Test fall 2006 for TOK1024
... Students are supposed to finish this test at home and are also allowed to use their handouts and all other sources they can access for answering those questions. The answers have to be written down on a computer, not by hand. 1. How do we know things we know? a.(4 points) Give examples of different ...
... Students are supposed to finish this test at home and are also allowed to use their handouts and all other sources they can access for answering those questions. The answers have to be written down on a computer, not by hand. 1. How do we know things we know? a.(4 points) Give examples of different ...
Meditations on First Philosophy
... Insane hallucinations and dreams. "There are no certain indications by which we may clearly distinguish wakefulness from sleep.” Dreams are about corporeal things. Therefore senses cannot be trusted. Conclusion Sciences that deal with composite things - physics, astronomy, medicine, etc. - are "dubi ...
... Insane hallucinations and dreams. "There are no certain indications by which we may clearly distinguish wakefulness from sleep.” Dreams are about corporeal things. Therefore senses cannot be trusted. Conclusion Sciences that deal with composite things - physics, astronomy, medicine, etc. - are "dubi ...
LCS 11: Introduction to Cognitive Science. Behaviorism
... Indeed, it sometimes happened that although feeding device was dismantled, the pigeon indefinitely continued to perform the behavior that was associated with the reward. Thus, the behaviorist was able to account for admitedly simple behavior without recourse to unsightly mentalistic terms like desir ...
... Indeed, it sometimes happened that although feeding device was dismantled, the pigeon indefinitely continued to perform the behavior that was associated with the reward. Thus, the behaviorist was able to account for admitedly simple behavior without recourse to unsightly mentalistic terms like desir ...
DARWINISM - The theory attributed to Charles Darwin (1809
... EMPIRICISM - Empiricism is essentially a theory of knowledge which asserts that all knowledge is derived from sense experience. It rejects the notion that the mind is furnished with a range of concepts or ideas prior to experience. In the thought of John Locke (1632-1704), the human mind is a tabula ...
... EMPIRICISM - Empiricism is essentially a theory of knowledge which asserts that all knowledge is derived from sense experience. It rejects the notion that the mind is furnished with a range of concepts or ideas prior to experience. In the thought of John Locke (1632-1704), the human mind is a tabula ...
Becky Clay Dr. Doug Deaver 4-14
... social and political philosophy of things, as well as the beauty and art of things. The fourth and final division of philosophy is logic, or the study of reasoning. The most common questions concerning logic are: 1) What is reasoning?, 2) What are the components of reasoning?, and 3) Is it good or b ...
... social and political philosophy of things, as well as the beauty and art of things. The fourth and final division of philosophy is logic, or the study of reasoning. The most common questions concerning logic are: 1) What is reasoning?, 2) What are the components of reasoning?, and 3) Is it good or b ...
Jacob Bunce PHIL 2200 Final 1) What is hermeneutics? How does it
... 17) How would you explain to a friend the difference between ancient philosophy and the modern world? Give one specific example. In the modern world we are concerned with material goods and other superficial things. Ancient philosophy deals with the meaning behind things, driving forces, and other ...
... 17) How would you explain to a friend the difference between ancient philosophy and the modern world? Give one specific example. In the modern world we are concerned with material goods and other superficial things. Ancient philosophy deals with the meaning behind things, driving forces, and other ...
Forms.
... entities once thought to be necessary to explain life and man have been replaced by fully causal explanations in terms of chemicals and biological processes. Doesn’t it seem reasonable that this also may be the case with mental states? (4:58) ...
... entities once thought to be necessary to explain life and man have been replaced by fully causal explanations in terms of chemicals and biological processes. Doesn’t it seem reasonable that this also may be the case with mental states? (4:58) ...
A Critical Analysis of Empiricism
... Like Hume, the empiricism of Russell also results in skepticism. It becomes clear when he raises the question: “Is there any knowledge in the world which is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it? Russell gets straight into the problem of justification i.e. whether there is any justificati ...
... Like Hume, the empiricism of Russell also results in skepticism. It becomes clear when he raises the question: “Is there any knowledge in the world which is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it? Russell gets straight into the problem of justification i.e. whether there is any justificati ...
Comment: Parmenides
... important points and convey to the student how he or she might improve next time around. Parmenedies Parmenedies of Elea was one of the most important presocratic philosophers. He wrote a poem called "On Nature" in which a goddess instructs him. The Goddess tells him about truth and things that exis ...
... important points and convey to the student how he or she might improve next time around. Parmenedies Parmenedies of Elea was one of the most important presocratic philosophers. He wrote a poem called "On Nature" in which a goddess instructs him. The Goddess tells him about truth and things that exis ...
Are We Really So Modern - Northampton Community College
... Scripture made Spinoza arguably the father of Biblical criticism. A more unexpected corollary of Spinoza’s pantheism is that it eliminates the possibility of free will, or of contingency of any kind. After all, if everything is God, and God is absolute, then there is no way that anything could happe ...
... Scripture made Spinoza arguably the father of Biblical criticism. A more unexpected corollary of Spinoza’s pantheism is that it eliminates the possibility of free will, or of contingency of any kind. After all, if everything is God, and God is absolute, then there is no way that anything could happe ...
January 30 Reading - Are We Really So Modern
... of transmission. This secular, rational approach to Scripture made Spinoza arguably the father of Biblical criticism. A more unexpected corollary of Spinoza’s pantheism is that it eliminates the possibility of free will, or of contingency of any kind. After all, if everything is God, and God is abso ...
... of transmission. This secular, rational approach to Scripture made Spinoza arguably the father of Biblical criticism. A more unexpected corollary of Spinoza’s pantheism is that it eliminates the possibility of free will, or of contingency of any kind. After all, if everything is God, and God is abso ...
sonia_gst113x_chapter_2YY_1
... The nature of philosophy Thales, Anaximader, and Anaximenes .Prior to the first set of philosophers there were no doubt, some set of explanations but these explanations were mythical mysterious, or religious in nature. The milesian philosophers departed radically from the kind of explanations that p ...
... The nature of philosophy Thales, Anaximader, and Anaximenes .Prior to the first set of philosophers there were no doubt, some set of explanations but these explanations were mythical mysterious, or religious in nature. The milesian philosophers departed radically from the kind of explanations that p ...
Plato
... ignorance is a certain or special kind of opinion that is in some sense groundless (in a way based on nothing, as Plato says). There seem to be various types of ignorance, including unintelligent ignorance, as when someone asserts dogmatically that a false proposition is true or that a true propos ...
... ignorance is a certain or special kind of opinion that is in some sense groundless (in a way based on nothing, as Plato says). There seem to be various types of ignorance, including unintelligent ignorance, as when someone asserts dogmatically that a false proposition is true or that a true propos ...
Plato
... ignorance is a certain or special kind of opinion that is in some sense groundless (in a way based on nothing, as Plato says). There seem to be various types of ignorance, including unintelligent ignorance, as when someone asserts dogmatically that a false proposition is true or that a true proposit ...
... ignorance is a certain or special kind of opinion that is in some sense groundless (in a way based on nothing, as Plato says). There seem to be various types of ignorance, including unintelligent ignorance, as when someone asserts dogmatically that a false proposition is true or that a true proposit ...
Happiness and Agency
... Ancient authors like Plato (428-348 BC) and Aristotle (384-322 BC), following the example of Socrates, (470-399 BC), emphasized the role of Reason in checking our impulses and bringing our appetites under rational legislation. They noted that persons who cannot control their emotions become slaves t ...
... Ancient authors like Plato (428-348 BC) and Aristotle (384-322 BC), following the example of Socrates, (470-399 BC), emphasized the role of Reason in checking our impulses and bringing our appetites under rational legislation. They noted that persons who cannot control their emotions become slaves t ...
LECTURE 2: APOLOGETICS AND PHILOSOPHY
... it even when their own sense perception and the united testimony of the world seem to go against it. This kind of knowledge is the result of God’s sovereign election and the resulting work of the Holy Spirit. “We may be moved and induced by the testimony of the Church to an high and reverent esteem ...
... it even when their own sense perception and the united testimony of the world seem to go against it. This kind of knowledge is the result of God’s sovereign election and the resulting work of the Holy Spirit. “We may be moved and induced by the testimony of the Church to an high and reverent esteem ...
On-line Knowledge Management Search Engines
... On-line KM Search Engine A new type of search engine that fetches information from local database and Internet search engine databases, on the basis of contextual queries. ...
... On-line KM Search Engine A new type of search engine that fetches information from local database and Internet search engine databases, on the basis of contextual queries. ...
PHILOSOPHY
... What will I gain from studying it? As well as the points mentioned above, it will hopefully help you to think about the meaning and purpose of life; as another famous Greek philosopher, Socrates, once said, “The unexamined life is not worth living”. However some would say that Socrates was talking r ...
... What will I gain from studying it? As well as the points mentioned above, it will hopefully help you to think about the meaning and purpose of life; as another famous Greek philosopher, Socrates, once said, “The unexamined life is not worth living”. However some would say that Socrates was talking r ...
Paper version
... consciousness sets us apart from the natural, physical world. People are so complex that we cannot generalize about them; every individual is unique. We can never completely understand a person. We choose our own behavior; it isn’t determined by anything, and therefore we should accept responsibilit ...
... consciousness sets us apart from the natural, physical world. People are so complex that we cannot generalize about them; every individual is unique. We can never completely understand a person. We choose our own behavior; it isn’t determined by anything, and therefore we should accept responsibilit ...
Correspondence, Coherence, and Pragmatic Theories of Truth
... “(1) Our theory of truth must be such as to admit of its opposite, falsehood. A good many philosophers have failed adequately to satisfy this condition: they have constructed theories according to which all our thinking ought to have been true, and have then had the greatest difficulty in finding a ...
... “(1) Our theory of truth must be such as to admit of its opposite, falsehood. A good many philosophers have failed adequately to satisfy this condition: they have constructed theories according to which all our thinking ought to have been true, and have then had the greatest difficulty in finding a ...
In human life, there are many things people think they know with
... describing the table by means of the sense data. This is called the knowledge of description, and in order to know anything about the table, we must know truths connecting it with things which we are acquainted. Thus, all our knowledge about the table is knowledge of truths, and we do not know the ...
... describing the table by means of the sense data. This is called the knowledge of description, and in order to know anything about the table, we must know truths connecting it with things which we are acquainted. Thus, all our knowledge about the table is knowledge of truths, and we do not know the ...
Why Conduct Qualitative Research?
... Rationalism: the idea that human beings achieve knowledge because of their capacity to reason. From the rationalist perspective, there are a priori truths. Progress of the intellect over the centuries has resulted from reason. Plato (428–327 bce) and Leibnitz (Gottfried Wilhelm Baron von Leibniz, 16 ...
... Rationalism: the idea that human beings achieve knowledge because of their capacity to reason. From the rationalist perspective, there are a priori truths. Progress of the intellect over the centuries has resulted from reason. Plato (428–327 bce) and Leibnitz (Gottfried Wilhelm Baron von Leibniz, 16 ...
Skepticism
... the side of which we could not place a false presentation that is indistinguishable from the true b. Impressions of sense are, therefore, not infallible, and the Stoics cannot look to reason as a remedy, since they themselves admit that concepts are founded on experience. c. We are unable to prove a ...
... the side of which we could not place a false presentation that is indistinguishable from the true b. Impressions of sense are, therefore, not infallible, and the Stoics cannot look to reason as a remedy, since they themselves admit that concepts are founded on experience. c. We are unable to prove a ...
HERE - A Universal Basic Income
... what are facts of perception. In the third place, deduction has turned out to be much less powerful than was formerly supposed; it does not give new knowledge, except as to new forms of words for stating truths in some sense already known. In the fourth place, the methods of inference that may be ca ...
... what are facts of perception. In the third place, deduction has turned out to be much less powerful than was formerly supposed; it does not give new knowledge, except as to new forms of words for stating truths in some sense already known. In the fourth place, the methods of inference that may be ca ...