1 - David Papineau
... philosophers and scientists study quite different topics? Maybe there are a few areas where philosophy and science share interests. When philosophers of biology discuss the units of natural selection, or philosophers of cognitive science assess the empirical plausibility of connectionism, they do in ...
... philosophers and scientists study quite different topics? Maybe there are a few areas where philosophy and science share interests. When philosophers of biology discuss the units of natural selection, or philosophers of cognitive science assess the empirical plausibility of connectionism, they do in ...
Philosophy as Wisdom of Love
... None of the ancient Oriental languages has a word that corresponds in meaning to the term philosophia. The concept of philosophy as the “love of wisdom” was therefore imported to the East from the West. For instance, the Japanese word for philosophy, tetsugaku, was a neologism invented by Amane Nish ...
... None of the ancient Oriental languages has a word that corresponds in meaning to the term philosophia. The concept of philosophy as the “love of wisdom” was therefore imported to the East from the West. For instance, the Japanese word for philosophy, tetsugaku, was a neologism invented by Amane Nish ...
Philosophy 35
... actually existed? What could he trust as exact or true? These questions nearly drove Descartes to insanity, but in the end he came to his now famous answer: “I think, therefore I am.” Historical context: Born on March 31, 1596 in La Haye, France, René Descartes grew up during a period of strong phil ...
... actually existed? What could he trust as exact or true? These questions nearly drove Descartes to insanity, but in the end he came to his now famous answer: “I think, therefore I am.” Historical context: Born on March 31, 1596 in La Haye, France, René Descartes grew up during a period of strong phil ...
- Philsci
... I understand that some historians read the accounts of space, time, causation and knowledge in the Critique of Pure Reason as purely logical, or purely "conceptual" efforts, while others, Patricia Kitcher for example, read the book as a psychological theory, a theory of how the mind works and, in v ...
... I understand that some historians read the accounts of space, time, causation and knowledge in the Critique of Pure Reason as purely logical, or purely "conceptual" efforts, while others, Patricia Kitcher for example, read the book as a psychological theory, a theory of how the mind works and, in v ...
The Emergence of Conventionalism - Philsci
... conventionalism, such as Quine and Putnam, were inspired by his daring position. Indeed, during the twentieth century, most philosophers of mathematics and of science engaged in dialogue with conventionalism. As is often the case with such complex clusters of ideas, there is no consensus about the m ...
... conventionalism, such as Quine and Putnam, were inspired by his daring position. Indeed, during the twentieth century, most philosophers of mathematics and of science engaged in dialogue with conventionalism. As is often the case with such complex clusters of ideas, there is no consensus about the m ...
What is Transcendentalism?
... One way to look at the Transcendentalists is to see them as a generation of well educated people who lived in the decades before the American Civil War and the national division that it both reflected and helped to create. These people, mostly New Englanders, mostly around Boston, were attempting to ...
... One way to look at the Transcendentalists is to see them as a generation of well educated people who lived in the decades before the American Civil War and the national division that it both reflected and helped to create. These people, mostly New Englanders, mostly around Boston, were attempting to ...
Luc Bovens, `Interview.` In: Epistemology: 5 Questions. Edited by
... in epidemiology and public health—but alas, text books have been sitting unopened on the shelf for too long. 2. What do you see as being your main contributions to epistemology? In my early work I was most interested in the intersection of moral psychology and epistemology. I thought it was curious ...
... in epidemiology and public health—but alas, text books have been sitting unopened on the shelf for too long. 2. What do you see as being your main contributions to epistemology? In my early work I was most interested in the intersection of moral psychology and epistemology. I thought it was curious ...
Reading Euthyphro
... being of all beings and that must be God who is identified with reason itself. This is the idea held by stoicism that we will study next week. This idea of objectivity implicit in the Euthyphro was developed by Plato in his later dialogues into his famous Theory of Forms. Of course, the idea that vi ...
... being of all beings and that must be God who is identified with reason itself. This is the idea held by stoicism that we will study next week. This idea of objectivity implicit in the Euthyphro was developed by Plato in his later dialogues into his famous Theory of Forms. Of course, the idea that vi ...
Rationalism - LabTec-CS
... knowledge. Whilst rationalism has existed throughout the history of philosophy, it is usually associated specifically with three philosophers during the Renaissance: 1. René Descartes (1596-1650) 2. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) 3. Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) All three of these philosophers s ...
... knowledge. Whilst rationalism has existed throughout the history of philosophy, it is usually associated specifically with three philosophers during the Renaissance: 1. René Descartes (1596-1650) 2. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) 3. Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) All three of these philosophers s ...
Psychology moves towards Whitehead.
... contemporary psychologists would probably find Whitehead too speculative to be of practical relevance. But metaphysics is unavoidable, as noted by the biologist Conrad Waddington and the physicist David Bohm. Both, acknowledging a debt to Whitehead, independently recognised that even scientists who ...
... contemporary psychologists would probably find Whitehead too speculative to be of practical relevance. But metaphysics is unavoidable, as noted by the biologist Conrad Waddington and the physicist David Bohm. Both, acknowledging a debt to Whitehead, independently recognised that even scientists who ...
here
... with the paradigms of Melanesian sociality, actor network theory, material semiotics, and perspectival multinaturalism. But it goes by other names as well, such as posthumanism and postpluralism. Contributors to anthropological theorizations of nondualism are, of course, not all saying the same thin ...
... with the paradigms of Melanesian sociality, actor network theory, material semiotics, and perspectival multinaturalism. But it goes by other names as well, such as posthumanism and postpluralism. Contributors to anthropological theorizations of nondualism are, of course, not all saying the same thin ...
Fourteen pieces on eastern and western philosophy
... philosophy was used only to highlight or support one’s own ideas (Voltaire, Hegel, and again Nietzsche). In some cases, however, the effect was fundamental (Leibnitz, Hume, Schopenhauer, Jung). On a number of points my philosophy, as expounded in this blog, is more congenial with Eastern than with W ...
... philosophy was used only to highlight or support one’s own ideas (Voltaire, Hegel, and again Nietzsche). In some cases, however, the effect was fundamental (Leibnitz, Hume, Schopenhauer, Jung). On a number of points my philosophy, as expounded in this blog, is more congenial with Eastern than with W ...
deductive reasoning
... similarities overlapping and criss-crossing: sometimes overall similarities, sometimes similarities of detail. I can think of no better expression to characterize these similarities than ...
... similarities overlapping and criss-crossing: sometimes overall similarities, sometimes similarities of detail. I can think of no better expression to characterize these similarities than ...
Print this article - Wittgenstein Repository, ed. Wittgenstein Archives
... conventional nature of the sentences that we opt to use in our daily lives (Kripke 1982). He refuses to accept the idea that the meaning of a word can be explained by psychological causes and the effects of the use of the word. This is in disagreement with the analysis of language as a psychological ...
... conventional nature of the sentences that we opt to use in our daily lives (Kripke 1982). He refuses to accept the idea that the meaning of a word can be explained by psychological causes and the effects of the use of the word. This is in disagreement with the analysis of language as a psychological ...
Philosophy of Religion Induction Day
... Draw your brain Then, fill it with everything you have learnt (knowledge and skills) during the lesson. ...
... Draw your brain Then, fill it with everything you have learnt (knowledge and skills) during the lesson. ...
Philosophy Plays
... In more ordinary situations persons may also, for various contingent reasons, choose not to follow the justified requirements of moral rationality, even when recognizing that they have adequate justificatory and in principle motivating reasons for doing so. A possible response from such a person may ...
... In more ordinary situations persons may also, for various contingent reasons, choose not to follow the justified requirements of moral rationality, even when recognizing that they have adequate justificatory and in principle motivating reasons for doing so. A possible response from such a person may ...
Grendel BY John gardner
... Another of Whitehead’s concepts explored in Chapter 5 is that matter is divided into classes by its capacity for expression. Expression, in this case, can be loosely defined as the reaction to received stimuli. Therefore, inorganic matter lacks the capacity for individual expression. Vegetation, hav ...
... Another of Whitehead’s concepts explored in Chapter 5 is that matter is divided into classes by its capacity for expression. Expression, in this case, can be loosely defined as the reaction to received stimuli. Therefore, inorganic matter lacks the capacity for individual expression. Vegetation, hav ...
Päivi Mehtonen, Obscure Language, Unclear Literature: Theory and
... The tradition of rhetoric and the influence of Quintilian can also be seen in the eighteenth century. Mehtonen ends her book with a chapter on the Scottish philosopher George Campbell. After the philosophers’ attacks on literature, or poetry, there was a need to defend these, and Campbell does just ...
... The tradition of rhetoric and the influence of Quintilian can also be seen in the eighteenth century. Mehtonen ends her book with a chapter on the Scottish philosopher George Campbell. After the philosophers’ attacks on literature, or poetry, there was a need to defend these, and Campbell does just ...
Ethics in Medieval Western Philosophy
... Apart from its own intrinsic and variety, the thought of medieval philosophers has a special lesson for people of India in this century to lead moral life. For, whether we endorse their views or not, these people succeeded in a goal that we are far from having realised. They found a pastoral and mea ...
... Apart from its own intrinsic and variety, the thought of medieval philosophers has a special lesson for people of India in this century to lead moral life. For, whether we endorse their views or not, these people succeeded in a goal that we are far from having realised. They found a pastoral and mea ...
- UTK-EECS
... Lullian vision affected the pursuit of method, which occupied many seventeenth-century philosophers, including Descartes, Bacon, and Leibniz, for this pursuit was redirected toward a methodology of abstract relationships among monadic ideas (Ong 1958; Yates 1966, ch. 17; Rossi 2000, ch. 5). Although ...
... Lullian vision affected the pursuit of method, which occupied many seventeenth-century philosophers, including Descartes, Bacon, and Leibniz, for this pursuit was redirected toward a methodology of abstract relationships among monadic ideas (Ong 1958; Yates 1966, ch. 17; Rossi 2000, ch. 5). Although ...
Transcendentalism
... principles: principles not based on, or falsifiable by, sensuous experience, but deriving from the inner, spiritual or mental essence of the human. Immanuel Kant had called "all knowledge transcendental which is concerned not with objects but with our mode of knowing objects." The transcendentalists ...
... principles: principles not based on, or falsifiable by, sensuous experience, but deriving from the inner, spiritual or mental essence of the human. Immanuel Kant had called "all knowledge transcendental which is concerned not with objects but with our mode of knowing objects." The transcendentalists ...
No. 7 Ralph Nelson
... particularly moral theory with social and political concerns, has taken as its foundation a thin theory of the human essence, as opposed to a full-blown theory of human nature. ...
... particularly moral theory with social and political concerns, has taken as its foundation a thin theory of the human essence, as opposed to a full-blown theory of human nature. ...
You can find an example abstract from my own writings attached here.
... 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 the life force in the space of empirical materiality—a property inherent to matter itself, which ...
... 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 the life force in the space of empirical materiality—a property inherent to matter itself, which ...
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 ...
