Why the mind is the only problem of the “mind
... The problem is, however, that the connections between consciousness and objects, in the vast majority of contemporary investigations, are explained on a model of the connections between the objects themselves. In the language in which the relationships between objects are described, all else is also ...
... The problem is, however, that the connections between consciousness and objects, in the vast majority of contemporary investigations, are explained on a model of the connections between the objects themselves. In the language in which the relationships between objects are described, all else is also ...
MISSION STATEMENT AND national PLAN 2016-2025
... Access to education is a reality for all. Universal access to education should allow better social integration for children, teenagers and parents. By giving them the confidence and the ability to act, access to education reduces the spiral of exclusion and stigmatisation of vulnerable families and ...
... Access to education is a reality for all. Universal access to education should allow better social integration for children, teenagers and parents. By giving them the confidence and the ability to act, access to education reduces the spiral of exclusion and stigmatisation of vulnerable families and ...
the stoic philosopher - College of Stoic Philosophers
... Nevertheless, the Stoic should never consider his work as something dangerous or threatening to his beliefs, but instead it should be seen an excellent playing field to test the strength of his convictions. After all, Stoicism is not just a theoretical philosophy, but something to be practiced throu ...
... Nevertheless, the Stoic should never consider his work as something dangerous or threatening to his beliefs, but instead it should be seen an excellent playing field to test the strength of his convictions. After all, Stoicism is not just a theoretical philosophy, but something to be practiced throu ...
The Rationalist - Cengage Learning
... He then considers the thought that perhaps he is just dreaming, even though things seem real enough to him (after all, dreams can sometimes seem that way). Then he pushes his doubt even further, by wondering how he could ever tell whether the world really is as he perceives it, or if God is actually ...
... He then considers the thought that perhaps he is just dreaming, even though things seem real enough to him (after all, dreams can sometimes seem that way). Then he pushes his doubt even further, by wondering how he could ever tell whether the world really is as he perceives it, or if God is actually ...
Critical Realism - University of Leeds
... widely held in the 17th century, that the Creator would not have wasted His energy on creating a universe that was of no use to humans, he was highlighting a philosophical question about the way reality is perceived. Essentially, the philosophical debate concerns the issue of whether humans ‘constru ...
... widely held in the 17th century, that the Creator would not have wasted His energy on creating a universe that was of no use to humans, he was highlighting a philosophical question about the way reality is perceived. Essentially, the philosophical debate concerns the issue of whether humans ‘constru ...
CHAPTER 4
... • Some living things have only vegetative functions, and thus a “vegetative soul.” Others have capacities for perception and locomotion, the animal soul. Still others have rational capacities, the rational soul. • To speak of the soul is to speak of certain kinds of powers or capacities that living ...
... • Some living things have only vegetative functions, and thus a “vegetative soul.” Others have capacities for perception and locomotion, the animal soul. Still others have rational capacities, the rational soul. • To speak of the soul is to speak of certain kinds of powers or capacities that living ...
Treatise of Human Nature Book III: Morals
... concerning it, and obviously that has to make our theoretical thinking about morality appear more real and solid than our thoughts about any subject that doesn’t much matter to us. Anything that has an effect on us, we think, can’t be a chimera ·and so must be real·; and because our passions are eng ...
... concerning it, and obviously that has to make our theoretical thinking about morality appear more real and solid than our thoughts about any subject that doesn’t much matter to us. Anything that has an effect on us, we think, can’t be a chimera ·and so must be real·; and because our passions are eng ...
Speaking of the Ineffable, East and West
... deal about what cannot be said . . . And of course, Wittgenstein realised that he was in this situation. The reaction to it is captured in the stunning final propositions of the Tractatus:4 6.54 My propositions are elucidatory in this way: he who understands me finally recognizes them as senseless, ...
... deal about what cannot be said . . . And of course, Wittgenstein realised that he was in this situation. The reaction to it is captured in the stunning final propositions of the Tractatus:4 6.54 My propositions are elucidatory in this way: he who understands me finally recognizes them as senseless, ...
MSWord
... contingent and optional, and that it is accordingly possible, and under conceivable circumstances even advisable, to change our practices so as to institute a different structure of authority. What if one took up that attitude toward the normative structure that constitutes objectivity? On this line ...
... contingent and optional, and that it is accordingly possible, and under conceivable circumstances even advisable, to change our practices so as to institute a different structure of authority. What if one took up that attitude toward the normative structure that constitutes objectivity? On this line ...
The Fallacy of Homo Economicus and the reconstitution of the
... whereas their usefulness is located in the satisfaction of which are existent. There is 'manufactured' usefulness which is addressed to the psychological part of us. Proof of the magnitude of cultural distortion and of cultural play-acting - both of the self and of the economy is the fact that marke ...
... whereas their usefulness is located in the satisfaction of which are existent. There is 'manufactured' usefulness which is addressed to the psychological part of us. Proof of the magnitude of cultural distortion and of cultural play-acting - both of the self and of the economy is the fact that marke ...
Crushing of Cultures - AINA Publications Server
... the needto stay near their fishing nets onthe lake. They said that how? they didn’t need to be near the highway. They talkedof the value In the years since the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry, I and meaningof their community in a geographical and historicalhavecontinued to work on northern issues, ...
... the needto stay near their fishing nets onthe lake. They said that how? they didn’t need to be near the highway. They talkedof the value In the years since the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry, I and meaningof their community in a geographical and historicalhavecontinued to work on northern issues, ...
Big Questions Affirmative Evidence
... world. However, this is being challenged by researchers around the world. In fact, just this year a team of physicists (Gerlich et al, Nature Communications 2:263, 2011) showed that quantum weirdness also occurs in the human-scale world. They studied huge compounds composed of up to 430 atoms, and c ...
... world. However, this is being challenged by researchers around the world. In fact, just this year a team of physicists (Gerlich et al, Nature Communications 2:263, 2011) showed that quantum weirdness also occurs in the human-scale world. They studied huge compounds composed of up to 430 atoms, and c ...
Handout
... verification, your intention of the object moves from emptiness to fulfillment. Heidegger characterizes this process as un-concealment of the being. We can experience correctness only in such un-concealing. For this reason, Heidegger claims that un-concealing (= truth2) is a more basic, originary, o ...
... verification, your intention of the object moves from emptiness to fulfillment. Heidegger characterizes this process as un-concealment of the being. We can experience correctness only in such un-concealing. For this reason, Heidegger claims that un-concealing (= truth2) is a more basic, originary, o ...
The Vedanta concept of maya
... distinct impressions of form and structure relayed by the effects of the quanta of matter and energy that we perceive as existing in an objective physical world. Since the interpretation of form and structure as information with meaning is a function of the conscious observer, this something must be ...
... distinct impressions of form and structure relayed by the effects of the quanta of matter and energy that we perceive as existing in an objective physical world. Since the interpretation of form and structure as information with meaning is a function of the conscious observer, this something must be ...
What is optimal about perception?
... relies on probability calculus (Bayes’ rule) models of perception, memory and learning Decision theory: describes optimal use of information for action relies on utility/loss functions models of decision making and motor control Bayesian Decision Theory = information theory + decision th ...
... relies on probability calculus (Bayes’ rule) models of perception, memory and learning Decision theory: describes optimal use of information for action relies on utility/loss functions models of decision making and motor control Bayesian Decision Theory = information theory + decision th ...
Book Reviews: Alien Phenomenology, or What It`s Like to Be a Thing
... Asking about “what it’s like to be a thing,” Bogost articulates other ways of doing philosophy while at the same time explicating his own unique strain of speculative realism. Bogost places his work in media studies and computer science in a line with objectoriented philosophers Graham Harman and Le ...
... Asking about “what it’s like to be a thing,” Bogost articulates other ways of doing philosophy while at the same time explicating his own unique strain of speculative realism. Bogost places his work in media studies and computer science in a line with objectoriented philosophers Graham Harman and Le ...
On validity and soundness
... Uncertain: To determine the soundness of this argument, we'd need to hear further arguments in favor of the individual premises. That's why arguments end up being so important in philosophy! ...
... Uncertain: To determine the soundness of this argument, we'd need to hear further arguments in favor of the individual premises. That's why arguments end up being so important in philosophy! ...
Treatise of Human Nature Book III: Morals
... any way; and of course these judgments can often be false. •You might be led to have a certain passion by your belief that pain or pleasure would come from something that in fact has no tendency to produce either pain or pleasure—or has a tendency to produce pain (if you predicted pleasure) or pleas ...
... any way; and of course these judgments can often be false. •You might be led to have a certain passion by your belief that pain or pleasure would come from something that in fact has no tendency to produce either pain or pleasure—or has a tendency to produce pain (if you predicted pleasure) or pleas ...
Skepticism and Perceptual Faith: Henry David Thoreau and Stanley
... deals with phenomena that go beyond our reason and experience. Much more real is the line separating those who doubt being as it is granted to man (no matter how or by whom) from those who accept it without reservation. —Milan Kundera1 And how is skepticism to be overcome here? By love. —Martha Nuss ...
... deals with phenomena that go beyond our reason and experience. Much more real is the line separating those who doubt being as it is granted to man (no matter how or by whom) from those who accept it without reservation. —Milan Kundera1 And how is skepticism to be overcome here? By love. —Martha Nuss ...
The Method – Analysis and Criticisms
... chance, I look at the one real plant. Do I know that I it is a plant? In this context, we might say that I don’t. I am lucky to be looking at the real plant. I could have easily been looking at a fake plant and have had a false belief. In sum, whether we know or not can depend on whether context: wh ...
... chance, I look at the one real plant. Do I know that I it is a plant? In this context, we might say that I don’t. I am lucky to be looking at the real plant. I could have easily been looking at a fake plant and have had a false belief. In sum, whether we know or not can depend on whether context: wh ...
Argument - University of Warwick
... (b)Despite repeated attempts, no-one has ever come up with a proof of God’s existence. Hence, we can conclude that God doesn’t exist. (argument) (c)If we deal with the nation’s debt quickly and decisively then we will provide the basis for a more secure economic future. (unsupported) (d)Backwards ti ...
... (b)Despite repeated attempts, no-one has ever come up with a proof of God’s existence. Hence, we can conclude that God doesn’t exist. (argument) (c)If we deal with the nation’s debt quickly and decisively then we will provide the basis for a more secure economic future. (unsupported) (d)Backwards ti ...
Inferential Knowledge of the Occurrence of Something
... In very few, but significant, passages, Dharmakīrti expressed by the term saṃbhavānumāna an inferential knowledge concerning the occurrence of something. In one passage, in particular, the subject under discussion are the mental qualities. The paper will expose the use of saṃbhavānumāna in Dharmakīr ...
... In very few, but significant, passages, Dharmakīrti expressed by the term saṃbhavānumāna an inferential knowledge concerning the occurrence of something. In one passage, in particular, the subject under discussion are the mental qualities. The paper will expose the use of saṃbhavānumāna in Dharmakīr ...
Does Representationalism Undermine the Knowledge Argument?
... for seeing red, her knowledge of the five features and the correct theory of mental representation seems hardly better than, say, her knowledge of neurobiology. Intuitively, it seems that none of this knowledge puts her in a position to deduce the distinctive, phenomenal way in which seeing red repr ...
... for seeing red, her knowledge of the five features and the correct theory of mental representation seems hardly better than, say, her knowledge of neurobiology. Intuitively, it seems that none of this knowledge puts her in a position to deduce the distinctive, phenomenal way in which seeing red repr ...
Conscious Willing and the Emerging Sciences of Brain and Behavior
... psychologists have shown that one can cause someone to confabulate the very occurrence of an action in order to produce coherence with the seemingly sincere testimony of others claiming to have observed such an action. But the scientist who notes these cases of unwitting, ex post facto formation or ...
... psychologists have shown that one can cause someone to confabulate the very occurrence of an action in order to produce coherence with the seemingly sincere testimony of others claiming to have observed such an action. But the scientist who notes these cases of unwitting, ex post facto formation or ...
Pointing and Representing – Three Options
... (ii). A second possible move would be to admit that pointing involves more than just representing the other’s potential and actual perceptual states. However, rather than allowing for extra mental states to be attributed to the other, the behaviour could be explained in terms of the infant attribut ...
... (ii). A second possible move would be to admit that pointing involves more than just representing the other’s potential and actual perceptual states. However, rather than allowing for extra mental states to be attributed to the other, the behaviour could be explained in terms of the infant attribut ...
Direct and indirect realism
The question of direct or ""naïve"" realism, as opposed to indirect or ""representational"" realism, arises in the philosophy of perception and of mind out of the debate over the nature of conscious experience; the epistemological question of whether the world we see around us is the real world itself or merely an internal perceptual copy of that world generated by neural processes in our brain. Naïve realism is known as direct realism when developed to counter indirect or representative realism, also known as epistemological dualism, the philosophical position that our conscious experience is not of the real world itself but of an internal representation, a miniature virtual-reality replica of the world. Indirect realism is broadly equivalent to the accepted view of perception in natural science that states that we do not and cannot perceive the external world as it really is but know only our ideas and interpretations of the way the world is. Representationalism is one of the key assumptions of cognitivism in psychology. The representational realist would deny that 'first-hand knowledge' is a coherent concept, since knowledge is always via some means. Our ideas of the world are interpretations of sensory input derived from an external world that is real (unlike the standpoint of idealism). The alternative, that we have knowledge of the outside world that is unconstrained by our sense organs and does not require interpretation, would appear to be inconsistent with everyday observation.