Monism and Dualism
... represented in the material world by certain material processes of the brain, which as such are subject to the law of the persistence of energy, although this law cannot be applied to the relation between cerebral and conscious processes. It is as though the same thing were said in two languages.” S ...
... represented in the material world by certain material processes of the brain, which as such are subject to the law of the persistence of energy, although this law cannot be applied to the relation between cerebral and conscious processes. It is as though the same thing were said in two languages.” S ...
Two Cartesian Topics – Scepticism and the Mind
... – Nor does it follow that the thing that thinks could exist without being extended. (Imagine if a piece of matter were made able to think.) ...
... – Nor does it follow that the thing that thinks could exist without being extended. (Imagine if a piece of matter were made able to think.) ...
The Issue of Correspondence between Scientific Law and Ultimate
... stages. It is important to note that the process of the understanding, like the process of sensibility, occurs instantaneously, and so the following stages are dependent on each other not temporally but logically. Sensibility first provides the understanding with the matter and forms7 of given pheno ...
... stages. It is important to note that the process of the understanding, like the process of sensibility, occurs instantaneously, and so the following stages are dependent on each other not temporally but logically. Sensibility first provides the understanding with the matter and forms7 of given pheno ...
Handout
... things as well. But there’s a clear hierarchy here. This is because the mind is definitional in the being of everything, including extended things. An extended thing, if there are any, is what corresponds to our subjective idea of extended thing. BD. One way of understanding what Aristotle meant by ...
... things as well. But there’s a clear hierarchy here. This is because the mind is definitional in the being of everything, including extended things. An extended thing, if there are any, is what corresponds to our subjective idea of extended thing. BD. One way of understanding what Aristotle meant by ...
DIOGENES LAERTIUS ON PLATO
... magazine. He wrote about the lives of the eminent philosophers, via what he had heard about them, what he had read about them from others, or of their works, etc. One should not take these words as definitive and absolutely true, given the time passed between Plato’s death and Diogenes’ birth. Here ...
... magazine. He wrote about the lives of the eminent philosophers, via what he had heard about them, what he had read about them from others, or of their works, etc. One should not take these words as definitive and absolutely true, given the time passed between Plato’s death and Diogenes’ birth. Here ...
READING GUIDE FOR AD INFINITUM This reading selection is
... mathematically acceptable process of idealization (59). Idealizing, or abstracting, something means taking its salient (defining or most relevant) features and discarding its incidental or surface features. It means distilling the essence of a thing—often an actual thing in the world—and creating a ...
... mathematically acceptable process of idealization (59). Idealizing, or abstracting, something means taking its salient (defining or most relevant) features and discarding its incidental or surface features. It means distilling the essence of a thing—often an actual thing in the world—and creating a ...
Correspondence, Coherence, and Pragmatic Theories of Truth
... theory of truth. That theory holds that judgements we make about the world are true or false depending on whether they correspond to facts. ANY theory of truth must satisfy three requisites by displying the following features: Features of the Theory: Theory of truth must contain an account of fal ...
... theory of truth. That theory holds that judgements we make about the world are true or false depending on whether they correspond to facts. ANY theory of truth must satisfy three requisites by displying the following features: Features of the Theory: Theory of truth must contain an account of fal ...
What is Transcendentalism?
... 1. (Kantian Philos.) The transcending, or going beyond, empiricism, and ascertaining a priori the fundamental principles of human knowledge. As Schelling and Hegel claim to have discovered the absolute identity of the objective and subjective in human knowledge, or of things and human conceptions of ...
... 1. (Kantian Philos.) The transcending, or going beyond, empiricism, and ascertaining a priori the fundamental principles of human knowledge. As Schelling and Hegel claim to have discovered the absolute identity of the objective and subjective in human knowledge, or of things and human conceptions of ...
Overview - Course Materials
... 2. Formal (Rational or pure) knowledge: This area is concerned only with reason itself, its modes of thought a priori (logically prior) to any encounter with the empirical world. This is the domain of what Kant will call “pure practical reason” in this essay; it is also the domain of logic. It’s im ...
... 2. Formal (Rational or pure) knowledge: This area is concerned only with reason itself, its modes of thought a priori (logically prior) to any encounter with the empirical world. This is the domain of what Kant will call “pure practical reason” in this essay; it is also the domain of logic. It’s im ...
Subjectivity, Objectivity, Intersubjectivity: Phenomenology and
... will focus on “the things themselves”. However, my paper might eventually also show that, contrary to the view of quite a few philosophers in both the phenomenological and the analytical tradition, there are no strict boundaries and ineliminable differences between the two ways of thinking. Certainl ...
... will focus on “the things themselves”. However, my paper might eventually also show that, contrary to the view of quite a few philosophers in both the phenomenological and the analytical tradition, there are no strict boundaries and ineliminable differences between the two ways of thinking. Certainl ...
Sartre and the Existentialist Vision of the Human
... Both of these senses are captured with the slogan made famous by Sartre: “existence precedes essence.” ◦ There is no pre-given meaning to our lives. We first are, and then through our actions make our lives ...
... Both of these senses are captured with the slogan made famous by Sartre: “existence precedes essence.” ◦ There is no pre-given meaning to our lives. We first are, and then through our actions make our lives ...
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 ...
DIRECT REALISM WITHOUT MATERIALISM
... alleged intermediaries are philosophical inventions, whether they are supposed to be particular objects, such as sense data, or properties, such as ways of being appeared to. Clearly, these two points would be accepted by a materialist who says what she means, i.e. the uncompromising eliminative mat ...
... alleged intermediaries are philosophical inventions, whether they are supposed to be particular objects, such as sense data, or properties, such as ways of being appeared to. Clearly, these two points would be accepted by a materialist who says what she means, i.e. the uncompromising eliminative mat ...
Metaphysics As Speculative Nonsense
... about the soul and an afterlife. No scientific experiment can establish the existence of the Forms or of a soul that survives death. Claims that they exist can’t be translated into claims about anything we can actually observe. Because these claims are also not analytic, they are, in fact, meaningle ...
... about the soul and an afterlife. No scientific experiment can establish the existence of the Forms or of a soul that survives death. Claims that they exist can’t be translated into claims about anything we can actually observe. Because these claims are also not analytic, they are, in fact, meaningle ...
3. Hume - CSUN.edu
... 1. Hume took seriously his theory that our ideas are mere copies of impressions. These impressions are internal subjective states and are not clear proof of an external reality. Consequently, there can be no proof of a world outside of our minds: “Let us chase our imagination to the heavens, or to t ...
... 1. Hume took seriously his theory that our ideas are mere copies of impressions. These impressions are internal subjective states and are not clear proof of an external reality. Consequently, there can be no proof of a world outside of our minds: “Let us chase our imagination to the heavens, or to t ...
ppt - Typepad
... of acquisition: to consider them minutely, and in detail, might be useful for practical purposes; but to dwell long upon them would be in poor taste.... There are books on these subjects by several writers …” • Shepherds are '...the laziest [of men]... lead an idle life... get their subsistence with ...
... of acquisition: to consider them minutely, and in detail, might be useful for practical purposes; but to dwell long upon them would be in poor taste.... There are books on these subjects by several writers …” • Shepherds are '...the laziest [of men]... lead an idle life... get their subsistence with ...
a_new_problem_for_th.. - University of St Andrews
... and there seems no sensible option but to reject them. I suggest that we can regard the flow of time as similarly epiphenomenal. Our avowals that time seems to flow can be no evidence that it does flow for we would be saying the same things even if it didn’t. We have shown that experience would be j ...
... and there seems no sensible option but to reject them. I suggest that we can regard the flow of time as similarly epiphenomenal. Our avowals that time seems to flow can be no evidence that it does flow for we would be saying the same things even if it didn’t. We have shown that experience would be j ...
T - Philosophy at Hertford College
... “But as this interruption of their existence is contrary to their perfect identity, and makes us regard the first impression as annihilated, and the second as newly created, we find ourselves somewhat at a loss, and are involv’d in a kind of contradiction. In order to free ourselves from this diffi ...
... “But as this interruption of their existence is contrary to their perfect identity, and makes us regard the first impression as annihilated, and the second as newly created, we find ourselves somewhat at a loss, and are involv’d in a kind of contradiction. In order to free ourselves from this diffi ...
Answers to Practice Quiz #3 - Langara iWeb
... Substance dualism says that the mind and brain are separate things. Property dualism says that the mind and brain are the same thing, yet the brain has nonphysical mental properties, in addition to its physical properties. ...
... Substance dualism says that the mind and brain are separate things. Property dualism says that the mind and brain are the same thing, yet the brain has nonphysical mental properties, in addition to its physical properties. ...
Sensus communis Clarifications of a Kantian Concept on the Way to
... even among members belonging to different cultures? Such a possible agreement is all the more spectacular, because our aesthetic experiences are supposed to be subjective. At least, we know that they have no objective validity whatsoever; we cannot prove them empirically nor demonstrate them logical ...
... even among members belonging to different cultures? Such a possible agreement is all the more spectacular, because our aesthetic experiences are supposed to be subjective. At least, we know that they have no objective validity whatsoever; we cannot prove them empirically nor demonstrate them logical ...
Kant and the Project of Enlightenment
... In this lecture I shall try to reposition Kant's thought in a way which will more clearly bring out its motivations, and which will help to explain why his ideas are of enduring interest to those inside and outside of the analytical tradition. I shall argue that the greatest influence on Kant's tho ...
... In this lecture I shall try to reposition Kant's thought in a way which will more clearly bring out its motivations, and which will help to explain why his ideas are of enduring interest to those inside and outside of the analytical tradition. I shall argue that the greatest influence on Kant's tho ...
Examining Different Ethical Systems In this session we will be
... end in itself but as a means to other ends. As an example we can take the concept of ‘health’ and the act of going to the dentist. Health is an intrinsic value because it is an end worth pursuing for its own sake; the human organism will live a happier life in general if it is healthy, therefore he ...
... end in itself but as a means to other ends. As an example we can take the concept of ‘health’ and the act of going to the dentist. Health is an intrinsic value because it is an end worth pursuing for its own sake; the human organism will live a happier life in general if it is healthy, therefore he ...
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... when our own lives are threatened with the prospect of becoming the subject of its reference. There is an obvious and objective reference to the state of death as well—the dead in the morgue, soldiers brought home in the body bags of war—and, ceteris paribus, we are thankful not to be among them. Ho ...
... when our own lives are threatened with the prospect of becoming the subject of its reference. There is an obvious and objective reference to the state of death as well—the dead in the morgue, soldiers brought home in the body bags of war—and, ceteris paribus, we are thankful not to be among them. Ho ...
Apr 7
... translated by Vidyabhusana as “dogma”). The sixth-century commentator Uddyotakara says explicitly in this context that all positions accepted and proved in a system, such as medicine, distinct from Nyaya, but also in opposing world views, Nyaya's rival schools of philosophy, should be accepted unles ...
... translated by Vidyabhusana as “dogma”). The sixth-century commentator Uddyotakara says explicitly in this context that all positions accepted and proved in a system, such as medicine, distinct from Nyaya, but also in opposing world views, Nyaya's rival schools of philosophy, should be accepted unles ...
Chapter 2 Metaphysics, Fideism, Speculation
... necessarily. The critique of ideologies, which ultimately always consists in demonstrating that a social situation which is presented as inevitable is actually contingent, is essentially indissociable from the critique of metaphysics, the latter being understood as the illusory manufacturing of nece ...
... necessarily. The critique of ideologies, which ultimately always consists in demonstrating that a social situation which is presented as inevitable is actually contingent, is essentially indissociable from the critique of metaphysics, the latter being understood as the illusory manufacturing of nece ...