This dissertation is a critique of three strands of recent
... proposals for naturalistic (or “naturalized”) epistemology, the recent attempt to transform theory of knowledge into a branch of natural science. In Western philosophy, epistemology has long been considered one of the most distinctively philosophic subjects. If even it can be naturalized, there may ...
... proposals for naturalistic (or “naturalized”) epistemology, the recent attempt to transform theory of knowledge into a branch of natural science. In Western philosophy, epistemology has long been considered one of the most distinctively philosophic subjects. If even it can be naturalized, there may ...
Non-rational human beings, the poverty of philosophy
... means is best elucidated by means of example again. In Soviet Russia, large numbers of people were moved from the sattelite states and replaced by Russians, as part of Stalin's policy of Russification. This is a fact in every sense that the word normally signifies, but what that fact means to you de ...
... means is best elucidated by means of example again. In Soviet Russia, large numbers of people were moved from the sattelite states and replaced by Russians, as part of Stalin's policy of Russification. This is a fact in every sense that the word normally signifies, but what that fact means to you de ...
Are We Really So Modern - Northampton Community College
... around the sun rather than vice versa, was announced by Copernicus in 1543 and championed by Galileo in the early sixteen-hundreds. This revelation was immediately experienced as a profound dislocation, as John Donne testified in his 1611 poem “An Anatomy of the World”: “The sun is ...
... around the sun rather than vice versa, was announced by Copernicus in 1543 and championed by Galileo in the early sixteen-hundreds. This revelation was immediately experienced as a profound dislocation, as John Donne testified in his 1611 poem “An Anatomy of the World”: “The sun is ...
January 30 Reading - Are We Really So Modern
... the earth revolves around the sun rather than vice versa, was announced by Copernicus in 1543 and championed by Galileo in the early sixteen-hundreds. This revelation was immediately experienced as a profound dislocation, as John Donne testified in his 1611 poem “An Anatomy of the World”: “The sun i ...
... the earth revolves around the sun rather than vice versa, was announced by Copernicus in 1543 and championed by Galileo in the early sixteen-hundreds. This revelation was immediately experienced as a profound dislocation, as John Donne testified in his 1611 poem “An Anatomy of the World”: “The sun i ...
Handout - John Provost, PhD
... The less demands we make, the less money we need, the more we are likely to be able to enjoy the simple blessings of a life of appreciation, rather than a life of acquisition. With increased prosperity come worries and complications. Epicurus was not advocating a menial poverty. That too has its wor ...
... The less demands we make, the less money we need, the more we are likely to be able to enjoy the simple blessings of a life of appreciation, rather than a life of acquisition. With increased prosperity come worries and complications. Epicurus was not advocating a menial poverty. That too has its wor ...
SELECTIONS FROM THE LAOZI (DAODEJING)
... The Daodejing (“The Classic of the Way and Its Power”) is a compilation reflecting a particular strain of thought from around 300 BCE. It is traditionally attributed to a mysterious character known as Laozi (“the old master”). There is no evidence that such a person existed at all. The book attribut ...
... The Daodejing (“The Classic of the Way and Its Power”) is a compilation reflecting a particular strain of thought from around 300 BCE. It is traditionally attributed to a mysterious character known as Laozi (“the old master”). There is no evidence that such a person existed at all. The book attribut ...
My first university was in my home town, Durban, in the mid
... A big issue when I started doing philosophy was ‘incommensurability’. The idea was that scientists with different theories will necessarily mean different things by their words, and so will be unable to communicate with each other. Initially I bought the premise. Given the prevalent ‘use’ theories ...
... A big issue when I started doing philosophy was ‘incommensurability’. The idea was that scientists with different theories will necessarily mean different things by their words, and so will be unable to communicate with each other. Initially I bought the premise. Given the prevalent ‘use’ theories ...
History of Philosophy
... political power are artificially set up. Man is defined as a rational creature, who can design fundamental institutions and execute their plan. Any design to be executed is based on general knowledge, which can explain and predict events (identify causes and effects). The leading idea is that man ca ...
... political power are artificially set up. Man is defined as a rational creature, who can design fundamental institutions and execute their plan. Any design to be executed is based on general knowledge, which can explain and predict events (identify causes and effects). The leading idea is that man ca ...
Class #2 - 3-18-13
... the first set of answers to some of the largest and most difficult questions: What is the structure of reality? What can be known for certain? What is moral virtue? What is the nature of the ideal state? ...
... the first set of answers to some of the largest and most difficult questions: What is the structure of reality? What can be known for certain? What is moral virtue? What is the nature of the ideal state? ...
Class #2
... promote everyone’s best interest. If you hold this view, then you are a utilitarian. Utilitarianism was argued by John Stuart Mill (1806-1873). ...
... promote everyone’s best interest. If you hold this view, then you are a utilitarian. Utilitarianism was argued by John Stuart Mill (1806-1873). ...
Philosophy of Language
... from Julia Kristeva in an interview in the Guardian (14 April): “As you know, I belong to the tendency, or school in French philosophy which developed in the 60s, in which conceptual work is deeply involved with the personal and in which notions, or ideas, are sutured by style. There is a lot of ima ...
... from Julia Kristeva in an interview in the Guardian (14 April): “As you know, I belong to the tendency, or school in French philosophy which developed in the 60s, in which conceptual work is deeply involved with the personal and in which notions, or ideas, are sutured by style. There is a lot of ima ...
-METHOD - dywagacje - LesbijskieStopy
... way (hodos) to go, means, as “speculative―, standing still as being, all the same, in perpetual re-volution. in a return upon self, once pictured as a dance “in the round― by Dante (The Divine Comedy III). This method is in fact “the specific consciousness― of the value of the logical †...
... way (hodos) to go, means, as “speculative―, standing still as being, all the same, in perpetual re-volution. in a return upon self, once pictured as a dance “in the round― by Dante (The Divine Comedy III). This method is in fact “the specific consciousness― of the value of the logical †...
Good
... GOOD This section deals with evidence on the nature of the good. For related ideas, see also the sections on Ethics and Values. A moral and rational life is the human ideal, according to Plato and Aristotle Robert C. Solomon and Kathleen M. Higgins (both professors of philosophy, Univ. of Texas at A ...
... GOOD This section deals with evidence on the nature of the good. For related ideas, see also the sections on Ethics and Values. A moral and rational life is the human ideal, according to Plato and Aristotle Robert C. Solomon and Kathleen M. Higgins (both professors of philosophy, Univ. of Texas at A ...
Why is there Philosophy of Mathematics at all?
... mathematics. Hacking points out that well before any distinction was made between them, there was ‘mixed’ mathematics, even by that name, in Francis Bacon’s work. It meant simply that one can apply Euclidean geometry to ballistics or mechanics, for example, by adjoining an empirical component. The s ...
... mathematics. Hacking points out that well before any distinction was made between them, there was ‘mixed’ mathematics, even by that name, in Francis Bacon’s work. It meant simply that one can apply Euclidean geometry to ballistics or mechanics, for example, by adjoining an empirical component. The s ...
Historical Context and Background to Transcendentalism
... During the 1830s and 1840s, Emerson and a small group of like-minded intellectual friends gathered regularly in his study to discuss philosophy, religion, and literature. Among them were Emerson’s protégé, Henry David Thoreau, as well as educator Bronson Alcott, feminist writer Margaret Fuller, and ...
... During the 1830s and 1840s, Emerson and a small group of like-minded intellectual friends gathered regularly in his study to discuss philosophy, religion, and literature. Among them were Emerson’s protégé, Henry David Thoreau, as well as educator Bronson Alcott, feminist writer Margaret Fuller, and ...
Jacob Bunce PHIL 2200 Final 1) What is hermeneutics? How does it
... 4) What does “philo-sophia” literally mean? How would this be different from geometry? How is it similar? It literally means “love of wisdom.” Philosophy is the pursuit of wisdom, not the possession of wisdom. There are no hard facts in philosophy, only questions and the desire to find those facts w ...
... 4) What does “philo-sophia” literally mean? How would this be different from geometry? How is it similar? It literally means “love of wisdom.” Philosophy is the pursuit of wisdom, not the possession of wisdom. There are no hard facts in philosophy, only questions and the desire to find those facts w ...
Theme 3
... Sophists - the teachers of wisdom - were not only political and legal technology activities, and at the same time taught and the philosophy. It is important to emphasize that the sophists have focused on social issues, on the person and on the problems of communication, teaching public speaking and ...
... Sophists - the teachers of wisdom - were not only political and legal technology activities, and at the same time taught and the philosophy. It is important to emphasize that the sophists have focused on social issues, on the person and on the problems of communication, teaching public speaking and ...
SESSION I: The Social Sciences and the Human Sciences: A
... At the end of the first half of the 20th century, rising up against positivist scientificism and the intellectualism of the philosophies of subjectivity, Maurice Merleau-Ponty wrote a Phenomenology of Perception, a title bearing significance in and of itself, given its contraposition to Hegel’s Phe ...
... At the end of the first half of the 20th century, rising up against positivist scientificism and the intellectualism of the philosophies of subjectivity, Maurice Merleau-Ponty wrote a Phenomenology of Perception, a title bearing significance in and of itself, given its contraposition to Hegel’s Phe ...
rev first summer 06 5/30/06
... remarks. “But you can’t understand medieval Christian thought without Aristotle. In fact, my thesis is that the differences between the two branches of Christendom go back to the different ways they appropriated the metaphysics of Plato and Aristotle— that is, their basic thought about what’s real.” ...
... remarks. “But you can’t understand medieval Christian thought without Aristotle. In fact, my thesis is that the differences between the two branches of Christendom go back to the different ways they appropriated the metaphysics of Plato and Aristotle— that is, their basic thought about what’s real.” ...
later buddhisht logicians and apoha theory of
... Mimamsa and the Nyaya schools of philosophy. Scholars have tried to establish that these logicians in their expositions of Buddhist theory of meaning have deviated from the basic theoretical standpoint as proposed by the masters like Dinnaga and Dharmakirti. However, this paper argues that the ‘posi ...
... Mimamsa and the Nyaya schools of philosophy. Scholars have tried to establish that these logicians in their expositions of Buddhist theory of meaning have deviated from the basic theoretical standpoint as proposed by the masters like Dinnaga and Dharmakirti. However, this paper argues that the ‘posi ...
Week III Philosophy Excerpts- Mr F`s Philosophy Class Hindu
... philosophical thinking. However, it could be interpreted as designating one comprehensive philosophical doctrine, shared by all Hindu thinkers. The term “Hindu philosophy” is often used loosely in this philosophical or doctrinal sense, but this usage is misleading. There is no single, comprehensive ...
... philosophical thinking. However, it could be interpreted as designating one comprehensive philosophical doctrine, shared by all Hindu thinkers. The term “Hindu philosophy” is often used loosely in this philosophical or doctrinal sense, but this usage is misleading. There is no single, comprehensive ...
Pleonastic Possible Worlds References
... The standard semantics for the modal fragment of natural languages can only be correct if there is more than one possible world. The nature and existence of possible worlds is thus of fundamental importance for such a semantics. The paper develops an account of possible worlds in the spirit of the p ...
... The standard semantics for the modal fragment of natural languages can only be correct if there is more than one possible world. The nature and existence of possible worlds is thus of fundamental importance for such a semantics. The paper develops an account of possible worlds in the spirit of the p ...
Early Greek Philosophy
... early Ionians, Parmenides' thought possessed a peculiar combination of traditional religious and novel secular elements. From what he described as a divine revelation emerged his achievement of an unprecedentedly rigorous deductive logic. In their search for simplicity in explaining nature, the Ioni ...
... early Ionians, Parmenides' thought possessed a peculiar combination of traditional religious and novel secular elements. From what he described as a divine revelation emerged his achievement of an unprecedentedly rigorous deductive logic. In their search for simplicity in explaining nature, the Ioni ...
THE TOUCH OF CLASS: PHILOSOPHY, ARCHITECTURE
... on space became the difference and delimitation between the inside and the outside. The ambivalence of the border between the two has been elaborated through such concepts as Plato's 'hora' and Freud's 'uncanny'. On this ground, Jacques Derrida started to build his philosophical notions of space int ...
... on space became the difference and delimitation between the inside and the outside. The ambivalence of the border between the two has been elaborated through such concepts as Plato's 'hora' and Freud's 'uncanny'. On this ground, Jacques Derrida started to build his philosophical notions of space int ...