L. Notes - School of Computing
... believed that the moral principle could be summed up in what he called the Categorical Imperative. He had two formulations of this Imperative: 1) "Act only according to that maxim by which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law" (this is very close to the Golden Rule of ...
... believed that the moral principle could be summed up in what he called the Categorical Imperative. He had two formulations of this Imperative: 1) "Act only according to that maxim by which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law" (this is very close to the Golden Rule of ...
Game Theory, Game Situations and Rational Expectations: A
... from the conjunction of two logically independent assumptions regarding the epistemic rationality of the agents. The first (“strong subjective rational belief”) states that the agents use all the relevant information and do not make systematic (i.e. correlated) mistakes while according to the second ...
... from the conjunction of two logically independent assumptions regarding the epistemic rationality of the agents. The first (“strong subjective rational belief”) states that the agents use all the relevant information and do not make systematic (i.e. correlated) mistakes while according to the second ...
Why Didnâ•Žt Plato Just Write Arguments? The Role of Image
... When we perceive one thing, it calls to our minds some other thing. The item recalled can be different from and/or similar to—like and/or unlike—the item which stimulated its recall. Furthermore, Socrates tells us, the individual who recalls is then induced to analyze the recollection to see what re ...
... When we perceive one thing, it calls to our minds some other thing. The item recalled can be different from and/or similar to—like and/or unlike—the item which stimulated its recall. Furthermore, Socrates tells us, the individual who recalls is then induced to analyze the recollection to see what re ...
Bernard Williams` Rejection of Morality
... explanation of the convergence is that the belief represents how things are. ‘In the area of the ethical, at least at a high level of generality, there is no such coherent hope. 9 There is a difference between the inside point of view, the view from within an individual’s beliefs, dispositions, and ...
... explanation of the convergence is that the belief represents how things are. ‘In the area of the ethical, at least at a high level of generality, there is no such coherent hope. 9 There is a difference between the inside point of view, the view from within an individual’s beliefs, dispositions, and ...
The experimenters` regress: from skepticism to - Archipel
... scientist confronting nature through his instruments. Once this foundationalism and individualism is abandoned and the dialogical and argumentative nature of the dynamic of the scientific field is taken into account, Collins’ circle is dissolved into a complex dynamic involving experimentation, calc ...
... scientist confronting nature through his instruments. Once this foundationalism and individualism is abandoned and the dialogical and argumentative nature of the dynamic of the scientific field is taken into account, Collins’ circle is dissolved into a complex dynamic involving experimentation, calc ...
The Death of Philosophy: Reference and Self
... Philosophers are, by definition, lovers of wisdom. The average nonphilosopher (referred to as a “muggle” by some philosophers) can be pardoned for thinking that loving wisdom goes hand in hand with loving the truth. Alas... The truth is that philosophy is a very strange discipline. It is not at all ...
... Philosophers are, by definition, lovers of wisdom. The average nonphilosopher (referred to as a “muggle” by some philosophers) can be pardoned for thinking that loving wisdom goes hand in hand with loving the truth. Alas... The truth is that philosophy is a very strange discipline. It is not at all ...
FORMAL METHODS AND SCIENCE IN PHILOSOPHY
... theories describe, however, is not adequately given by the application of standard possible world semantics. As developed by Lewis and others, this semantics depends on entertaining possible worlds with miracles, worlds in which laws of nature, as described by science, are violated. This is clearly ...
... theories describe, however, is not adequately given by the application of standard possible world semantics. As developed by Lewis and others, this semantics depends on entertaining possible worlds with miracles, worlds in which laws of nature, as described by science, are violated. This is clearly ...
MTO 0.11: Covach, Destructuring Cartesian Dualism
... But in order to understand Heidegger’s critique of Descartes—and by extention, Husserl—it is important first to survey the broader concerns Heidegger addresses in Being and Time. [5] One of the central arguments Heidegger makes in Being and Time is that the Western philosophical tradition has “forgo ...
... But in order to understand Heidegger’s critique of Descartes—and by extention, Husserl—it is important first to survey the broader concerns Heidegger addresses in Being and Time. [5] One of the central arguments Heidegger makes in Being and Time is that the Western philosophical tradition has “forgo ...
- Philsci
... This is how Karl Popper opens his book Objective Knowledge.1 There are at least two oddities about what Popper says here. First, Popper is wrong; he did not solve the problem of induction. Second, even by 1971, when this passage was first published, Popper's work on the problem of induction had rece ...
... This is how Karl Popper opens his book Objective Knowledge.1 There are at least two oddities about what Popper says here. First, Popper is wrong; he did not solve the problem of induction. Second, even by 1971, when this passage was first published, Popper's work on the problem of induction had rece ...
Creating the Human Past - Paleoanthropology Society
... Creating the Human Past allocates a great deal of space and effort into what are termed archaeology’s “mistakes.” There is space for the usual suspects (Piltdown Man and Glozel) but the discussion moves beyond fraud to mistakes of preservation of sites and rock art locales, to what Bednarik terms “A ...
... Creating the Human Past allocates a great deal of space and effort into what are termed archaeology’s “mistakes.” There is space for the usual suspects (Piltdown Man and Glozel) but the discussion moves beyond fraud to mistakes of preservation of sites and rock art locales, to what Bednarik terms “A ...
first_2014_-_rajagopalan-_raj_-_anthropology
... techniques 1. SOC analysts’ knowledge is very tribal, there is no alternative to experience. 2. Analysts are not always aware of their own knowledge, which comes out in interactions. 3. It is necessary and possible to become a SOC “insider” to learn how it really works 4. SOC management need to empo ...
... techniques 1. SOC analysts’ knowledge is very tribal, there is no alternative to experience. 2. Analysts are not always aware of their own knowledge, which comes out in interactions. 3. It is necessary and possible to become a SOC “insider” to learn how it really works 4. SOC management need to empo ...
Grendel BY John gardner
... “Importance is primarily monistic in its reference to the universe. Importance, limited to a finite individual occasion, ceases to be important...But expression is founded on the finite occasion.” In Chapter 5, the dragon’s ideas exalt the individual and present moment over caring for others or the ...
... “Importance is primarily monistic in its reference to the universe. Importance, limited to a finite individual occasion, ceases to be important...But expression is founded on the finite occasion.” In Chapter 5, the dragon’s ideas exalt the individual and present moment over caring for others or the ...
D. C. Schindler Plato`s Critique of Impure Reason: On Goodness
... expect it (340d). Instead, he offers an argument from ideal conditions. Only when rulers are at their best are they infallible. Schindler’s response to this textual anomaly is to give Thrasymachus sufficient credit to recognize that he cannot assent to Cleitophon’s option without becoming bankrupt o ...
... expect it (340d). Instead, he offers an argument from ideal conditions. Only when rulers are at their best are they infallible. Schindler’s response to this textual anomaly is to give Thrasymachus sufficient credit to recognize that he cannot assent to Cleitophon’s option without becoming bankrupt o ...
Against Fantology - Buffalo Ontology Site
... they represent it. They have no ‘subject-matter’. They presuppose that names have meaning and elementary propositions sense; and that is their connection with the world. It is clear that something about the world must be indicated by the fact that certain combinations of symbols – whose essence invo ...
... they represent it. They have no ‘subject-matter’. They presuppose that names have meaning and elementary propositions sense; and that is their connection with the world. It is clear that something about the world must be indicated by the fact that certain combinations of symbols – whose essence invo ...
David Graeber Radical alterity is just another way of
... witchcraft at some point in their lives, nobody speaks of witch lineages). Why does no one seem to notice this contradiction? Evans-Pritchard’s answer is that their society is arranged in such a way that the two are never juxtaposed. Zande aren’t sociologists. They do not generalize from what they s ...
... witchcraft at some point in their lives, nobody speaks of witch lineages). Why does no one seem to notice this contradiction? Evans-Pritchard’s answer is that their society is arranged in such a way that the two are never juxtaposed. Zande aren’t sociologists. They do not generalize from what they s ...
Does Representationalism Undermine the Knowledge Argument?
... not physically explicable. Further, nonphysicalists can accept the diaphanousness of experience. They can argue that, although one cannot attend to the phenomenal character of one’s experiences except by attending to what one’s experiences represent, experiences involve nonphysical representational ...
... not physically explicable. Further, nonphysicalists can accept the diaphanousness of experience. They can argue that, although one cannot attend to the phenomenal character of one’s experiences except by attending to what one’s experiences represent, experiences involve nonphysical representational ...
Philosophy as an Art of Living
... methods aimed at improving our use of our bodies, such as yoga, meditation, dance, the erotic arts, massage, body building, as well as the Alexander Technique and the Feldenkrais Method. (The latter two are aimed at correcting faulty movement habits via increased bodily self-focus; Shusterman himsel ...
... methods aimed at improving our use of our bodies, such as yoga, meditation, dance, the erotic arts, massage, body building, as well as the Alexander Technique and the Feldenkrais Method. (The latter two are aimed at correcting faulty movement habits via increased bodily self-focus; Shusterman himsel ...
My Slides - Thatmarcusfamily.org
... P For Berkeley, only God can be taken as the true cause of my ideas. P An all-powerful God could have no use for an intermediate instrument. P “Though we do the utmost we can to secure the belief of matter, though, when reason forsakes us, we endeavor to support our opinion on the bare possibility o ...
... P For Berkeley, only God can be taken as the true cause of my ideas. P An all-powerful God could have no use for an intermediate instrument. P “Though we do the utmost we can to secure the belief of matter, though, when reason forsakes us, we endeavor to support our opinion on the bare possibility o ...
PRAGMATIST THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE Critical Analysis The
... lute truth is, according to James, something separated from the process of knowledge. Absolute truth has, in his opinion, no links with relative truths. Relativism and its view on knowledge is in pragmatism connected with agnosticism and scepticism. Relativism is also seen in the pragmatist concept ...
... lute truth is, according to James, something separated from the process of knowledge. Absolute truth has, in his opinion, no links with relative truths. Relativism and its view on knowledge is in pragmatism connected with agnosticism and scepticism. Relativism is also seen in the pragmatist concept ...
- UTK-EECS
... seventeenth-century philosophers, including Descartes, Bacon, and Leibniz, for this pursuit was redirected toward a methodology of abstract relationships among monadic ideas (Ong 1958; Yates 1966, ch. 17; Rossi 2000, ch. 5). Although this drive reached its apex in the logical positivist philosophy o ...
... seventeenth-century philosophers, including Descartes, Bacon, and Leibniz, for this pursuit was redirected toward a methodology of abstract relationships among monadic ideas (Ong 1958; Yates 1966, ch. 17; Rossi 2000, ch. 5). Although this drive reached its apex in the logical positivist philosophy o ...
THE UNTRUTH AND THE TRUTH OF SKEPTICISM
... But however attractive these accounts of existence may be, they are not enough. Modal notions, such as Mill's "possibility," cry out for explanation; subjunctive conditionals, essential to any officially phenomenalist account, are probably the most unclear kind of statement; the Fregean notion of a ...
... But however attractive these accounts of existence may be, they are not enough. Modal notions, such as Mill's "possibility," cry out for explanation; subjunctive conditionals, essential to any officially phenomenalist account, are probably the most unclear kind of statement; the Fregean notion of a ...
Review of Peter Loptson, Reality: Fundamental Topics in Metaphysics
... that the page I hold now and the page I held a few moments ago are not two momentary objects but rather are literally identical, one and the same object, which merely happens to exist now as well as to have existed a few moments ago, though presumably undergoing some alteration. I am not interested ...
... that the page I hold now and the page I held a few moments ago are not two momentary objects but rather are literally identical, one and the same object, which merely happens to exist now as well as to have existed a few moments ago, though presumably undergoing some alteration. I am not interested ...
Cohen paper, revised
... Because the concept of the epistemic/rational domain is both familiar and clear, it’s little problem that the terms are new or neologistic. If someone needs to know which domain we’re talking about, it’s easy to key them in. One way is to use Cohen’s helpful suggestion that the domain epistemology ...
... Because the concept of the epistemic/rational domain is both familiar and clear, it’s little problem that the terms are new or neologistic. If someone needs to know which domain we’re talking about, it’s easy to key them in. One way is to use Cohen’s helpful suggestion that the domain epistemology ...
Ethics without Ontology
... without which the search for justice can so easily become-as indeed it does in Euthyphro's case - a cover for fanaticism. If you will now permit me to jump about two millennia, to the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries of the common era, and particularly to the phenomenon that historians have call ...
... without which the search for justice can so easily become-as indeed it does in Euthyphro's case - a cover for fanaticism. If you will now permit me to jump about two millennia, to the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries of the common era, and particularly to the phenomenon that historians have call ...
Radical alterity is just another way of saying “reality”
... witchcraft at some point in their lives, nobody speaks of witch lineages). Why does no one seem to notice this contradiction? Evans-Pritchard’s answer is that their society is arranged in such a way that the two are never juxtaposed. Zande aren’t sociologists. They do not generalize from what they s ...
... witchcraft at some point in their lives, nobody speaks of witch lineages). Why does no one seem to notice this contradiction? Evans-Pritchard’s answer is that their society is arranged in such a way that the two are never juxtaposed. Zande aren’t sociologists. They do not generalize from what they s ...