Ought, Agents, and Actions - Personal World Wide Web Pages
... But whereas English sentences require a grammatical subject, this structure does not provide a grammatical subject (it starts with a verb, ‘seemed’). It turns out that there are essentially two ways of getting around this problem, one of which involves ‘moving’ the subject of ‘starts at noon’ up to ...
... But whereas English sentences require a grammatical subject, this structure does not provide a grammatical subject (it starts with a verb, ‘seemed’). It turns out that there are essentially two ways of getting around this problem, one of which involves ‘moving’ the subject of ‘starts at noon’ up to ...
Walker Percy and the Magic of Naming
... Enlightenment – Newtonian science and Cartesian dualism. In Percy’s academic world, the scientific paradigm took precedence over Descartes’ “ghost in a machine” and certainly over the conservative Christian view. But it was inadequate when it came to describing human beings, Percy discovered. The ca ...
... Enlightenment – Newtonian science and Cartesian dualism. In Percy’s academic world, the scientific paradigm took precedence over Descartes’ “ghost in a machine” and certainly over the conservative Christian view. But it was inadequate when it came to describing human beings, Percy discovered. The ca ...
- James Tartaglia
... world’, such that we must accord ‘as much credibility to archeology as to Zuni creationism, as much credibility to evolution as to Christian creationism’ (Boghossian 2006: 4-5; see also Blackburn 2005: p. ix). In order to undermine Rorty’s ‘epistemic relativism’, Boghossian develops a version of the ...
... world’, such that we must accord ‘as much credibility to archeology as to Zuni creationism, as much credibility to evolution as to Christian creationism’ (Boghossian 2006: 4-5; see also Blackburn 2005: p. ix). In order to undermine Rorty’s ‘epistemic relativism’, Boghossian develops a version of the ...
The Incoherence of the Incoherence
... Averroës was the last great philosopher in Islam in the twelfth century, and is the most scholarly and scrupulous commentator of Aristotle. He is far better known in Europe than in the Orient, where few of his works are still in existence and where he had no influence, he being the last great philo ...
... Averroës was the last great philosopher in Islam in the twelfth century, and is the most scholarly and scrupulous commentator of Aristotle. He is far better known in Europe than in the Orient, where few of his works are still in existence and where he had no influence, he being the last great philo ...
Popper and Xenophanes - ORCA
... fragments suggest that his teachings were quite different from those of Parmenides, both about knowledge and about the nature of god, these and other later writers may well have modified their accounts of his views to align them with those of Parmenides, so that they could both be classified togethe ...
... fragments suggest that his teachings were quite different from those of Parmenides, both about knowledge and about the nature of god, these and other later writers may well have modified their accounts of his views to align them with those of Parmenides, so that they could both be classified togethe ...
frege on identity statements
... his theory of thought and judgement, is the topic of §8. The role of identity statements in the theory of number of Grundgesetze and Basic Law V is the concern of §9, and finally, in §10, we turn to Frege’s ultimate meditation on identity statements, his most famous essay, “On Sense and Reference.” ...
... his theory of thought and judgement, is the topic of §8. The role of identity statements in the theory of number of Grundgesetze and Basic Law V is the concern of §9, and finally, in §10, we turn to Frege’s ultimate meditation on identity statements, his most famous essay, “On Sense and Reference.” ...
Essence and Modality The Quintessence of Husserl`s Theory Kevin
... course, leads us to call every general truth which expresses a law a necessary truth […]. [I]t would have been better to call such a truth an explanatory law, a ground, from which a class of necessary truths follows. (P, § 63; cf. transl. 227f.) The equivocation consists in the fact that we call law ...
... course, leads us to call every general truth which expresses a law a necessary truth […]. [I]t would have been better to call such a truth an explanatory law, a ground, from which a class of necessary truths follows. (P, § 63; cf. transl. 227f.) The equivocation consists in the fact that we call law ...
Dennett and Phenomenology - Center for Subjectivity Research
... Thus, Dennett urges us to adopt a neutral stance and to bracket the question concerning the validity of the subjects’ expressed beliefs, and he argues that this maneuver amounts to a third-person version of Husserl’s famous epoché (Dennett 2003, 22). Why is the neutrality required? Dennett provides ...
... Thus, Dennett urges us to adopt a neutral stance and to bracket the question concerning the validity of the subjects’ expressed beliefs, and he argues that this maneuver amounts to a third-person version of Husserl’s famous epoché (Dennett 2003, 22). Why is the neutrality required? Dennett provides ...
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 ...
Of a mythical philosophical anthropology: the transcendental and
... Nevertheless, Rousseau himself does not deploy this myth, and indeed his account falls prey to an illusion to which all transcendental anthropology must succumb. Transcendental anthropology determines the origin of man retrospectively, and this approach can be decisively criticised by approaching th ...
... Nevertheless, Rousseau himself does not deploy this myth, and indeed his account falls prey to an illusion to which all transcendental anthropology must succumb. Transcendental anthropology determines the origin of man retrospectively, and this approach can be decisively criticised by approaching th ...
Rationalism, Sentimentalism, and Ralph Cudworth
... the rationalist conception of TEIM. In section five, I will address possible lines of reconciliation between the sermons and TEIM. And in section six, I will ask why Cudworth may have expounded these two different positions and elaborate on what lies in common beneath them. Before beginning, however, ...
... the rationalist conception of TEIM. In section five, I will address possible lines of reconciliation between the sermons and TEIM. And in section six, I will ask why Cudworth may have expounded these two different positions and elaborate on what lies in common beneath them. Before beginning, however, ...
Epistemological Vs - Birkbeck, University of London
... of the Cartesian quest for certainty. Now we might expect some remarks representing the second feature of Quine's early epistemological writings, namely Quine's claim that we can and should settle for a pragmatic account of justification. This expectation is not fulfilled. Proceeding to reject along ...
... of the Cartesian quest for certainty. Now we might expect some remarks representing the second feature of Quine's early epistemological writings, namely Quine's claim that we can and should settle for a pragmatic account of justification. This expectation is not fulfilled. Proceeding to reject along ...
ON GEACH ON GOOD
... corresponds to the distinction between intersective and subsective adjectives (though Geach also included cases such as false money among the attributive; they are now usually given a place of their own). The distinction is often made in the way Geach suggested (with the splitting-up test and moreov ...
... corresponds to the distinction between intersective and subsective adjectives (though Geach also included cases such as false money among the attributive; they are now usually given a place of their own). The distinction is often made in the way Geach suggested (with the splitting-up test and moreov ...
Univocity and Analogy: A Comparative Study of Gilbert
... contact as “thinking things”, but it is not possible to doubt that there must be an existing 'I' that does the thinking in the first place. After all, even thoughts of doubt must come from an existing thinker. In this way, the realm of thought has at least one quality that the external world does no ...
... contact as “thinking things”, but it is not possible to doubt that there must be an existing 'I' that does the thinking in the first place. After all, even thoughts of doubt must come from an existing thinker. In this way, the realm of thought has at least one quality that the external world does no ...
George Herbert Mead Final
... Newtonian perspective for understanding human action (Bergson, 1919). There are two fundamental problems with this approach to time. Firstly, it does not address the human experience of temporal continuity. As William James observed “If the constitution of consciousness were that of a string of bead ...
... Newtonian perspective for understanding human action (Bergson, 1919). There are two fundamental problems with this approach to time. Firstly, it does not address the human experience of temporal continuity. As William James observed “If the constitution of consciousness were that of a string of bead ...
Coleridge, Wordsworth and the Buddha on Imagination
... We would surely say that this is all very imaginative, even delightful. However, upon reflection, there is no deep connection between, for instance, a fairy Queen and an agate stone on an alderman’s finger, and therefore in Coleridge’s terms, Shakespeare is indulging in fancy rather than using imagi ...
... We would surely say that this is all very imaginative, even delightful. However, upon reflection, there is no deep connection between, for instance, a fairy Queen and an agate stone on an alderman’s finger, and therefore in Coleridge’s terms, Shakespeare is indulging in fancy rather than using imagi ...
Giambattista Vico`s Idea Of "Progress": The Collapse Of Reason
... that is slowly and consciously recognized by man through time, while reason itself, at the same time, pushes man forward to realize it. Vico subscribed to the concept of reason as a force that pushed man forward, causing him to progress. But where he disagreed with others is where Vico saw reason l ...
... that is slowly and consciously recognized by man through time, while reason itself, at the same time, pushes man forward to realize it. Vico subscribed to the concept of reason as a force that pushed man forward, causing him to progress. But where he disagreed with others is where Vico saw reason l ...
Ethical Encounter - sikkim university library
... We need a much richer language than this to articulate the moral seriousness of rape. It will have to be a language rich enough to reveal sexual love as capable of bearing deep significance, since the seriousness of rape must surely be defined by its relation to that significance. There is deep ambi ...
... We need a much richer language than this to articulate the moral seriousness of rape. It will have to be a language rich enough to reveal sexual love as capable of bearing deep significance, since the seriousness of rape must surely be defined by its relation to that significance. There is deep ambi ...
Ph 205 Historical Introduction to Philosophy
... the beholder or is there an objective standard? Aquinas & Existence of God: Should nonCatholic sources of knowledge be used in theology? ...
... the beholder or is there an objective standard? Aquinas & Existence of God: Should nonCatholic sources of knowledge be used in theology? ...
Merleau-Ponty`s transcendental theory of perception - SAS
... aim is to determine the kind of theory that is offered by Merleau-Ponty, I will not enter into detailed discussion of Merleau-Ponty's highly original treatments of particular topics in the theory of perception, such as sensation, spatial awareness, or the role of the body. Instead I will argue that ...
... aim is to determine the kind of theory that is offered by Merleau-Ponty, I will not enter into detailed discussion of Merleau-Ponty's highly original treatments of particular topics in the theory of perception, such as sensation, spatial awareness, or the role of the body. Instead I will argue that ...
Heidegger`s Method: Philosophical Concepts as Formal Indications
... To give them as much credit as possible, words possess only sufficient efficacy to remind us in order that we may seek things, but not to exhibit the things that we know by them. Augustine, ...
... To give them as much credit as possible, words possess only sufficient efficacy to remind us in order that we may seek things, but not to exhibit the things that we know by them. Augustine, ...
Intuition, Belief, and Rational Criticisability
... proposition is false is not the same as shedding a belief that it is true. A defender of Entailment can therefore insist that the person who learns the proof keeps her intuition—that is to say, her belief—that NCA is true, and also acquires the additional and contradictory belief that NCA is false. ...
... proposition is false is not the same as shedding a belief that it is true. A defender of Entailment can therefore insist that the person who learns the proof keeps her intuition—that is to say, her belief—that NCA is true, and also acquires the additional and contradictory belief that NCA is false. ...
Consciousness, Self and World: Husserl and the Phenomenological
... analysis of intentional content. Husserl, by contrast, certainly does offer an extremely nuanced conceptual arsenal in this respect, but his approach is often thought to be irremediably compromised by two problematic, and related, methodological commitments: (1) a form of ‘Cartesian’ content intern ...
... analysis of intentional content. Husserl, by contrast, certainly does offer an extremely nuanced conceptual arsenal in this respect, but his approach is often thought to be irremediably compromised by two problematic, and related, methodological commitments: (1) a form of ‘Cartesian’ content intern ...
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 ...
quine`s argument from despair
... According to Quine, the classical empiricists failed in both respects. On the conceptual side of epistemology, Locke, Berkeley, and Hume were unable to indicate how our complex ideas about the world can be constructed out of indubitable simple ones; defining even the very notion of an enduring phys ...
... According to Quine, the classical empiricists failed in both respects. On the conceptual side of epistemology, Locke, Berkeley, and Hume were unable to indicate how our complex ideas about the world can be constructed out of indubitable simple ones; defining even the very notion of an enduring phys ...
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.