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Summary. The philosophy of cognitive science covers all philosophical topics pertaining to the scientific study of cognition. Its subtopics can be divided in four main ways. First, by the disciplines studying cognition: psychology, neuroscience, artificial intelligence, linguistics, etc.; this is the primary way in which the PhilPapers is ...PhilPapers logo by Andrea Andrews and Meghan Driscoll. This site uses cookies and Google Analytics (see our terms & conditions for details regarding the privacy …Hilary Putnam - 1978 - Boston: Routledge. First published in 1978, this reissue presents a seminal philosophical work by professor Putnam, in which he puts forward a conception of knowledge which makes ethics, practical knowledge and non-mathematic parts of the social sciences just as much parts of 'knowledge' as the sciences themselves. Abstract. Those who favour an ontology based on dispositions are thereby able to provide a dispositional essentialist account of the laws of nature. In part 1 of this paper I sketch the dispositional essentialist conception of properties and the concomitant account of laws. In part 2, I characterise various claims about the modal character of ...

12. Language and Time. Quentin Smith - 1993 - New York: Oup Usa. Quentin Smith offers powerful arguments against the New Theory of Reference propounded by leading thhinkers in the philosophy of language. Smith defends the tensed theory of time and argues that the simultaneity is absoltue, basing this position on the theory that all propositions ...Abstract. I argue that if David Lewis' modal realism is true, modal realists from different possible worlds can fall in love with each other. I offer a method for uniquely picking out possible people who are in love with us and not with our counterparts. Impossible lovers and trans-world love letters are considered.Hans Sluga (ed.), The philosophy of Frege. A four-volume collection of scholarly articles on all aspects of Frege's philosophy, vol.1: General assessments and historical accounts of Frege's philosophy, vol.2: Logic and foundations of mathematics in Frege's philosophy, vol.3: Meaning and ontology in Frege's philosophy, vol.4: Sense and reference ...

PhilPapers logo by Andrea Andrews and Meghan Driscoll. This site uses cookies and Google Analytics (see our terms & conditions for details regarding the privacy implications). Use of this site is subject to terms & conditions .Abstract. This book expounds the transcendental realist theory of science and critical naturalist social philosophy that have been developed by Bhaskar and are used by many contemporary social scientists. It defends Bhaskar's view that the possibility and necessity of experiment show that reality is structured and stratified, his use of this ...

PhilPapers logo by Andrea Andrews and Meghan Driscoll. This site uses cookies and Google Analytics (see our terms & conditions for details regarding the privacy implications). Use of this site is subject to terms & conditions .Volume 7 1978. Volume 6 1977. Volume 5 1976. Volume 4 1975. Volume 3 1974. Volume 2 1973. Volume 1 1972. Browse the list of issues and latest articles from Philosophical Papers.Summary. Anarchist philosophy represents a diverse set of viewpoints that are sceptical of political authority and power. Anarchism can be framed as purely negative theoretical idea, i.e. a rejection of the legitimacy of political authority. Adherents of this view, sometimes called 'philosophical anarchism', seek to show that arguments for ...Panorama de la filosofía en Santo Domingo. Armando Cordero - 1962 - Santo Domingo,: República Dominicana, Impresora "Arte y Cine,". El Pensamiento Filosófico En Santo …The humanist controversy and other writings, 1966-67. Louis Althusser - 2003 - New York: Verso. Edited by François Matheron. Towards Marxist feminist Biblical criticism. Jorunn Økland & Roland Boer - unknown. Philosophy and the idea of freedom. Roy Bhaskar - 1991 - Cambridge, USA: Blackwell. Louis Althusser.

Key works: For a defence of a moderately pessimistic view based on (lack of) convergence, see Chalmers 2015.For a book-length defence of a moderately optimistic view based on acquiring knowledge of the answers to philosophical questions, see Stoljar 2017. Ross 2021 defends a multi-factor view of philosophical progress combining convergence, formulating new questions, and acquiring knowledge of ...

Experience without the head. Alva Noë - 2006 - In Tamar Gendler & John Hawthorne (eds.), Perceptual Experience. Oxford University Press. pp. 411--433. The Many Bubble Interpretation, externalism, the extended mind of David Chalmers and Andy Clark, and the work of Alva Noe in connection with Experimental Philosophy and Dreamwork.

C. Thi Nguyen is an associate professor at University of Utah, Department of Philosophy. They are interested in Meta-Ethics, Practical Reason, and Applied Ethics. Follow them to stay up to date with their professional activities in philosophy, and browse their publications such as "Hostile Epistemology", "Echo chambers and epistemic bubbles", and "How …In this important study D. M. Armstrong offers a comprehensive system of analytical metaphysics that synthesises but also develops his thinking over the last twenty years. Armstrong's analysis, which acknowledges the 'logical atomism' of Russell and Wittgenstein, makes facts the fundamental constituents of the world, examining properties ...The Double Binds of Neoliberalism: Theory and Culture After 1968. Guillaume Collett & Krista Bonello Rutter Giappone (eds.) - 2022 - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. An interdisciplinary examination of the legacies of the global 1968 uprisings from the vantage point of the current crisis of neoliberal hegemony.Abstract. Available in paperback under the title Good City Form With the publication of The Image of the City, Kevin Lynch embarked on the process of exploration of city form. A Theory of Good City Form, his most important book, is both a summation and an extension of his vision, a high point from which he views cities past and possible.Tim Maudlin - 1993 - Philosophy of Science 60 (2):183-203. This paper sketches a taxonomy of forms of substantivalism and relationism concerning space and time, and of the traditional arguments for these positions. Several natural sorts of relationism are able to account for Newton's bucket experiment.PhilPapers logo by Andrea Andrews and Meghan Driscoll. This site uses cookies and Google Analytics (see our terms & conditions for details regarding the privacy implications). Use of this site is subject to terms & conditions .In this chapter, I assess the relation between Marx's early idea of "true democracy" and Spinozist democracy, both the historical influence and the theoretical affinity. Drawing on Marx's student notebooks on Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise, I show there was a historical influence.

Providence, Evil and the Openness of God. [REVIEW] William Hasker - 2008 - Faith and Philosophy 25 (3):350-356. Providence, Evil and the Openness of God is a timely exploration of the philosophical implications of the rapidly-growing theological movement known as open theism, or the 'openness of God'. William Hasker, one of the philosophers ...The 2020 PhilPapers Survey surveyed around 2000 philosophers on 100 philosophical questions. The results provide a snapshot of the state of some central debates in philosophy, reveal correlations and demographic effects involving philosophers' views, and reveal some changes in philosophers' views over the last decade.Welcome to PhilPapers ... PhilPapers is a comprehensive index and bibliography of philosophy maintained by the community of philosophers. We monitor all sources ...Daniel Viehoff - 2016 - Journal of Political Philosophy 24 (4):406-426. Call “epistocracy” a political regime in which the experts, those who know best, rule; and call “the epistocratic claim” the assertion that the experts’ superior knowledge or reliability is “a warrant for their having political authority over others.”.Summary: Papers within this category include work about 20th century philosophy and major philosophical works from the twentieth century. They are organised according to proper names, with many of the most famous 20th century philosophers having entries.Abstract. A Sociology of Sex and Sexuality offers an historical sociological analysis of ideas about expressions of sexual desire, combining both primary and secondary historical and theoretical material with original research and popular imagery in the contemporary context. While some reference is made to the sexual ideology of Classical ...

An encyclopedia of philosophy articles written by professional philosophers. About; Editors; Desired Articles; Submissions; Volunteer; Stay ConnectedPhilPapers is an open access index of the research literature in philosophy containing bibliographic records for journal articles, books, ...

Outlining the history of liberal, or contextual, approaches to the teaching of science, Michael Matthews elaborates contemporary curriculum developments that explicitly address questions about the nature and the history of science. He provides examples of classroom teaching and develops useful arguments on constructivism, multicultural science ...About this topic. Summary. Experimental moral philosophy explores issues in ethics using empirical methods, such as surveys to investigate people's judgments about particular moral issues, brain imagining to examine the neural bases of moral judgment, and behavioral experiments to examine how various factors influence people's moral behavior.Divided minds and the nature of persons. Derek A. Parfit - 1987 - In Colin Blakemore & Susan A. Greenfield (eds.), Mindwaves. Blackwell. pp. 19-26. Non-personal minds. Stephen R. L. Clark - 2003 - In Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 185-209. Persons and Their Minds: A Philosophical Investigation.Abstract. Consider the skeptic about the external world. Let's straightaway concede to such a skeptic that perception gives us no conclusive or certain knowledge about our surroundings. Our perceptual justification for beliefs about our surroundings is always defeasible—there are always possible improvements in our epistemic state which ...An encyclopedia of philosophy articles written by professional philosophers. About; Editors; Desired Articles; Submissions; Volunteer; Stay ConnectedSummary. Philosophy in the 17th- and 18th-centuries can be characterized by an increased concern with questions relating to epistemology, human subjectivity, and the foundations of natural science. Likewise, there arose a tradition in moral and political philosophy that sought to understand human behavior and the origins of states and ...

Psychological research as the formulation, demonstration, and critique of psychological theories. Jack Martin - 1996 - Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology 16 (1):1-18. Realism and folk psychology in the ascription of concepts. Bradley Franks - 1992 - Philosophical Psychology 5 (4):369-390. Participants' understanding of the ...

Summary. This category deals with the study of a particular species of value. Moral worth can be defined as a particular way in which an action or an agent are valuable, or deserve credit (or deserve discredit). A central thought about moral worth is that it involves the agent's motives for acting: intuitively, an action is morally worthy when ...

Summary. John Rawls was an American moral and political philosopher whose work has been referred to as "epoch-making" and "cataclysmic in its effect.". His theorizing was fundamentally animated by a desire to address the problem of political (in)justice in modern constitutional democracies. Rawls spent more than 50 years developing and ...The analytic and synthetic. Hilary Putnam - 1975 - In Mind, Language and Reality: Philosophical Papers. Cambridge University Press. pp. 33-69. Language, thought, and logic: essays in honour of Michael Dummett. Richard G. Heck (ed.) - 1997 - New York: Oxford University Press.Apartheid in Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Sexuality. Epistemic Injustice in Epistemology. Philosophy of Higher Education in Philosophy of Social Science. Reparations in African/Africana Philosophy. Rights to Reparations in Social and Political Philosophy. $99.00 new (collection) View on Amazon.com.Abstract. There is a strong probabilistic case that human cognitive abilities, memories, personalities, thoughts, emotions, conscious awareness, and self-awareness are dependent upon the brain to occur/exist and thus cannot survive the death of the brain. This paper a broad overview of the general lines of evidence that even the highest mental ...PhilPapers has both links to external copies of papers and local copies (normally pre-prints) of papers uploaded by the authors. It is both an index and an archive. Most publishers allow authors to self-archive at least pre-prints of their papers. You can check your publisher's policy as part of the upload process. 62. Law’s Empire. Ronald Dworkin - 1986 - Harvard University Press. In this reprint of Law's Empire,Ronald Dworkin reflects on the nature of the law, its given authority, its application in democracy, the prominent role of interpretation in judgement, and the relations of lawmakers and lawgivers to the community on whose behalf they pronounce.PhilPapers logo by Andrea Andrews and Meghan Driscoll. This site uses cookies and Google Analytics (see our terms & conditions for details regarding the privacy implications). Use of this site is subject to terms & conditions .We would like to show you a description here but the site won't allow us.PhilPapers is a comprehensive index and bibliography of philosophy maintained by the community of philosophers. We monitor all sources of research content in philosophy, including journals, books, and open access archives . We also host the largest open access archive in philosophy . Our index currently contains 2,801,759 entries categorized in ...

John Heil - 1978 - Philosophy of Science 45 (March):60-72. This paper consists of two parts. In Part I, an attempt to get around certain well-known criticisms of the trace theory of memory is discussed. Part II consists of an account of the so-called "logical" notion of a memory trace.Tim Maudlin - 1993 - Philosophy of Science 60 (2):183-203. This paper sketches a taxonomy of forms of substantivalism and relationism concerning space and time, and of the traditional arguments for these positions. Several natural sorts of relationism are able to account for Newton's bucket experiment.Abstract. This book, one of the first full-length studies of the modalities to emerge from the debate to which Saul Kripke, David Lewis, Ruth Marcus, and others are contributing, is an exploration and defense of the notion of modality de re, the idea that objects have both essential and accidental properties. Plantinga develops his argument by ...Abstract. _The Case of the Speluncean Explorers, _written in 1949 by Lon Fuller, is the most famous fictitious legal case of all time. Describing a case of trapped travellers who are forcd to cannibalize one of their team, it is used on courses in philosophy of law and Jurisprudence to show how their trial upon rescue touches on key concepts in ...Instagram:https://instagram. how does fossil containing limestone formonline education administration degreestate lake kansasku pre law The Covid-19 pandemic has brought to surface new and puzzling manifestations of the culture wars between liberals and conservatives, especially in the US. One such manifestation is the one centered around mask-wearing as a way to protect others from viral infection. In public spaces, mask-wearing has become a signal as to whether one is a ... parker williamsmilo h Be the best Philadelphia Phillies fan you can be with Bleacher Report. Keep up with the latest storylines, expert analysis, highlights, scores and more.Abstract. There is a strong probabilistic case that human cognitive abilities, memories, personalities, thoughts, emotions, conscious awareness, and self-awareness are dependent upon the brain to occur/exist and thus cannot survive the death of the brain. This paper a broad overview of the general lines of evidence that even the highest mental ... robert bayliss PhilPapers is a comprehensive index and bibliography of philosophy maintained by the community of philosophers. We monitor all sources of research content in philosophy, including journals, books, and open access archives . We also host the largest open access archive in philosophy . Our index currently contains 2,806,885 entries categorized in ...Abstract. It is often assumed that if the fetus is a person, then abortion should be illegal. Thomson1 laid the groundwork to challenge this assumption, and Boonin2 has recently argued that it is false: he argues that abortion should be legal even if the fetus is a person. In this article, I explain both Thomson’s and Boonin’s reason for ...PhilPapers logo by Andrea Andrews and Meghan Driscoll. This site uses cookies and Google Analytics (see our terms & conditions for details regarding the privacy implications). Use of this site is subject to terms & conditions .