a_new_problem_for_th.. - University of St Andrews
... intensity in recent years.2 In this paper I shall put forward a simple argument which poses a new problem for the A-theory. I shall first go through it in outline then explain it in more detail. The argument, in a nutshell, is as follows. Experience provides each of us with a strong intuitive impres ...
... intensity in recent years.2 In this paper I shall put forward a simple argument which poses a new problem for the A-theory. I shall first go through it in outline then explain it in more detail. The argument, in a nutshell, is as follows. Experience provides each of us with a strong intuitive impres ...
epistemology - mrsmcfadyensspace
... that knowledge is possible – that we can gain knowledge by various means. • One of the reasons for studying Philosophy is, after all, that you want to have knowledge of Philosophy. But you also want to have knowledge of many other things: whether it will rain today; what books you need for your cour ...
... that knowledge is possible – that we can gain knowledge by various means. • One of the reasons for studying Philosophy is, after all, that you want to have knowledge of Philosophy. But you also want to have knowledge of many other things: whether it will rain today; what books you need for your cour ...
locke
... He attacks previous schools of philosophy, such as those of Plato and Descartes, that maintain a belief in a priori, or innate, knowledge. begins by opposing the idea that we are all born knowing certain fundamental principles, such as “whatever is, is.” The usual justification for this belief ...
... He attacks previous schools of philosophy, such as those of Plato and Descartes, that maintain a belief in a priori, or innate, knowledge. begins by opposing the idea that we are all born knowing certain fundamental principles, such as “whatever is, is.” The usual justification for this belief ...
- Philsci
... I understand that some historians read the accounts of space, time, causation and knowledge in the Critique of Pure Reason as purely logical, or purely "conceptual" efforts, while others, Patricia Kitcher for example, read the book as a psychological theory, a theory of how the mind works and, in v ...
... I understand that some historians read the accounts of space, time, causation and knowledge in the Critique of Pure Reason as purely logical, or purely "conceptual" efforts, while others, Patricia Kitcher for example, read the book as a psychological theory, a theory of how the mind works and, in v ...
Intro to Philosophy
... If someone were to claim that there is an elephant in your living room, we could prove or disprove the claim by going into your living room, looking around, and, on the basis of our perceptions, discovering whether there is an elephant there or not. And the result of our investigation -- i.e., our ...
... If someone were to claim that there is an elephant in your living room, we could prove or disprove the claim by going into your living room, looking around, and, on the basis of our perceptions, discovering whether there is an elephant there or not. And the result of our investigation -- i.e., our ...
considerations on knowledge philosophy during the
... and for the people that believed in them. Both Platonism and the other currents of ancient philosophy fully contributed to the creation of a genuine Renaissancespecific scientific spirit. Culianu therefore rejected any association between the Popperian term of science and the Renaissance sciences, p ...
... and for the people that believed in them. Both Platonism and the other currents of ancient philosophy fully contributed to the creation of a genuine Renaissancespecific scientific spirit. Culianu therefore rejected any association between the Popperian term of science and the Renaissance sciences, p ...
Feel or perspective? - Animal Studies Repository
... establishing the distinctness of feel and perspective, however, is that each feature seems to require a different type of explanation. For example, Lycan (1996) has argued that perspective can be best explained in terms of a higher-order experiential model of consciousness, grounded in the idea of o ...
... establishing the distinctness of feel and perspective, however, is that each feature seems to require a different type of explanation. For example, Lycan (1996) has argued that perspective can be best explained in terms of a higher-order experiential model of consciousness, grounded in the idea of o ...
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 ...
Kantianism, Pragmatism, and Autonomy Phillip McReynolds Although
... autonomous reason rather than being subject to the vicissitudes of impulse as are, apparently, non-rational brutes. The Kantian idea of autonomy is probably as important a concept for the development of the concept of the modern human and its requisite demands for dignity as any other we are likely ...
... autonomous reason rather than being subject to the vicissitudes of impulse as are, apparently, non-rational brutes. The Kantian idea of autonomy is probably as important a concept for the development of the concept of the modern human and its requisite demands for dignity as any other we are likely ...
Study Guide: René Descartes
... different sets of properties. This, he claims, is a synthetic proposition known a priori. Although experience (the 2 observations of the wax) is the occasion for coming to believe this, Descartes says that this is not the basis for this belief. To believe this a posteriori, he argues, would require ...
... different sets of properties. This, he claims, is a synthetic proposition known a priori. Although experience (the 2 observations of the wax) is the occasion for coming to believe this, Descartes says that this is not the basis for this belief. To believe this a posteriori, he argues, would require ...
John Locke and the Changing Ideal of Scientific Knowledge
... There are two main reasons why Boyle thought that our knowledge of the physical world is always subject to error and consequently lacks even the moral certainty we have in the case of theology. First, scientific theories are ultimately based on fundamental principles, such as "ex nihilo nihil fit," ...
... There are two main reasons why Boyle thought that our knowledge of the physical world is always subject to error and consequently lacks even the moral certainty we have in the case of theology. First, scientific theories are ultimately based on fundamental principles, such as "ex nihilo nihil fit," ...
Essay 54 Subject no. III The thesis stated in the quotation from
... The strong realism says that we address meanings – thanks to the facility of projection senses. This is the core of the Fregean semantic and Wittgenstein`s as well. If we say “The teacher of Alexander the Great” or “the founder of Lykeon”, we address the same object: Aristotle. A significant support ...
... The strong realism says that we address meanings – thanks to the facility of projection senses. This is the core of the Fregean semantic and Wittgenstein`s as well. If we say “The teacher of Alexander the Great” or “the founder of Lykeon”, we address the same object: Aristotle. A significant support ...
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... from a library of the interactions between practitioners. This evolving knowledge base is seen as a way of capturing much that is topical and innovative in the working practices of the community. Although the ‘evolving knowledge base’ idea was never fully worked out in JITOL, it remains a powerful w ...
... from a library of the interactions between practitioners. This evolving knowledge base is seen as a way of capturing much that is topical and innovative in the working practices of the community. Although the ‘evolving knowledge base’ idea was never fully worked out in JITOL, it remains a powerful w ...
Knowledge
... Questioning Is it possible that we have any knowledge at the level of certitude? one of the most difficult subject in epistemology ...
... Questioning Is it possible that we have any knowledge at the level of certitude? one of the most difficult subject in epistemology ...
Philosophy of Language
... at least half-way to poetry. But the only anchor to ‘reality’ that philosophy can claim is the analysis of concepts – trying to discover how words operate to describe this elusive ‘reality’. This is not to make ‘ordinary language’ the arbiter, though it may involve both correctness according to fami ...
... at least half-way to poetry. But the only anchor to ‘reality’ that philosophy can claim is the analysis of concepts – trying to discover how words operate to describe this elusive ‘reality’. This is not to make ‘ordinary language’ the arbiter, though it may involve both correctness according to fami ...
The Rationalist - Cengage Learning
... died of pneumonia on February 11, 1650 at age fifty-three. ...
... died of pneumonia on February 11, 1650 at age fifty-three. ...
Powerpoint - History and Philosophy of Science @ UCD
... • “There must be freedom in the theoretical acts of affirmation and negation. When I reason that 2+2=4, this actual judgment is not forced upon me through blind, ...
... • “There must be freedom in the theoretical acts of affirmation and negation. When I reason that 2+2=4, this actual judgment is not forced upon me through blind, ...
UNIVERSITY OF CALICUT Indian Philosophy -Non Vedic schools II (Complementary)
... but rather a principle that causes objects to stop moving). The physical world resides in the narrow part of the middle of inhabitable space. The rest of the inhabitable universe may contain gods or other spirits. While Jainism is dualistic—that is, matter and souls are thought to be entirely differ ...
... but rather a principle that causes objects to stop moving). The physical world resides in the narrow part of the middle of inhabitable space. The rest of the inhabitable universe may contain gods or other spirits. While Jainism is dualistic—that is, matter and souls are thought to be entirely differ ...
Berkeley Reading
... mind, in an unthinking substance which they call Matter. By Matter, therefore, we are to understand an inert, senseless substance, in which extension, figure, and motion do actually subsist. But it is evident, from what we have already shown, that extension, figure, and motion are only ideas existin ...
... mind, in an unthinking substance which they call Matter. By Matter, therefore, we are to understand an inert, senseless substance, in which extension, figure, and motion do actually subsist. But it is evident, from what we have already shown, that extension, figure, and motion are only ideas existin ...
Argument that statements of value cannot be translated into
... cannot account for moral disputes either. THE EXISTENCE OF MORAL DISPUTES Subjectivism claims that moral judgments such as X is good are actually expressions of personal taste, of liking. Stealing yuck! Stealing yay! are not moral disputes. On the subjectivist view, two people who are apparently dis ...
... cannot account for moral disputes either. THE EXISTENCE OF MORAL DISPUTES Subjectivism claims that moral judgments such as X is good are actually expressions of personal taste, of liking. Stealing yuck! Stealing yay! are not moral disputes. On the subjectivist view, two people who are apparently dis ...
8. Handout on Plato`s Theory of Forms - Elly Pirocacos
... may not have been his inspiration for this point). The first point we have already seen in the discussion of Parmenides. Parmenides held that to think of something truthfully or successfully means to think of that thing as itself. This was the outcome of a long syllogistic argument found in survivin ...
... may not have been his inspiration for this point). The first point we have already seen in the discussion of Parmenides. Parmenides held that to think of something truthfully or successfully means to think of that thing as itself. This was the outcome of a long syllogistic argument found in survivin ...
1 PHIL 2303: Human Nature and the Meaning of Life Prof
... which the estimable qualities agree on the one hand, and the blameable on the other; and thence to reach the foundation of ethics, and find those universal principles, from which all censure or approbation is ultimately derived. As this is a question of fact, not of abstract science, we can only exp ...
... which the estimable qualities agree on the one hand, and the blameable on the other; and thence to reach the foundation of ethics, and find those universal principles, from which all censure or approbation is ultimately derived. As this is a question of fact, not of abstract science, we can only exp ...
Lec 9 - Ursula Stange
... The One creates things like itself – souls And things not like itself -- matter -------------------Neoplatonism Neo-Platonism revived again by the 19th century American writers known collectively as the Transcendentalists Emerson, Hawthorne, Thoreau ...
... The One creates things like itself – souls And things not like itself -- matter -------------------Neoplatonism Neo-Platonism revived again by the 19th century American writers known collectively as the Transcendentalists Emerson, Hawthorne, Thoreau ...
A catalog of conscious experiences
... senses, due to the rich, intangible, indescribable nature of smell sensations. Ackermann (1990) calls it ‘the mute sense; the one without words’. While there is something ineffable about any sensation, the other senses have properties that facilitate some description. Visual and auditory experiences ...
... senses, due to the rich, intangible, indescribable nature of smell sensations. Ackermann (1990) calls it ‘the mute sense; the one without words’. While there is something ineffable about any sensation, the other senses have properties that facilitate some description. Visual and auditory experiences ...
16. Plato: Moral Theory
... Plato: Moral Theory A. Plato’s ethic is eudaemonistic, in the sense that it is directed towards the attainment of man’s highest good, in the possession of which true happiness consists. 1. The highest good of man may be said to be the true development of man’s personality as a rational and moral bei ...
... Plato: Moral Theory A. Plato’s ethic is eudaemonistic, in the sense that it is directed towards the attainment of man’s highest good, in the possession of which true happiness consists. 1. The highest good of man may be said to be the true development of man’s personality as a rational and moral bei ...
Empiricism
Empiricism is a theory that states that knowledge comes only or primarily from sensory experience. One of several views of epistemology, the study of human knowledge, along with rationalism and skepticism, empiricism emphasizes the role of experience and evidence, especially sensory experience, in the formation of ideas, over the notion of innate ideas or traditions; empiricists may argue however that traditions (or customs) arise due to relations of previous sense experiences.Empiricism in the philosophy of science emphasizes evidence, especially as discovered in experiments. It is a fundamental part of the scientific method that all hypotheses and theories must be tested against observations of the natural world rather than resting solely on a priori reasoning, intuition, or revelation.Empiricism, often used by natural scientists, says that ""knowledge is based on experience"" and that ""knowledge is tentative and probabilistic, subject to continued revision and falsification."" One of the epistemological tenets is that sensory experience creates knowledge. The scientific method, including experiments and validated measurement tools, guides empirical research.