CONTENDING WITH STANLEY CAVELL
... to undo what I call the repression of Emerson as a thinker by his culture, then there is no hope for it.) The peculiar difference in the instance of the concept of philosophy, using Conant’s application of Kierkegaard, is suggested in the very fact of objective ways of challenging being a Christian, ...
... to undo what I call the repression of Emerson as a thinker by his culture, then there is no hope for it.) The peculiar difference in the instance of the concept of philosophy, using Conant’s application of Kierkegaard, is suggested in the very fact of objective ways of challenging being a Christian, ...
MORAL PHILOSOPHY (Philo 12) - Law, Politics, and Philosophy
... Philosophy is a speculative science because it is under the broader speculative discipline of Humanities. Inasmuch as philosophy is a speculative science, ethics, which is a branch of philosophy, is also a speculative science. The first thing that all students of this subject should know is the dis ...
... Philosophy is a speculative science because it is under the broader speculative discipline of Humanities. Inasmuch as philosophy is a speculative science, ethics, which is a branch of philosophy, is also a speculative science. The first thing that all students of this subject should know is the dis ...
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... that our best description right now is in terms of Lagrangian field theory in any sense determined by some deeper principle? Could it have been otherwise? (and what exactly does the “could” mean?). Again, is the observation that were the constants of nature different by even a very small amount from ...
... that our best description right now is in terms of Lagrangian field theory in any sense determined by some deeper principle? Could it have been otherwise? (and what exactly does the “could” mean?). Again, is the observation that were the constants of nature different by even a very small amount from ...
Preface to Chapter 1, (on Realism and Mind as a Non
... the successful advance of physics early in this century. I think its resolution involves a profound extension, (though not a refutation), of classical logic as well. A full consideration of those deep new cognitive principles: "cognitive closure", (Kant, Maturana, Edelman), "scientific epistemologic ...
... the successful advance of physics early in this century. I think its resolution involves a profound extension, (though not a refutation), of classical logic as well. A full consideration of those deep new cognitive principles: "cognitive closure", (Kant, Maturana, Edelman), "scientific epistemologic ...
Knowledge structuring in scholarly discourse
... particular question. Therefore, this source should still be taken into account for the inquiry of the problem at hand. Example: (from philosophy): Vsrepresentation: a purveyor of the speech act theory might purport that we don’t need to assume representations because when assuming that speaking is a ...
... particular question. Therefore, this source should still be taken into account for the inquiry of the problem at hand. Example: (from philosophy): Vsrepresentation: a purveyor of the speech act theory might purport that we don’t need to assume representations because when assuming that speaking is a ...
HOLISM AND REALISM - Jacques Maritain Center
... descriptions of phenomena. 15 Even statements that appear to be primary observational reports, claimed Duhem, are inextricably connected to a whole body of theoretical assumptions, so it is impossible to link individual hypotheses with particular observations or particular terms with determinate obj ...
... descriptions of phenomena. 15 Even statements that appear to be primary observational reports, claimed Duhem, are inextricably connected to a whole body of theoretical assumptions, so it is impossible to link individual hypotheses with particular observations or particular terms with determinate obj ...
A Realist Theory of Science
... complex to be perceived, which had been going on for millions of years before him. But he could not, at least if his theory is correct, have produced the process he described, the intransitive object of the knowledge he had produced: the mechanism of natural selection. We can easily imagine a world ...
... complex to be perceived, which had been going on for millions of years before him. But he could not, at least if his theory is correct, have produced the process he described, the intransitive object of the knowledge he had produced: the mechanism of natural selection. We can easily imagine a world ...
Handout - John Provost, PhD
... only helpful in helping us free ourselves from fear of the gods. That is, if science could offer us a natural explanation for something that had once been attributed to the gods, than it was good. But if it offered us several different and contradictory explanations then there was no need to decide ...
... only helpful in helping us free ourselves from fear of the gods. That is, if science could offer us a natural explanation for something that had once been attributed to the gods, than it was good. But if it offered us several different and contradictory explanations then there was no need to decide ...
Philosophy Years 5 - The da Vinci Decathlon
... Strawman – Misrepresenting someone’s argument to make it easier to attack Middle ground - Claiming that a compromise or middle point between two arguments is the truth False Cause -Presuming that a real or perceived relationship between things means that one is the cause of the other. Appeal to natu ...
... Strawman – Misrepresenting someone’s argument to make it easier to attack Middle ground - Claiming that a compromise or middle point between two arguments is the truth False Cause -Presuming that a real or perceived relationship between things means that one is the cause of the other. Appeal to natu ...
What Does it Mean to Practise Philosophy?
... Philosophy draws upon its academic heritage and history. Yet it engages in Philosophical Counselling, work with children, or business, or with those that are not professional philosophers, and its philosophical method and perspective clearly lend value to these things. Between these two poles philos ...
... Philosophy draws upon its academic heritage and history. Yet it engages in Philosophical Counselling, work with children, or business, or with those that are not professional philosophers, and its philosophical method and perspective clearly lend value to these things. Between these two poles philos ...
PHILOSOPHY RESEARCH SEMINAR, PHILOSOPHY TEA AND
... that life is a gift. 4.00 Research Seminar: 'Løgstrup's Ethical Demand: Between Hegel and Kierkegaard'. Location: Z103 – Central Committee Room. This room is in the MacLaurin Building, which is a 2-minute walk from the de Havilland Campus (walk past the Law Court building (on your left) and cross th ...
... that life is a gift. 4.00 Research Seminar: 'Løgstrup's Ethical Demand: Between Hegel and Kierkegaard'. Location: Z103 – Central Committee Room. This room is in the MacLaurin Building, which is a 2-minute walk from the de Havilland Campus (walk past the Law Court building (on your left) and cross th ...
lecture1-Science
... What is computation? How does nature compute? Learning from Nature * “It always bothers me that, according to the laws as we understand them today, it takes a computing machine an infinite number of logical operations to figure out what goes on in no matter how tiny a region of space, and no matter ...
... What is computation? How does nature compute? Learning from Nature * “It always bothers me that, according to the laws as we understand them today, it takes a computing machine an infinite number of logical operations to figure out what goes on in no matter how tiny a region of space, and no matter ...
Introduction and Scientific Method Refresher
... This Hypothesis is not Theory-bound! http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/03/11/upheaval-dome-utah.html ...
... This Hypothesis is not Theory-bound! http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/03/11/upheaval-dome-utah.html ...
Preface - PhilPapers
... Science provides us with the methodological key to wisdom. This idea goes back to the 18th century French Enlightenment. Unfortunately, in developing the idea, the philosophes of the Enlightenment made three fundamental blunders: they failed to characterize the progress-achieving methods of science ...
... Science provides us with the methodological key to wisdom. This idea goes back to the 18th century French Enlightenment. Unfortunately, in developing the idea, the philosophes of the Enlightenment made three fundamental blunders: they failed to characterize the progress-achieving methods of science ...
What is Philosophy
... is to arrive at a clear, coherent, and acceptable view of the world. Most attempts by students, or even by professional philosophers, to work out such a view are far below these past efforts. But we must study the great works of the past not only to learn from them but also to avoid their mistakes. ...
... is to arrive at a clear, coherent, and acceptable view of the world. Most attempts by students, or even by professional philosophers, to work out such a view are far below these past efforts. But we must study the great works of the past not only to learn from them but also to avoid their mistakes. ...
Kaufmann`s Sociological review article
... cognition, while at the same time denying that this implies that they are fictions, to be treated simply as matters of ‘as if’. Kaufmann applies a similar line of argument to the issue of methods, insisting that ‘no method of research can be declared a priori to be the only adequate one’ (p69). Rath ...
... cognition, while at the same time denying that this implies that they are fictions, to be treated simply as matters of ‘as if’. Kaufmann applies a similar line of argument to the issue of methods, insisting that ‘no method of research can be declared a priori to be the only adequate one’ (p69). Rath ...
- 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 ...
science
... Knowledge and Objectivity Observations – All observation is potentially ”contaminated”, whether by our theories, our worldview or our past experiences. – It does not mean that science cannot ”objectively” [intersubjectivity] choose from among rival theories on the basis of empirical testing. – Alth ...
... Knowledge and Objectivity Observations – All observation is potentially ”contaminated”, whether by our theories, our worldview or our past experiences. – It does not mean that science cannot ”objectively” [intersubjectivity] choose from among rival theories on the basis of empirical testing. – Alth ...
The discipline of the history of science is - Philsci
... theoretical. Rejecting the positivist ideal of empirical certainty with, which grounded thought in experience, they emphasized the autonomy of reason and the constitutive role of theories in the formation of scientific knowledge (Popper, 2968; Kuhn, 1972; Althusser, 1971). Emphasizing global rather ...
... theoretical. Rejecting the positivist ideal of empirical certainty with, which grounded thought in experience, they emphasized the autonomy of reason and the constitutive role of theories in the formation of scientific knowledge (Popper, 2968; Kuhn, 1972; Althusser, 1971). Emphasizing global rather ...
philosophy as a second order discipline
... of wonder of whether or not through the various changes in the society in which these philosophers lived there was something unchanging, which may be identified as the basic stuff of reality. The second thing that may be deduced from the way the Milesian philosophers engaged in the philosophy is tha ...
... of wonder of whether or not through the various changes in the society in which these philosophers lived there was something unchanging, which may be identified as the basic stuff of reality. The second thing that may be deduced from the way the Milesian philosophers engaged in the philosophy is tha ...
The Scope of Interdisciplinary Collaboration
... asked to come over to this building. The second question, which perhaps interests me a bit more, is whether we should come, if invited. That is, what possibly we could get out of the experience. And then, thirdly, there is Professor Mohr's very eloquent existentialist critique of modem social scienc ...
... asked to come over to this building. The second question, which perhaps interests me a bit more, is whether we should come, if invited. That is, what possibly we could get out of the experience. And then, thirdly, there is Professor Mohr's very eloquent existentialist critique of modem social scienc ...
Should We Still Compare the Social Sciences to the Natural Sciences?
... be considered, more specifically, are the meanings and points of views which people entertain about this purported “fact.” It is “because” of them that we can interpret the colour of the skin as being the observable cause of social inequality. The colour of the skin on its own is not the cause of an ...
... be considered, more specifically, are the meanings and points of views which people entertain about this purported “fact.” It is “because” of them that we can interpret the colour of the skin as being the observable cause of social inequality. The colour of the skin on its own is not the cause of an ...
The Philosophy of Physics - Trin
... in Cambridge University Press' new series `The Evolution of Modern Philosophy': in which each book is to describe how a branch of philosophy has evolved into its present form|the underlying thesis being that philosophy is not about a timeless series of questions, but is shaped by developments across ...
... in Cambridge University Press' new series `The Evolution of Modern Philosophy': in which each book is to describe how a branch of philosophy has evolved into its present form|the underlying thesis being that philosophy is not about a timeless series of questions, but is shaped by developments across ...
"Cannon-fodder for whose science wars?", reply by Alan Sokal and
... Cannon-fodder for whose science wars? John Krige’s review of our book Intellectual Impostures (see Physics World , December 1998, pp. 49–50) is breathtaking in its dishonesty. Aside from conceding that “the language of some of the authors discussed by Sokal and Bricmont raises disturbing questions a ...
... Cannon-fodder for whose science wars? John Krige’s review of our book Intellectual Impostures (see Physics World , December 1998, pp. 49–50) is breathtaking in its dishonesty. Aside from conceding that “the language of some of the authors discussed by Sokal and Bricmont raises disturbing questions a ...
Philosophy of science
Philosophy of science is a branch of philosophy concerned with the foundations, methods, and implications of science. The central questions of this study concern what qualifies as science, the reliability of scientific theories, and the ultimate purpose of science. This discipline overlaps with metaphysics, ontology, and epistemology, for example, when it explores the relationship between science and truth.There is no consensus among philosophers about many of the central problems concerned with the philosophy of science, including whether science can reveal the truth about unobservable things and whether scientific reasoning can be justified at all. In addition to these general questions about science as a whole, philosophers of science consider problems that apply to particular sciences (such as biology or physics). Some philosophers of science also use contemporary results in science to reach conclusions about philosophy itself.While relevant philosophical thought dates back at least to the time of Aristotle, philosophy of science emerged as a distinct discipline only in the middle of the 20th century in the wake of the logical positivism movement, which aimed to formulate criteria for ensuring all philosophical statements' meaningfulness and objectively assessing them. Thomas Kuhn's book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962) brought into the mainstream the word ""paradigm"", meaning the set of concepts that define a scientific discipline in a particular period. In his book, Kuhn challenged the established view of ""scientific progress as a gradual, cumulative acquisition of knowledge based on rationally chosen experimental frameworks"".In the 21st century, someTemplate:Which? thinkers seek to ground science in axiomatic assumptions, such as the uniformity of nature. Many philosophers of science, however, take a coherentist approach to science, in which a theory is validated if it makes sense of observations as part of a coherent whole. Still others, and Paul Feyerabend (1924-1994) in particular, argue that there is no such thing as the ""scientific method"", so all approaches to science should be allowed, including explicitly supernatural ones. (Feyerabend remains in the minority among philosophers of science.) Another approach to thinking about science involves studying how knowledge is created from a sociological perspective, an approach represented by scholars like David Bloor and Barry Barnes. Finally, a tradition in Continental philosophy approaches science from the perspective of a rigorous analysis of human experience.Philosophies of the particular sciences range from questions about the nature of time raised by Einstein's general relativity, to the implications of economics for public policy. A central theme is whether one scientific discipline can be reduced to the terms of another. That is, can chemistry be reduced to physics, or can sociology be reduced to individual psychology? The general questions of philosophy of science also arise with greater specificity in some particular sciences. For instance, the question of the validity of scientific reasoning is seen in a different guise in the foundations of statistics. The question of what counts as science and what should be excluded arises as a life-or-death matter in the philosophy of medicine. Additionally, the philosophies of biology, of psychology, and of the social sciences explore whether the scientific studies of human nature can achieve objectivity or are inevitably shaped by values and by social relations.