John Searle - sikkim university library
... original. The mixture also makes John Searle one of a kind; and one with whom anyone interested in what is happening on the contemporary philosophic scene must come to terms sooner or later. Another reason Searle transcends analytic philosophy is that what he says about language interests not only p ...
... original. The mixture also makes John Searle one of a kind; and one with whom anyone interested in what is happening on the contemporary philosophic scene must come to terms sooner or later. Another reason Searle transcends analytic philosophy is that what he says about language interests not only p ...
Maurice Merleau-Ponty`s Criticism on Bergson`s Theory of
... strength and excellence of one’s enemy. Beaulieu thus calls phenomenology Deleuze’s “beloved enemy” or “friend-enemy”.1 While I do not deny Deleuze’s antagonistic relation to phenomenology, I would like to examine what “love” or “friendship” there is within this couple and, more particularly between ...
... strength and excellence of one’s enemy. Beaulieu thus calls phenomenology Deleuze’s “beloved enemy” or “friend-enemy”.1 While I do not deny Deleuze’s antagonistic relation to phenomenology, I would like to examine what “love” or “friendship” there is within this couple and, more particularly between ...
Scholastic Qualities, Primary and Secondary
... This is not to say that the primary qualities define the four elements, or (equivalently) constitute their essence. The standard Scholastic view was that these qualities are accidents of the elements, and that the elements have some further substantial form, unknown to us, that gives rise to these qu ...
... This is not to say that the primary qualities define the four elements, or (equivalently) constitute their essence. The standard Scholastic view was that these qualities are accidents of the elements, and that the elements have some further substantial form, unknown to us, that gives rise to these qu ...
Fighting Without Hatred: Hannah Arendt`s Agonistic
... willingness to triumph at all costs. Instead, it involves something like having such a passion for ideas and politics that one is willing to take risks. One tries to articulate the best argument, propose the best policy, design the best laws, make the best response. This is a risk in that one might ...
... willingness to triumph at all costs. Instead, it involves something like having such a passion for ideas and politics that one is willing to take risks. One tries to articulate the best argument, propose the best policy, design the best laws, make the best response. This is a risk in that one might ...
Dilemmas and Moral Realism
... Williams casts the issue in terms of the specific cognitive and non-cognitive states of belief and desire, but this is not essential to his argument. The difference between belief and desire is often expressed rather figuratively in terms of ‘direction of fit’: beliefs should fit the world, but the ...
... Williams casts the issue in terms of the specific cognitive and non-cognitive states of belief and desire, but this is not essential to his argument. The difference between belief and desire is often expressed rather figuratively in terms of ‘direction of fit’: beliefs should fit the world, but the ...
Moral Dilemmas andRealism
... not about the mind. However, Williams's argument assumes, in traditional style, that the crucial distinction is between 'cognitive' and 'non-cognitive' mental states. Williams is concerned to show that moral judgements are non-cognitive. This conclusion would connect with moral realism in that, if i ...
... not about the mind. However, Williams's argument assumes, in traditional style, that the crucial distinction is between 'cognitive' and 'non-cognitive' mental states. Williams is concerned to show that moral judgements are non-cognitive. This conclusion would connect with moral realism in that, if i ...
Epistemological Vs - Birkbeck, University of London
... But why all this creative reconstruction, all this make believe? The stimulation of his sensory receptors is all the evidence anybody has had to go on, ultimately, in arriving at his picture of the world. Why not just see how this construction really proceeds? Why not settle for psychology! (Quine ( ...
... But why all this creative reconstruction, all this make believe? The stimulation of his sensory receptors is all the evidence anybody has had to go on, ultimately, in arriving at his picture of the world. Why not just see how this construction really proceeds? Why not settle for psychology! (Quine ( ...
Ruinous Arguments: Escalation of disagreement and the dangers of
... costs steadily increase as a function of argument duration: the more we argue, the more resources we have to commit to it. The benefits of arguing, however, often do not have the same dynamics. Take persuasion as a case in point: if I stand to gain something from persuading you, whatever benefit I h ...
... costs steadily increase as a function of argument duration: the more we argue, the more resources we have to commit to it. The benefits of arguing, however, often do not have the same dynamics. Take persuasion as a case in point: if I stand to gain something from persuading you, whatever benefit I h ...
Dennett and Phenomenology - Center for Subjectivity Research
... and interpretation of publicly observable data. Rather than engaging in introspection ourselves, we should consequently access consciousness from the outside. Our focus should be on the mental life of others as it is publicly expressed or manifested. In other words, we should interview subjects and ...
... and interpretation of publicly observable data. Rather than engaging in introspection ourselves, we should consequently access consciousness from the outside. Our focus should be on the mental life of others as it is publicly expressed or manifested. In other words, we should interview subjects and ...
Kant`s Schematism and the Foundations of Mathematics
... The unity that the collection can posses is, that by counting the elements of the collection we reach a finite number just in case we can judge the collection to be a unit. I furthermore show that numbers are not determined extensionally. Rather they are determined by a schema—an intensional element ...
... The unity that the collection can posses is, that by counting the elements of the collection we reach a finite number just in case we can judge the collection to be a unit. I furthermore show that numbers are not determined extensionally. Rather they are determined by a schema—an intensional element ...
rtf - M/C Journal
... In writing her poem, The Triton, Sandra Hoopman was inspired by her frequent visits to her deaf grandmother at her old Lambert Street, Kangaroo Point home, where she had a huge triton on her wrought iron veranda. Her grandmother would put the triton up to her ear and show Sandra how to 'listen' to i ...
... In writing her poem, The Triton, Sandra Hoopman was inspired by her frequent visits to her deaf grandmother at her old Lambert Street, Kangaroo Point home, where she had a huge triton on her wrought iron veranda. Her grandmother would put the triton up to her ear and show Sandra how to 'listen' to i ...
The Genesis of Shame
... by that knowledge of good and evil which Adam and Eve acquired in eating from the tree. For suppose, as I have already suggested, that this episode taught them about good and evil by teaching them about the possibilityof disobeying God and their God-giveninstincts.8In that case, they must previously ...
... by that knowledge of good and evil which Adam and Eve acquired in eating from the tree. For suppose, as I have already suggested, that this episode taught them about good and evil by teaching them about the possibilityof disobeying God and their God-giveninstincts.8In that case, they must previously ...
Virtue Ethics for Relational Beings
... goodness to it by judging it well suited to "carry us as we want to be carried."2 There is, in other words, a difference between a good horse (simpliciter) and a horse that is good for riding or that serves as a good muse for poetry. To better understand the role that the concept of species plays in ...
... goodness to it by judging it well suited to "carry us as we want to be carried."2 There is, in other words, a difference between a good horse (simpliciter) and a horse that is good for riding or that serves as a good muse for poetry. To better understand the role that the concept of species plays in ...
maimon and deleuze: the viewpoint of internal genesis and the
... “[A]ppearances could after all be so constituted that the understanding would not find them in accord with the conditions of its unity, and everything would then lie in such confusion that, e.g., in the succession of appearances nothing would offer itself that would furnish a rule of synthesis and t ...
... “[A]ppearances could after all be so constituted that the understanding would not find them in accord with the conditions of its unity, and everything would then lie in such confusion that, e.g., in the succession of appearances nothing would offer itself that would furnish a rule of synthesis and t ...
SCIENTIFIC REALISM IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE AND
... and does provide true knowledge, seems necessary to counter any doubts on science’s objectivity. Consequently, proper realism may be legitimately taken to require all three SR theses. Still, putting the metaphysical and the epistemic theses in the foreground does not necessitate SR: a realist could ...
... and does provide true knowledge, seems necessary to counter any doubts on science’s objectivity. Consequently, proper realism may be legitimately taken to require all three SR theses. Still, putting the metaphysical and the epistemic theses in the foreground does not necessitate SR: a realist could ...
The Zombie Argument - Utrecht University Repository
... They are usually called ‘philosophical zombies’, in order to distinguish them from the brain-eating creatures in horror scenarios. The general way to describe philosophical zombies is the following: imagine that there exists, in this world or in some other world, an exact physical twin of yourself. ...
... They are usually called ‘philosophical zombies’, in order to distinguish them from the brain-eating creatures in horror scenarios. The general way to describe philosophical zombies is the following: imagine that there exists, in this world or in some other world, an exact physical twin of yourself. ...
Bob`s Lecture Notes for Week 1
... meaning—do not stop anywhere short of the fact; but we mean: this-is-so.”) When all goes well, the content of my thought that I have two hands is the fact that I have two hands. Hegelian contents are Fregean thoughts. (Frege: “A fact is a thought that is true.”) Hegel’s terms for a content in its ob ...
... meaning—do not stop anywhere short of the fact; but we mean: this-is-so.”) When all goes well, the content of my thought that I have two hands is the fact that I have two hands. Hegelian contents are Fregean thoughts. (Frege: “A fact is a thought that is true.”) Hegel’s terms for a content in its ob ...
Intentional Inexistence and Phenomenal Intentionality
... of external concreta, producing a corrosive skepticism about our knowledge thereof; (iv) phenomenologically, the entities we are aware of when we think of dragons and parrots present themselves to us, from the first-person perspective, as external concreta, not as abstracta or mental concreta. In an ...
... of external concreta, producing a corrosive skepticism about our knowledge thereof; (iv) phenomenologically, the entities we are aware of when we think of dragons and parrots present themselves to us, from the first-person perspective, as external concreta, not as abstracta or mental concreta. In an ...
Roman Stoicism
... In the Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle sought an ultimate function for man. Since reason is the thing that sets us apart from the animals, man’s highest good and ultimate function must involve not just reason, but reasoning at the highest level. This, Aristotle calls ‘virtue’, from which he goes on to ...
... In the Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle sought an ultimate function for man. Since reason is the thing that sets us apart from the animals, man’s highest good and ultimate function must involve not just reason, but reasoning at the highest level. This, Aristotle calls ‘virtue’, from which he goes on to ...
Getting Priority Straight
... Priority theory opposes ontological radicals, who deny (MODESTY). Radicals reject (MODESTY) on the basis of a wide variety of disparate arguments.14 On the basis of one or another of these arguments, they think it would be better if our ontology weren’t so crowded. For instance, some radicals sugges ...
... Priority theory opposes ontological radicals, who deny (MODESTY). Radicals reject (MODESTY) on the basis of a wide variety of disparate arguments.14 On the basis of one or another of these arguments, they think it would be better if our ontology weren’t so crowded. For instance, some radicals sugges ...
quine`s argument from despair
... with his naturalism, Quine nowhere uses the traditional epistemologists’ failure as an argument for adopting a naturalistic perspective. Rather, he reflects about the “phenomenalistic orientation” of the traditional project, i.e. about “[t]he idea of a selfsufficient sensory language as a foundatio ...
... with his naturalism, Quine nowhere uses the traditional epistemologists’ failure as an argument for adopting a naturalistic perspective. Rather, he reflects about the “phenomenalistic orientation” of the traditional project, i.e. about “[t]he idea of a selfsufficient sensory language as a foundatio ...
Island Universe Problems - EngagedScholarship@CSU
... concrete modal realism (from now on "modal realism"), but these problems would just as easily be applicable to modal fictionalism or ersatz modal realist theories that take spatiotemporal interrelatedness to play a vital role in distinguishing worlds. In each of the four sections below I discuss a d ...
... concrete modal realism (from now on "modal realism"), but these problems would just as easily be applicable to modal fictionalism or ersatz modal realist theories that take spatiotemporal interrelatedness to play a vital role in distinguishing worlds. In each of the four sections below I discuss a d ...
Logic Notes 2006
... The following treatment of complex arguments is largely borrowed from Bernard D. Katz, Logic Notes ...
... The following treatment of complex arguments is largely borrowed from Bernard D. Katz, Logic Notes ...
Jean Baudrillard, Selected Writings
... Baudrillard tentatively suggests that seduction might be a model to replace the model of production. In Simulacra and Simulations (1981) Baudrillard extends, some would say hyperbolizes, his theory of commodity culture. No longer does the code take priority over or even precede the consumer object. ...
... Baudrillard tentatively suggests that seduction might be a model to replace the model of production. In Simulacra and Simulations (1981) Baudrillard extends, some would say hyperbolizes, his theory of commodity culture. No longer does the code take priority over or even precede the consumer object. ...
penultimate draft - U
... north of does not exist in the same sense that London does.2 Insofar as students in their first philosophy class have a particular view in mind when they say that what it is for there to be a number is very different than what it is for there to be a coffee cup, this is that view. Not surprisingly, ...
... north of does not exist in the same sense that London does.2 Insofar as students in their first philosophy class have a particular view in mind when they say that what it is for there to be a number is very different than what it is for there to be a coffee cup, this is that view. Not surprisingly, ...
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.