6th-annual-house-bulletin-abstracts-9-oct1
... In Objects and Persons, Trenton Merricks argues that there are no ordinary objects such as statues, baseballs, chairs, rocks or any artifacts and composite natural objects of any kind. Although our pre-metaphysical conceptions of reality are admittedly committed to the existence of ordinary objects, ...
... In Objects and Persons, Trenton Merricks argues that there are no ordinary objects such as statues, baseballs, chairs, rocks or any artifacts and composite natural objects of any kind. Although our pre-metaphysical conceptions of reality are admittedly committed to the existence of ordinary objects, ...
Market and Morals
... Scholars think that this term is not meant in such a way as to entail a sort of nonphysical entity. (There’s disagreement about this. However, I agree with them ... more importantly, we don’t need to worry about that issue ....) 2. A good synonym would be “the self” or “the person” - that is, whatev ...
... Scholars think that this term is not meant in such a way as to entail a sort of nonphysical entity. (There’s disagreement about this. However, I agree with them ... more importantly, we don’t need to worry about that issue ....) 2. A good synonym would be “the self” or “the person” - that is, whatev ...
The Vindication of St. Thomas
... idealistic aspiring clerics, studying philosophy and theology. In addition to various figures in the history of philosophy, we were reading the likes of Henri De Lubac, Karl Rahner, Bernard Lonergan, Edward Schillebeeckx, Yves Congar, and even the very early Joseph Ratzinger. Some of our teachers we ...
... idealistic aspiring clerics, studying philosophy and theology. In addition to various figures in the history of philosophy, we were reading the likes of Henri De Lubac, Karl Rahner, Bernard Lonergan, Edward Schillebeeckx, Yves Congar, and even the very early Joseph Ratzinger. Some of our teachers we ...
consciousness of self, of time and of death in greek philosophy
... of soul from the body, gives access to the knowledge which the philosopher has been seeking. All this assumes, of course, that the soul can survive the death of the body and that its objects of knowledge exist independently of the body. The conversation between Socrates and his friends on the day of ...
... of soul from the body, gives access to the knowledge which the philosopher has been seeking. All this assumes, of course, that the soul can survive the death of the body and that its objects of knowledge exist independently of the body. The conversation between Socrates and his friends on the day of ...
Mathematical Intuition: Poincaré, Pólya, Dewey
... We really don’t know it, as a matter of certainty! But we must believe it, if we seek to understand Nature with any hope of success. And since we do have some success in that search, our belief that Nature is subtle but not malicious is justified. This problem of inferring generalizations from speci ...
... We really don’t know it, as a matter of certainty! But we must believe it, if we seek to understand Nature with any hope of success. And since we do have some success in that search, our belief that Nature is subtle but not malicious is justified. This problem of inferring generalizations from speci ...
problemsofphilosophy
... Other philosophers since Berkeley have also held that, although the table does not depend for its existence upon being seen by me, it does depend upon being seen (or otherwise apprehended in sensation) by _some_ mind--not necessarily the mind of God, but more often the whole collective mind of the u ...
... Other philosophers since Berkeley have also held that, although the table does not depend for its existence upon being seen by me, it does depend upon being seen (or otherwise apprehended in sensation) by _some_ mind--not necessarily the mind of God, but more often the whole collective mind of the u ...
glossary of philosophical terms
... blowout occurred, and then the accident occurred. That’s all there really is to causation, as it pertains to these two events. All the rest that is required, on the universal succession analysis, has to do with other events—events like the blowout and events like the accident. It seems that there is ...
... blowout occurred, and then the accident occurred. That’s all there really is to causation, as it pertains to these two events. All the rest that is required, on the universal succession analysis, has to do with other events—events like the blowout and events like the accident. It seems that there is ...
What Is It Like to Be a Bat?
... Our own experience provides the basic material forour imagination, whose range is thereforelimited. It will not help to try to imagine that one has webbing on one's arms, which enables one to fly around at dusk and dawn catching insects in one's mouth; that one has very poor vision, and perceives th ...
... Our own experience provides the basic material forour imagination, whose range is thereforelimited. It will not help to try to imagine that one has webbing on one's arms, which enables one to fly around at dusk and dawn catching insects in one's mouth; that one has very poor vision, and perceives th ...
Kant`s Distinction Between Theoretical and Practical Knowledge
... whereas in the case of desiderative representation it is what is that is supposed to fit the representation. But we then distinguish between what is actual and what ispossible, and say the following: In the case of cognitive representation of what is actual, the representation is supposed to fit wh ...
... whereas in the case of desiderative representation it is what is that is supposed to fit the representation. But we then distinguish between what is actual and what ispossible, and say the following: In the case of cognitive representation of what is actual, the representation is supposed to fit wh ...
Rosen Lutskanov
... Neumann’s dictum, the influence of this at first sight purely technical result upon the intellectual climate in Europe can be matched only with the impact of Einstein’s relativity theory (Chaitin 1987: 26). The “general expectation for limitative results” (Hofstadter 1980: 19), as Douglas Hofstadter ...
... Neumann’s dictum, the influence of this at first sight purely technical result upon the intellectual climate in Europe can be matched only with the impact of Einstein’s relativity theory (Chaitin 1987: 26). The “general expectation for limitative results” (Hofstadter 1980: 19), as Douglas Hofstadter ...
Samavaya Inseparable Health May 24 docx
... Amalaki also has a vitamin C which is storable and not destroyed by heat. The ‘prabhava’ concept displays that the ancients had a scientific method of employing the unexplainable. How thoughts may influence health is unexplainable yet happening right now! This concept, in itself is a great study. Sc ...
... Amalaki also has a vitamin C which is storable and not destroyed by heat. The ‘prabhava’ concept displays that the ancients had a scientific method of employing the unexplainable. How thoughts may influence health is unexplainable yet happening right now! This concept, in itself is a great study. Sc ...
Phenomenal Concepts and the Private Language
... those elements of the world she has knowledge about, Marianna doesn't learn anything she didn't know before, contrary to second premise of Jackson's argument. The only sense in which she does learn something new is at the level of concepts. She has acquired a new way of conceiving some of the old fa ...
... those elements of the world she has knowledge about, Marianna doesn't learn anything she didn't know before, contrary to second premise of Jackson's argument. The only sense in which she does learn something new is at the level of concepts. She has acquired a new way of conceiving some of the old fa ...
abstracts
... sketch the metaphysical setting of Spinoza’s treatment of reason, intellection and freedom. I focus on the ethical significance of reason and intellection. Spinoza’s rejection of Cartesian volition and voluntas, which reflect Christian metaphysical psychology and are integrally connected to substanc ...
... sketch the metaphysical setting of Spinoza’s treatment of reason, intellection and freedom. I focus on the ethical significance of reason and intellection. Spinoza’s rejection of Cartesian volition and voluntas, which reflect Christian metaphysical psychology and are integrally connected to substanc ...
Reading Euthyphro
... Plato was not a mere writer. It was said that he had been a poet and playwright before he met Socrates and that ever since he burned all his poems and plays. Some of the poems attributed to him survived. Being a literary artist, when he wrote his Dialogues he did not just have people talking with on ...
... Plato was not a mere writer. It was said that he had been a poet and playwright before he met Socrates and that ever since he burned all his poems and plays. Some of the poems attributed to him survived. Being a literary artist, when he wrote his Dialogues he did not just have people talking with on ...
Veritistic Social Epistemology
... only correspondence theories of truth endorse. To my mind, many epistemic, pragmatic, and relativist theories that Goldman explicitly excludes as unsatisfactory wouldn’t deny that the truth or falsity of a sentence is somehow related to how the world is. According to Goldman, the great pragmatist Wi ...
... only correspondence theories of truth endorse. To my mind, many epistemic, pragmatic, and relativist theories that Goldman explicitly excludes as unsatisfactory wouldn’t deny that the truth or falsity of a sentence is somehow related to how the world is. According to Goldman, the great pragmatist Wi ...
Problems Of Metaphysical Philosophy
... question to which answer or solution has to be given. When we therefore speak of the problems of metaphysical philosophy we have in mind those recurrent issues in metaphysics which border on human existence and influence our daily existence. We say these problems are recurrent in the sense that they ...
... question to which answer or solution has to be given. When we therefore speak of the problems of metaphysical philosophy we have in mind those recurrent issues in metaphysics which border on human existence and influence our daily existence. We say these problems are recurrent in the sense that they ...
Russell, Bertrand - The Problems of Philosophy
... part of the table -- it appears to be of different colours from different points of view, and there is no reason for regarding some of these as more really its colour than others. And we know that even from a given point of view the colour will seem different by artificial light, or to a colour-blin ...
... part of the table -- it appears to be of different colours from different points of view, and there is no reason for regarding some of these as more really its colour than others. And we know that even from a given point of view the colour will seem different by artificial light, or to a colour-blin ...
On Moral Progress: A Response to Richard Rorty
... In what follows I shall not discuss a distinction that is fundamental to my own work on these questions—namely the distinction between a comprehensive moral doctrine and a political doctrine. Like John Rawls in Political Liberalism 385–95 (Columbia 1996), I believe that political principles ought to ...
... In what follows I shall not discuss a distinction that is fundamental to my own work on these questions—namely the distinction between a comprehensive moral doctrine and a political doctrine. Like John Rawls in Political Liberalism 385–95 (Columbia 1996), I believe that political principles ought to ...
Philosophy and concept formation in narrative therapy An
... man of this sort gladdens our senses… He enjoys only what is good for him; his pleasure, his desire, ceases him when the limits of what is good for him are overstepped. .. He knows how to turn serious accidents to his own advantage; whatever does not kill him makes him stronger…. He is a selective p ...
... man of this sort gladdens our senses… He enjoys only what is good for him; his pleasure, his desire, ceases him when the limits of what is good for him are overstepped. .. He knows how to turn serious accidents to his own advantage; whatever does not kill him makes him stronger…. He is a selective p ...
Protagoras
... saying that ethical judgments are relative (individualistic): “For I hold that whatever practices seem right and laudable to any particular State are so for that State, so long as it holds by them.” Yet, in Protagoras it is stated that he held that certain ethical tendencies were given to all men ...
... saying that ethical judgments are relative (individualistic): “For I hold that whatever practices seem right and laudable to any particular State are so for that State, so long as it holds by them.” Yet, in Protagoras it is stated that he held that certain ethical tendencies were given to all men ...
What if all truth is context-dependent?
... in such a situation using an abstract notion of quantifying across ever-wider contexts – something can be defined as absolutely true if it is true in all contexts containing the one it is posited in. Such a quantification is, of course, an absolute notion – standing above a never-ending progression ...
... in such a situation using an abstract notion of quantifying across ever-wider contexts – something can be defined as absolutely true if it is true in all contexts containing the one it is posited in. Such a quantification is, of course, an absolute notion – standing above a never-ending progression ...
johannes bronkhorst trv murti`s reason
... for Mådhyamika is often thought of as a reaction to a certain dogmatic development in Abhidharma Buddhism, and therefore as a reaction to one single antecedent rather than two. This, if correct, would give short shrift to notions about a dialectical process. A dialectic presupposes several, and in t ...
... for Mådhyamika is often thought of as a reaction to a certain dogmatic development in Abhidharma Buddhism, and therefore as a reaction to one single antecedent rather than two. This, if correct, would give short shrift to notions about a dialectical process. A dialectic presupposes several, and in t ...
Pragmatism Lite - NYU Philosophy
... undermine certitude or undermine abstraction or both. Menand clearly thinks it does both. But in this he is multiply confused. There are two distinct ways of reading the claim that ideas are not out there but are rather tools, depending on whether one takes it to be making a point about what belief ...
... undermine certitude or undermine abstraction or both. Menand clearly thinks it does both. But in this he is multiply confused. There are two distinct ways of reading the claim that ideas are not out there but are rather tools, depending on whether one takes it to be making a point about what belief ...
HOLISM AND REALISM - Jacques Maritain Center
... Robust scientific realism about the correspondence between the individual terms and hypotheses of scientific theories and objects in the world has been out of vogue since the logical positivists failed in their efforts to reduce theory to a system of directly observable entities and immediately veri ...
... Robust scientific realism about the correspondence between the individual terms and hypotheses of scientific theories and objects in the world has been out of vogue since the logical positivists failed in their efforts to reduce theory to a system of directly observable entities and immediately veri ...