File - Oliver Pooley
... current experience supervenes on a particular temporally extended section of one’s worldtube, one might adopt the view that one is, ultimately, simply that very segment, and further adopt (by analogy with a counterpart-theoretic notion of trans-world ‘identity’ in the context of modality) a counterp ...
... current experience supervenes on a particular temporally extended section of one’s worldtube, one might adopt the view that one is, ultimately, simply that very segment, and further adopt (by analogy with a counterpart-theoretic notion of trans-world ‘identity’ in the context of modality) a counterp ...
EECS 690
... A moral agent must be able to have chosen otherwise than she did. (AP) The moral agent must be ultimately responsible for her decisions (UR) - For AP: Consider Martin Luther, “Here I stand, I can do no other”. Whatever he is doing here, he is not trying to duck responsibility. Also consider what has ...
... A moral agent must be able to have chosen otherwise than she did. (AP) The moral agent must be ultimately responsible for her decisions (UR) - For AP: Consider Martin Luther, “Here I stand, I can do no other”. Whatever he is doing here, he is not trying to duck responsibility. Also consider what has ...
LECTURE 2: APOLOGETICS AND PHILOSOPHY
... The thrust of philosophy and its subdivisions, and its usefulness for students, have been well explained in this excerpt from a local college catalog: Philosophy, often called the mother of the sciences, is the oldest academic discipline. Such fields as physics and politics have their origins in it, ...
... The thrust of philosophy and its subdivisions, and its usefulness for students, have been well explained in this excerpt from a local college catalog: Philosophy, often called the mother of the sciences, is the oldest academic discipline. Such fields as physics and politics have their origins in it, ...
Mike Maxim
... then is God, and the God is similar to humans. The error in this proof was most famously brought to light by Hume in his Concerning Natural Religion. If, like Hume and those proving God’s existence, we consider God as an all-knowing, all-powerful, and all-good being then we run into serious problems ...
... then is God, and the God is similar to humans. The error in this proof was most famously brought to light by Hume in his Concerning Natural Religion. If, like Hume and those proving God’s existence, we consider God as an all-knowing, all-powerful, and all-good being then we run into serious problems ...
MORAL PHILOSOPHY (Philo 12) - Law, Politics, and Philosophy
... thinker, philosophy is the study of the ultimate principles and causes of things using human reason alone. It is a science that provides a systematic and clear account of what is deemed important in the world, such as questions pertaining to reality and human existence. It asks the basis for the rat ...
... thinker, philosophy is the study of the ultimate principles and causes of things using human reason alone. It is a science that provides a systematic and clear account of what is deemed important in the world, such as questions pertaining to reality and human existence. It asks the basis for the rat ...
Ludwig Andreas von Feuerbach (July 28, 1804 – September 13
... Thus God is nothing else than man: he is, so to speak, the outward projection of man's inward nature. This projection is dubbed as a chimaera by Feuerbach, that God and the idea of a higher being is dependent upon the aspect of benevolence. Feuerbach states that, “a God who is not benevolent, not ju ...
... Thus God is nothing else than man: he is, so to speak, the outward projection of man's inward nature. This projection is dubbed as a chimaera by Feuerbach, that God and the idea of a higher being is dependent upon the aspect of benevolence. Feuerbach states that, “a God who is not benevolent, not ju ...
Advances in Environmental Biology Mohammad Rezaei Afkham
... David Hium was born in 1711 in Scotland and wrote the essay about human nature at the age of 28 and dies at the age of 65 years old [2]. His perspective was against Leibniz and he denied obtaining knowledge through wisdom since wisdom cannot act without imagination and imagination can only obtained ...
... David Hium was born in 1711 in Scotland and wrote the essay about human nature at the age of 28 and dies at the age of 65 years old [2]. His perspective was against Leibniz and he denied obtaining knowledge through wisdom since wisdom cannot act without imagination and imagination can only obtained ...
Early Greek Thought and Perspectives for the - Philsci
... does not imply the “unreality” of the things we experience, it states our absolute interconnectedness with the world we experience. Tradition transmitted as its counterpart the Eleatic school, named after its inspirator Parmenides of Elea. Of him more extant textfragments are known, although there r ...
... does not imply the “unreality” of the things we experience, it states our absolute interconnectedness with the world we experience. Tradition transmitted as its counterpart the Eleatic school, named after its inspirator Parmenides of Elea. Of him more extant textfragments are known, although there r ...
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 ...
Answers to Practice Quiz #3 - Langara iWeb
... (ii) Explain why even property dualism sets a limit to the extent that neuroscience will ever understand the mind. Neuroscience can only understand the physical properties of the brain. The nonphysical aspects cannot be studied scientifically. ...
... (ii) Explain why even property dualism sets a limit to the extent that neuroscience will ever understand the mind. Neuroscience can only understand the physical properties of the brain. The nonphysical aspects cannot be studied scientifically. ...
Plato
... There is also intelligent ignorance, as when someone does not know X and acknowledges forthrightly that he does not know it, etc. More thought is needed on this matter…. However, Plato’s view of ignorance as having non-being (nothingness) as its object does not seem correct (or at least not ...
... There is also intelligent ignorance, as when someone does not know X and acknowledges forthrightly that he does not know it, etc. More thought is needed on this matter…. However, Plato’s view of ignorance as having non-being (nothingness) as its object does not seem correct (or at least not ...
Plato
... There is also intelligent ignorance, as when someone does not know X and acknowledges forthrightly that he does not know it, etc. More thought is needed on this matter…. However, Plato's view of ignorance as having non-being (nothingness) as its object does not seem correct (or at least not ...
... There is also intelligent ignorance, as when someone does not know X and acknowledges forthrightly that he does not know it, etc. More thought is needed on this matter…. However, Plato's view of ignorance as having non-being (nothingness) as its object does not seem correct (or at least not ...
May – What is the Nature of `Self`
... WHAT IS THE NATURE OF ‘SELF’? Today we have a whole industry devoted to self-improvement and self-construction. But what is the ‘self’? Does it change over time? What does this mean for personal responsibility and indeed our own happiness and contentment? The Abrahamic superstitions are very clear t ...
... WHAT IS THE NATURE OF ‘SELF’? Today we have a whole industry devoted to self-improvement and self-construction. But what is the ‘self’? Does it change over time? What does this mean for personal responsibility and indeed our own happiness and contentment? The Abrahamic superstitions are very clear t ...
Dewey Experience and Philosophic Method
... luminous to us, and make our dealings with them more fruitful?” 463 In illustrating the meaning of empirical method we must recognize that the term “experience” means not only what men do, suffer, strive for, love, believe, and endure, but also how they do all these things, the processes of experie ...
... luminous to us, and make our dealings with them more fruitful?” 463 In illustrating the meaning of empirical method we must recognize that the term “experience” means not only what men do, suffer, strive for, love, believe, and endure, but also how they do all these things, the processes of experie ...
The present as an empirically testable hypothesis: a case study in
... Newton’s physics. Next, I argue that if, in Newton’s physics, we ground ontological unity in the dynamical laws, the core thesis of presentism survives the transition to Minkowski spacetime without entailing “pluralistic solipsism”, and without requiring that we reject P2. Moreover, once unity is gr ...
... Newton’s physics. Next, I argue that if, in Newton’s physics, we ground ontological unity in the dynamical laws, the core thesis of presentism survives the transition to Minkowski spacetime without entailing “pluralistic solipsism”, and without requiring that we reject P2. Moreover, once unity is gr ...
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... context is that as a result of having spent four years in the Greats course my career was retarded relative to theirs (for example, I got my doctorate at the age of 26 rather than the 23 which was in those days normal for British candidates). Nevertheless, it has never for one minute occurred to me ...
... context is that as a result of having spent four years in the Greats course my career was retarded relative to theirs (for example, I got my doctorate at the age of 26 rather than the 23 which was in those days normal for British candidates). Nevertheless, it has never for one minute occurred to me ...
Philosophy of Science
... “Experience is of two kinds. One is through the external senses: such are the experiments that are made upon the heaven through instruments in regard to facts there, and the facts on earth that we prove in various ways to be certain in our own sight. And facts that are not true in places where we ar ...
... “Experience is of two kinds. One is through the external senses: such are the experiments that are made upon the heaven through instruments in regard to facts there, and the facts on earth that we prove in various ways to be certain in our own sight. And facts that are not true in places where we ar ...
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Peirce What Pragmatism Is [DOC]
... or denial of a concept could imply, one will have therein a complete definition of the concept…” 4. This is pragmatism, which in Kant’s language expresses some relation to some definite human purpose. 5. So the new theory recognizes connection between rational cognition and rational purpose. 6. On p ...
... or denial of a concept could imply, one will have therein a complete definition of the concept…” 4. This is pragmatism, which in Kant’s language expresses some relation to some definite human purpose. 5. So the new theory recognizes connection between rational cognition and rational purpose. 6. On p ...
Preface to Chapter 1, (on Realism and Mind as a Non
... to properly and adequately frame it. This ambiguity is pretty much admitted by all parties. I believe it is a consequence of the lack of an adequate underlying conceptual framework, and not because of a lack of substance to the problems themselves. It is only when an adequate substrate theory has be ...
... to properly and adequately frame it. This ambiguity is pretty much admitted by all parties. I believe it is a consequence of the lack of an adequate underlying conceptual framework, and not because of a lack of substance to the problems themselves. It is only when an adequate substrate theory has be ...
Descartes vision of Philosophy Methodic Doubt and the Cogito
... about a really existing world. Science’s methodology and object now have a “metaphysical” guarantee. Science has also been reconciled with religious belief. [Cf On Descartes, pg 51.] ...
... about a really existing world. Science’s methodology and object now have a “metaphysical” guarantee. Science has also been reconciled with religious belief. [Cf On Descartes, pg 51.] ...
Review of Philosophers of Nothingness: An Essay on the Kyoto School
... that he suggests that Kyoto School philosophy constitutes a chapter in the history of Western philosophy. In this respect he states that the Kyoto School is as influential as that of the neo-Kantians, who are credited with breaking with German Idealism and emphasizing the importance of empirical rat ...
... that he suggests that Kyoto School philosophy constitutes a chapter in the history of Western philosophy. In this respect he states that the Kyoto School is as influential as that of the neo-Kantians, who are credited with breaking with German Idealism and emphasizing the importance of empirical rat ...
New Pragmatism
... Rorty: “For pragmatists, ‘truth’ is just the name of a property which all true statements share” Contingency Dewey: The main idea of contingency is that of an “open universe in which uncertainty, choice, hypotheses, novelties and possibilities are naturalized” (Characters and Events 440). Rorty: “[W ...
... Rorty: “For pragmatists, ‘truth’ is just the name of a property which all true statements share” Contingency Dewey: The main idea of contingency is that of an “open universe in which uncertainty, choice, hypotheses, novelties and possibilities are naturalized” (Characters and Events 440). Rorty: “[W ...
Synopsis - PhilPapers
... The clamour for scientific reasoning in philosophy is born out of a belief that scientific reasoning is infallible and universal. This paper argues that while scientific reasoning is infallible, it is so only with regard to the objects of knowledge in science. And because objects of knowledge are no ...
... The clamour for scientific reasoning in philosophy is born out of a belief that scientific reasoning is infallible and universal. This paper argues that while scientific reasoning is infallible, it is so only with regard to the objects of knowledge in science. And because objects of knowledge are no ...
continental rationalism and British empiricism
... and Nature are identified. God is no longer the transcendent creator of the universe who rules it via providence, but Nature itself, understood as an infinite, necessary, and fully deterministic system of which humans are a part. Humans find happiness only through a rational understanding of this sy ...
... and Nature are identified. God is no longer the transcendent creator of the universe who rules it via providence, but Nature itself, understood as an infinite, necessary, and fully deterministic system of which humans are a part. Humans find happiness only through a rational understanding of this sy ...
Averroes - The Incoherence of the Incoherence
... The Ash‘arites have taken over from the Stoics their epistemology, their sensationalism, their nominalism, their materialism. Some details of this epistemology are given by Ghazali in his autobiography: the clearness of representations is the criterion for their truth; the soul at birth is a blank ...
... The Ash‘arites have taken over from the Stoics their epistemology, their sensationalism, their nominalism, their materialism. Some details of this epistemology are given by Ghazali in his autobiography: the clearness of representations is the criterion for their truth; the soul at birth is a blank ...