Determinism - The Information Philosopher
... Despite the fact that quantum physics seems to have shown that the microscopic world at least is ontologically indeterministic, the critics of quantum theory, who have developed several alternative “interpretations” of quantum mechanics, are equally divided into those who accept the indeterminism an ...
... Despite the fact that quantum physics seems to have shown that the microscopic world at least is ontologically indeterministic, the critics of quantum theory, who have developed several alternative “interpretations” of quantum mechanics, are equally divided into those who accept the indeterminism an ...
A reply on Spinoza`s behalf
... “whatever we desire and do of which we are the cause insofar as we have the idea of God’ (E4p37s1). Because he simultaneously naturalizes divinity and divinizes nature in a single infinitely expressive substance, he effectively reinterprets science itself as the highest form of religion. A second ques ...
... “whatever we desire and do of which we are the cause insofar as we have the idea of God’ (E4p37s1). Because he simultaneously naturalizes divinity and divinizes nature in a single infinitely expressive substance, he effectively reinterprets science itself as the highest form of religion. A second ques ...
SOME MAIN PROBLEMS OF PHILOSOPHY
... whole range of philosophy. But this is not at all an easy thing to do. It is not easy, because, when you come to look into the matter, you find that philosophers have in fact discussed an immense variety of different sorts of questions ; and it is very difficult to give any general ...
... whole range of philosophy. But this is not at all an easy thing to do. It is not easy, because, when you come to look into the matter, you find that philosophers have in fact discussed an immense variety of different sorts of questions ; and it is very difficult to give any general ...
ESSENTIALISM IN PARMENIDES OF ELEA
... permanent – temporary, real – unreal, true – untrue, and what have you. Such epithets also manifest essentialism (Hallett 1991). Notwithstanding, Parmenides avers that such oppositions are ‘opposite in appearance’, ‘mere names’, ‘a deceitful ordering of words’, which have no real existence whatsoeve ...
... permanent – temporary, real – unreal, true – untrue, and what have you. Such epithets also manifest essentialism (Hallett 1991). Notwithstanding, Parmenides avers that such oppositions are ‘opposite in appearance’, ‘mere names’, ‘a deceitful ordering of words’, which have no real existence whatsoeve ...
Lecture notes on Immanuel Kant
... Kant arrived at these conclusions will be explored in this series of lectures. 3. The Nature of Knowledge Another word which is given only an approximate English translation is Understanding from the German ‘Verstand’. Kant intended this word to refer simply to the use of reason and concepts in know ...
... Kant arrived at these conclusions will be explored in this series of lectures. 3. The Nature of Knowledge Another word which is given only an approximate English translation is Understanding from the German ‘Verstand’. Kant intended this word to refer simply to the use of reason and concepts in know ...
ABSOLUTE - Polskie Towarzystwo Tomasza z Akwinu
... whole perceives, the whole hears". "But without effort it sets in motion all things by mind and thought". "It always abides in the same place, not moved at all, nor is it fitting that it should move from one place to another" (Diels-Kranz 11 B 24-26). Parmenides introduced some new aspects into the ...
... whole perceives, the whole hears". "But without effort it sets in motion all things by mind and thought". "It always abides in the same place, not moved at all, nor is it fitting that it should move from one place to another" (Diels-Kranz 11 B 24-26). Parmenides introduced some new aspects into the ...
Conceptions of Determinism in Radical Behaviorism
... Nevin (1991) and Baum (1994) have also uttered statements that appear to be compatible with metaphysical determinism. Nevin (1991), for instance, has made clear: “According to the most central tenets of our creed, all behavior is determined by genetic and environmental processes” (p. 36). Similarly, ...
... Nevin (1991) and Baum (1994) have also uttered statements that appear to be compatible with metaphysical determinism. Nevin (1991), for instance, has made clear: “According to the most central tenets of our creed, all behavior is determined by genetic and environmental processes” (p. 36). Similarly, ...
Laruelle, Art, and the Scientific Model
... philosophy of Louis Althusser, in order that some of the consequences for an 'aesthetics of the generic' (or what for Laruelle would be a Non-aesthetics) might be made intelligible for artistic practice, and also because it will help to understand how Laruelle establishes the 'generic science' of No ...
... philosophy of Louis Althusser, in order that some of the consequences for an 'aesthetics of the generic' (or what for Laruelle would be a Non-aesthetics) might be made intelligible for artistic practice, and also because it will help to understand how Laruelle establishes the 'generic science' of No ...
"Meat Thinks" Talk Notes
... kinds of being, why does consciousness change when I put LSD into my body? Why do people with brain damage (e.g., people with Alzheimer’s disease) have any loss of normal consciousness? ...
... kinds of being, why does consciousness change when I put LSD into my body? Why do people with brain damage (e.g., people with Alzheimer’s disease) have any loss of normal consciousness? ...
DERRIDA/CIXOUS, CIXOUS/DERRIDA Prof. Claire Colebrook
... wrote philosophy and died. This approach to a philosopher’s life, when we are doing philosophy, is in accord with the body of Derrida’s own work. Derrida will attend to seemingly irrelevant textual details, such as metaphor, example, excuse, misquotation or sounds, but he makes little mention of bio ...
... wrote philosophy and died. This approach to a philosopher’s life, when we are doing philosophy, is in accord with the body of Derrida’s own work. Derrida will attend to seemingly irrelevant textual details, such as metaphor, example, excuse, misquotation or sounds, but he makes little mention of bio ...
Neo-Fregeanism and Quantifier Variance
... way. First, the issues at stake in the about whether ‘the number of Fs’ is a singular term will simply reappear in debate about whether the left-hand side of instances of the biconditional satisfy semantic compositionality and penetrability by quantifiers. For neo-Fregeans, all it takes for somethin ...
... way. First, the issues at stake in the about whether ‘the number of Fs’ is a singular term will simply reappear in debate about whether the left-hand side of instances of the biconditional satisfy semantic compositionality and penetrability by quantifiers. For neo-Fregeans, all it takes for somethin ...
Knowledge and Reality in the Vedanta School with emphasis on
... and so each relation has two directions. Here a number of questions arise: Are all the relations of the same kind? Are they of the same kind in each of the directions? If the three relations are of different kinds, what is the nature of the directions? If each relation is different in its directions ...
... and so each relation has two directions. Here a number of questions arise: Are all the relations of the same kind? Are they of the same kind in each of the directions? If the three relations are of different kinds, what is the nature of the directions? If each relation is different in its directions ...
5. Conformism and analytic philosophy[11]
... bringing these paradigms before the mind was not to provide an occasion for critical reflection, but merely to provide models to be imitated. It is against this backdrop, Havelock argues, that we are to understand the direction philosophy took in its early years, from the pre-Socratics through Plato ...
... bringing these paradigms before the mind was not to provide an occasion for critical reflection, but merely to provide models to be imitated. It is against this backdrop, Havelock argues, that we are to understand the direction philosophy took in its early years, from the pre-Socratics through Plato ...
Introduction - davidhume.org
... Galileo and Descartes between them established a new way of understanding the physical world, replacing purposive strivings (what Aristotle had called ‘final’ causes) by mathematically formulated laws framed exclusively in terms of mechanical, ‘efficient’ causation. The new science took bodies to be ...
... Galileo and Descartes between them established a new way of understanding the physical world, replacing purposive strivings (what Aristotle had called ‘final’ causes) by mathematically formulated laws framed exclusively in terms of mechanical, ‘efficient’ causation. The new science took bodies to be ...
The Importance of Being Earnest: Scepticism and the Limits of
... can appreciate them almost immediately. In others, like Locke, Kant and Peirce himself, both tension and resources tend to lay in the background, not so much because they are felt to be less urgent, but rather because they come to be concealed from the reader’s immediate view by logically subsequent ...
... can appreciate them almost immediately. In others, like Locke, Kant and Peirce himself, both tension and resources tend to lay in the background, not so much because they are felt to be less urgent, but rather because they come to be concealed from the reader’s immediate view by logically subsequent ...
Fall 2015 - The American Philosophical Association
... relations. Kant, on his view, sees that things exist only in relation to consciousness in some sense, but Bradley completes this ascent. He does so, on Mukerji’s view, by arguing that the identity of any thing is constituted by its relations to everything else, and hence that relations are essential ...
... relations. Kant, on his view, sees that things exist only in relation to consciousness in some sense, but Bradley completes this ascent. He does so, on Mukerji’s view, by arguing that the identity of any thing is constituted by its relations to everything else, and hence that relations are essential ...
Philosophy as Dependable Analysis:
... all "do" concurrently with all (or most) of the other activities we do. And so in trying to distinguish philosophy as a particular kind of activity, we have simply come full circle to affirm that philosophy is one kind of intellectual pursuit. Why does our attempt to define what a philosopher does s ...
... all "do" concurrently with all (or most) of the other activities we do. And so in trying to distinguish philosophy as a particular kind of activity, we have simply come full circle to affirm that philosophy is one kind of intellectual pursuit. Why does our attempt to define what a philosopher does s ...
MARTIN HEIDEGGER Being, Beings, and Truth
... Heidegger believes that consciousness of decontextualized objects (“de-worlded” objects) can only make sense against a background of a very different, more “primordial” kind of understanding—what the analytic philosopher Gilbert Ryle called “knowing-how” rather than “knowing-that”. Actually, Dasein ...
... Heidegger believes that consciousness of decontextualized objects (“de-worlded” objects) can only make sense against a background of a very different, more “primordial” kind of understanding—what the analytic philosopher Gilbert Ryle called “knowing-how” rather than “knowing-that”. Actually, Dasein ...
The Value Question in Metaphysics
... Axiology as a Guide to Metaphysics What is true is one thing, what we want, or take to be bad, another. If our preferences or value beliefs do influence our beliefs, this is an epistemic vice, something to resist. Wishful thinking is a constant danger, disinterested belief often an achievement. Ther ...
... Axiology as a Guide to Metaphysics What is true is one thing, what we want, or take to be bad, another. If our preferences or value beliefs do influence our beliefs, this is an epistemic vice, something to resist. Wishful thinking is a constant danger, disinterested belief often an achievement. Ther ...
Has Science Established that the Cosmos is Physically
... a part of scientific knowledge independently of evidence. Granted this view, it is clear that science cannot have established that the universe is physically comprehensible. Standard empiricism is, however, as I have indicated, untenable. Any fundamental physical theory, in order to be accepted as a ...
... a part of scientific knowledge independently of evidence. Granted this view, it is clear that science cannot have established that the universe is physically comprehensible. Standard empiricism is, however, as I have indicated, untenable. Any fundamental physical theory, in order to be accepted as a ...
Has Science Established that the Cosmos is Physically
... a part of scientific knowledge independently of evidence. Granted this view, it is clear that science cannot have established that the universe is physically comprehensible. Standard empiricism is, however, as I have indicated, untenable. Any fundamental physical theory, in order to be accepted as a ...
... a part of scientific knowledge independently of evidence. Granted this view, it is clear that science cannot have established that the universe is physically comprehensible. Standard empiricism is, however, as I have indicated, untenable. Any fundamental physical theory, in order to be accepted as a ...
Has Science Established that the Cosmos is Physically
... a part of scientific knowledge independently of evidence. Granted this view, it is clear that science cannot have established that the universe is physically comprehensible. Standard empiricism is, however, as I have indicated, untenable. Any fundamental physical theory, in order to be accepted as a ...
... a part of scientific knowledge independently of evidence. Granted this view, it is clear that science cannot have established that the universe is physically comprehensible. Standard empiricism is, however, as I have indicated, untenable. Any fundamental physical theory, in order to be accepted as a ...
Ontology 101 - Centre for Logic and Information
... and structures of objects, properties, events, processes and relations in every area of reality. ‘Ontology’ is often used by philosophers as a synonym of ‘metaphysics’ (a label meaning literally: ‘what comes after the Physics’), a term used by early students of Aristotle to refer to what Aristotle h ...
... and structures of objects, properties, events, processes and relations in every area of reality. ‘Ontology’ is often used by philosophers as a synonym of ‘metaphysics’ (a label meaning literally: ‘what comes after the Physics’), a term used by early students of Aristotle to refer to what Aristotle h ...
Dewey`s Concepts of Stability and Precariousness - Purdue e-Pubs
... it searches out consciously new kinds of things by varying the conditions within which objects interact and hence opens up the possibility of finding novel kinds (new stable means) by means of such variation.17 The modern scientific method, unlike Aristotelian scientific method, does not consider an ob ...
... it searches out consciously new kinds of things by varying the conditions within which objects interact and hence opens up the possibility of finding novel kinds (new stable means) by means of such variation.17 The modern scientific method, unlike Aristotelian scientific method, does not consider an ob ...
A Critique of Descartes` Mind-Body Dualism
... substance, (mind), which has thinking as its essence and material substance (body), with extension as its essence. Mind and body are therefore, two kinds of substance, each of which is distinctly different, and can exist independent of each other. With Descartes’ establishment of his soul or mind as ...
... substance, (mind), which has thinking as its essence and material substance (body), with extension as its essence. Mind and body are therefore, two kinds of substance, each of which is distinctly different, and can exist independent of each other. With Descartes’ establishment of his soul or mind as ...