Ancient Skepticism, for
... and given how the arguments play out, we have fully understood what is right and wrong. Consider what the ancient skeptics would say in response to an argument often made against contemporary moral skepticism: you say you are doubting whether there is any moral knowledge; but don’t you know any numb ...
... and given how the arguments play out, we have fully understood what is right and wrong. Consider what the ancient skeptics would say in response to an argument often made against contemporary moral skepticism: you say you are doubting whether there is any moral knowledge; but don’t you know any numb ...
Death On The Grand Scale
... the discipline of criticism and analysis which they will supply. But there are others who make a different appraisal of our everyday life, and who take a different view of the task of philosophy. According to them, we are always being tempted by narrowness and smallness, and by what is near at hand. ...
... the discipline of criticism and analysis which they will supply. But there are others who make a different appraisal of our everyday life, and who take a different view of the task of philosophy. According to them, we are always being tempted by narrowness and smallness, and by what is near at hand. ...
Wittgenstein, Reflexivity and the Social Construction of Reality
... in reality (i.e., independent of the languages and theoretical terms used to described or demarcate those phenomena; Greenwood 1992), Wittgenstein (1953) discussed whether it makes sense to say that mathematical truth is “independent of whether human beings know it or not!” (p. 226). The relevance o ...
... in reality (i.e., independent of the languages and theoretical terms used to described or demarcate those phenomena; Greenwood 1992), Wittgenstein (1953) discussed whether it makes sense to say that mathematical truth is “independent of whether human beings know it or not!” (p. 226). The relevance o ...
`Among contemporaries the most exciting thinker, masterful
... If you are a believer, Martin Heidegger was an unparalleled modern thinker, whose profound diagnoses of the condition of mankind in the twentieth century rightly dominated large tracts of culture, and directed the finest subsequent work in the humanities. If you are not, he is a dismal windbag, whos ...
... If you are a believer, Martin Heidegger was an unparalleled modern thinker, whose profound diagnoses of the condition of mankind in the twentieth century rightly dominated large tracts of culture, and directed the finest subsequent work in the humanities. If you are not, he is a dismal windbag, whos ...
Philosophy as Therapy for Recovering (Unrestrained) Omnivores
... challenges of ethical eating. Within this context, our proposed therapy is explicitly philosophical. This clarification is important in order to distinguish our project from psychological approaches, which we do not engage here. Our therapeutic is philosophical because it prescribes philosophy as an ...
... challenges of ethical eating. Within this context, our proposed therapy is explicitly philosophical. This clarification is important in order to distinguish our project from psychological approaches, which we do not engage here. Our therapeutic is philosophical because it prescribes philosophy as an ...
Microsoft Word - AC, Introduction, Cogprints
... a and b are not one and the same entity, mustn’t they needs be two different ones? But a closer look easily shows us that this is by no means invariably the case. For although it has been made evident by prominent possible-worlds theorists that we have to assume an ‘intermundane’ or ‘trans-word’ num ...
... a and b are not one and the same entity, mustn’t they needs be two different ones? But a closer look easily shows us that this is by no means invariably the case. For although it has been made evident by prominent possible-worlds theorists that we have to assume an ‘intermundane’ or ‘trans-word’ num ...
L. Notes - School of Computing
... Compatibility: the parts of a philosophic system must be compatible with one another.A person’s view of reality (metaphysics ), must be consistent with how they think reality is known (epistemology), and how it is to be valued (axiology). Metaphysics: Is the fundamental or controlling element of phi ...
... Compatibility: the parts of a philosophic system must be compatible with one another.A person’s view of reality (metaphysics ), must be consistent with how they think reality is known (epistemology), and how it is to be valued (axiology). Metaphysics: Is the fundamental or controlling element of phi ...
read - daniel tarr
... Mádhyamikas. The high point in this philosophical refinement process was reached in the sixth century by Candrakirti, who entered into the refutation of logical privacy. This refutation, as preserved in Candrakirti’s Prasannapáda, Chapter I, served as the basis of a philosophical discussion that wen ...
... Mádhyamikas. The high point in this philosophical refinement process was reached in the sixth century by Candrakirti, who entered into the refutation of logical privacy. This refutation, as preserved in Candrakirti’s Prasannapáda, Chapter I, served as the basis of a philosophical discussion that wen ...
The Self
... not explained. Sellars says: …any attempt to explain this mediation within the framework of the manifest image was bound to fail, for the manifest image contains the resources for this attempt only in the sense that it provides the foundation on which the scientific theory can build an explanatory f ...
... not explained. Sellars says: …any attempt to explain this mediation within the framework of the manifest image was bound to fail, for the manifest image contains the resources for this attempt only in the sense that it provides the foundation on which the scientific theory can build an explanatory f ...
6th-annual-house-bulletin-abstracts-9-oct1
... theories claim that in both cases there is the same mentally instatianted quality (a "red-quale"). Representationalist (or intentionalist) theories claim that in both cases there is the same representational or intentional content: Both experiences represent a red tomato, and that in cases of halluc ...
... theories claim that in both cases there is the same mentally instatianted quality (a "red-quale"). Representationalist (or intentionalist) theories claim that in both cases there is the same representational or intentional content: Both experiences represent a red tomato, and that in cases of halluc ...
PHI 110 Lecture 6 1 Today we`re gonna start a number of lectures
... what makes each person the person that he or she is is their conscious state of mind, their interior self. I call it the interior self because it’s interior in the sense that the self is defined in terms of mental states that are inside your mind. So Descartes and Locke are mentalists both in that t ...
... what makes each person the person that he or she is is their conscious state of mind, their interior self. I call it the interior self because it’s interior in the sense that the self is defined in terms of mental states that are inside your mind. So Descartes and Locke are mentalists both in that t ...
PHI 110 Lecture 1 1 Welcome to Philosophy 110, Introduction to
... from the human soul, if you will. That is, a lot of philosophers have tried to say that there’s an aspect of human nature, this non-physical, non-corporeal soul or mind, which is free from the laws of nature and thus free to make autonomous decisions for which they can then be held accountable. This ...
... from the human soul, if you will. That is, a lot of philosophers have tried to say that there’s an aspect of human nature, this non-physical, non-corporeal soul or mind, which is free from the laws of nature and thus free to make autonomous decisions for which they can then be held accountable. This ...
Confucian Worries about the Aristotelian Sophos
... suggested in various ways that the Aristotelian sophos overvalues theoretically wise understanding at the expense of other, less-narrowly intellectual goods; that the theoretically wise understanding the sophos pursues is useless and of questionable value; and that the 1sophos’s way of life requires ...
... suggested in various ways that the Aristotelian sophos overvalues theoretically wise understanding at the expense of other, less-narrowly intellectual goods; that the theoretically wise understanding the sophos pursues is useless and of questionable value; and that the 1sophos’s way of life requires ...
B.A. PHILOSOPHY PR OGRAMME UNIVERSITY OF CALICUT (CUCBCSS -2014 admn.) (I SEMESTER)
... synthesize it with reason. St. Thomas Aquinas and St. Augustine represent the scholastic period of western philosophy. 3. Anti- Scholasticism Scholasticism refers to the philosophical outlook of medieval Christian theology. Scholastic thinkers continued to recognize the role of faith in the search f ...
... synthesize it with reason. St. Thomas Aquinas and St. Augustine represent the scholastic period of western philosophy. 3. Anti- Scholasticism Scholasticism refers to the philosophical outlook of medieval Christian theology. Scholastic thinkers continued to recognize the role of faith in the search f ...
philosophy of language for metaethics
... does. Since we all know that the right relationship between ‘grass is green’ and ‘I believe that grass is green’ does not lead to these problems, expressivists propose to postulate that relationship between ‘stealing is wrong’ and ‘I disapprove of stealing’. We can stipulatively say that the first m ...
... does. Since we all know that the right relationship between ‘grass is green’ and ‘I believe that grass is green’ does not lead to these problems, expressivists propose to postulate that relationship between ‘stealing is wrong’ and ‘I disapprove of stealing’. We can stipulatively say that the first m ...
Imre Lakatos`s Philosophy of Mathematics
... mathematics, and used these ideas in his assault on the formalist school. 3. Hegel’s dialectics. The Hegelian influence came very early for Lakatos, in his university years in Hungary, when he became devotedly involved in the MarxistLukacsian philosophy and ideology.5 However, the trace of the Hegel ...
... mathematics, and used these ideas in his assault on the formalist school. 3. Hegel’s dialectics. The Hegelian influence came very early for Lakatos, in his university years in Hungary, when he became devotedly involved in the MarxistLukacsian philosophy and ideology.5 However, the trace of the Hegel ...
Dear Steve - ANU School of Philosophy
... Carnap, and it has proved to be influential on a number of Australian authors. Stove insists, for example, that the premise ‘x % of F’s are G’s’ bestows logical probability x% on the conclusion ‘a randomly chosen F is a G’. He has also argued that the problem of induction can be solved by a combina ...
... Carnap, and it has proved to be influential on a number of Australian authors. Stove insists, for example, that the premise ‘x % of F’s are G’s’ bestows logical probability x% on the conclusion ‘a randomly chosen F is a G’. He has also argued that the problem of induction can be solved by a combina ...
1. The Opening Sentence
... rebutted, and overcome, only by true, or ‘future’ teachers trained in critical philosophy. Pedagogy. In his lecture notes on pedagogy2, Kant claims that we can become human only through education; and, indeed, humans are the only creatures that have to be educated. But education can to be done prope ...
... rebutted, and overcome, only by true, or ‘future’ teachers trained in critical philosophy. Pedagogy. In his lecture notes on pedagogy2, Kant claims that we can become human only through education; and, indeed, humans are the only creatures that have to be educated. But education can to be done prope ...
The Problem of Substance in Metaphysics
... A cursory glance at the different concepts of substance during the different historical Epochs in philosophy, reveals that the problem of substance has been a thing of concern through the ages to the present time. The first group of philosophers to trace the substratum of all reality were the Pre-So ...
... A cursory glance at the different concepts of substance during the different historical Epochs in philosophy, reveals that the problem of substance has been a thing of concern through the ages to the present time. The first group of philosophers to trace the substratum of all reality were the Pre-So ...
Gilles Deleuze: What is the creative act?
... exists but that is not how we describe scientific activity as such—they create as much as an artist. It is not complicated, a scientist is someone who invents or creates functions. They are the only ones who do that. A scientist as a scientist has nothing to do with concepts. That is even why—thankf ...
... exists but that is not how we describe scientific activity as such—they create as much as an artist. It is not complicated, a scientist is someone who invents or creates functions. They are the only ones who do that. A scientist as a scientist has nothing to do with concepts. That is even why—thankf ...
File - Phinith Philavanh
... John Locke vs David Hume The British empiricists John Locke and the Scottish skeptic David Hume were both philosophers that had similar concepts of the belief of empiricism but although in different ways. Hume agreeing with Locke’s claim that thought is a “faithful, mirror, and copies objects truly” ...
... John Locke vs David Hume The British empiricists John Locke and the Scottish skeptic David Hume were both philosophers that had similar concepts of the belief of empiricism but although in different ways. Hume agreeing with Locke’s claim that thought is a “faithful, mirror, and copies objects truly” ...
CONCEPTUAL ANALYSIS
... Dasein is always ‘ahead of itself’ (sich voraus) > projects itself onto possibilities of existence. Authenticity is to be oneself, i.e. to choose consciously for certain possibilities of existence. To exist inauthentically > the possibilities of existence are determined by the One or They (das ...
... Dasein is always ‘ahead of itself’ (sich voraus) > projects itself onto possibilities of existence. Authenticity is to be oneself, i.e. to choose consciously for certain possibilities of existence. To exist inauthentically > the possibilities of existence are determined by the One or They (das ...
Biological Boundaries - University of Chicago Philosophy Department
... natural selection as a force that has omniscient and ultimate omnipotence over biological form and function; however, it is well in line with a view of evolution that considers natural selection one of many forces at play in the survival and change of lines of living processes. Chapters 8 & 9 look a ...
... natural selection as a force that has omniscient and ultimate omnipotence over biological form and function; however, it is well in line with a view of evolution that considers natural selection one of many forces at play in the survival and change of lines of living processes. Chapters 8 & 9 look a ...
mixing metaphors: science and religion or
... emphasized conflict, Galileo’s conflict with the Church and the debate between creationists and evolutionists being among the most frequently cited examples. Other historians have focused instead on the mutual influence between science and religion.17 In addition to conflict and harmony, some histor ...
... emphasized conflict, Galileo’s conflict with the Church and the debate between creationists and evolutionists being among the most frequently cited examples. Other historians have focused instead on the mutual influence between science and religion.17 In addition to conflict and harmony, some histor ...