Introduction - Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy
... Let’s consider the nature of meaning. Meanings are both relative and they are objective. Meaning comes out of interaction, and interaction is the essence of an event. Dewey says, ‘Meanings are objective because they are modes of natural interaction; such an interaction...includes things and energie ...
... Let’s consider the nature of meaning. Meanings are both relative and they are objective. Meaning comes out of interaction, and interaction is the essence of an event. Dewey says, ‘Meanings are objective because they are modes of natural interaction; such an interaction...includes things and energie ...
Kant`s Analysis of Obligation
... This argument can be recast in terms of rightness. Suppose that a right action is essentially, or by definition, one prompted by a morally good motive. To know which actions are right we must know which motives are good. But if the only good motive is the sense of duty, then we do seem to get the ki ...
... This argument can be recast in terms of rightness. Suppose that a right action is essentially, or by definition, one prompted by a morally good motive. To know which actions are right we must know which motives are good. But if the only good motive is the sense of duty, then we do seem to get the ki ...
William James - Pragmatism - Collin College Faculty Website Directory
... philosophy. Most of us have a hankering for the good things on both sides of the line. Facts are good, of course- give us lots of facts. Principles are good- give us plenty of principles. The world is indubitably one if you look at it in one way, but as indubitably is it many, if you look at it in a ...
... philosophy. Most of us have a hankering for the good things on both sides of the line. Facts are good, of course- give us lots of facts. Principles are good- give us plenty of principles. The world is indubitably one if you look at it in one way, but as indubitably is it many, if you look at it in a ...
Giambattista Vico`s Idea Of "Progress": The Collapse Of Reason
... affects the external world. Behind this is the subtle idea of progress in human history that the great philosophers of the world have debated over the past three thousand years. Concepts of history, change, and progress in the eighteenth century were combined with two other ideas, reason and provide ...
... affects the external world. Behind this is the subtle idea of progress in human history that the great philosophers of the world have debated over the past three thousand years. Concepts of history, change, and progress in the eighteenth century were combined with two other ideas, reason and provide ...
The Given - Tim Crane
... is the datum – literally, the given – and the interpretation is what happens when we being it ‘under some category or other, select from it, emphasise aspects of it, and relate it in particular and unavoidable ways’ (1929: 52). So although any attempt to describe the given will inevitably be an inte ...
... is the datum – literally, the given – and the interpretation is what happens when we being it ‘under some category or other, select from it, emphasise aspects of it, and relate it in particular and unavoidable ways’ (1929: 52). So although any attempt to describe the given will inevitably be an inte ...
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... logical proposition or from syllogisms but from the observation of particular facts through careful and systematic procedures. He also emphasises the importance of systematic observation and carefiilly planned experiments and shows that knowledge must begin with facts of perception and thus he is al ...
... logical proposition or from syllogisms but from the observation of particular facts through careful and systematic procedures. He also emphasises the importance of systematic observation and carefiilly planned experiments and shows that knowledge must begin with facts of perception and thus he is al ...
`Against Hirose`s Argument for Saving the Greater Number`
... and Z are equally good, let alone which one of them, if either, is better than the other. For they are different in respect to factors other than the identities of the people involved, i.e., the number of those who survive and those who do not. Therefore, X and Y, and Y and Z are incomparable. A dir ...
... and Z are equally good, let alone which one of them, if either, is better than the other. For they are different in respect to factors other than the identities of the people involved, i.e., the number of those who survive and those who do not. Therefore, X and Y, and Y and Z are incomparable. A dir ...
Jani Hakkarainen. Hume`s Scepticism and Realism: His Two
... It is true that Hume does not recommend that we abandon our belief in external bodies. As Hakkarainen would agree, part of Hume’s task in both the Treatise and the first Enquiry is to show why Locke was right to think that we cannot take skeptical concerns seriously for any significant length of tim ...
... It is true that Hume does not recommend that we abandon our belief in external bodies. As Hakkarainen would agree, part of Hume’s task in both the Treatise and the first Enquiry is to show why Locke was right to think that we cannot take skeptical concerns seriously for any significant length of tim ...
outside us. After all, I didn`t choose my desire for esp
... And if our actiorrs were governed solely by the laws of physics, then we woulcl be no different from that billiard ball. So if we're capable of freedom, we must be capable of acting not according to a law that is But given or imposed on us, but according to a law we give ourselves. where could such ...
... And if our actiorrs were governed solely by the laws of physics, then we woulcl be no different from that billiard ball. So if we're capable of freedom, we must be capable of acting not according to a law that is But given or imposed on us, but according to a law we give ourselves. where could such ...
Evolutionary Theory and Morality: Why the Science Doesn`t Settle
... this without input from moral philosophers just as they can investigate the causal origins of the basic capacities that enable us to do math without having to engage in inquiry requiring a consult with mathematicians or philosophers of mathematics. 6 ...
... this without input from moral philosophers just as they can investigate the causal origins of the basic capacities that enable us to do math without having to engage in inquiry requiring a consult with mathematicians or philosophers of mathematics. 6 ...
REVIEW David Couzens Hoy, The Time of Our Lives: A Critical
... understandings of the past. Gadamer’s ideas on time horizons, or Nietzsche’s ideas on the Eternal return are but two examples that do not fit very well into Hoy’s thematization. If this results from their non-linear understanding of time is an open question, however. Having said this, Hoy is not lim ...
... understandings of the past. Gadamer’s ideas on time horizons, or Nietzsche’s ideas on the Eternal return are but two examples that do not fit very well into Hoy’s thematization. If this results from their non-linear understanding of time is an open question, however. Having said this, Hoy is not lim ...
PDF - UNT Digital Library
... unite and give rise to the concrete. Thus the multiplicity of things and human beings is produced. In their ceaseless successions the two elements of yin and yang constitute the great principle of the universe. 7 Because ch’i has inexhaustible power within it, it is always in an unceasing process of ...
... unite and give rise to the concrete. Thus the multiplicity of things and human beings is produced. In their ceaseless successions the two elements of yin and yang constitute the great principle of the universe. 7 Because ch’i has inexhaustible power within it, it is always in an unceasing process of ...
1 The Aristotelian Method and Aristotelian Metaphysics
... symbols of spoken sounds. And just as written marks are not the same for all men, neither are spoken sounds. But what these are in the first place signs of – affections of the soul – are the same for all; and what these affections are likenesses of – actual things – are also the same. (Aristotle 196 ...
... symbols of spoken sounds. And just as written marks are not the same for all men, neither are spoken sounds. But what these are in the first place signs of – affections of the soul – are the same for all; and what these affections are likenesses of – actual things – are also the same. (Aristotle 196 ...
Review Article Reasons Consequentialism Benjamin Sachs Journal of Moral Philosophy 10 (2013) 671–682
... ability to recognize and respond to other kinds of reason, especially selfinterested reasons. Furthermore, sometimes their development is arrested and they never gain the former ability at all. Portmore anticipates something like this objection. He says, … the person who wishes to deny moral rationa ...
... ability to recognize and respond to other kinds of reason, especially selfinterested reasons. Furthermore, sometimes their development is arrested and they never gain the former ability at all. Portmore anticipates something like this objection. He says, … the person who wishes to deny moral rationa ...
Hilary Kornblith, On Reflection
... Though few may sing reflection’s praises aloud, it occupies a central and, some think, indispensable role in much of our theorizing across philosophy. It is a familiar, almost commonsensical, thought that what distinguishes us from the earth’s “lesser” creatures is our ability to reflect. While cats ...
... Though few may sing reflection’s praises aloud, it occupies a central and, some think, indispensable role in much of our theorizing across philosophy. It is a familiar, almost commonsensical, thought that what distinguishes us from the earth’s “lesser” creatures is our ability to reflect. While cats ...
Three Meanings of Epistemic Rhetoric
... seem to be assigning more issues to the contingent, social sphere again. Despite the methodological leanings in his work as cited earlier, Cherwitz seems to embrace the sociological meaning of “rhetoric is epistemic.” One consistent feature of his work is the sociological bifurcation of social and m ...
... seem to be assigning more issues to the contingent, social sphere again. Despite the methodological leanings in his work as cited earlier, Cherwitz seems to embrace the sociological meaning of “rhetoric is epistemic.” One consistent feature of his work is the sociological bifurcation of social and m ...
Moral Disagreement among Philosophers Ralph Wedgwood 1. An
... thinkers: one of them (Right-thinker) must have suitable cognitive capacities or virtues and be deploying them in a relevantly favourable environment, while the other thinker (Wrongthinker) must be either failing to deploy suitable capacities and virtues, or else deploying them in a relevantly unfav ...
... thinkers: one of them (Right-thinker) must have suitable cognitive capacities or virtues and be deploying them in a relevantly favourable environment, while the other thinker (Wrongthinker) must be either failing to deploy suitable capacities and virtues, or else deploying them in a relevantly unfav ...
ESSENTIALISM IN PARMENIDES OF ELEA
... The other [path], that it is-not and needs must not-be, that I tell thee is a path altogether unthinkable. For thou couldst not know that which is-not nor utter it. And further (Kirk and Raven 1960: 277): What can be thought is only the thought that it is. For you will not find thought without what ...
... The other [path], that it is-not and needs must not-be, that I tell thee is a path altogether unthinkable. For thou couldst not know that which is-not nor utter it. And further (Kirk and Raven 1960: 277): What can be thought is only the thought that it is. For you will not find thought without what ...
Arthur`s Bentley obstinate philosophy
... behavioral system. The behaviors of any organism, but especially that of human beings in their behaviors of knowing, extend beyond its skin and form coupled systems with some sub-set of environmental entities. Cognitive processes are not contained entirely within the individual, opposed to the world ...
... behavioral system. The behaviors of any organism, but especially that of human beings in their behaviors of knowing, extend beyond its skin and form coupled systems with some sub-set of environmental entities. Cognitive processes are not contained entirely within the individual, opposed to the world ...
Speaking the Unnamable: A Phenomenology of Sense in T. S.
... conflates epistemology with ontology, and his dissertation in this light appears as a philosophical elaboration on the nature of this conflation and an insistence that every epistemological project must reflect on its implications and define the terms of inquiry accordingly. This demand punctuates E ...
... conflates epistemology with ontology, and his dissertation in this light appears as a philosophical elaboration on the nature of this conflation and an insistence that every epistemological project must reflect on its implications and define the terms of inquiry accordingly. This demand punctuates E ...
Sound Not Light: Levinas and the Elements of Thought
... face is at the same time an abstraction. For Levinas is not here depicting an encounter in which one becomes fixated upon a particular person who, in virtue of their particular characteristics, is the object of our concern, and where, say, one gazes into the depths of the other’s eyes in a heightene ...
... face is at the same time an abstraction. For Levinas is not here depicting an encounter in which one becomes fixated upon a particular person who, in virtue of their particular characteristics, is the object of our concern, and where, say, one gazes into the depths of the other’s eyes in a heightene ...
MEDIAEVAL THOUGHT-EXPERIMENTS: The Metamethodology of
... very directly toward early modern science. . . the whole enterprise of many a medieval scholar who treated motions was worlds away from that of Galileo and his confrères. . . medieval discussions of motion should not be viewed solely as providing some kind of background from, or against which, earl ...
... very directly toward early modern science. . . the whole enterprise of many a medieval scholar who treated motions was worlds away from that of Galileo and his confrères. . . medieval discussions of motion should not be viewed solely as providing some kind of background from, or against which, earl ...
MSWord
... where it is possible, broadly algebraic understanding has distinctive virtues, which adherents of the project of analysis are right to esteem and treasure. The slogan of the analytic project is “Faith, hope, and clarity—and the greatest of these is clarity.” The clarity in question is specifically c ...
... where it is possible, broadly algebraic understanding has distinctive virtues, which adherents of the project of analysis are right to esteem and treasure. The slogan of the analytic project is “Faith, hope, and clarity—and the greatest of these is clarity.” The clarity in question is specifically c ...
MORAL INTUITION, MORAL THEORY, AND PRACTICAL ETHICS
... Could we really conduct our thinking about morality and moral problems in the way suggested by the Theoretical Approach, without building up from our moral intuitions or consulting those intuitions to test the plausibility of the implications of proposed moral theories? Even those who most vehementl ...
... Could we really conduct our thinking about morality and moral problems in the way suggested by the Theoretical Approach, without building up from our moral intuitions or consulting those intuitions to test the plausibility of the implications of proposed moral theories? Even those who most vehementl ...
Primitively Rational Belief
... by saying ‘I am in pain’ directly in response to the fact that one is in pain. But as we have seen, the process of forming beliefs by taking one’s experiences at face value is an eminently fallible process, since one could form a belief by means of this process even if one was undetectably being dec ...
... by saying ‘I am in pain’ directly in response to the fact that one is in pain. But as we have seen, the process of forming beliefs by taking one’s experiences at face value is an eminently fallible process, since one could form a belief by means of this process even if one was undetectably being dec ...