5 derrida`s critique of husserl and the philosophy of presence
... from the reduction to a particular “doctrine”, but rather, from the demands of a unitary conception, specifically from the demands imposed by the epistemological and metaphysical determinations of presence. Precisely what this value of presence consists in, how it operates as an axiomatic prejudice ...
... from the reduction to a particular “doctrine”, but rather, from the demands of a unitary conception, specifically from the demands imposed by the epistemological and metaphysical determinations of presence. Precisely what this value of presence consists in, how it operates as an axiomatic prejudice ...
Overview - Course Materials
... reason allows human beings to make the laws that they will follow. The inherent dignity of being human is having reason, which makes us “free with regard to all laws of nature” (435). In section I, Kant looks at the ordinary conceptions of morality to see if he can derive the fundamental principal o ...
... reason allows human beings to make the laws that they will follow. The inherent dignity of being human is having reason, which makes us “free with regard to all laws of nature” (435). In section I, Kant looks at the ordinary conceptions of morality to see if he can derive the fundamental principal o ...
- Philsci-Archive
... positivism and Bohr’s thoughts on complementarity, although he was dissatisfied with the way Bohr articulated them. Neurath also hinted at his own analogy according to which knowledge is like a boat in open sea. It is impossible to change all the beams at once, but one can change one plank at a time ...
... positivism and Bohr’s thoughts on complementarity, although he was dissatisfied with the way Bohr articulated them. Neurath also hinted at his own analogy according to which knowledge is like a boat in open sea. It is impossible to change all the beams at once, but one can change one plank at a time ...
1.Kant`s Account of the Unity
... The fourth and final section of the first chapter will deal with the various attempts to interpret Kant's transcendental self in a physical way - either by saying that the awareness of this "I" is nothing else than the awareness of one's own body, or by trying to give a neurological explanation of t ...
... The fourth and final section of the first chapter will deal with the various attempts to interpret Kant's transcendental self in a physical way - either by saying that the awareness of this "I" is nothing else than the awareness of one's own body, or by trying to give a neurological explanation of t ...
1929 Davos Disputation - The Dallas Philosophers Forum
... I would like to pull back from the fray and elucidate what I see as the most significant underlying issue that all the other treatments I have seen of the debate overlook. We have to go below the surface and compare the respective readings of Kant from Cassirer’s Philosophy of Symbolic Forms and fro ...
... I would like to pull back from the fray and elucidate what I see as the most significant underlying issue that all the other treatments I have seen of the debate overlook. We have to go below the surface and compare the respective readings of Kant from Cassirer’s Philosophy of Symbolic Forms and fro ...
Irwin`s Routledge Encyclopedia article on Aristotle
... disciplines, Aristotle describes a universal ‘science of being qua being’, the concern of the Metaphysics. Part of this universal science examines the foundations of inquiry into nature. Aristotle formulates his doctrine of substance, which he explains through the connected contrasts between form an ...
... disciplines, Aristotle describes a universal ‘science of being qua being’, the concern of the Metaphysics. Part of this universal science examines the foundations of inquiry into nature. Aristotle formulates his doctrine of substance, which he explains through the connected contrasts between form an ...
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 ...
12 Substances
... be, and which persists in the result” (I.8 192a31). But if matter is the subject that persists through change, then it has the feature that Aristotle said at Categories 4a10 was “most distinctive” of substances. And since matter is also the primary subject of predication (“the predicates other than ...
... be, and which persists in the result” (I.8 192a31). But if matter is the subject that persists through change, then it has the feature that Aristotle said at Categories 4a10 was “most distinctive” of substances. And since matter is also the primary subject of predication (“the predicates other than ...
Is Structural Spacetime Realism Relationism in Disguise
... For instance, if mass, spin and charge could be legitimately regarded as intrinsic properties of elementary particles, ontic structural realism as I presented it would be automatically refuted. Prima facie, it is hard to see why these should not qualify as bona fide intrinsic property of particles, ...
... For instance, if mass, spin and charge could be legitimately regarded as intrinsic properties of elementary particles, ontic structural realism as I presented it would be automatically refuted. Prima facie, it is hard to see why these should not qualify as bona fide intrinsic property of particles, ...
Proposal for Progress
... observed through the passing of time (seasons, days, lunar cycles, and solar cycles) and the continual rebirth of the life-giving or cosmogonic act.12 What does the history of apocalypse narrative tell us about the development in western thought of a consciousness of crisis more generally? Ritualis ...
... observed through the passing of time (seasons, days, lunar cycles, and solar cycles) and the continual rebirth of the life-giving or cosmogonic act.12 What does the history of apocalypse narrative tell us about the development in western thought of a consciousness of crisis more generally? Ritualis ...
problemsofphilosophy
... he is no match for Philonous, who mercilessly drives him into contradictions and paradoxes, and makes his own denial of matter seem, in the end, as if it were almost common sense. The arguments employed are of very different value: some are important and sound, others are confused or quibbling. But ...
... he is no match for Philonous, who mercilessly drives him into contradictions and paradoxes, and makes his own denial of matter seem, in the end, as if it were almost common sense. The arguments employed are of very different value: some are important and sound, others are confused or quibbling. But ...
The4 - Homestead
... was an innovation developed at the start of the present era and developed more or less simultaneously in both the European and the Indian spheres' of influence (and I suspect in the Chinese World as well). Not that the concept of the absolute was unknown to earlier philosophers but that with increas ...
... was an innovation developed at the start of the present era and developed more or less simultaneously in both the European and the Indian spheres' of influence (and I suspect in the Chinese World as well). Not that the concept of the absolute was unknown to earlier philosophers but that with increas ...
A Comparative Study of the Epistemology of Immanuel Kant and that
... we supposedly have no direct access and the knowledge of which we have no certainty. Consequently, there arises the epistemological problem of justifying the knowledge of the external reality. The controversy between Empiricism and Rationalism may be described as a problem of “determining how we can ...
... we supposedly have no direct access and the knowledge of which we have no certainty. Consequently, there arises the epistemological problem of justifying the knowledge of the external reality. The controversy between Empiricism and Rationalism may be described as a problem of “determining how we can ...
Session 1 Rationalism –v
... – What is the role of Reason (as opposed to perception, action etc.) in particular as to its relation to knowledge? – What is Rational (in contrast to irrational)? ...
... – What is the role of Reason (as opposed to perception, action etc.) in particular as to its relation to knowledge? – What is Rational (in contrast to irrational)? ...
MADER Whence Intensity? PREPRINT
... Of course, not all kinds of beings, for Aristotle, admit of “the more and the less.” Neither substances nor quantities do.xiv What kinds of beings admit of “the more and the less,” according to Aristotle? Some kinds of qualities do. The kinds of qualities that admit of the more and the less are: (i) ...
... Of course, not all kinds of beings, for Aristotle, admit of “the more and the less.” Neither substances nor quantities do.xiv What kinds of beings admit of “the more and the less,” according to Aristotle? Some kinds of qualities do. The kinds of qualities that admit of the more and the less are: (i) ...
A Vedantic Study Of "Cosmic Consciousness"
... Sanailutna Dharma or Hinduism has often been confused to be polytheistic b~t truthfully many of Hinduism's adherents are non- dualistic. The teachings VIew multiple manifestations or personalities of the one Bralimam, God. Hindus are essentially monists and they distinguish one unity with the person ...
... Sanailutna Dharma or Hinduism has often been confused to be polytheistic b~t truthfully many of Hinduism's adherents are non- dualistic. The teachings VIew multiple manifestations or personalities of the one Bralimam, God. Hindus are essentially monists and they distinguish one unity with the person ...
From Number Mysticism to the Maßformel:
... and, according to his own description, “entirely lacks the talent for mathematics”. This was the ground from which Fechner’s psychophysics was to emerge. From there, however, we have some more work to do until we can finally incorporate psychophysics into the tradition of Mathesis universalis. On ou ...
... and, according to his own description, “entirely lacks the talent for mathematics”. This was the ground from which Fechner’s psychophysics was to emerge. From there, however, we have some more work to do until we can finally incorporate psychophysics into the tradition of Mathesis universalis. On ou ...
EINSTEIN: PHILOSOPHICAL IDEAS
... that had been considered to be almost exclusively philosophical (indeed metaphysical for many), and moved them into the domain of science – at the same time giving answers to these questions which completely changed the way we looked at them. This is the popular view of Einstein’s work, and it is la ...
... that had been considered to be almost exclusively philosophical (indeed metaphysical for many), and moved them into the domain of science – at the same time giving answers to these questions which completely changed the way we looked at them. This is the popular view of Einstein’s work, and it is la ...
TAO of Manifestation - Village Design Institute
... be an influence in the world, and the Taoist sages will always be somewhere present, hidden from the scrutiny of ordinary people but still exerting a disproportionate influence on affairs by virtue of their intensely concentrated and focused internal center. There was even an official purging of Tao ...
... be an influence in the world, and the Taoist sages will always be somewhere present, hidden from the scrutiny of ordinary people but still exerting a disproportionate influence on affairs by virtue of their intensely concentrated and focused internal center. There was even an official purging of Tao ...
The Relevance of Kant's Objection to Anselm's Ontological Argument
... that (2) implies, contrary to the dictum, that existence is a real predicate. However, it is interesting to note, as Plantinga does, that there are interpretations of (2), which is a claim Anselm never elucidates, that can serve Anselm’s purposes but do not imply that existence is a real predicate. ...
... that (2) implies, contrary to the dictum, that existence is a real predicate. However, it is interesting to note, as Plantinga does, that there are interpretations of (2), which is a claim Anselm never elucidates, that can serve Anselm’s purposes but do not imply that existence is a real predicate. ...
A Theory of Properties
... entail platonism, that is a good reason to try to find out whether it in fact entails platonism—just as, if a theory might, for all anyone knows, entail a contradiction, that is a good reason to try to find out whether it in fact entails a contradiction. My thesis is no clearer than the term ‘abstra ...
... entail platonism, that is a good reason to try to find out whether it in fact entails platonism—just as, if a theory might, for all anyone knows, entail a contradiction, that is a good reason to try to find out whether it in fact entails a contradiction. My thesis is no clearer than the term ‘abstra ...
Behold the Non-Rabbit: Kant, Quine, Laruelle
... link between entity and unity, thereby guaranteeing the de-objectification and de-phenomenologisation of the singular. Implicit in this comparative analysis is the suggestion that the first aud secoud of these theses concerning individuation can be roughly correlated with certain more or less geueri ...
... link between entity and unity, thereby guaranteeing the de-objectification and de-phenomenologisation of the singular. Implicit in this comparative analysis is the suggestion that the first aud secoud of these theses concerning individuation can be roughly correlated with certain more or less geueri ...
Nietzsche Against the Philosophical Canon
... annex [their] morals and ideals onto nature” (BGE 9), but in doing so they are just exemplifying the general tendency of philosophers to invent a metaphysics that vindicates the philosopher’s values. As Nietzsche writes: “what happened back then with the Stoics still happens today, just as soon as p ...
... annex [their] morals and ideals onto nature” (BGE 9), but in doing so they are just exemplifying the general tendency of philosophers to invent a metaphysics that vindicates the philosopher’s values. As Nietzsche writes: “what happened back then with the Stoics still happens today, just as soon as p ...
reply to JJ Valberg - Keele Research Repository
... transcendent reality which we make sense of with an ultimately incoherent mixture of subjective and objective thinking. ...
... transcendent reality which we make sense of with an ultimately incoherent mixture of subjective and objective thinking. ...
Kant`s Pre-Critical Proof for God`s Existence
... Kant continued to lecture his entire academic career. It both criticizes and critically appropriates elements from that tradition in an attempt to work out a better theory of possibility than that on offer in those books. The failure of Kant (and his successors down to the twentieth century) to jus ...
... Kant continued to lecture his entire academic career. It both criticizes and critically appropriates elements from that tradition in an attempt to work out a better theory of possibility than that on offer in those books. The failure of Kant (and his successors down to the twentieth century) to jus ...