Book of Abstracts
... Words have content properties, and grammar is irrelevant to these – it doesn’t matter to the difference, say, between MAN and WOMAN. But words, based on their content properties, are also used for purposes of reference, and grammar is not irrelevant to that. Indeed, words (i) only have referential u ...
... Words have content properties, and grammar is irrelevant to these – it doesn’t matter to the difference, say, between MAN and WOMAN. But words, based on their content properties, are also used for purposes of reference, and grammar is not irrelevant to that. Indeed, words (i) only have referential u ...
Relativism and the Ontological Turn within Anthropology1
... relative to culture, epistemic historicism claims that knowledge is relative to historical period, and so on. Mere variation does not demonstrate relativism. Some cultures may express moral judgments different from ours, but perhaps those cultures are wrong. To generate a form of relativism, one mus ...
... relative to culture, epistemic historicism claims that knowledge is relative to historical period, and so on. Mere variation does not demonstrate relativism. Some cultures may express moral judgments different from ours, but perhaps those cultures are wrong. To generate a form of relativism, one mus ...
Modern Western Philosophy
... 18. Which one of the following statements adequately sums up Descartes’ philosophy? (a) Mind and matter are two aspects of the same reality (b) The world is made of two radically different kinds of substance, mind and matter. (c) Matter alone is real and mind is only an illusion. (d) Mind creates ma ...
... 18. Which one of the following statements adequately sums up Descartes’ philosophy? (a) Mind and matter are two aspects of the same reality (b) The world is made of two radically different kinds of substance, mind and matter. (c) Matter alone is real and mind is only an illusion. (d) Mind creates ma ...
Logic and Categories As Tools For Building Theories
... ‘pairing’ A ✛ C ✲ B offers a decomposition of C into components in A and B, at the level of arrows rather than elements. The fact that pairs are uniquely determined by their components is expressed in arrow-theoretic terms by the universal property of the product; the fact that for every candidate p ...
... ‘pairing’ A ✛ C ✲ B offers a decomposition of C into components in A and B, at the level of arrows rather than elements. The fact that pairs are uniquely determined by their components is expressed in arrow-theoretic terms by the universal property of the product; the fact that for every candidate p ...
No God, No Laws
... Worse, I don’t think there is any story that can be told. Abstract relations are not the kinds of things that can make other things happen; they are not the kinds of things that have powers. There is nothing internal to the relations themselves that can do the job. If these Platonic relations are t ...
... Worse, I don’t think there is any story that can be told. Abstract relations are not the kinds of things that can make other things happen; they are not the kinds of things that have powers. There is nothing internal to the relations themselves that can do the job. If these Platonic relations are t ...
Speaking of the Ineffable, East and West
... not only the state of the enlightened person after death, but ultimate reality itself. And one can see why that should be ineffable. To describe it would be to deploy concepts; but ultimate reality is exactly what is left, after all concepts have been removed. At any rate, we are back with our famil ...
... not only the state of the enlightened person after death, but ultimate reality itself. And one can see why that should be ineffable. To describe it would be to deploy concepts; but ultimate reality is exactly what is left, after all concepts have been removed. At any rate, we are back with our famil ...
Subject and Object
... provides, but to say what I mean, choosing among available words, all of which come each with its own different cloud of distracting connotations, associations, prejudices, and customary uses. So as a practical matter, for the sake of argument, let’s accept Gallagher’s stipulation and focus it by sa ...
... provides, but to say what I mean, choosing among available words, all of which come each with its own different cloud of distracting connotations, associations, prejudices, and customary uses. So as a practical matter, for the sake of argument, let’s accept Gallagher’s stipulation and focus it by sa ...
Subjects, Objects, Data and Values
... Thus began the controversy over Complementarity that continued for the rest of Bohr's live. It seems that I have heard about this famous schism all my life and wondered what it was about but never thought I would ever study it because I have no background in physics or mathematics. However, after my ...
... Thus began the controversy over Complementarity that continued for the rest of Bohr's live. It seems that I have heard about this famous schism all my life and wondered what it was about but never thought I would ever study it because I have no background in physics or mathematics. However, after my ...
Fallacies
... Now M is PC-invalid and QT-valid, hence valid. This is asymmetry: reconstruction rules have no backward reflecting property with respect to invalidity. (Note how the asymmetry is reversed between showing validity and invalidity from the semantic definitions Def V and Def IV.) So there is no formal t ...
... Now M is PC-invalid and QT-valid, hence valid. This is asymmetry: reconstruction rules have no backward reflecting property with respect to invalidity. (Note how the asymmetry is reversed between showing validity and invalidity from the semantic definitions Def V and Def IV.) So there is no formal t ...
How to Make Sense of Quantum Mechanics (and - Philsci
... There is a basic philosophical question that involves physics, metaphysics, and epistemology: can we describe what the world is like through a fundamental physical theory? This question corresponds to the historic disagreement between scientific realists and antirealists. The position of the antirea ...
... There is a basic philosophical question that involves physics, metaphysics, and epistemology: can we describe what the world is like through a fundamental physical theory? This question corresponds to the historic disagreement between scientific realists and antirealists. The position of the antirea ...
BL5-13 - Additional Information
... Of Hartley's hypothetical vibrations in his hypothetical oscillating ether of the nerves, which is the first and most obvious distinction between his system and that of Aristotle, I shall say little. This, with all other similar attempts to render that an object of the sight which has no relation t ...
... Of Hartley's hypothetical vibrations in his hypothetical oscillating ether of the nerves, which is the first and most obvious distinction between his system and that of Aristotle, I shall say little. This, with all other similar attempts to render that an object of the sight which has no relation t ...
Essence and Modality
... metaphysics has really come into its own. For with the advent of quantified modal logic, philosophers have been in a better position to formulate essentialist claims; and with clarification of the underlying modal notions, they have been better able to ascertain their truth. These developments have ...
... metaphysics has really come into its own. For with the advent of quantified modal logic, philosophers have been in a better position to formulate essentialist claims; and with clarification of the underlying modal notions, they have been better able to ascertain their truth. These developments have ...
Absolute Truth - Tom Parnelle.Com
... have they become angry? What basis do they have for their anger? You can't be appalled by an injustice, or anything else for that matter, unless an absolute has somehow been violated. Relativists often argue, "Everybody can believe whatever they want!" It makes us wonder, why are they arguing? We fi ...
... have they become angry? What basis do they have for their anger? You can't be appalled by an injustice, or anything else for that matter, unless an absolute has somehow been violated. Relativists often argue, "Everybody can believe whatever they want!" It makes us wonder, why are they arguing? We fi ...
Berkeley Reading
... of two principal powers, marked by the names will and understanding, distinct from each other as well as from a third idea of Substance or Being in general, with a relative notion of its supporting or being the subject of the aforesaid powers—which is signified by the name soul or spirit. This is wh ...
... of two principal powers, marked by the names will and understanding, distinct from each other as well as from a third idea of Substance or Being in general, with a relative notion of its supporting or being the subject of the aforesaid powers—which is signified by the name soul or spirit. This is wh ...
Concepts and Objects
... ontological understanding of how things can be said to be. The metaphysical investigation of being cannot be collapsed into a hermeneutical interpretation of the being of the investigator and the different ways in which the latter understands things to be. Although metaphysical investigation cannot ...
... ontological understanding of how things can be said to be. The metaphysical investigation of being cannot be collapsed into a hermeneutical interpretation of the being of the investigator and the different ways in which the latter understands things to be. Although metaphysical investigation cannot ...
On the Possibility of Feminist Philosophy of Physics
... interpretation, before the first measurement occurs in our scenario, the wave function of the particle is in a superposition of being spin-upx and being spin-downx; that is, the particle is, in some sense, simultaneously in these two states. The oddness of superposition is popularly exemplified by Sch ...
... interpretation, before the first measurement occurs in our scenario, the wave function of the particle is in a superposition of being spin-upx and being spin-downx; that is, the particle is, in some sense, simultaneously in these two states. The oddness of superposition is popularly exemplified by Sch ...
Problems Of Metaphysical Philosophy
... The word problem as used in this context is a noun and it could mean difficulty, puzzle or question to which answer or solution has to be given. When we therefore speak of the problems of metaphysical philosophy we have in mind those recurrent issues in metaphysics which border on human existence an ...
... The word problem as used in this context is a noun and it could mean difficulty, puzzle or question to which answer or solution has to be given. When we therefore speak of the problems of metaphysical philosophy we have in mind those recurrent issues in metaphysics which border on human existence an ...
Big Questions Affirmative Evidence
... world. However, this is being challenged by researchers around the world. In fact, just this year a team of physicists (Gerlich et al, Nature Communications 2:263, 2011) showed that quantum weirdness also occurs in the human-scale world. They studied huge compounds composed of up to 430 atoms, and c ...
... world. However, this is being challenged by researchers around the world. In fact, just this year a team of physicists (Gerlich et al, Nature Communications 2:263, 2011) showed that quantum weirdness also occurs in the human-scale world. They studied huge compounds composed of up to 430 atoms, and c ...
Heidegger - tools analysis
... concern with objects themselves—and in so doing to open a route for a realist metaphysics that will incorporate the phenomenological critique of naïve realism. Striking claims, but backed up with scholarly thoroughness: Dr. Harman has read every published volume of the Gesamtausgabe in the original ...
... concern with objects themselves—and in so doing to open a route for a realist metaphysics that will incorporate the phenomenological critique of naïve realism. Striking claims, but backed up with scholarly thoroughness: Dr. Harman has read every published volume of the Gesamtausgabe in the original ...
Chapter 2 Metaphysics, Fideism, Speculation
... make proper use of my understanding; that is to say, when I reason through clear and distinct ideas. 3. It seems to me that there exist outside me bodies of which I possess a distinct idea when I attribute to them nothing but threedimensional extension. Consequently, the latter must effectively exis ...
... make proper use of my understanding; that is to say, when I reason through clear and distinct ideas. 3. It seems to me that there exist outside me bodies of which I possess a distinct idea when I attribute to them nothing but threedimensional extension. Consequently, the latter must effectively exis ...
Handout
... traditional definition of truth (accepted by philosophers as disparate as Aristotle, the medievals, Descartes, and Kant) is the agreement, or correspondence, of an idea with its object. Of course, everything depends on what this “agreement”, or “correspondence” (“adaequatio” in Latin), consists in. ...
... traditional definition of truth (accepted by philosophers as disparate as Aristotle, the medievals, Descartes, and Kant) is the agreement, or correspondence, of an idea with its object. Of course, everything depends on what this “agreement”, or “correspondence” (“adaequatio” in Latin), consists in. ...
Thales and the Atomic Theory
... Thales and the atomic theory: • Aristotle: according to Thales the earth is superimposed upon water • Thales: the primary building blocks of all things to be water. • Therefore, he thought “things” as varying forms of one primary and ultimate element. • Of course, today we know that his ideas about ...
... Thales and the atomic theory: • Aristotle: according to Thales the earth is superimposed upon water • Thales: the primary building blocks of all things to be water. • Therefore, he thought “things” as varying forms of one primary and ultimate element. • Of course, today we know that his ideas about ...
24.251 Lecture 2: Meaning and reference
... person exists? No, for then it would be false, and it is not false either. It presupposes there is such a person (p. 224). A sentence’s presuppositions are the conditions that it has to meet to get a truth value at all.) What account can now be given of negative existentials? ‘Odysseus doesn’t exis ...
... person exists? No, for then it would be false, and it is not false either. It presupposes there is such a person (p. 224). A sentence’s presuppositions are the conditions that it has to meet to get a truth value at all.) What account can now be given of negative existentials? ‘Odysseus doesn’t exis ...
Polkinghorne and Cartwright on Pluralism and Metaphysics
... instantiate natural laws are highly atypical, and do not represent the bulk of natural phenomena. Cartwright has developed an extended argument about the scenarios in which laws of nature are instantiated, calling those pattern-generating systems ‘nomological machines,’ and describing how, with a fe ...
... instantiate natural laws are highly atypical, and do not represent the bulk of natural phenomena. Cartwright has developed an extended argument about the scenarios in which laws of nature are instantiated, calling those pattern-generating systems ‘nomological machines,’ and describing how, with a fe ...
1 - PhilPapers
... philosophical scene who claims to know something about entities spatiotemporally isolated from us. Famously, it is also a practice of philosophers of mathematics to nontrivially consider the realm on (abstract) entities being in no relevant relation to us. They treat numbers, classes, sets or functi ...
... philosophical scene who claims to know something about entities spatiotemporally isolated from us. Famously, it is also a practice of philosophers of mathematics to nontrivially consider the realm on (abstract) entities being in no relevant relation to us. They treat numbers, classes, sets or functi ...