Building Peace by Unlearning the Habit of “Us and Them”: Would it
... identity, non-contradiction, and exclusion of the middle (e.g., analysis of causation; Batchelor, 2000). “Both/and” is closer to the truth than “either/or” (e.g., the relation between the whole and its parts). ...
... identity, non-contradiction, and exclusion of the middle (e.g., analysis of causation; Batchelor, 2000). “Both/and” is closer to the truth than “either/or” (e.g., the relation between the whole and its parts). ...
PHILOSOPHY RESEARCH SEMINAR, PHILOSOPHY TEA AND
... Note the irregular times: exceptionally, Phil Soc and the Philosophy Tea will come before the research seminar this week. 2.15 Phil Soc 'The Radical Demand in K. E. Løgstrup's Ethics', followed at 3.15 by Philosophy Tea. Location: W113 (Law Court Building) This talk will introduce the central ideas ...
... Note the irregular times: exceptionally, Phil Soc and the Philosophy Tea will come before the research seminar this week. 2.15 Phil Soc 'The Radical Demand in K. E. Løgstrup's Ethics', followed at 3.15 by Philosophy Tea. Location: W113 (Law Court Building) This talk will introduce the central ideas ...
Pursuing Wisdom
... Russell, writes, “Pythagoras was intellectually one of the most important men that ever lived... Mathematics, in the sense of demonstrative deductive argument, begins with him, and in him is intimately connected with a peculiar form of mysticism. The influence of mathematics on philosophy, partly ...
... Russell, writes, “Pythagoras was intellectually one of the most important men that ever lived... Mathematics, in the sense of demonstrative deductive argument, begins with him, and in him is intimately connected with a peculiar form of mysticism. The influence of mathematics on philosophy, partly ...
Some basic terminology
... don’t (typically) believe that we are simply born knowing things. Rather, they claim that our knowledge of certain things is not based upon anything we have learned through sense experience. Again, the issue is not how we came to have a certain idea, but we know that it is true. We will talk more ab ...
... don’t (typically) believe that we are simply born knowing things. Rather, they claim that our knowledge of certain things is not based upon anything we have learned through sense experience. Again, the issue is not how we came to have a certain idea, but we know that it is true. We will talk more ab ...
Book Review - Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy
... plurality, appearance, and the sensible, these thinkers challenge metaphysics through an ontological interrogation of appearance and reality. James writes: “They can all be said to rethink the status of the ‘real’, of worldly appearance, or to re-engage in new and highly original ways with the quest ...
... plurality, appearance, and the sensible, these thinkers challenge metaphysics through an ontological interrogation of appearance and reality. James writes: “They can all be said to rethink the status of the ‘real’, of worldly appearance, or to re-engage in new and highly original ways with the quest ...
N 3. The philosophy of the Antique Greece
... The Republic argues that government should be led by philosophers ...
... The Republic argues that government should be led by philosophers ...
philosophy as a second order discipline
... Some things can also be deduced about the nature of philosophy from the way the Milesian philosophers practiced the discipline. The first thing is that philosophy beings from “wonder”. For the Milesian philosophers, the postulation of basic constituent of reality started out of wonder of whether or ...
... Some things can also be deduced about the nature of philosophy from the way the Milesian philosophers practiced the discipline. The first thing is that philosophy beings from “wonder”. For the Milesian philosophers, the postulation of basic constituent of reality started out of wonder of whether or ...
On philosophical method and Eastern Philosophy as a pdf file
... philosophy. It is customary to divide Western philosophy into three basic areas of study, and this fits as well in the Eastern sphere of philosophy as in the West. First we find an area known as Epistemology. The term comes from two Greek words, episteme or knowledge and logos or word, theory or acc ...
... philosophy. It is customary to divide Western philosophy into three basic areas of study, and this fits as well in the Eastern sphere of philosophy as in the West. First we find an area known as Epistemology. The term comes from two Greek words, episteme or knowledge and logos or word, theory or acc ...
The Philosophy of Physics - Trin
... And so Torretti embarks on a grand tour of the conceptual development of physics from the seventeenth century. There are seven Chapters, as follows: The Transformation of Natural Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century; Newton; Kant; The Rich Nineteenth Century (comprising four Sections|Geometries, F ...
... And so Torretti embarks on a grand tour of the conceptual development of physics from the seventeenth century. There are seven Chapters, as follows: The Transformation of Natural Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century; Newton; Kant; The Rich Nineteenth Century (comprising four Sections|Geometries, F ...
What is Philosophy, Anyway?
... hustle and bustle of life, “the philosopher seeks for truth.” The aim of philosophy, however, is not this truth or that truth, my truth or your truth, but “The Truth”. The truth that philosophy searches for is a truth that applies to all people at all times. This truth has been referred to as a tran ...
... hustle and bustle of life, “the philosopher seeks for truth.” The aim of philosophy, however, is not this truth or that truth, my truth or your truth, but “The Truth”. The truth that philosophy searches for is a truth that applies to all people at all times. This truth has been referred to as a tran ...
101 Basic Issues in Philosophy [OC-H] This course is an introduction
... A variety of class formats is central to the course. While there will be some lecture (as is appropriate), there will also be class discussion, possibly "Roundtable" discussions, panel debates or oral presentations. Required graded assignments include several argumentative papers and one or two exam ...
... A variety of class formats is central to the course. While there will be some lecture (as is appropriate), there will also be class discussion, possibly "Roundtable" discussions, panel debates or oral presentations. Required graded assignments include several argumentative papers and one or two exam ...
What`s in a word: philosophy, theology and thinking?
... As an informal educator and one who has been practically involved in helping young people to think about what they ought to be doing with their lives, what is worth living for, and the need for public action, I found much in the book with which I can agree. The book is in three parts, the first two ...
... As an informal educator and one who has been practically involved in helping young people to think about what they ought to be doing with their lives, what is worth living for, and the need for public action, I found much in the book with which I can agree. The book is in three parts, the first two ...
Backgrounds to English Literature
... 3. It is difficult to think of a society where members of the upper class were more generally aware of philosophy than seems to have been the case in Imperial Rome. For some of them, that awareness will have been quite superficial and scarcely positive, but every senator or knight would have known t ...
... 3. It is difficult to think of a society where members of the upper class were more generally aware of philosophy than seems to have been the case in Imperial Rome. For some of them, that awareness will have been quite superficial and scarcely positive, but every senator or knight would have known t ...
Language sometimes is deceptive
... I don’t mean that people use language to deceive, which, of course, we often do. Nor do I mean that words and sentences communicate something different to the listener or reader than what the speaker or author intends to communicate. This also is obvious and commonplace. The effect of this “deceptiv ...
... I don’t mean that people use language to deceive, which, of course, we often do. Nor do I mean that words and sentences communicate something different to the listener or reader than what the speaker or author intends to communicate. This also is obvious and commonplace. The effect of this “deceptiv ...
2. Scientific Renaissance in the sixteenth century: Renewing ancient
... history of ideas by reference to the social and political context in which those ideas were promoted. Three stereotypes about Science: 1. Science proceeds by genius who makes unexpected discoveries. 2. Scientists are autonomous agents working outside social-cultural context 3. Science is itself is v ...
... history of ideas by reference to the social and political context in which those ideas were promoted. Three stereotypes about Science: 1. Science proceeds by genius who makes unexpected discoveries. 2. Scientists are autonomous agents working outside social-cultural context 3. Science is itself is v ...
What Does it Mean to Practise Philosophy?
... counselled themselves! This also means that I can’t consider the activity of meditation to be the practice of philosophy. In my opinion meditation - when its meaning is to sit and listen to oneself or “the universe” - is neither philosophy nor a practice between individuals. It’s a private activity ...
... counselled themselves! This also means that I can’t consider the activity of meditation to be the practice of philosophy. In my opinion meditation - when its meaning is to sit and listen to oneself or “the universe” - is neither philosophy nor a practice between individuals. It’s a private activity ...
MUSONIUS RUFUS ON WOMEN AND THE STUDY OF
... When someone asked him if women too should study philosophy, he began to discourse on the theme that they should, in somewhat the following manner. ...
... When someone asked him if women too should study philosophy, he began to discourse on the theme that they should, in somewhat the following manner. ...
Can Philosophy Serve a High Purpose
... If science may be said to be blind without philosophy, it is true also that philosophy is virtually empty without science... What confronts the philosopher...is the task of clarifying the concepts of contemporary science. But for him to be able to achieve this, it is essential that he should unders ...
... If science may be said to be blind without philosophy, it is true also that philosophy is virtually empty without science... What confronts the philosopher...is the task of clarifying the concepts of contemporary science. But for him to be able to achieve this, it is essential that he should unders ...
Pre Socratics and The School of Athens PowerPoint
... What was it made of, how was it made and what made it. This is both a scientific and philosophical question. The Greeks made no distinction between what we now see as different disciplines. Maths, Science, Philosophy, Music, Arts etc were all part of intellectual thought. The title they used was not ...
... What was it made of, how was it made and what made it. This is both a scientific and philosophical question. The Greeks made no distinction between what we now see as different disciplines. Maths, Science, Philosophy, Music, Arts etc were all part of intellectual thought. The title they used was not ...
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... The nature of philosophy Thales, Anaximader, and Anaximenes .Prior to the first set of philosophers there were no doubt, some set of explanations but these explanations were mythical mysterious, or religious in nature. The milesian philosophers departed radically from the kind of explanations that p ...
... The nature of philosophy Thales, Anaximader, and Anaximenes .Prior to the first set of philosophers there were no doubt, some set of explanations but these explanations were mythical mysterious, or religious in nature. The milesian philosophers departed radically from the kind of explanations that p ...
CONTENDING WITH STANLEY CAVELL
... America, but something more like disapproval with respect to the concept of philosophy—disapproval, I suppose, particularly with the implication that there is more than one way, even conflicting ways, of becoming, hence recognizing and evaluating the work of, a philosopher. (I assume, perhaps wrongl ...
... America, but something more like disapproval with respect to the concept of philosophy—disapproval, I suppose, particularly with the implication that there is more than one way, even conflicting ways, of becoming, hence recognizing and evaluating the work of, a philosopher. (I assume, perhaps wrongl ...
Why Philosophy of Physics is Awesome!
... wave, meaning that the `particles’ are at several places at the same time. Schrödinger (Magdalen College Alumnus): This cannot be true. If it would be true, it should also apply to large objects (since they are made up out of small objects), and it would be absurd to have a large object - like a tab ...
... wave, meaning that the `particles’ are at several places at the same time. Schrödinger (Magdalen College Alumnus): This cannot be true. If it would be true, it should also apply to large objects (since they are made up out of small objects), and it would be absurd to have a large object - like a tab ...
What is Philosophy?
... about many, many things, ideally with knowledge, but sometimes not quite the amount of knowledge that I would need if I were to be a specialist in them. It allows you to be many different things. And plurality and complexity are very, very important to me.” ~ Alexander Nehemas A number of philosophe ...
... about many, many things, ideally with knowledge, but sometimes not quite the amount of knowledge that I would need if I were to be a specialist in them. It allows you to be many different things. And plurality and complexity are very, very important to me.” ~ Alexander Nehemas A number of philosophe ...
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.