On Moral Progress: A Response to Richard Rorty
... universal accounts, philosophy leads people to extend their beliefs in such a way that they will be better prepared for new cases. What was wrong with the generals in Laches was that they had not done this sort of preparatory thinking; clearly, then, they would come to new situations badly prepared, ...
... universal accounts, philosophy leads people to extend their beliefs in such a way that they will be better prepared for new cases. What was wrong with the generals in Laches was that they had not done this sort of preparatory thinking; clearly, then, they would come to new situations badly prepared, ...
Dear Steve - ANU School of Philosophy
... Probability The philosophy of probability has been alive and well for several decades in Australia and New Zealand. Some distinctive lines of thought have emerged, resonating with broader themes that have come to be associated with Australasian philosophers: realist/objectivist accounts of various t ...
... Probability The philosophy of probability has been alive and well for several decades in Australia and New Zealand. Some distinctive lines of thought have emerged, resonating with broader themes that have come to be associated with Australasian philosophers: realist/objectivist accounts of various t ...
Kinds of Things—Towards a Bestiary of the
... to making counterintuitive discoveries. As long as you’re doing naïve anthropology, counterintuitiveness (to the natives) counts against your reconstruction; when you shift gears and begin asking which aspects of the naïve ‘theory’ are true, counterintuitiveness loses its dispositive force and even ...
... to making counterintuitive discoveries. As long as you’re doing naïve anthropology, counterintuitiveness (to the natives) counts against your reconstruction; when you shift gears and begin asking which aspects of the naïve ‘theory’ are true, counterintuitiveness loses its dispositive force and even ...
IOSR Journal of Research & Method in Education (IOSR-JRME)
... Logic is a tool for doing philosophy which was founded by Aristotle. According to Maina, (2008) logic is inevitable because philosophy is an area of investigation that proceeds through a process of arguments and counter arguments. If logic is used necessarily in investigation since some twenty fou ...
... Logic is a tool for doing philosophy which was founded by Aristotle. According to Maina, (2008) logic is inevitable because philosophy is an area of investigation that proceeds through a process of arguments and counter arguments. If logic is used necessarily in investigation since some twenty fou ...
philosophical skepticism at the end of the 20th century
... me. I have not written too much, but often have I spoken as a skeptic. I may be a false skeptic, although I take myself as an authentic one. If I consider my temper, I am not, as you see, a true skeptic. A skeptic man is a cold man, who submits all things to a deep analysis. Skepticism has played a ...
... me. I have not written too much, but often have I spoken as a skeptic. I may be a false skeptic, although I take myself as an authentic one. If I consider my temper, I am not, as you see, a true skeptic. A skeptic man is a cold man, who submits all things to a deep analysis. Skepticism has played a ...
`Spaces` in Mathematics, Physics, Subjectivity, and Historiography
... From a present day perspective these philosophers seem to be rather strange allies for a mathematician and philosopher of science. However, if considering the historical documents on Weyl's “constructive intellectual interference” with Medicus (and his undergraduate days in Göttingen, where he atten ...
... From a present day perspective these philosophers seem to be rather strange allies for a mathematician and philosopher of science. However, if considering the historical documents on Weyl's “constructive intellectual interference” with Medicus (and his undergraduate days in Göttingen, where he atten ...
Grendel BY John gardner
... John Gardner was born in Batavia, New York on July 21, 1933. His mother taught English, and his father was a lay preacher and a farmer. Gardner entered DePaw University in 1951, and graduated Phi Beta Kappa with his A.B. in 1955 from Washington University in Saint Louis. He received his M.A. from th ...
... John Gardner was born in Batavia, New York on July 21, 1933. His mother taught English, and his father was a lay preacher and a farmer. Gardner entered DePaw University in 1951, and graduated Phi Beta Kappa with his A.B. in 1955 from Washington University in Saint Louis. He received his M.A. from th ...
Thesis Abstract
... experience much more often than philosophers who contemplate mental operations. Perhaps, the reason thereof is that observing “operations” is supposed to furnish data about the mind itself; it serves primarily as a foundation of an experimental science of the mind (psychology). The study of images, ...
... experience much more often than philosophers who contemplate mental operations. Perhaps, the reason thereof is that observing “operations” is supposed to furnish data about the mind itself; it serves primarily as a foundation of an experimental science of the mind (psychology). The study of images, ...
History of Philosophy2
... posthumously published notes, either his own sparse lecture notes or, more copiously, from the notebooks of the students who attended the courses he taught on the subject at the University of Berlin between 1820 and 1831, just before his death. The outline of some of his ideas on the history of phil ...
... posthumously published notes, either his own sparse lecture notes or, more copiously, from the notebooks of the students who attended the courses he taught on the subject at the University of Berlin between 1820 and 1831, just before his death. The outline of some of his ideas on the history of phil ...
Panpsychism | uboeschenstein.ch
... In the 17th century, two rationalists can be said to be panpsychists, Baruch Spinoza and Gottfried Leibniz.[1] In Spinoza's monism, the one single infinite and eternal substance was "God, or Nature" (Deus sive Natura) which has the aspects of mind (thought) and matter (extension). Leibniz' view is t ...
... In the 17th century, two rationalists can be said to be panpsychists, Baruch Spinoza and Gottfried Leibniz.[1] In Spinoza's monism, the one single infinite and eternal substance was "God, or Nature" (Deus sive Natura) which has the aspects of mind (thought) and matter (extension). Leibniz' view is t ...
Wittgenstein World History Name: E. Napp Date: Biographical
... point he began to integrate the two sets of remarks, applying to all of them the distinction he had earlier made between that which can be said and that which must be shown. Ethics, aesthetics, and religion, in other words, were like logic: their ‘truths’ were inexpressible; insight in these areas c ...
... point he began to integrate the two sets of remarks, applying to all of them the distinction he had earlier made between that which can be said and that which must be shown. Ethics, aesthetics, and religion, in other words, were like logic: their ‘truths’ were inexpressible; insight in these areas c ...
- Philsci
... not apply to the noumenal world; perhaps one should say so much the worse for those philosophical caegories. Nor was it clear how Kant's account of the sources of phenomenal causation was to guarantee the reliability of ordinary scientific inference. Exactly what causal knowledge was guaranteed, and ...
... not apply to the noumenal world; perhaps one should say so much the worse for those philosophical caegories. Nor was it clear how Kant's account of the sources of phenomenal causation was to guarantee the reliability of ordinary scientific inference. Exactly what causal knowledge was guaranteed, and ...
How Philosophers Die (BAR 10) PDF 160.80kB
... Virtue helped one face death without fear, and the reward for virtue was social ...
... Virtue helped one face death without fear, and the reward for virtue was social ...
Redefining Philosophy through Assimilation
... Recently James Heisig and others presented a collection of essays examining the state of the study of Japanese philosophy abroad, calling for a redefinition philosophy itself.1 Since the introduction of Western philosophy in the late nineteenth century, the definition of philosophy has been reexamin ...
... Recently James Heisig and others presented a collection of essays examining the state of the study of Japanese philosophy abroad, calling for a redefinition philosophy itself.1 Since the introduction of Western philosophy in the late nineteenth century, the definition of philosophy has been reexamin ...
hellenic philosophy
... rising sun, but when they turn around and face the setting sun they consider themselves as Easterners or, at least, as non-Westerners. Even if we turned to history for assistance, we would find that it provides no greater help than geography for the correct characterization of the place of Hellas an ...
... rising sun, but when they turn around and face the setting sun they consider themselves as Easterners or, at least, as non-Westerners. Even if we turned to history for assistance, we would find that it provides no greater help than geography for the correct characterization of the place of Hellas an ...
Anaxagoras 500 - 428, came to Athens in 480
... anthropomorphic gods of the kind in which their contemporaries believed — gods human in their passions as well as in their outward form — was a world ruled by caprice. Philosophy and science start with the bold confession of faith that not caprice but an inherent orderliness underlies the phenomena, ...
... anthropomorphic gods of the kind in which their contemporaries believed — gods human in their passions as well as in their outward form — was a world ruled by caprice. Philosophy and science start with the bold confession of faith that not caprice but an inherent orderliness underlies the phenomena, ...
this PDF file
... 2007), xiv. 7. Cavell, The World Viewed: Reflections on the Ontology of Film, 2nd enl. Edn. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997), 188-189. ...
... 2007), xiv. 7. Cavell, The World Viewed: Reflections on the Ontology of Film, 2nd enl. Edn. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997), 188-189. ...
You can find an example abstract from my own writings attached here.
... This paper is intended to stage a confrontation between the visions of materiality presented by the work of Jane Bennett and Deleuze & Guatarri. It is my basic contention that Bennett and DG depart from Bergson’s notion of life force by alternate, and mutually exclusive paths. Where Bennett locates ...
... This paper is intended to stage a confrontation between the visions of materiality presented by the work of Jane Bennett and Deleuze & Guatarri. It is my basic contention that Bennett and DG depart from Bergson’s notion of life force by alternate, and mutually exclusive paths. Where Bennett locates ...
Conversation with Johanna Seibt
... and worked with Lorenz Puntel, a philosopher whom I hold in very high regard and who in my view, is too little known. He is one of the very few philosophers who has both overview over, and in-depth scholarly knowledge of, analytical and continental philosophy. He was in many ways my most important t ...
... and worked with Lorenz Puntel, a philosopher whom I hold in very high regard and who in my view, is too little known. He is one of the very few philosophers who has both overview over, and in-depth scholarly knowledge of, analytical and continental philosophy. He was in many ways my most important t ...
Nietzsche`s critique of past philosophers
... true? Every great philosophy, claims Nietzsche, is ‘the personal confession of its author’ (§6). The moral aims of a philosophy are the ‘seed’ from which the whole theory grows. Philosophers pretend that their opinions have been reached by ‘cold, pure, divinely unhampered dialectic’ when in fact, th ...
... true? Every great philosophy, claims Nietzsche, is ‘the personal confession of its author’ (§6). The moral aims of a philosophy are the ‘seed’ from which the whole theory grows. Philosophers pretend that their opinions have been reached by ‘cold, pure, divinely unhampered dialectic’ when in fact, th ...
LECTURE 2: APOLOGETICS AND PHILOSOPHY
... of established works from the past. Students find that courses in the Philosophy Department develop an unusual range of intellectual abilities. Philosophy texts demand careful reading. They enrich the student’s knowledge of the historical period or cultural milieu in which they originated. Philosoph ...
... of established works from the past. Students find that courses in the Philosophy Department develop an unusual range of intellectual abilities. Philosophy texts demand careful reading. They enrich the student’s knowledge of the historical period or cultural milieu in which they originated. Philosoph ...
this PDF file - Spontaneous Generations
... anthropologists, historians of religion, or historians of mythology in the last thirty years talking in anything like this way–who said the function of myth was explanation in anything like this sense1 (Sedley 2007; Graham 2006; Algra 1999; French 1994; Lindberg 1992)? One might also worry about the ...
... anthropologists, historians of religion, or historians of mythology in the last thirty years talking in anything like this way–who said the function of myth was explanation in anything like this sense1 (Sedley 2007; Graham 2006; Algra 1999; French 1994; Lindberg 1992)? One might also worry about the ...
Filosofia Theoretica: Journal of African Philosophy, Culture
... When we talk of ethnocentric bias in African philosophy, the scramble for Africa in late nineteenth century by European explorers and administrators often comes to mind. The visitors on arrival on the shores of Africa took turns to distort the thinking and policy of the black man in his father land. ...
... When we talk of ethnocentric bias in African philosophy, the scramble for Africa in late nineteenth century by European explorers and administrators often comes to mind. The visitors on arrival on the shores of Africa took turns to distort the thinking and policy of the black man in his father land. ...
On the Theory and Practice of Intercultural Philosophy
... clung not entirely to ignorance, but theirs was not the steady eye that could meet the gaze of Philosophy; and if at moments my sem‐ blance flashed phantom‐like across their dulled vision, they held that in that dim shadow they had seen all that was to be seen.”14 In contras ...
... clung not entirely to ignorance, but theirs was not the steady eye that could meet the gaze of Philosophy; and if at moments my sem‐ blance flashed phantom‐like across their dulled vision, they held that in that dim shadow they had seen all that was to be seen.”14 In contras ...
History of philosophy in Poland
The history of philosophy in Poland parallels the evolution of philosophy in Europe in general. Polish philosophy drew upon the broader currents of European philosophy, and in turn contributed to their growth. Among the most momentous Polish contributions were made, in the thirteenth century, by the Scholastic philosopher and scientist Witelo, and, in the sixteenth century, by the Renaissance polymath Nicolaus Copernicus.Subsequently, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth partook in the intellectual ferment of the Enlightenment, which for the multi-ethnic Commonwealth ended not long after the partitions and political annihilation that would last for the next 123 years, until the collapse of the three partitioning empires in World War I.The period of Messianism, between the November 1830 and January 1863 Uprisings, reflected European Romantic and Idealist trends, as well as a Polish yearning for political resurrection. It was a period of maximalist metaphysical systems.The collapse of the January 1863 Uprising prompted an agonizing reappraisal of Poland's situation. Poles gave up their earlier practice of ""measuring their resources by their aspirations,"" and buckled down to hard work and study. ""[A] Positivist,"" wrote the novelist Bolesław Prus' friend, Julian Ochorowicz, was ""anyone who bases assertions on verifiable evidence; who does not express himself categorically about doubtful things, and does not speak at all about those that are inaccessible.""The twentieth century brought a new quickening to Polish philosophy. There was growing interest in western philosophical currents. Rigorously trained Polish philosophers made substantial contributions to specialized fields—to psychology, the history of philosophy, the theory of knowledge, and especially mathematical logic. Jan Łukasiewicz gained world fame with his concept of many-valued logic and his ""Polish notation."" Alfred Tarski's work in truth theory won him world renown.After World War II, for over four decades, world-class Polish philosophers and historians of philosophy such as Władysław Tatarkiewicz continued their work, often in the face of adversities occasioned by the dominance of a politically enforced official philosophy.The phenomenologist Roman Ingarden did influential work in esthetics and in a Husserl-style metaphysics; his student Karol Wojtyła acquired a unique influence on the world stage as Pope John Paul II.