Powerpoint - History and Philosophy of Science @ UCD
... bound in conscience to seek truth and to look for certainty by modes of proof which, when reduced to the shape of formal propositions, fail to satisfy the serene requisites of science. Newman, 1870 Grammar of Assent ...
... bound in conscience to seek truth and to look for certainty by modes of proof which, when reduced to the shape of formal propositions, fail to satisfy the serene requisites of science. Newman, 1870 Grammar of Assent ...
Change for the Better: Conceptual Engineering and the Task of
... observes, is an understanding of “what would happen for better or worse if changes were made”. The implication is that if we arrive at the conviction that those structures “need dismantling and starting afresh” then the job of the philosopher is not restricted to the investigative phase. If—as Marx ...
... observes, is an understanding of “what would happen for better or worse if changes were made”. The implication is that if we arrive at the conviction that those structures “need dismantling and starting afresh” then the job of the philosopher is not restricted to the investigative phase. If—as Marx ...
Was Wittgenstein Right?
... Paul Horwich is a professor of philosophy at New York University. He is the author of several books, including “Reflections on Meaning,” “Truth-MeaningReality,” and most recently, “Wittgenstein’s Metaphilosophy.” ...
... Paul Horwich is a professor of philosophy at New York University. He is the author of several books, including “Reflections on Meaning,” “Truth-MeaningReality,” and most recently, “Wittgenstein’s Metaphilosophy.” ...
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 ...
My first university was in my home town, Durban, in the mid
... mathematics degree but most of my friends were doing arts subjects. Sartre and Marx were the thinkers of the moment and my friends would press their (mostly illegal) writings on me. Ideologically I was entirely sympathetic, but intellectually they didn’t do much for me—too obscure, too difficult, to ...
... mathematics degree but most of my friends were doing arts subjects. Sartre and Marx were the thinkers of the moment and my friends would press their (mostly illegal) writings on me. Ideologically I was entirely sympathetic, but intellectually they didn’t do much for me—too obscure, too difficult, to ...
The Rationalist - Cengage Learning
... The world is roughly as he perceives it, since God cannot be an evil genius and be the infinitely perfect being Descartes has in mind. Also, the mind and the body are two distinct things, since that is the way Descartes perceives them as being, and he now knows he is not being deceived about such th ...
... The world is roughly as he perceives it, since God cannot be an evil genius and be the infinitely perfect being Descartes has in mind. Also, the mind and the body are two distinct things, since that is the way Descartes perceives them as being, and he now knows he is not being deceived about such th ...
The Death of Philosophy: Reference and Self
... language studies, (4) the role of literature, and (5) the turn to antispeculative “philosophy.” All this leads Thomas-Fogiel to conclude that philosophy spent a good deal of the previous century oscillating between skepticism and positivism (p. 96). She’s probably right about that (although, again, ...
... language studies, (4) the role of literature, and (5) the turn to antispeculative “philosophy.” All this leads Thomas-Fogiel to conclude that philosophy spent a good deal of the previous century oscillating between skepticism and positivism (p. 96). She’s probably right about that (although, again, ...
Descartes` Epistemology
... think that I am something. So that, after having reflected well . . . we must come to the definitive conclusion that this proposition, I am, I exist, is necessarily true each time that . . . I mentally conceive it. Meditations on First Philosophy ...
... think that I am something. So that, after having reflected well . . . we must come to the definitive conclusion that this proposition, I am, I exist, is necessarily true each time that . . . I mentally conceive it. Meditations on First Philosophy ...
PHILOSOPHY RESEARCH SEMINAR, PHILOSOPHY TEA AND
... the words of William James) built “on the shambles”. I shall argue that Hume, in the Natural History of Religion, is trying to arrive at a place which is free from the shambolic nature of human life and that we can see this to be so, and the hopelessness of his aim, in the tensions his text embodies ...
... the words of William James) built “on the shambles”. I shall argue that Hume, in the Natural History of Religion, is trying to arrive at a place which is free from the shambolic nature of human life and that we can see this to be so, and the hopelessness of his aim, in the tensions his text embodies ...
Review of Philosophers of Nothingness: An Essay on the Kyoto School
... endeavor to an active moral engagement with prevailing historical conditions. Profoundly disturbed by the consequences of the war, his late work emphasized the religious selfawareness, which he described as “nothingness-in-love that mediates our existence as relative beings” (175). Although retainin ...
... endeavor to an active moral engagement with prevailing historical conditions. Profoundly disturbed by the consequences of the war, his late work emphasized the religious selfawareness, which he described as “nothingness-in-love that mediates our existence as relative beings” (175). Although retainin ...
(2.3) spirituality in the peripatetic philosophical traditions of islam
... way it calls for getting to things themselves. This maxim, which was announced by Edmund Husserl in articulating the agenda of phenomenological research and its directives of method, is presented by Azadpur from the perspective of Heidegger’s analysis in Sein und Zeit, and as mediated also by the ra ...
... way it calls for getting to things themselves. This maxim, which was announced by Edmund Husserl in articulating the agenda of phenomenological research and its directives of method, is presented by Azadpur from the perspective of Heidegger’s analysis in Sein und Zeit, and as mediated also by the ra ...
An introduction to philosophy
... • What are these forms? How many of them are there? • How do material objects participate in the forms? • How can there be a form of whiteness without something that is white? Or a form of equality without things that are equal? • Is the form of the good good itself? If so, don’t we need another ...
... • What are these forms? How many of them are there? • How do material objects participate in the forms? • How can there be a form of whiteness without something that is white? Or a form of equality without things that are equal? • Is the form of the good good itself? If so, don’t we need another ...
What Does it Mean to Practise Philosophy?
... with accepting on the grounds of faith. It may be that the only true worth of philosophy in a practical sense is that it is something we can ‘go through’, that is ‘go beyond’. Unless we can go through philosophy, we will always be stalked and dogged by philosophical questions - ‘what is the meaning ...
... with accepting on the grounds of faith. It may be that the only true worth of philosophy in a practical sense is that it is something we can ‘go through’, that is ‘go beyond’. Unless we can go through philosophy, we will always be stalked and dogged by philosophical questions - ‘what is the meaning ...
philosophy as a second order discipline
... resolve puzzles in order to aid our understanding of phenomena so as enable humans deal better with the phenomena in question. It may also be inferred from the way Milesian philosophers practiced philosophy that philosophy is a discipline in which reasons are adduced for any position held. In it, ra ...
... resolve puzzles in order to aid our understanding of phenomena so as enable humans deal better with the phenomena in question. It may also be inferred from the way Milesian philosophers practiced philosophy that philosophy is a discipline in which reasons are adduced for any position held. In it, ra ...
EECS 690
... objection on Friday, as it fits better into that section, though pages 57-58 allude to it. ...
... objection on Friday, as it fits better into that section, though pages 57-58 allude to it. ...
PHIL 1115 - Ursula Stange
... both a body and a mind. Some would prefer to say that every human being is both a body and a mind. His body and his mind are ordinarily harnessed together, but after the death of the body his mind may continue to exist and function. Gilbert Ryle --------------------------------------------Mark Twai ...
... both a body and a mind. Some would prefer to say that every human being is both a body and a mind. His body and his mind are ordinarily harnessed together, but after the death of the body his mind may continue to exist and function. Gilbert Ryle --------------------------------------------Mark Twai ...
Philosophy of Language
... images or diagrams – but backed by words, and unlikely to add much, as my diagrams above show only too convincingly). So language is, at least, the essential tool for philosophers. Then there is the familiar point that, from the original ‘natural philosophy’, the empirical sciences have split off, ...
... images or diagrams – but backed by words, and unlikely to add much, as my diagrams above show only too convincingly). So language is, at least, the essential tool for philosophers. Then there is the familiar point that, from the original ‘natural philosophy’, the empirical sciences have split off, ...
What`s in a word: philosophy, theology and thinking?
... As an informal educator and one who has been practically involved in helping young people to think about what they ought to be doing with their lives, what is worth living for, and the need for public action, I found much in the book with which I can agree. The book is in three parts, the first two ...
... As an informal educator and one who has been practically involved in helping young people to think about what they ought to be doing with their lives, what is worth living for, and the need for public action, I found much in the book with which I can agree. The book is in three parts, the first two ...
Ionian Philosophers
... the cause of wasted mental effort. He said of the scholars of his day that they were “burning with an unintelligent desire to find treasure, continuously roam[ing] the streets, seeking to find something that a passerby might have chanced to drop.” He continued, “It is very certain that unregulated i ...
... the cause of wasted mental effort. He said of the scholars of his day that they were “burning with an unintelligent desire to find treasure, continuously roam[ing] the streets, seeking to find something that a passerby might have chanced to drop.” He continued, “It is very certain that unregulated i ...
Letter to Physics Today in reply to Peter Saulson`s review of my book
... intensely. That is par for the course. But one might hope that even a scathingly negative review would be accurate in its summary of the book’s contents and principal arguments. Alas, Peter Saulson’s review1 of my book Beyond the Hoax: Science, Philosophy and Culture 2 fails to meet this minimum sta ...
... intensely. That is par for the course. But one might hope that even a scathingly negative review would be accurate in its summary of the book’s contents and principal arguments. Alas, Peter Saulson’s review1 of my book Beyond the Hoax: Science, Philosophy and Culture 2 fails to meet this minimum sta ...
What is Philosophy, Anyway?
... The best place to start in our attempt to define philosophy is with the etymology of the word itself. Most people are aware that the term is derived from two Greek words: philo (love) and sophia (wisdom). Philosophy, then, literally means “the love of wisdom.” We each have a sense of what love means ...
... The best place to start in our attempt to define philosophy is with the etymology of the word itself. Most people are aware that the term is derived from two Greek words: philo (love) and sophia (wisdom). Philosophy, then, literally means “the love of wisdom.” We each have a sense of what love means ...
Pursuing Wisdom
... he posits an underlying principle (Logos) according to which all things are unified as one. Opposites exist and are necessary for life, but they are unified in a system of balances. Logos is a kind of continual flux or change symbolized best by fire. Thus the world is not to be identified with any p ...
... he posits an underlying principle (Logos) according to which all things are unified as one. Opposites exist and are necessary for life, but they are unified in a system of balances. Logos is a kind of continual flux or change symbolized best by fire. Thus the world is not to be identified with any p ...
Meditations on First Philosophy
... If nothing at all is certain, then nothing can be known. Having doubted everything – even his own senses – Descartes needs an Archimedean point to work from. “I shall have the right to conceive high hopes if I am happy enough to discover one thing only which is certain and indubitable.” His own exis ...
... If nothing at all is certain, then nothing can be known. Having doubted everything – even his own senses – Descartes needs an Archimedean point to work from. “I shall have the right to conceive high hopes if I am happy enough to discover one thing only which is certain and indubitable.” His own exis ...
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 ...
You can find an example abstract from my own writings attached here.
... material unity in the figure of the body as assemblage, “a sum that never succeeds in bringing its various parts together so as to form a whole.” ...
... material unity in the figure of the body as assemblage, “a sum that never succeeds in bringing its various parts together so as to form a whole.” ...
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.