Eleven Reasons Why Philosophy is Important
... develop natural science, discover highly plausible beliefs concerning being reasonable, highly plausible beliefs concerning morality, and more. Even the highly speculative areas of philosophy involving the nature of reality, mental causation, the nature of mathematics, the nature of morality, and co ...
... develop natural science, discover highly plausible beliefs concerning being reasonable, highly plausible beliefs concerning morality, and more. Even the highly speculative areas of philosophy involving the nature of reality, mental causation, the nature of mathematics, the nature of morality, and co ...
Glossary - Oxford University Press
... one another. But they are not the same. The last one has to do with knowledge, the middle one with possibility, and the first one with meaning. Although some philosophers think that the three distinctions amount to the same thing, others do not. Kant maintains that truths of arithmetic are a priori ...
... one another. But they are not the same. The last one has to do with knowledge, the middle one with possibility, and the first one with meaning. Although some philosophers think that the three distinctions amount to the same thing, others do not. Kant maintains that truths of arithmetic are a priori ...
- Philsci
... "conceptual" efforts, while others, Patricia Kitcher for example, read the book as a psychological theory, a theory of how the mind works and, in view of that constitution, of what the mind can and cannot know. The psychological reading seems the more charitable to Kant, since a psychological theory ...
... "conceptual" efforts, while others, Patricia Kitcher for example, read the book as a psychological theory, a theory of how the mind works and, in view of that constitution, of what the mind can and cannot know. The psychological reading seems the more charitable to Kant, since a psychological theory ...
glossary of philosophical terms
... considers an argument from analogy that purports to show that the universe was created by an intelligent being. The character Cleanthes claims that the world as a whole is similar to things like clocks. A clock has a variety of interrelated parts that function together in ways that serve ends. The w ...
... considers an argument from analogy that purports to show that the universe was created by an intelligent being. The character Cleanthes claims that the world as a whole is similar to things like clocks. A clock has a variety of interrelated parts that function together in ways that serve ends. The w ...
12 Purva Mimamsa and Vedanta
... Brahman we can aspire for. “A reality of oneness manifesting itself in a reality of numberless forms and powers of its being is what we confront everywhere,” writes Aurobindo.129 Since plurality is what we experience, Ramanuja′s objection to Shankara is that we should not posit anything we cannot ex ...
... Brahman we can aspire for. “A reality of oneness manifesting itself in a reality of numberless forms and powers of its being is what we confront everywhere,” writes Aurobindo.129 Since plurality is what we experience, Ramanuja′s objection to Shankara is that we should not posit anything we cannot ex ...
FORMAL METHODS AND SCIENCE IN PHILOSOPHY
... material, that are characteristic of each and all of such beings, and can be predicated only of them (and not of any other kinds of beings). Lists of those properties vary between philosophical schools, but usually contain such attributes as extension, spatiotemporal character or perceivability. The ...
... material, that are characteristic of each and all of such beings, and can be predicated only of them (and not of any other kinds of beings). Lists of those properties vary between philosophical schools, but usually contain such attributes as extension, spatiotemporal character or perceivability. The ...
Filosofia Theoretica: Journal of African Philosophy, Culture
... discipline, should be the same in both the Western and African senses (1984, 56), but argues that there should be a nexus between both the Western and African senses and advices that both should exist to complement each other. As a matter of fact, It only sees a mutual relationship between both thou ...
... discipline, should be the same in both the Western and African senses (1984, 56), but argues that there should be a nexus between both the Western and African senses and advices that both should exist to complement each other. As a matter of fact, It only sees a mutual relationship between both thou ...
6th-annual-house-bulletin-abstracts-9-oct1
... incompatibilists, think that determinism is not compatible with the relevant sort of control because it eliminates alternative possibilities and implies that we are not ultimate sources of our actions, others, the so called compatibilists, hold that determinism has no bearing on the freedom of our w ...
... incompatibilists, think that determinism is not compatible with the relevant sort of control because it eliminates alternative possibilities and implies that we are not ultimate sources of our actions, others, the so called compatibilists, hold that determinism has no bearing on the freedom of our w ...
Ethan Frome - Stephen Hicks, Ph.D.
... the being projected that is Da-sein—not that, if anything, which is projected or does the projecting. The emphasis is on activity, thus avoiding assumptions that there are two things, a subject and an object, that enter into a relationship. There is simply action, the action of being out there, bein ...
... the being projected that is Da-sein—not that, if anything, which is projected or does the projecting. The emphasis is on activity, thus avoiding assumptions that there are two things, a subject and an object, that enter into a relationship. There is simply action, the action of being out there, bein ...
What is Philosophy? Minds and Machines
... Philosophy as Rational Inquiry • Definition 3 expresses philosophy as we are going to understand it in this class. Philosophy in this sense is (like definition 1, but unlike definition 2) an activity: it is something you do. In particular, doing philosophy is using our rationality in trying to figu ...
... Philosophy as Rational Inquiry • Definition 3 expresses philosophy as we are going to understand it in this class. Philosophy in this sense is (like definition 1, but unlike definition 2) an activity: it is something you do. In particular, doing philosophy is using our rationality in trying to figu ...
What is Philosophy?
... Philosophy as Rational Inquiry • Definition 3 expresses philosophy as we are going to understand it in this class. Philosophy in this sense is (like definition 1, but unlike definition 2) an activity: it is something you do. In particular, doing philosophy is using our rationality in trying to figu ...
... Philosophy as Rational Inquiry • Definition 3 expresses philosophy as we are going to understand it in this class. Philosophy in this sense is (like definition 1, but unlike definition 2) an activity: it is something you do. In particular, doing philosophy is using our rationality in trying to figu ...
Philosophy as Quest - Oregon State University
... quo. In many of us, that authoritarian side is strong and even ruthless. Inquiring into the origins of your own belief system involves asking questions like; What exactly are my beliefs?; How did I get these beliefs?; Have my beliefs changed?; and How do my beliefs fit together? Now, when speaking o ...
... quo. In many of us, that authoritarian side is strong and even ruthless. Inquiring into the origins of your own belief system involves asking questions like; What exactly are my beliefs?; How did I get these beliefs?; Have my beliefs changed?; and How do my beliefs fit together? Now, when speaking o ...
Virtuism: Philosophy and the Aesthetics of Virtue
... go ahead anyway and take an unfounded position of believing there is no God and write their books from the perspective that there is no God. Therefore, I will occasionally throw in the concept of there being a God without having to base it on any logical proof. I sometimes refer to an idea that some ...
... go ahead anyway and take an unfounded position of believing there is no God and write their books from the perspective that there is no God. Therefore, I will occasionally throw in the concept of there being a God without having to base it on any logical proof. I sometimes refer to an idea that some ...
2 / Communication before deconstruction
... postulated distinciton between subject and object; between consciousness and its object. A hermeneutic inquiry of Preliminary to a illuminating of Being as such. Dasein – being there Returning to where man already and always is: being-inthe-world. A world of cultural and historical meanings. Heidegg ...
... postulated distinciton between subject and object; between consciousness and its object. A hermeneutic inquiry of Preliminary to a illuminating of Being as such. Dasein – being there Returning to where man already and always is: being-inthe-world. A world of cultural and historical meanings. Heidegg ...
KANT - ARISTOTLE lecture
... that functions as a unity. That unity is very dependent on the different organs of the body that comprise it, so that when the organism dies, in Aristotle’s view, this unity doesn’t survive. The “soul” is the functional unity of the basic bodily functions, and the mind is its highest power. The mind ...
... that functions as a unity. That unity is very dependent on the different organs of the body that comprise it, so that when the organism dies, in Aristotle’s view, this unity doesn’t survive. The “soul” is the functional unity of the basic bodily functions, and the mind is its highest power. The mind ...
existentialist philosophies and political decline
... certain time and place, and may not do so always. Problems of philosophy are outside of me, but they must be studied in relationship to me, for their very existence as problems depends upon me and my existence. The problem of defining the term existence occupies a major place in existentialist liter ...
... certain time and place, and may not do so always. Problems of philosophy are outside of me, but they must be studied in relationship to me, for their very existence as problems depends upon me and my existence. The problem of defining the term existence occupies a major place in existentialist liter ...
Pragmatism and Humanism: Bergson as a reader of - PUC-SP
... sense that it is the satisfaction of the necessities of life. The structure of reality is, therefore, patterned after utilitarian criterions, forasmuch the assuring of the means of survival is its first function. Thenceforth the parallelism with the instinct, that does not have, however, the flexibi ...
... sense that it is the satisfaction of the necessities of life. The structure of reality is, therefore, patterned after utilitarian criterions, forasmuch the assuring of the means of survival is its first function. Thenceforth the parallelism with the instinct, that does not have, however, the flexibi ...
Modern Western Philosophy
... 31. Descartes advocates …………..by admitting mind and matter as two substances (a) Dualism (b) Individualism (c ) Rationalism (d) None of these 32. To solve mind and body problem, Descartes has introduced ………. (a) Mind Body Dualism (b) Psycho-physical Interactionism (c) Occassionalism (d) Psycho-physi ...
... 31. Descartes advocates …………..by admitting mind and matter as two substances (a) Dualism (b) Individualism (c ) Rationalism (d) None of these 32. To solve mind and body problem, Descartes has introduced ………. (a) Mind Body Dualism (b) Psycho-physical Interactionism (c) Occassionalism (d) Psycho-physi ...
Knowledge structuring in scholarly discourse
... particular question. Therefore, this source should still be taken into account for the inquiry of the problem at hand. Example: (from philosophy): Vsrepresentation: a purveyor of the speech act theory might purport that we don’t need to assume representations because when assuming that speaking is a ...
... particular question. Therefore, this source should still be taken into account for the inquiry of the problem at hand. Example: (from philosophy): Vsrepresentation: a purveyor of the speech act theory might purport that we don’t need to assume representations because when assuming that speaking is a ...
Conversation with Johanna Seibt
... close collaborator, approached me with a dissertation topic on the philosophy of social robotics. Marco and I realized increasingly in our joint discussions that the very notion of an artificial social agent challenges many fundamental assumptions in Western metaphysics and epistemology. So-called r ...
... close collaborator, approached me with a dissertation topic on the philosophy of social robotics. Marco and I realized increasingly in our joint discussions that the very notion of an artificial social agent challenges many fundamental assumptions in Western metaphysics and epistemology. So-called r ...
Fourteen pieces on eastern and western philosophy
... Buddhism gathered influence. In contrast with the moral and regulatory force of Confucianism, Taoism was against extensive institutional regulation and preferred room for natural impulse. While Confucianism focused on practical things, Taoism better satisfied the urge for an underlying metaphysics. ...
... Buddhism gathered influence. In contrast with the moral and regulatory force of Confucianism, Taoism was against extensive institutional regulation and preferred room for natural impulse. While Confucianism focused on practical things, Taoism better satisfied the urge for an underlying metaphysics. ...
Does Comparative Philosophy have a Fusion Future? Responses
... that is somewhere near the truth of things, comparative philosophy would then employ the texts of one culture to interrogate texts from another (and premodern texts in Western languages sometimes perform as well in querying modes of modern life as those from China and India). The goals are two: to e ...
... that is somewhere near the truth of things, comparative philosophy would then employ the texts of one culture to interrogate texts from another (and premodern texts in Western languages sometimes perform as well in querying modes of modern life as those from China and India). The goals are two: to e ...
On the symbolic structure of modern
... representations for things; they have with the things the one essential concordance which consists of satisfying the above requirement, but it is not necessary for their scope to have any other concordance with the things.“1 For definiteness we shall call the perspective associated with this attitud ...
... representations for things; they have with the things the one essential concordance which consists of satisfying the above requirement, but it is not necessary for their scope to have any other concordance with the things.“1 For definiteness we shall call the perspective associated with this attitud ...
Greek Philosophy
... Thus, the world is not to be identified with any particular substance, but rather with an ongoing process governed by a law of change. The underlying law of nature also manifests itself as a moral law for human beings. Heraclitus first Western philosopher to go beyond physical theory in search of me ...
... Thus, the world is not to be identified with any particular substance, but rather with an ongoing process governed by a law of change. The underlying law of nature also manifests itself as a moral law for human beings. Heraclitus first Western philosopher to go beyond physical theory in search of me ...