem in modern philosophy of the reality of the external world. This pro ...
... traditional “problems” as really pseudo-problems – especially as they appear in their modern form, starting with Descartes. Section 43a In this section, Heidegger applies his analysis of being-in-the-world to the traditional problem in modern philosophy of the reality of the external world. This pro ...
James Hill`s `Descartes` Dreaming Argument and why we might be
... second assumption, the one that treats dreams as not affecting the reliability of the most transparent truths known to the intellect. This is a bold claim that was picked up on by Father Bourdin, author of the Seventh Objections to the Meditations, who gives us a very believable episode from a dream ...
... second assumption, the one that treats dreams as not affecting the reliability of the most transparent truths known to the intellect. This is a bold claim that was picked up on by Father Bourdin, author of the Seventh Objections to the Meditations, who gives us a very believable episode from a dream ...
MCDOWELL`S MORAL REALISM AND THE SECONDARY
... is incorrect: we do not mean by ‘this is good,’ ‘I approve of this, do so as well.’ But Mackie convicts moral language of a different problem, that of failure of reference. We may intend our language to be taken as referring to value aspects of the world, but there are, in fact, no such aspects. McD ...
... is incorrect: we do not mean by ‘this is good,’ ‘I approve of this, do so as well.’ But Mackie convicts moral language of a different problem, that of failure of reference. We may intend our language to be taken as referring to value aspects of the world, but there are, in fact, no such aspects. McD ...