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 ...
Asouzu`s Critique of Philosophy of Essence and Its Implication for
... example among rationalism and empiricism, materialism and non-materialism, realism and idealism, and verifiability criterion of logical positivism as against metaphysical principles. The foregoing though paves way for the growth of positivism in science. Thus, the adoption of the following principle ...
... example among rationalism and empiricism, materialism and non-materialism, realism and idealism, and verifiability criterion of logical positivism as against metaphysical principles. The foregoing though paves way for the growth of positivism in science. Thus, the adoption of the following principle ...
Ch. VI. Sociology of Science 1. We mentioned previously that an
... purposes in contrast to technological purposes of scientific theories. It is obvious that all factors of social power will not only favor the rise of scientific theories that bring about desirable advances in technology, but they will also favor scientific theories that satisfy moral purposes or, in ...
... purposes in contrast to technological purposes of scientific theories. It is obvious that all factors of social power will not only favor the rise of scientific theories that bring about desirable advances in technology, but they will also favor scientific theories that satisfy moral purposes or, in ...
Rene Descartes
... The first rule is probably the best known, as it is boldly expressed in the opening paragraphs of Descartes‟ Meditations on First Philosophy, perhaps the most important book of the modern period. Descartes hopes to secure a firm foundation for the natural sciences by establishing a first truth or tr ...
... The first rule is probably the best known, as it is boldly expressed in the opening paragraphs of Descartes‟ Meditations on First Philosophy, perhaps the most important book of the modern period. Descartes hopes to secure a firm foundation for the natural sciences by establishing a first truth or tr ...
Two Cartesian Topics – Scepticism and the Mind
... – If F is the property of being doubted by me to exist, a is me, and b is my body, we get Descartes’ argument from the Discourse. – Likewise F could be the property of being doubted by me to be Prime Minister (etc.) ...
... – If F is the property of being doubted by me to exist, a is me, and b is my body, we get Descartes’ argument from the Discourse. – Likewise F could be the property of being doubted by me to be Prime Minister (etc.) ...
This dissertation is a critique of three strands of recent
... naturalism,” attempts to use scientific methods to give positive answers to traditional epistemological questions. For example, optimistic naturalists like Goldman, Kitcher, and Kornblith propose using results from psychology or evolutionary biology to refute the skeptic and show that our beliefs ar ...
... naturalism,” attempts to use scientific methods to give positive answers to traditional epistemological questions. For example, optimistic naturalists like Goldman, Kitcher, and Kornblith propose using results from psychology or evolutionary biology to refute the skeptic and show that our beliefs ar ...
What is Philosophy
... Thus ordinary language philosophers are not linguists, they are not interested in ordinary language for its own sake, but for the help that it gives in understanding philosophical questions. An understanding of this point makes it clear why philosophers are interested only in a very small number of ...
... Thus ordinary language philosophers are not linguists, they are not interested in ordinary language for its own sake, but for the help that it gives in understanding philosophical questions. An understanding of this point makes it clear why philosophers are interested only in a very small number of ...
The Vindication of St. Thomas
... Lonergan, Edward Schillebeeckx, Yves Congar, and even the very early Joseph Ratzinger. Some of our teachers were just back from studying in Rome, where they had drunk deeply of so-called Transcendental Thomism — which, upon later scrutiny, I found to be in some significant ways an inversion of Thomi ...
... Lonergan, Edward Schillebeeckx, Yves Congar, and even the very early Joseph Ratzinger. Some of our teachers were just back from studying in Rome, where they had drunk deeply of so-called Transcendental Thomism — which, upon later scrutiny, I found to be in some significant ways an inversion of Thomi ...
MORAL PHILOSOPHY (Philo 12) - Law, Politics, and Philosophy
... thinker, philosophy is the study of the ultimate principles and causes of things using human reason alone. It is a science that provides a systematic and clear account of what is deemed important in the world, such as questions pertaining to reality and human existence. It asks the basis for the rat ...
... thinker, philosophy is the study of the ultimate principles and causes of things using human reason alone. It is a science that provides a systematic and clear account of what is deemed important in the world, such as questions pertaining to reality and human existence. It asks the basis for the rat ...
Sometimes I despair of my philosophical colleagues
... Sometimes I despair of my philosophical colleagues. They are so conservative. I don’t mean this in a political sense. In conventional party-political terms, most professional philosophers are probably well to the left of centre. As a group, they have a strong sense of fairness and little commitment ...
... Sometimes I despair of my philosophical colleagues. They are so conservative. I don’t mean this in a political sense. In conventional party-political terms, most professional philosophers are probably well to the left of centre. As a group, they have a strong sense of fairness and little commitment ...
Answers to Practice Quiz #3 - Langara iWeb
... (ii) Explain why even property dualism sets a limit to the extent that neuroscience will ever understand the mind. Neuroscience can only understand the physical properties of the brain. The nonphysical aspects cannot be studied scientifically. ...
... (ii) Explain why even property dualism sets a limit to the extent that neuroscience will ever understand the mind. Neuroscience can only understand the physical properties of the brain. The nonphysical aspects cannot be studied scientifically. ...
Editorial The text appeared, with minor modifications, in the author`s
... Plato has written about the problem of the soul in the dialogues Phaedrus and The Republic. First, in the "Phaedrus" dialogue, Socrates presented the chariot allegory, arguing that the soul is like a chariot with three parts: one part is the warrior that is driving the horses to the battlefield; ano ...
... Plato has written about the problem of the soul in the dialogues Phaedrus and The Republic. First, in the "Phaedrus" dialogue, Socrates presented the chariot allegory, arguing that the soul is like a chariot with three parts: one part is the warrior that is driving the horses to the battlefield; ano ...
What is Existential-Phenomenology
... movement, but its roots in phenomenology are not as widely understood. Historically, the roots of existential philosophy can be traced to the nineteenth-century writings of Soren Kierkegaard, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Central to the work of this figures was an emphasis on the exis ...
... movement, but its roots in phenomenology are not as widely understood. Historically, the roots of existential philosophy can be traced to the nineteenth-century writings of Soren Kierkegaard, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Central to the work of this figures was an emphasis on the exis ...
ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY—a trend in contemporary philosophy with
... primary language (esp. in the United States and Australia). The precursors of the trend include G. Frege and, in part, F. Brentano. THE DEVELOPMENT OF ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY. In its first phase, analytic philosophy was a form of opposition to neo-Hegelian metaphysics, which was cultivated in England by ...
... primary language (esp. in the United States and Australia). The precursors of the trend include G. Frege and, in part, F. Brentano. THE DEVELOPMENT OF ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY. In its first phase, analytic philosophy was a form of opposition to neo-Hegelian metaphysics, which was cultivated in England by ...
Topic 2b: What is conceptualization? Jerry Fodor (2008): LOT2 The
... intentionality that makes the philosophy of mind so hard; consciousness is what makes it impossible” RTM: compositionality – the content of a thought is determined by its structure and the content of its constituent concepts. Compositionality explains productivity and systematicity. concepts are c ...
... intentionality that makes the philosophy of mind so hard; consciousness is what makes it impossible” RTM: compositionality – the content of a thought is determined by its structure and the content of its constituent concepts. Compositionality explains productivity and systematicity. concepts are c ...
manuel delanda in conversation with christoph cox – pdf
... of the thesis of the linguisticality of experience leaves only one possible realist position: essentialism. If the meaning of words determines what we perceive, then, for the objects of perception to be mind-independent, meanings must capture their essence. Thus, having rejected Kant, he was able to ...
... of the thesis of the linguisticality of experience leaves only one possible realist position: essentialism. If the meaning of words determines what we perceive, then, for the objects of perception to be mind-independent, meanings must capture their essence. Thus, having rejected Kant, he was able to ...
Do We Think Outside The Stream Of Consciousness?
... tools to argue against it, in different ways. Firstly, it is not clear that events and processes are the only candidates which can enter the stream by way of its ‘unfolding over time’ (against premise (i)). In the section Reply 1 I argue that we can make sense of the idea of a mental episode having ...
... tools to argue against it, in different ways. Firstly, it is not clear that events and processes are the only candidates which can enter the stream by way of its ‘unfolding over time’ (against premise (i)). In the section Reply 1 I argue that we can make sense of the idea of a mental episode having ...
From The Philosophy of Ernst Cassirer, edited by
... itself. It took Cassirer to see that those difficulties themselves were worth investigating. Ignorance is a negative condition; why should the mere absence of correct conceptions lead to misconceptions? And why should language, supposedly a practical instrument for conveying thought, serve to resist ...
... itself. It took Cassirer to see that those difficulties themselves were worth investigating. Ignorance is a negative condition; why should the mere absence of correct conceptions lead to misconceptions? And why should language, supposedly a practical instrument for conveying thought, serve to resist ...
Ludwig Andreas von Feuerbach (July 28, 1804 – September 13
... so he becomes acquainted with himself. Feuerbach shows that in every aspect God corresponds to some feature or need of human nature. "If man is to find contentment in God," he claims, "he must find himself in God." Thus God is nothing else than man: he is, so to speak, the outward projection of man ...
... so he becomes acquainted with himself. Feuerbach shows that in every aspect God corresponds to some feature or need of human nature. "If man is to find contentment in God," he claims, "he must find himself in God." Thus God is nothing else than man: he is, so to speak, the outward projection of man ...
Philosophy without Intuitions, by Herman Cappelen. Oxford: Oxford
... for these to be true, the speaker has to be in some unique kind of state (p. 46). Thus, if philosophers are using these words in their ordinary meaning, this use cannot provide support to Centrality. Perhaps philosophers have developed their own use of ‘intuition’talk, and are simply not using these ...
... for these to be true, the speaker has to be in some unique kind of state (p. 46). Thus, if philosophers are using these words in their ordinary meaning, this use cannot provide support to Centrality. Perhaps philosophers have developed their own use of ‘intuition’talk, and are simply not using these ...
Päivi Mehtonen, Obscure Language, Unclear Literature: Theory and
... Considering the time span and materials it covers, this is, at only 220 pages, a rather short book. I therefore find that it lacks discussions of movements in history which have been accused of being obscure, such as neo-Platonism and the medieval mystical traditions. Some of the medieval mystics di ...
... Considering the time span and materials it covers, this is, at only 220 pages, a rather short book. I therefore find that it lacks discussions of movements in history which have been accused of being obscure, such as neo-Platonism and the medieval mystical traditions. Some of the medieval mystics di ...
Peirce What Pragmatism Is [DOC]
... Aristotle’s definition of universal predication: there is nothing among the existence individuals to which the subject belongs but to which the predicate will not also be referred. a. Propositions in formal logic go in pairs, e.g. antecedent and consequent. b. The mate to As definition is: we call a ...
... Aristotle’s definition of universal predication: there is nothing among the existence individuals to which the subject belongs but to which the predicate will not also be referred. a. Propositions in formal logic go in pairs, e.g. antecedent and consequent. b. The mate to As definition is: we call a ...
Asian Philosophy (CH. 1 of AP)
... Traditionally these are questions for philosophy, but philosophy is dead. Philosophy has not kept up with modern developments in science, particularly physics. Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge. ...
... Traditionally these are questions for philosophy, but philosophy is dead. Philosophy has not kept up with modern developments in science, particularly physics. Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge. ...
Theme 3
... Greek. Well - denial and poros - road, bridge). Aporia - an insoluble problem, predefined contradiction between observation and attempt their interpretation in terms. As an example, the first proposition: a flying arrow is at rest (as it is at every moment, that rests in a place). "The flying boom i ...
... Greek. Well - denial and poros - road, bridge). Aporia - an insoluble problem, predefined contradiction between observation and attempt their interpretation in terms. As an example, the first proposition: a flying arrow is at rest (as it is at every moment, that rests in a place). "The flying boom i ...
Lesson Plan: Descarte`s Rationalism
... What becomes unquestionable if you question everything? Answer: the fact that you are questioning. No one, not even the most stubborn sceptic would be able to question that. Descartes summed up this insight in his famous statement: ‘Cogito ergo sum’ – ‘I think therefore I am’. Questioning is a form ...
... What becomes unquestionable if you question everything? Answer: the fact that you are questioning. No one, not even the most stubborn sceptic would be able to question that. Descartes summed up this insight in his famous statement: ‘Cogito ergo sum’ – ‘I think therefore I am’. Questioning is a form ...
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.