Sometimes I despair of my philosophical colleagues
... involves the reception of sensible forms, and so on. If philosophy had been forced to respect these everyday intuitions, we would still be in the intellectual dark ages. One of the defining principles of the modern world view which emerged in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was that traditio ...
... involves the reception of sensible forms, and so on. If philosophy had been forced to respect these everyday intuitions, we would still be in the intellectual dark ages. One of the defining principles of the modern world view which emerged in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was that traditio ...
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, ...
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 ...
The Essentials of Pragmatism
... conceive the objects of your conception to have. Then your conception of those effects is the whole of your concept of the object." (p.259) -the theory is proved, says Peirce, by its results: 1) it wipes away metaphysical quibbles and sets forth a set of questions capable of determinate scientific i ...
... conceive the objects of your conception to have. Then your conception of those effects is the whole of your concept of the object." (p.259) -the theory is proved, says Peirce, by its results: 1) it wipes away metaphysical quibbles and sets forth a set of questions capable of determinate scientific i ...
Asian Philosophy (CH. 1 of AP)
... • Some Asian thinkers used the same method that Western philosophers, such as Plato used. For example, some Asian thinkers argued that we can come to understand the nature of the self, knowledge, and the good life by examining the concepts we use to think about them. ...
... • Some Asian thinkers used the same method that Western philosophers, such as Plato used. For example, some Asian thinkers argued that we can come to understand the nature of the self, knowledge, and the good life by examining the concepts we use to think about them. ...
Review of Philosophers of Nothingness: An Essay on the Kyoto School
... that he suggests that Kyoto School philosophy constitutes a chapter in the history of Western philosophy. In this respect he states that the Kyoto School is as influential as that of the neo-Kantians, who are credited with breaking with German Idealism and emphasizing the importance of empirical rat ...
... that he suggests that Kyoto School philosophy constitutes a chapter in the history of Western philosophy. In this respect he states that the Kyoto School is as influential as that of the neo-Kantians, who are credited with breaking with German Idealism and emphasizing the importance of empirical rat ...
Descartes vision of Philosophy Methodic Doubt and the Cogito
... • About method: what is the best/appropriate way to acquire knowledge and learn the truth? Is it by group efforts, based on shared beliefs and common-knowledge, and relying on agreement and universal acceptance? [Socratic Dialectic] Or is it by individual efforts that shun the views of others and bo ...
... • About method: what is the best/appropriate way to acquire knowledge and learn the truth? Is it by group efforts, based on shared beliefs and common-knowledge, and relying on agreement and universal acceptance? [Socratic Dialectic] Or is it by individual efforts that shun the views of others and bo ...
Book Review - Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy
... question of ontology” (4). James defines these thinkers’ path not only through their subject mattter but also through their approaches to it. Throughout his presentation of these seven philosophers, James indicates that they form a theoretical current whose specificity can be traced to their aspirat ...
... question of ontology” (4). James defines these thinkers’ path not only through their subject mattter but also through their approaches to it. Throughout his presentation of these seven philosophers, James indicates that they form a theoretical current whose specificity can be traced to their aspirat ...
PHILOSOPHY RESEARCH SEMINAR, PHILOSOPHY TEA AND
... of the other, and how this is one-sided, radical, silent and unfulfillable - and rests on the idea 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-min ...
... of the other, and how this is one-sided, radical, silent and unfulfillable - and rests on the idea 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-min ...
101 Basic Issues in Philosophy [OC-H] This course is an introduction
... This course gives students an opportunity to examine in detail some contemporary issues surrounding sex, gender and sexuality. The course begins by exploring how two quite different approaches to human natureBbiological determinism and social constructionismBset about explaining facts about sex, gen ...
... This course gives students an opportunity to examine in detail some contemporary issues surrounding sex, gender and sexuality. The course begins by exploring how two quite different approaches to human natureBbiological determinism and social constructionismBset about explaining facts about sex, gen ...
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 ...
What Does it Mean to Practise Philosophy?
... says that he or she can’t explain what he or she is doing clearly doesn’t know what he or she is doing. I like to define it like this: Philosophy involves examining the reasons we have for the values we hold as good, and the beliefs we hold as true, so that we can free ourselves from blindly followi ...
... says that he or she can’t explain what he or she is doing clearly doesn’t know what he or she is doing. I like to define it like this: Philosophy involves examining the reasons we have for the values we hold as good, and the beliefs we hold as true, so that we can free ourselves from blindly followi ...
What is Pragmatism - Valdosta State University
... pragmatists all held that the purpose of any theory/hypothesis should be to direct or redirect activity o theorizing is preparation for (a rehearsal, if you will, of) activity given this, there was a strong move to rid philosophy of the theory-practice dichotomy o thinking and doing, theory and ...
... pragmatists all held that the purpose of any theory/hypothesis should be to direct or redirect activity o theorizing is preparation for (a rehearsal, if you will, of) activity given this, there was a strong move to rid philosophy of the theory-practice dichotomy o thinking and doing, theory and ...
What is Philosophy, Anyway?
... biology, nursing, economics, or psychology. These students may assume that philosophy is like science, and get frustrated when they are given no standard textbook in philosophy that clearly lists out important facts and formulas to memorize as well as exercises with clear cut problems and SophiaOmni ...
... biology, nursing, economics, or psychology. These students may assume that philosophy is like science, and get frustrated when they are given no standard textbook in philosophy that clearly lists out important facts and formulas to memorize as well as exercises with clear cut problems and SophiaOmni ...
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, ...
Philosophy in Lincoln-‐Douglas Debate
... • Importance in LD-‐ while these terms are clearly epistemic, it is important for a debater to understand what it takes to qualify as truth for their given philosopher, as well as their opponents ...
... • Importance in LD-‐ while these terms are clearly epistemic, it is important for a debater to understand what it takes to qualify as truth for their given philosopher, as well as their opponents ...
Change for the Better: Conceptual Engineering and the Task of
... explication qua elimination shows us how to “circumvent the ...
... explication qua elimination shows us how to “circumvent the ...
What is Philosophy?
... your’e not trying to find out how your ideas latch on to the world, whether your ideas are true or not, in the way that science is doing, but more about how your ideas hang together. This means that philosophical questions will arise in a lot of subjects.” ~ Janet Radcliffe Richards (Though, one mig ...
... your’e not trying to find out how your ideas latch on to the world, whether your ideas are true or not, in the way that science is doing, but more about how your ideas hang together. This means that philosophical questions will arise in a lot of subjects.” ~ Janet Radcliffe Richards (Though, one mig ...
Can Philosophy Serve a High Purpose
... from which to criticize the whole of the knowledge of daily life. The most that can be done is to examine and purify our common knowledge by an internal scrutiny, assuming the canons by which it has been obtained, and applying them with more care and with more precision. Philosophy cannot boast of h ...
... from which to criticize the whole of the knowledge of daily life. The most that can be done is to examine and purify our common knowledge by an internal scrutiny, assuming the canons by which it has been obtained, and applying them with more care and with more precision. Philosophy cannot boast of h ...
What`s in a word: philosophy, theology and thinking?
... Paper presented at the British Educational Research Association Annual Conference, University of Manchester, 2-5 September 2009 ...
... Paper presented at the British Educational Research Association Annual Conference, University of Manchester, 2-5 September 2009 ...
New Pragmatism
... Stout PHILOSOPHICAL BASIS PLATONISM (transcendental philosophy) PRAGMATISM POSITIVISM (empirical philosophy) Continental (metaphysical) philosophy Anglo-Saxon (analytic) philosophy William James’s rejection of metaphysical pseudo-problems … [T]he pragmatic method is primarily a method of settl ...
... Stout PHILOSOPHICAL BASIS PLATONISM (transcendental philosophy) PRAGMATISM POSITIVISM (empirical philosophy) Continental (metaphysical) philosophy Anglo-Saxon (analytic) philosophy William James’s rejection of metaphysical pseudo-problems … [T]he pragmatic method is primarily a method of settl ...
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... The nature of philosophy Thales, Anaximader, and Anaximenes .Prior to the first set of philosophers there were no doubt, some set of explanations but these explanations were mythical mysterious, or religious in nature. The milesian philosophers departed radically from the kind of explanations that p ...
... The nature of philosophy Thales, Anaximader, and Anaximenes .Prior to the first set of philosophers there were no doubt, some set of explanations but these explanations were mythical mysterious, or religious in nature. The milesian philosophers departed radically from the kind of explanations that p ...
Transition Year Philosophy
... During adolescence, you open your minds up to many larger questions – philosophy will aid you in this • You are forced to face the hypocrisy within society and face many difficult moral dilemmas • Philosophy questions the opinions that you are exposed to on a daily basis, from family, friends, teach ...
... During adolescence, you open your minds up to many larger questions – philosophy will aid you in this • You are forced to face the hypocrisy within society and face many difficult moral dilemmas • Philosophy questions the opinions that you are exposed to on a daily basis, from family, friends, teach ...
Building Peace by Unlearning the Habit of “Us and Them”: Would it
... (in which equality is not a consideration) and politics (in which equal treatment is a primary concern). Similarly, while in some respects we are called upon to treat people as the same, and ignore differences as morally irrelevant; in other respects differences are understood to be ...
... (in which equality is not a consideration) and politics (in which equal treatment is a primary concern). Similarly, while in some respects we are called upon to treat people as the same, and ignore differences as morally irrelevant; in other respects differences are understood to be ...
American philosophy
American philosophy is the philosophical activity or output of Americans, both within the United States and abroad. The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy notes that while American philosophy lacks a ""core of defining features, American Philosophy can nevertheless be seen as both reflecting and shaping collective American identity over the history of the nation.""The political thinker and historian Alexis De Tocqueville gave his own more detailed definition of a ""Philosophical Method Among the Americans"" in the opening paragraph of Book Two of Democracy In America.""I think that in no country in the civilized world is less attention paid to philosophy than in the United States... Nevertheless it is easy to perceive that almost all the inhabitants of the United States conduct their understanding in the same manner, and govern it by the same rules; that is to say, that without ever having taken the trouble to define the rules of a philosophical method, they are in possession of one, common to the whole people. To evade the bondage of system and habit, of family maxims, class opinions, and, in some degree, of national prejudices; to accept tradition only as a means of information, and existing facts only as a lesson used in doing otherwise, and doing better; to seek the reason of things for one's self, and in one's self alone; to tend to results without being bound to means, and to aim at the substance through the form; – such are the principal characteristics of what I shall call the philosophical method of the Americans...[In] most of the operations of the mind, each American appeals to the individual exercise of his own understanding alone.""↑ ↑