Problems Of Metaphysical Philosophy
... question to which answer or solution has to be given. When we therefore speak of the problems of metaphysical philosophy we have in mind those recurrent issues in metaphysics which border on human existence and influence our daily existence. We say these problems are recurrent in the sense that they ...
... question to which answer or solution has to be given. When we therefore speak of the problems of metaphysical philosophy we have in mind those recurrent issues in metaphysics which border on human existence and influence our daily existence. We say these problems are recurrent in the sense that they ...
reply to Tracy Llanera - Keele Research Repository
... prediction, for which a remedy was urgently sought, but its main effect seems to have been to provide inspiration to the arts – sometimes good, sometimes not so. Perhaps some of the philosophical remedies, such as relying upon our heritage, did transpire in a way; but overwhelmingly through muddling ...
... prediction, for which a remedy was urgently sought, but its main effect seems to have been to provide inspiration to the arts – sometimes good, sometimes not so. Perhaps some of the philosophical remedies, such as relying upon our heritage, did transpire in a way; but overwhelmingly through muddling ...
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... gets a bit closer to why Cavell believes that film and philosophy were “made for each other,” though it does not clarify in what precise ways their relationship is to be understood. Indeed, the relationship between film and philosophy itself remains a question in Cavell’s thinking on (and with) film ...
... gets a bit closer to why Cavell believes that film and philosophy were “made for each other,” though it does not clarify in what precise ways their relationship is to be understood. Indeed, the relationship between film and philosophy itself remains a question in Cavell’s thinking on (and with) film ...
hellenic philosophy
... other. But the situation is more complex than it appears. For, even if the Indians were to go along with this solution, I suspect that the Greeks would have great difficulty accepting it for the following simple reason. Geographically Greece belongs to Eastern Mediterranean. Since ancient times, it ...
... other. But the situation is more complex than it appears. For, even if the Indians were to go along with this solution, I suspect that the Greeks would have great difficulty accepting it for the following simple reason. Geographically Greece belongs to Eastern Mediterranean. Since ancient times, it ...
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
... main plot of the movie, which seems to focus the film entirely around the idea of personal identity. It can be said then, that Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is not an entertainment piece, but a philosophical thought experiment that argues about personal identity, specifically that a person’s ...
... main plot of the movie, which seems to focus the film entirely around the idea of personal identity. It can be said then, that Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is not an entertainment piece, but a philosophical thought experiment that argues about personal identity, specifically that a person’s ...
Philosophy as a Private Language
... pass, and the two anthropologists compare notes. The anthropologist who lived with the tribe now appears fluent in its language, but explains that he is unable to translate it easily as the vocabulary is extremely sophisticated, referring to complex issues within the tribe. It appears the only way t ...
... pass, and the two anthropologists compare notes. The anthropologist who lived with the tribe now appears fluent in its language, but explains that he is unable to translate it easily as the vocabulary is extremely sophisticated, referring to complex issues within the tribe. It appears the only way t ...
Keith Crome`s `Descartes` Evil Demon`
... a certainty of knowledge as yet unavailable to him and hence would be an impossible undertaking. Instead it is sufficient to withhold assent from anything that is not completely certain and indubitable. Neither is it necessary, he says, to investigate each belief individually. Rather, he need consid ...
... a certainty of knowledge as yet unavailable to him and hence would be an impossible undertaking. Instead it is sufficient to withhold assent from anything that is not completely certain and indubitable. Neither is it necessary, he says, to investigate each belief individually. Rather, he need consid ...
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
... Compare, for example, what would happen if we identified the meanings of ‘grass is green’ and ‘I believe that grass is green’. It follows from that view that anyone who believes that grass is green and says ‘grass is green’ speaks truly. This is analogous to the prediction of speaker subjectivism th ...
... Compare, for example, what would happen if we identified the meanings of ‘grass is green’ and ‘I believe that grass is green’. It follows from that view that anyone who believes that grass is green and says ‘grass is green’ speaks truly. This is analogous to the prediction of speaker subjectivism th ...
CHAPTER-V The Orient in Henry David Thoreau`s writings
... writing who has a close association with the Oriental ideas than Henry David Thoreau. As a disciple of Emerson, he began his career. Was he convinced on all major points of Emerson‘s philosophy? It is a matter of another argument and analysis. But Thoreau‘s own intelligence, his special method of lo ...
... writing who has a close association with the Oriental ideas than Henry David Thoreau. As a disciple of Emerson, he began his career. Was he convinced on all major points of Emerson‘s philosophy? It is a matter of another argument and analysis. But Thoreau‘s own intelligence, his special method of lo ...
-BECOMING X1 - artykuły innych autorów
... he is the absolute Thing." Yet that "he is the absolute Person… is a point which the philosophy of Spinoza never reached." This is important as showing that such theistic utterances belong for Hegel in philosophy, whatever his not very well observed reservations about use of the name "God" there. ...
... he is the absolute Thing." Yet that "he is the absolute Person… is a point which the philosophy of Spinoza never reached." This is important as showing that such theistic utterances belong for Hegel in philosophy, whatever his not very well observed reservations about use of the name "God" there. ...
The Self and Its World: Husserlian Contributions to a Metaphysics of
... asserted the heliocentric theory while the latter stressed the mathematical scheme in describing the orbits of planets around the sun.16 Although the mechanistic world view ultimately abandoned the concept of the clock- maker God, at the outset of the progress of modern science, however, the medieva ...
... asserted the heliocentric theory while the latter stressed the mathematical scheme in describing the orbits of planets around the sun.16 Although the mechanistic world view ultimately abandoned the concept of the clock- maker God, at the outset of the progress of modern science, however, the medieva ...
MTO 0.11: Covach, Destructuring Cartesian Dualism
... aside in full consciousness of doing so—our usual theories and ways of accounting for things in the act of perception; focus is placed on the phenomenon of our conscious experience itself. Husserl conceived of phenomenology as a method that was applicable to many disciplines, and indeed, in the year ...
... aside in full consciousness of doing so—our usual theories and ways of accounting for things in the act of perception; focus is placed on the phenomenon of our conscious experience itself. Husserl conceived of phenomenology as a method that was applicable to many disciplines, and indeed, in the year ...
Don Ihde vs Bruno Latour
... extreme subjectivism and extreme objectivism in its notion of the world or of rationality.” 3 For phenomenology, the things of the world show “existential existence”, and therefore are very “fragile”, changing in all possible ways and becoming fixed only in concrete moments of existential experience ...
... extreme subjectivism and extreme objectivism in its notion of the world or of rationality.” 3 For phenomenology, the things of the world show “existential existence”, and therefore are very “fragile”, changing in all possible ways and becoming fixed only in concrete moments of existential experience ...
`Spaces` in Mathematics, Physics, Subjectivity, and Historiography
... Göttingen, where he attended lectures by Husserl) these references appear rather straightforward and also make plausible the otherwise rather unconventional details of Weyl's Fichte reception. In turn, something similar is true of Medicus's philosophical work. Hence, I suggest that the close histori ...
... Göttingen, where he attended lectures by Husserl) these references appear rather straightforward and also make plausible the otherwise rather unconventional details of Weyl's Fichte reception. In turn, something similar is true of Medicus's philosophical work. Hence, I suggest that the close histori ...
read - daniel tarr
... of the issue in India and Tibet, and its relative newness in the West. One major obstacle to appreciation of the richness of the Buddhist nonegocentrist tradition by modern philosophers, who would therein find so much of interest and use, is the unwarranted prejudice that Buddhist thought is “mystic ...
... of the issue in India and Tibet, and its relative newness in the West. One major obstacle to appreciation of the richness of the Buddhist nonegocentrist tradition by modern philosophers, who would therein find so much of interest and use, is the unwarranted prejudice that Buddhist thought is “mystic ...
Preface to Lying, Misleading and What is Said
... Another way in which this book differs from most in philosophy of language is that it is concerned with a distinction of at least apparent normative moral significance. Indeed, although Chapter 4 draws on material in philosophy of language, it is not itself philosophy of language, but ethics; and C ...
... Another way in which this book differs from most in philosophy of language is that it is concerned with a distinction of at least apparent normative moral significance. Indeed, although Chapter 4 draws on material in philosophy of language, it is not itself philosophy of language, but ethics; and C ...
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... ethnographic analyses it informs can tend towards self-iteration, calling into question the need for field-based engagement in the very relations of which nondualism is said to be an infinite inflation. At the same time, a monologic of fractal relationship can come to function as a general interdict ...
... ethnographic analyses it informs can tend towards self-iteration, calling into question the need for field-based engagement in the very relations of which nondualism is said to be an infinite inflation. At the same time, a monologic of fractal relationship can come to function as a general interdict ...
First Name Surname Nationality Key Theories Key
... Claimed to have proved the existence of god, by scientifically demonstrating through his famous "five ways" how things in the natural world observe laws, which are ordained by god. Studying the natural world therefore is like studying the mind of god. Poet and first to publish in the Italian languag ...
... Claimed to have proved the existence of god, by scientifically demonstrating through his famous "five ways" how things in the natural world observe laws, which are ordained by god. Studying the natural world therefore is like studying the mind of god. Poet and first to publish in the Italian languag ...
Lean Hog -- February - Iowa State University
... The Wax Example: My idea of the wax remains the same while the wax goes through drastic changes: it is the same wax although its properties change when it is melted or frozen. My senses do not give me an understanding of the wax: I get different sensory information as the wax changes, but my idea of ...
... The Wax Example: My idea of the wax remains the same while the wax goes through drastic changes: it is the same wax although its properties change when it is melted or frozen. My senses do not give me an understanding of the wax: I get different sensory information as the wax changes, but my idea of ...
African Philosophy
... ogy should not be dogmatic; philosophy is characterized by systematic and critical analysis. It is argued therefore that because the subject matter and method of philosophy involve a rigorous process of critical analysis of concepts, issues, and problems, these dogmatic cultural beliefs and worldvie ...
... ogy should not be dogmatic; philosophy is characterized by systematic and critical analysis. It is argued therefore that because the subject matter and method of philosophy involve a rigorous process of critical analysis of concepts, issues, and problems, these dogmatic cultural beliefs and worldvie ...
The Philosophy of Sleep: The Views of Descartes, Locke and
... that it could be brought back into existence by a loud noise or a wet flannel. Its existence would be contingent on the activities of other finite existences and it would therefore be quite unfit to qualify as a substance. So, taken together, Descartes’ metaphysical doctrines of substance and essenc ...
... that it could be brought back into existence by a loud noise or a wet flannel. Its existence would be contingent on the activities of other finite existences and it would therefore be quite unfit to qualify as a substance. So, taken together, Descartes’ metaphysical doctrines of substance and essenc ...
Thesis Abstract
... 1. Purposes of research and methodological considerations The purpose of this research is to study the different roles of inner experience and the inner sense in Empiricism, especially from argumentative and methodological perspectives. The research studies the philosophies of the three classical Em ...
... 1. Purposes of research and methodological considerations The purpose of this research is to study the different roles of inner experience and the inner sense in Empiricism, especially from argumentative and methodological perspectives. The research studies the philosophies of the three classical Em ...
1 - David Papineau
... relate to specific branches of science, but structure all our thinking about the natural world. This makes it unlikely that any specific empirical data will ever decide between competing theories of these fundamental categories. Their extreme generality gives them room to account for an openended r ...
... relate to specific branches of science, but structure all our thinking about the natural world. This makes it unlikely that any specific empirical data will ever decide between competing theories of these fundamental categories. Their extreme generality gives them room to account for an openended r ...
The Double-Edged Sword of Reason The Scholar`s Predicament
... philosophical conscience’ (Marx, 1977: 5) and, in the course of a selective critique of philosophical idealism (signposted by Hegel, Kant and Heidegger), to formulate the principles of the historical rationalism that has animated his work from its inception. In so doing, Bourdieu removes a major obs ...
... philosophical conscience’ (Marx, 1977: 5) and, in the course of a selective critique of philosophical idealism (signposted by Hegel, Kant and Heidegger), to formulate the principles of the historical rationalism that has animated his work from its inception. In so doing, Bourdieu removes a major obs ...
French philosophy
French philosophy, here taken to mean philosophy in the French language, has been extremely diverse and has influenced Western philosophy as a whole for centuries, from the medieval scholasticism of Peter Abelard, through the founding of modern philosophy by René Descartes, to 20th century existentialism, phenomenology and structuralism.