EINSTEIN: PHILOSOPHICAL IDEAS
... quantum mechanics) is that philosophy has really been left behind by modern physics. Einstein’s philosophical ideas were wide-ranging, and often very original. This has made them hard for philosophers to categorize, since they sometimes had little connection with mainstream philosophical themes, bef ...
... quantum mechanics) is that philosophy has really been left behind by modern physics. Einstein’s philosophical ideas were wide-ranging, and often very original. This has made them hard for philosophers to categorize, since they sometimes had little connection with mainstream philosophical themes, bef ...
Keith Crome`s `Descartes` Evil Demon`
... are real.13 And, if this is indeed the case, then it follows that those sciences that are concerned with such simple and general things, and which are indifferent to their actual existence, provide us with truths that cannot be suspected of falsity, for as Descartes has it: ‘whether I am awake or as ...
... are real.13 And, if this is indeed the case, then it follows that those sciences that are concerned with such simple and general things, and which are indifferent to their actual existence, provide us with truths that cannot be suspected of falsity, for as Descartes has it: ‘whether I am awake or as ...
Advances in Environmental Biology
... Marxists believe we can say that the Marxist tradition holds the view the infrastructure and superstructure vision, in a way that they consider the thought as the superstructure and the economy as the substructure. While the Islamic philosophers believe that the thought is not superstructure and the ...
... Marxists believe we can say that the Marxist tradition holds the view the infrastructure and superstructure vision, in a way that they consider the thought as the superstructure and the economy as the substructure. While the Islamic philosophers believe that the thought is not superstructure and the ...
Has Science Established that the Cosmos is Physically
... can be accepted as a part scientific knowledge independently of empirical considerations. This rather thin doctrine is a central component of almost all views about science that philosophers of science have come up with. It is common ground for logical positivism, inductivism, logical empiricism, hy ...
... can be accepted as a part scientific knowledge independently of empirical considerations. This rather thin doctrine is a central component of almost all views about science that philosophers of science have come up with. It is common ground for logical positivism, inductivism, logical empiricism, hy ...
Has Science Established that the Cosmos is Physically
... can be accepted as a part scientific knowledge independently of empirical considerations. This rather thin doctrine is a central component of almost all views about science that philosophers of science have come up with. It is common ground for logical positivism, inductivism, logical empiricism, hy ...
... can be accepted as a part scientific knowledge independently of empirical considerations. This rather thin doctrine is a central component of almost all views about science that philosophers of science have come up with. It is common ground for logical positivism, inductivism, logical empiricism, hy ...
Has Science Established that the Cosmos is Physically
... can be accepted as a part scientific knowledge independently of empirical considerations. This rather thin doctrine is a central component of almost all views about science that philosophers of science have come up with. It is common ground for logical positivism, inductivism, logical empiricism, hy ...
... can be accepted as a part scientific knowledge independently of empirical considerations. This rather thin doctrine is a central component of almost all views about science that philosophers of science have come up with. It is common ground for logical positivism, inductivism, logical empiricism, hy ...
the fragility of consciousness: lonergan and the postmodern concern
... John Locke inveighs against the Aristotelian doctrine of faculties or "powers,* he is making the point that we do not have direct experience of faculties; and it is true that the ancients were content to deduce the presence of the faculty from observations made about the relationships between object ...
... John Locke inveighs against the Aristotelian doctrine of faculties or "powers,* he is making the point that we do not have direct experience of faculties; and it is true that the ancients were content to deduce the presence of the faculty from observations made about the relationships between object ...
Where Theory and Practice Meet: Pragmatist Feminism as a Means
... holistic focus on the relationship between knowers and the world — including relationships between scientists and the world – according to which: • knowers (that’s all of us) are ontologically continuous with/coconstitutive of the world we know, o hence the commitment to naturalism; • knowers’ belie ...
... holistic focus on the relationship between knowers and the world — including relationships between scientists and the world – according to which: • knowers (that’s all of us) are ontologically continuous with/coconstitutive of the world we know, o hence the commitment to naturalism; • knowers’ belie ...
Normative Ethics, Normative Epistemology, and Quine`s Holism
... I call normative sentences or normative beliefs in this context. Both are preoccupied with descriptive sciences such as physics and therefore do not focus on the testing of heterogeneous systems or conjunctions that consist of normative as well as descriptive sentences. But, impressed as I am by Qui ...
... I call normative sentences or normative beliefs in this context. Both are preoccupied with descriptive sciences such as physics and therefore do not focus on the testing of heterogeneous systems or conjunctions that consist of normative as well as descriptive sentences. But, impressed as I am by Qui ...
Kant`s Distinction Between Theoretical and Practical Knowledge
... object in the way it was viewed by the rational intuitionists of the seventeenth century (for example, Ralph Cudworth and Samuel Clarke). According t o these philosophers, as they are commonly understood, reason is a capacity to apprehend certain intelligible objects-the essences and natures of thin ...
... object in the way it was viewed by the rational intuitionists of the seventeenth century (for example, Ralph Cudworth and Samuel Clarke). According t o these philosophers, as they are commonly understood, reason is a capacity to apprehend certain intelligible objects-the essences and natures of thin ...
Introduction - Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy
... Let’s consider the nature of meaning. Meanings are both relative and they are objective. Meaning comes out of interaction, and interaction is the essence of an event. Dewey says, ‘Meanings are objective because they are modes of natural interaction; such an interaction...includes things and energie ...
... Let’s consider the nature of meaning. Meanings are both relative and they are objective. Meaning comes out of interaction, and interaction is the essence of an event. Dewey says, ‘Meanings are objective because they are modes of natural interaction; such an interaction...includes things and energie ...
Minimal Epistemology: Beyond Terminal Philosophy to Truth
... burden of making sense of holistic coherence. This non-coherentist, non-foundationalist account -which is also non-foundherentist - is the optimal way out of the quandary posed by regress arguments (and by Agrippa's trilemma), I argue, in view of the problems that beset the alternative accounts. Ch ...
... burden of making sense of holistic coherence. This non-coherentist, non-foundationalist account -which is also non-foundherentist - is the optimal way out of the quandary posed by regress arguments (and by Agrippa's trilemma), I argue, in view of the problems that beset the alternative accounts. Ch ...
Game Theory, Game Situations and Rational Expectations: A
... Cristina Bicchieri (1993) insightfully notes that the rational expectation hypothesis results from the conjunction of two logically independent assumptions regarding the epistemic rationality of the agents. The first (“strong subjective rational belief”) states that the agents use all the relevant i ...
... Cristina Bicchieri (1993) insightfully notes that the rational expectation hypothesis results from the conjunction of two logically independent assumptions regarding the epistemic rationality of the agents. The first (“strong subjective rational belief”) states that the agents use all the relevant i ...
An Evaluation of Paul Churchland`s Responses to The Knowledge
... Maybe Churchland’s criticisms of the Mary story later in The Rediscovery of Light can stand on their own two feet, without the assistance of his parody argument. In his commentary on the Luminance Argument, Paul Churchland notes that there are at least two kinds of knowledge. In What Mary Didn’t Kno ...
... Maybe Churchland’s criticisms of the Mary story later in The Rediscovery of Light can stand on their own two feet, without the assistance of his parody argument. In his commentary on the Luminance Argument, Paul Churchland notes that there are at least two kinds of knowledge. In What Mary Didn’t Kno ...
Moral Theory and Experience
... There is also no doubt that Dewey had a social psychology that influenced his ethics but its conclusions were not the starting point of his ethics. Psychology is a type of inquiry that, however useful and important, it is limited by the purposes, methods, selectivity, particular to the sciences.3 D ...
... There is also no doubt that Dewey had a social psychology that influenced his ethics but its conclusions were not the starting point of his ethics. Psychology is a type of inquiry that, however useful and important, it is limited by the purposes, methods, selectivity, particular to the sciences.3 D ...
Substantive Syllogisms - Scholarship at UWindsor
... 41b1-3). However, he employs all sorts of inferences that do not seem -- easily or even at all – reducible to the syllogistic form. Consider, for instance, an argument he uses in the Physics 217b29-218a8, which bears on the reality of time. After asking whether time exists or not and what is its nat ...
... 41b1-3). However, he employs all sorts of inferences that do not seem -- easily or even at all – reducible to the syllogistic form. Consider, for instance, an argument he uses in the Physics 217b29-218a8, which bears on the reality of time. After asking whether time exists or not and what is its nat ...
Chapter 9 Not Knowing Mar. `10 “Ignorance is the necessary
... such meeting and no such flight. The “no” in these conclusions expresses negation as failure. “There is no such meeting” means “We have failed to determine that such a meeting will occur”. The “no” of negation as failure reflects a failure to know. In these contexts, “no” is an epistemic term.3 This ...
... such meeting and no such flight. The “no” in these conclusions expresses negation as failure. “There is no such meeting” means “We have failed to determine that such a meeting will occur”. The “no” of negation as failure reflects a failure to know. In these contexts, “no” is an epistemic term.3 This ...
dubos and hume on the paradox of tragedy
... paradox—this is, after all, a Hume conference and I would like to introduce this reading primarily as a means to clarifying the question of what’s at issue between Dubos and Hume—here is Dubos’ solution, as I understand it: First of all, as noted above, he thinks that “one of the greatest wants of m ...
... paradox—this is, after all, a Hume conference and I would like to introduce this reading primarily as a means to clarifying the question of what’s at issue between Dubos and Hume—here is Dubos’ solution, as I understand it: First of all, as noted above, he thinks that “one of the greatest wants of m ...
Beauty as harmony of the soul: the aesthetic of the Stoics
... In order to extirpate passion from the soul one would develop a certain orientation to the world. This might be achieved by either of two ways, only one of which the Stoics endorsed. According to the first alternative, one might develop the appropriate orientation through habit and training. For exa ...
... In order to extirpate passion from the soul one would develop a certain orientation to the world. This might be achieved by either of two ways, only one of which the Stoics endorsed. According to the first alternative, one might develop the appropriate orientation through habit and training. For exa ...
Bacon - American University of Beirut
... commonly received of infinity in time past and in time to come can by no means hold; for it would thence follow that one infinity is greater than another, and that infinity is wasting away and tending to become finite. The like subtlety arises touching the infinite divisibility of lines, from the sa ...
... commonly received of infinity in time past and in time to come can by no means hold; for it would thence follow that one infinity is greater than another, and that infinity is wasting away and tending to become finite. The like subtlety arises touching the infinite divisibility of lines, from the sa ...
The Hollow of Being. What can we learn from Maurice Merleau
... e author distinguishes between what he calls the “easy problems of consciousness” and the “hard problem of consciousness”. e former are concerned with the explanation of certain phenomena commonly associated with consciousness, for instance the discrimination of stimuli, the integration of informa ...
... e author distinguishes between what he calls the “easy problems of consciousness” and the “hard problem of consciousness”. e former are concerned with the explanation of certain phenomena commonly associated with consciousness, for instance the discrimination of stimuli, the integration of informa ...
mathematical facts in a physicalist ontology - Philsci
... the theorems derived according to the specifications of the primitive frame remain true without regard to changes in representation. There is, therefore, a sense in which the primitive frame defines a formal system as a unique object of thought. This does not mean that there is a hypostatized entity ...
... the theorems derived according to the specifications of the primitive frame remain true without regard to changes in representation. There is, therefore, a sense in which the primitive frame defines a formal system as a unique object of thought. This does not mean that there is a hypostatized entity ...
THE UNTRUTH AND THE TRUTH OF SKEPTICISM
... such a relation were present it would surely be readily discernible. I am now reading this page of my paper. Is the page I am holding now in my hands the same as the page I held a few moments ago? Of course. I have no doubt that it is. But is my confidence based on my discerning a relation of ident ...
... such a relation were present it would surely be readily discernible. I am now reading this page of my paper. Is the page I am holding now in my hands the same as the page I held a few moments ago? Of course. I have no doubt that it is. But is my confidence based on my discerning a relation of ident ...
Review of Peter Loptson, Reality: Fundamental Topics in Metaphysics
... of the concept of identity imply that between the so-called "two" things there is a relation that might be called identity. Let us consider some cases so simple that if such a relation were present it would surely be readily discernible. I am now reading this page of my paper. Is the page I am hold ...
... of the concept of identity imply that between the so-called "two" things there is a relation that might be called identity. Let us consider some cases so simple that if such a relation were present it would surely be readily discernible. I am now reading this page of my paper. Is the page I am hold ...
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.