Consciousness, Self and World: Husserl and the Phenomenological
... term for the conscious ‘what-it-is-likeness’ of experience (or its phenomenal contents), without much attention to, or interest in, the structural articulations of this what-it-is-likeness. But it is precisely the analysis of these structures which has been the central concern of phenomenology, unde ...
... term for the conscious ‘what-it-is-likeness’ of experience (or its phenomenal contents), without much attention to, or interest in, the structural articulations of this what-it-is-likeness. But it is precisely the analysis of these structures which has been the central concern of phenomenology, unde ...
Scotus_God_First_Principle_et_al
... that we can say that anything which is essentially posterior [in this way] depends necessarily upon what is prior but not vice versa, even should the posterior at times proceed from it necessarily. These could also be called prior and posterior according to substance and species, as were the others ...
... that we can say that anything which is essentially posterior [in this way] depends necessarily upon what is prior but not vice versa, even should the posterior at times proceed from it necessarily. These could also be called prior and posterior according to substance and species, as were the others ...
Scepticism with regard to Reason* David Owen, University of
... arguments of “Scepticism with regard to reason”.21 Antecedent scepticism, in its strong Cartesian form, starts from a doubt about our faculties “whose veracity... we must assure ourselves, by a chain of reasoning, deduced from some original principle, which cannot possibly be fallacious or deceitful ...
... arguments of “Scepticism with regard to reason”.21 Antecedent scepticism, in its strong Cartesian form, starts from a doubt about our faculties “whose veracity... we must assure ourselves, by a chain of reasoning, deduced from some original principle, which cannot possibly be fallacious or deceitful ...
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 ...
The Metaphysics of John Dewey, Part II
... for any apparent dualism in his sense, it be shown how it arises from functional differentiations that emanate out of some background unity. Of all the commentators, James E. Tiles has come closest to articulating this guiding methodological postulate of Dewey’s philosophy when he wrote that “The pr ...
... for any apparent dualism in his sense, it be shown how it arises from functional differentiations that emanate out of some background unity. Of all the commentators, James E. Tiles has come closest to articulating this guiding methodological postulate of Dewey’s philosophy when he wrote that “The pr ...
Justification by Imagination
... voluntary control in the first sense. When we daydream, certain images of desired circumstances sometimes simply pop into our heads without us deciding to form them. And psychopathological conditions like schizophrenia – at least on some accounts – involve a misidentification of involuntary visual i ...
... voluntary control in the first sense. When we daydream, certain images of desired circumstances sometimes simply pop into our heads without us deciding to form them. And psychopathological conditions like schizophrenia – at least on some accounts – involve a misidentification of involuntary visual i ...
FROM FICTION TO PHRONÉSIS A critical dialogue with Martha
... language used by the philosophers of the ancient quarrel were therefore often very abstract, and mostly concerned with the rationality of human reasoning. The ancient poets participating in this quarrel, however, did not share the metaphysical worldview of their philosophical rivals. They denied the ...
... language used by the philosophers of the ancient quarrel were therefore often very abstract, and mostly concerned with the rationality of human reasoning. The ancient poets participating in this quarrel, however, did not share the metaphysical worldview of their philosophical rivals. They denied the ...
A Companion to Philosophy in the Middle Ages
... The Middle Ages is not only the longest period of philosophical development in the West, but also one of the richest and more complex. Its roots go back to ancient philosophy and we are still living with some of its consequences today. Indeed, a very large part of our philosophical vocabulary, wheth ...
... The Middle Ages is not only the longest period of philosophical development in the West, but also one of the richest and more complex. Its roots go back to ancient philosophy and we are still living with some of its consequences today. Indeed, a very large part of our philosophical vocabulary, wheth ...
Moral Supervenience - University of Hull
... belief that a G*thing is F if there is some other G*thing which is F. The fact that something is F given that it is G*suddenly gets catapulted into the center of our web of belief by the apparently extraneous fact that some other thing is G*and F. We could understand how it could be that x’s being F ...
... belief that a G*thing is F if there is some other G*thing which is F. The fact that something is F given that it is G*suddenly gets catapulted into the center of our web of belief by the apparently extraneous fact that some other thing is G*and F. We could understand how it could be that x’s being F ...
Attitudinal Objects and the Distinction between Actions and Products
... semantic values, but rather serve to partially characterize products, in one way or another. The notion of a proposition was to an extent motivated by linguistic intuitions, in particular the linguistic view that attitude reports are relational, that-clauses singular terms, and quantifiers like some ...
... semantic values, but rather serve to partially characterize products, in one way or another. The notion of a proposition was to an extent motivated by linguistic intuitions, in particular the linguistic view that attitude reports are relational, that-clauses singular terms, and quantifiers like some ...
The Idealism of Mary Whiton Calkins
... (1920) concedes that, if absolute idealism is true, one barrier to the claim that, e.g., societies, are persons has been eliminated, since persons can be parts of other persons, but she nonetheless argues both that the proponent of personalist absolute idealism needn’t think that such collections do ...
... (1920) concedes that, if absolute idealism is true, one barrier to the claim that, e.g., societies, are persons has been eliminated, since persons can be parts of other persons, but she nonetheless argues both that the proponent of personalist absolute idealism needn’t think that such collections do ...
24.500/Phil253 topics in philosophy of mind/perceptual experience session 8 Figure by MIT OCW.
... “see the tomato,” it is the tomato that we see. Science has adopted a different view, though without always realizing its implications. Science holds that, when we “see the tomato,” there is a process, starting from the tomato, traversing the space between the tomato and the eye, changing its charac ...
... “see the tomato,” it is the tomato that we see. Science has adopted a different view, though without always realizing its implications. Science holds that, when we “see the tomato,” there is a process, starting from the tomato, traversing the space between the tomato and the eye, changing its charac ...
and Reflective Learning Practices
... seek to reflect on their experiences of working with clients, not through critical cognitive reflection but by "sitting" with a feeling; While in session, they did not use critical reflection to process this non-cognitive way of knowing. In fact, all the social work practitioners in this study belie ...
... seek to reflect on their experiences of working with clients, not through critical cognitive reflection but by "sitting" with a feeling; While in session, they did not use critical reflection to process this non-cognitive way of knowing. In fact, all the social work practitioners in this study belie ...
Structure and function in Plato`s "Republic"
... problematic when viewed alongside the Republic as a whole. Scholars have claimed that these books were originally written separately, that the placement of these books impedes and obscures the main portion of the work, or that the style and content of these books is not up to the standards set by Bo ...
... problematic when viewed alongside the Republic as a whole. Scholars have claimed that these books were originally written separately, that the placement of these books impedes and obscures the main portion of the work, or that the style and content of these books is not up to the standards set by Bo ...
Aristotle`s Account of the Virtue of Courage in
... further restricts temperance to pleasures of touch (1118al6-27). Similarly, Aristotle not only uses the doctrine of disjoint spheres to eliminate honesty and dishonesty with respect to agreements from the sphere of truthfulness (1127a33-bl), he also restricts truthfulness to things which bring exter ...
... further restricts temperance to pleasures of touch (1118al6-27). Similarly, Aristotle not only uses the doctrine of disjoint spheres to eliminate honesty and dishonesty with respect to agreements from the sphere of truthfulness (1127a33-bl), he also restricts truthfulness to things which bring exter ...
Levels of Reasons and Causal Explanation
... 1965, 352), and philosophers have been proposing them ever since. But believers in the existence of non-causal explanations have to aim at a moving target, for different philosophers understand the claim that explanations must “say something” about causes in different ways. I have a new way to under ...
... 1965, 352), and philosophers have been proposing them ever since. But believers in the existence of non-causal explanations have to aim at a moving target, for different philosophers understand the claim that explanations must “say something” about causes in different ways. I have a new way to under ...
The Moral Value of Literature: Defending a Diamondian
... proof of this claim. In his discussion of the ways in which Diamond's work addresses how we learn morally important concepts such as “human being” and “animal,” he was “saddened by how badly it [her work] had been ignored by the philosophical mainstream” (Gleeson, 2008, pp. 158-159). If only to redr ...
... proof of this claim. In his discussion of the ways in which Diamond's work addresses how we learn morally important concepts such as “human being” and “animal,” he was “saddened by how badly it [her work] had been ignored by the philosophical mainstream” (Gleeson, 2008, pp. 158-159). If only to redr ...
CLASSICAL FOUNDATIONALISM
... are other traditional foundationalisms, acquaintance theories, for example, which are not in any straightforward way versions of the view. Acquaintance with a fact, object or property is a relation and the state which is S's being acquainted with X may be a state that involves something "outside" of ...
... are other traditional foundationalisms, acquaintance theories, for example, which are not in any straightforward way versions of the view. Acquaintance with a fact, object or property is a relation and the state which is S's being acquainted with X may be a state that involves something "outside" of ...
Russell`s Neutral Monism
... Philosophy emphasizes the intersection of physics and psychology at the level of elementary data and has neither a separate class of data or a different kind of relation among them to investigate. Philosophy proceeds apace with science, and by using its results is able to reformulate certain traditi ...
... Philosophy emphasizes the intersection of physics and psychology at the level of elementary data and has neither a separate class of data or a different kind of relation among them to investigate. Philosophy proceeds apace with science, and by using its results is able to reformulate certain traditi ...
Plato, Thucydides, and Alcibiades
... Of all the characters we encounter in the Socratic dialogues of Plato, no one, apart from Socrates himself, meant so much to – and evoked such mixed feelings among – Plato’s Athenian readership as the illustrious Alcibiades. A well-known character from our time, with whom one could make a comparison ...
... Of all the characters we encounter in the Socratic dialogues of Plato, no one, apart from Socrates himself, meant so much to – and evoked such mixed feelings among – Plato’s Athenian readership as the illustrious Alcibiades. A well-known character from our time, with whom one could make a comparison ...
What Can We Know A Priori?1 C.S.I. Jenkins Draft only. Please
... Moreover, there are various other motivations for believing in the a priori which Devitt does not address. I shall not attempt an exhaustive list of these here; many depend on the details of particular epistemological views that Devitt presumably rejects. For example, Field’s nonfactualism about epi ...
... Moreover, there are various other motivations for believing in the a priori which Devitt does not address. I shall not attempt an exhaustive list of these here; many depend on the details of particular epistemological views that Devitt presumably rejects. For example, Field’s nonfactualism about epi ...
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... an "empirical" world. This led to Kant's famous claim, repeated in various forms throughout his writings, that 'man is a citizen of two worlds.' For Rosenzweig, this claim must be qualified. Indeed, through our birth as distinct and unique individuals we form meaningful relationships with greater en ...
... an "empirical" world. This led to Kant's famous claim, repeated in various forms throughout his writings, that 'man is a citizen of two worlds.' For Rosenzweig, this claim must be qualified. Indeed, through our birth as distinct and unique individuals we form meaningful relationships with greater en ...
Cohen paper, revised
... from moral justification, legal justification, and the like. ‘Justification’ is clear enough: to say that a belief is justified is to say that it has some positive normative status, but we need to know which domain or dimension of appraisal it scores positively on. Because Cohen’s opponent can’t an ...
... from moral justification, legal justification, and the like. ‘Justification’ is clear enough: to say that a belief is justified is to say that it has some positive normative status, but we need to know which domain or dimension of appraisal it scores positively on. Because Cohen’s opponent can’t an ...
Problems in Applying Peirce to Social Sciences
... philosophers, who take inspiration from Peirce while considering modernity, maintain that though we have been modern, this was not any foredoomed cultural fate. An alternative has been available all the time during the course of modernity, and Peirce’s philosophy is one example of it. This is the le ...
... philosophers, who take inspiration from Peirce while considering modernity, maintain that though we have been modern, this was not any foredoomed cultural fate. An alternative has been available all the time during the course of modernity, and Peirce’s philosophy is one example of it. This is the le ...