`Among contemporaries the most exciting thinker, masterful
... If you are a believer, Martin Heidegger was an unparalleled modern thinker, whose profound diagnoses of the condition of mankind in the twentieth century rightly dominated large tracts of culture, and directed the finest subsequent work in the humanities. If you are not, he is a dismal windbag, whos ...
... If you are a believer, Martin Heidegger was an unparalleled modern thinker, whose profound diagnoses of the condition of mankind in the twentieth century rightly dominated large tracts of culture, and directed the finest subsequent work in the humanities. If you are not, he is a dismal windbag, whos ...
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neo-sentimentalism`s prospects[*]
... more generally the normative force, of the analysandum. What is wrong with an analysis of good in terms of biological fitness, for instance, resides in the fact that biological fitness has no particular normative force; it does not, as such, involve any requirement on what to desire or on what to do ...
... more generally the normative force, of the analysandum. What is wrong with an analysis of good in terms of biological fitness, for instance, resides in the fact that biological fitness has no particular normative force; it does not, as such, involve any requirement on what to desire or on what to do ...
Theoretical Reason and Practical Reason for Kant and Tabataba`i
... demonstrate that how much both thinkers have agreement and disagreement about definition, method and limits of understanding, and how these two reason are functioning. We can find a deeper perception of this controversial issue through explanation of these agreements and disagreements. Theoretical a ...
... demonstrate that how much both thinkers have agreement and disagreement about definition, method and limits of understanding, and how these two reason are functioning. We can find a deeper perception of this controversial issue through explanation of these agreements and disagreements. Theoretical a ...
REASONS FOR THE MITZVOT (PART I)
... One typical and accepted understanding of this process sees it as beginning with an encounter with the external world by way of the senses and the emotions. This encounter is followed by intellectual analysis; the conclusions drawn from this analysis are the ideas that man thinks. It turns out, then ...
... One typical and accepted understanding of this process sees it as beginning with an encounter with the external world by way of the senses and the emotions. This encounter is followed by intellectual analysis; the conclusions drawn from this analysis are the ideas that man thinks. It turns out, then ...
Autonomy of the Other: on Kant, Levinas, and Universality
... deliberately and independently of impulses and instincts is what distinguishes a moral being from a mere beast. However, this ability and this distinction are themselves subject to an affirmative moral judgement or normative evaluation. The ability to act freely and independently, “autonomy” in the ...
... deliberately and independently of impulses and instincts is what distinguishes a moral being from a mere beast. However, this ability and this distinction are themselves subject to an affirmative moral judgement or normative evaluation. The ability to act freely and independently, “autonomy” in the ...
Van de Laar, Tjeerd
... understanding his so called reflexive monism in which he combines an epistemological dualism with an ontological (dual-aspect) monism. Soon I got quite enthousiastic about Velmans’ theory, especially because it seemed to offer a promising way of thinking about phenomenal consciousness that respects ...
... understanding his so called reflexive monism in which he combines an epistemological dualism with an ontological (dual-aspect) monism. Soon I got quite enthousiastic about Velmans’ theory, especially because it seemed to offer a promising way of thinking about phenomenal consciousness that respects ...
1 FROM FIRST EFFICIENT CAUSE TO GOD: SCOTUS ON THE
... stands. Still, it leaves one with the impression that in such a scenario (involving two and only two necessary beings) something is left radically unexplained, despite what is claimed. I think this suspicion is well-grounded, and I suggest it can be developed into an eminently Scotistic argument, on ...
... stands. Still, it leaves one with the impression that in such a scenario (involving two and only two necessary beings) something is left radically unexplained, despite what is claimed. I think this suspicion is well-grounded, and I suggest it can be developed into an eminently Scotistic argument, on ...
philbasisdialethism
... could have. Presumably one who believes that there do exist such undecidable sentences believes we can usefully communicate information with them. But if all such sentences have the same meaning, then (independent of the fact that they are verification and falsification transcendent) it is complete ...
... could have. Presumably one who believes that there do exist such undecidable sentences believes we can usefully communicate information with them. But if all such sentences have the same meaning, then (independent of the fact that they are verification and falsification transcendent) it is complete ...
18th-20th century views
... mind is active in the process. Thus Kant seems to agree with Descartes that we are always thinking. In Kant’s critical philosophy, dreams are not fully determined by the categories, but they are connected to the understanding: to dream or to hallucinate is necessarily to have experience expressibl ...
... mind is active in the process. Thus Kant seems to agree with Descartes that we are always thinking. In Kant’s critical philosophy, dreams are not fully determined by the categories, but they are connected to the understanding: to dream or to hallucinate is necessarily to have experience expressibl ...
Has Science Established that the Cosmos is Physically
... theory of everything that is unified. This is an empirically untestable, or metaphysical thesis. It thus lies beyond the scope of science. Only when physics has formulated a testable unified theory of everything which has been amply corroborated empirically will science be in a position to declare t ...
... theory of everything that is unified. This is an empirically untestable, or metaphysical thesis. It thus lies beyond the scope of science. Only when physics has formulated a testable unified theory of everything which has been amply corroborated empirically will science be in a position to declare t ...
Has Science Established that the Cosmos is Physically
... theory of everything that is unified. This is an empirically untestable, or metaphysical thesis. It thus lies beyond the scope of science. Only when physics has formulated a testable unified theory of everything which has been amply corroborated empirically will science be in a position to declare t ...
... theory of everything that is unified. This is an empirically untestable, or metaphysical thesis. It thus lies beyond the scope of science. Only when physics has formulated a testable unified theory of everything which has been amply corroborated empirically will science be in a position to declare t ...
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1 Bracketing [Belief] - Sites: a journal of social anthropology and
... regarding the way the various disciplines approach belief issues. Anthropologists are confronted in one way or the other with the issues just mentioned, but on top of that anthropology has its particular difficulties with ‘belief ’: namely the difficulties and dangers of representing the beliefs of ...
... regarding the way the various disciplines approach belief issues. Anthropologists are confronted in one way or the other with the issues just mentioned, but on top of that anthropology has its particular difficulties with ‘belief ’: namely the difficulties and dangers of representing the beliefs of ...
Has Science Established that the Cosmos is Physically
... one of the disunified rivals to T, T1 say, and modify it further so that the new theory, T1*, differs further from T in predicting, in an entirely ad hoc way, that phenomena A, B and C occur in accordance with empirically established laws LA, LB and LC. T1* successfully predicts all that T has succ ...
... one of the disunified rivals to T, T1 say, and modify it further so that the new theory, T1*, differs further from T in predicting, in an entirely ad hoc way, that phenomena A, B and C occur in accordance with empirically established laws LA, LB and LC. T1* successfully predicts all that T has succ ...
Précis of Propositions - SHANTI Pages
... this chapter defends a number of objections to that thesis. If propositions really are sets of possible worlds, then possible worlds really do exist. And if possible worlds really do exist, then they have a nature. This chapter’s most sustained objection to the thesis that propositions are sets of p ...
... this chapter defends a number of objections to that thesis. If propositions really are sets of possible worlds, then possible worlds really do exist. And if possible worlds really do exist, then they have a nature. This chapter’s most sustained objection to the thesis that propositions are sets of p ...
The Objectivity of the Past
... world. It is the prospect of a non-metaphysical externalism that this paper sets out to explore. III. Davidson’s Deflationary Externalism At first blush, the likelihood of finding a more substantive notion of representation in Davidson’s work does not appear promising. Davidson seems, at times, to h ...
... world. It is the prospect of a non-metaphysical externalism that this paper sets out to explore. III. Davidson’s Deflationary Externalism At first blush, the likelihood of finding a more substantive notion of representation in Davidson’s work does not appear promising. Davidson seems, at times, to h ...
Agreement-Based Practical Justification: A Comment on Wolff S
... approach has become more common in moral and political philosophy in recent years. But he adds a well-placed warning to those pursuing this approach. Starting with the issues is not sufficient. It is also necessary to gain an understanding how practitioners themselves think and talk about those issu ...
... approach has become more common in moral and political philosophy in recent years. But he adds a well-placed warning to those pursuing this approach. Starting with the issues is not sufficient. It is also necessary to gain an understanding how practitioners themselves think and talk about those issu ...
Kant-The Critique of Practical Reason
... passage which eerily predicts the possibility of post-modernism if Hume’s extreme scepticism is taken too for: “Whether such a terrible overthrow of the chief branches of knowledge, common reason will escape better, and will not rather become irrecoverably in this destruction of all knowledge, so th ...
... passage which eerily predicts the possibility of post-modernism if Hume’s extreme scepticism is taken too for: “Whether such a terrible overthrow of the chief branches of knowledge, common reason will escape better, and will not rather become irrecoverably in this destruction of all knowledge, so th ...
A2 Philosophy – Revision Book
... Relativism .................................................................................................................Error! Bookmark not defined. Descriptive relativism ...........................................................................................Error! Bookmark not defined. Norm ...
... Relativism .................................................................................................................Error! Bookmark not defined. Descriptive relativism ...........................................................................................Error! Bookmark not defined. Norm ...
18 Unconventional Essays on the Nature of Mathematics
... Oxford) the words “mathematical proof” have two different meanings—and the difference is not usually acknowledged. One meaning, found in logic texts and philosophy journals, is “a sequence of formalized statements, starting with unproved statements about undefined terms, and proceeding by steps per ...
... Oxford) the words “mathematical proof” have two different meanings—and the difference is not usually acknowledged. One meaning, found in logic texts and philosophy journals, is “a sequence of formalized statements, starting with unproved statements about undefined terms, and proceeding by steps per ...
KANT`S RESPONSE TO SKEPTICISM
... necessity’’ at all, with the ‘‘unpalatable metaphysical excesses’’ such adventures would require.9 Stroud therefore concludes that ‘‘[i]dealism, or the world’s dependence on the mind . . . is therefore the price one has to pay’’ for adopting a Kantian approach of this kind.10 When presented with the ...
... necessity’’ at all, with the ‘‘unpalatable metaphysical excesses’’ such adventures would require.9 Stroud therefore concludes that ‘‘[i]dealism, or the world’s dependence on the mind . . . is therefore the price one has to pay’’ for adopting a Kantian approach of this kind.10 When presented with the ...
Ethics bedfellows
... best to make up one’s mind in ethical matters when no ethical proposition seems true, so I’ll pretend that we all have some intuitions that concern ethical matters. I can say a bit more about what these initial reactions are, or at least what they are not. They are not beliefs. It can seem, for exa ...
... best to make up one’s mind in ethical matters when no ethical proposition seems true, so I’ll pretend that we all have some intuitions that concern ethical matters. I can say a bit more about what these initial reactions are, or at least what they are not. They are not beliefs. It can seem, for exa ...
SPIS TREŚCI
... Zeus by attempting to usurp his authority and free humanity from the dictates of the gods. In one instance, Prometheus steals the fire from Hephaestos, the crippled blacksmith of the gods, hiding it in a fennel stalk and giving it to mortal human beings.1 Now that mortal men possess fire, they are a ...
... Zeus by attempting to usurp his authority and free humanity from the dictates of the gods. In one instance, Prometheus steals the fire from Hephaestos, the crippled blacksmith of the gods, hiding it in a fennel stalk and giving it to mortal human beings.1 Now that mortal men possess fire, they are a ...
from the perplexity of opposite claims and not run the risk of losing
... marvellous mixture, without its occurring to them to ask whether the principles of morality are to be sought in the knowledge of human nature at all (which we can have only from experience); or, if this is ...
... marvellous mixture, without its occurring to them to ask whether the principles of morality are to be sought in the knowledge of human nature at all (which we can have only from experience); or, if this is ...
Chapter 5, Meaning
... and the answer would most likely be one of the following. The meaning of a word is said to be one of: (1) Something that the word ‘stands for’ as ‘Lenin’ stands for my friend Jon’s cat, (2) An idea either in the mind of the person using the word, or to be evoked in the mind of the person hearing the ...
... and the answer would most likely be one of the following. The meaning of a word is said to be one of: (1) Something that the word ‘stands for’ as ‘Lenin’ stands for my friend Jon’s cat, (2) An idea either in the mind of the person using the word, or to be evoked in the mind of the person hearing the ...
Ought and Reality - Scandinavian Studies in Law
... appointment to the Chair of Practical Philosophy in the University of Uppsala. It was published in April as “Om moraliska föreställningars sanning” (On the Truth of Moral Ideas) although his intended title was “Verklighet och Böra” (Reality and Ought). Thus Thomas Mautner informs us in his edition o ...
... appointment to the Chair of Practical Philosophy in the University of Uppsala. It was published in April as “Om moraliska föreställningars sanning” (On the Truth of Moral Ideas) although his intended title was “Verklighet och Böra” (Reality and Ought). Thus Thomas Mautner informs us in his edition o ...