category: philosophy

Reconstructing Postmodernism: Critical Debates

... Anthony Giddens , and argues that Gidddens has not engaged the ideas of postmodernists in his arguments about late modernity . This is an interesting argument in light of the fact that Robertson himself does little grappling with ...

Applied Logotherapy: Viktor Frankl’s Philosophical Psychology

Viktor Frankl's Philosophical Psychology Stephen J. Costello. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to ... choice, not as a compulsion, as a decision, not as a disease (though he liNens it to a disease) Anger is really a ...

Dungeons and Dragons and Philosophy: Read and Gain Advantage on All Wisdom Checks

... Philosophy: A Cure for the Petarded Editedby J. Jeremy Wisnewski Final Fantasyand Philosophy: The Ultimate Walkthrough Edited byJason P. Blahutaand Michel S. Beaulieu Game of Thrones and Philosophy: Logic Cuts Deeper Than Swords Edited ...

Trophy Hunting

... season begins, 500,000 of those fawns will still be alive. During the three seasons—archery, rifle, and muzzleloader— that last from early October to late December, hunters in Michigan kill more than 400,000 deer a year, nearly a 50 ...

Genetic Analysis: A History of Genetic Thinking

... function” (Hershey and Chase, 1952, 39). It is obvious from their experimental ... bacteriophage T2 attaches to a bacterial cell, most of the phage DNA enters ... parts is possible. A corresponding functional separation is seen in the ...

The Attentional Shaping of Perceptual Experience: An Investigation into Attention and Cognitive Penetrability

... cognitive penetrability introduced before. I start by explaining why ... definition of causal cognitive penetrability. I then go on to argue that ... framework for modeling perception and cognition (Friston 2010; Gładziejewski 2016; Hohwy ...

Bentham and the Oppressed

... journal which dealt with this story ( ibid . , pp . 190 , 233 , 291 ) . 140 The Private Journal of Aaron Burr had a first edition in 1838 ( 2 vols . ) , and a second , according to the original manuscript , in the library of William ...

Introductory Philosophy

... mastering the cause of something he has to some extent understood it . We do not believe that the only reason why the scientific mind has rejected astrology is that the correlation between positions of the stars and the ups and downs of ...

Value and Man: Readings in Philosophy

... mastering the cause of something he has to some extent understood it . We do not believe that the only reason why the scientific mind has rejected astrology is that the correla- tion between positions of the stars and the ups and downs ...

Metaphysical Africa: Truth and Blackness in the Ansaru Allah Community

... Al Mahdi's reading , Elijah Muham- mad correctly identifies the race of ... Al Mahdi praises Elijah as a divine “ warner . ” 48 In American Muslims : Muslims in ... arrival in " its pristine purity . " Elaborating on the theme of Islam's ...

Seek!: Selected Nonfiction

... SubGenius membership card. We're not going to end up like the Jehovah's Witnesses who are always predicting the end of ... book, Revelation X? Stang: Our first book, The Book of the SubGenius, showed the glory that is “Bob.” It had more ...

Social Choice and Democratic Values

... sample indicated that they would be willing to exchange their tax dollars for reduced fire and police protection ... jury verdicts in murder trials, prohibited unregistered voters from serving on juries, gave prosecutors the power to demand a ...

Psycho-Physical Dualism Today: An Interdisciplinary Approach

... token-identity theory is true. Thus: if reductive materialism is true, then the token-identity theory is also true, or in other words: if the token-identity theory is false, then reductive materialism is also false. Suppose, conversely, the ...

The Open Society and Its Enemies

... easy to talk when you don't know.You madden yourself with words ... But when ... made with open eyes; and since we use our imagination very little", we only ... theory has a certain analogy in scientific method. For in science, too, we do ...

German Idealism's Trinitarian Legacy

... pdf. Soulen, R. Kendall. “YHWH the Triune God.” Modern Theology 15 (1999): 25–54. Spence, Brian J. “The Hegelian Element in von Balthasar's and Moltmann's Understanding of the Suffering of God.” Toronto Journal of Theology 14 (1998): 45 ...

The Problem of Critical Ontology: Bhaskar Contra Kant

... conclusion of Bhaskar's analysis: experiments would have an ontogenetic ... experiment designed to test Ohm's law, which concerns the nature of an ... Ohm's law is concerned) are satisfied and the mechanism itself activated. So, an ...

War and Algorithm

Max Liljefors, Gregor Noll, Daniel Steuer, Research Fellow at the Centre for ... Maven is the first activity of an 'Algorithmic Warfare' initiative in the US ... pdf (emphasis added). 58. Ibid. 59. Paul McLeary, “Pentagon's Big AI Program ...

Handbook of Global Media Ethics

... russian- expansionism/ PlusOne. Facebook and Instagram in Ukraine. July 2020 ... pdf/Research/Michael_ Weiss_and_Peter_Pomerantsev__The_Menace_of_Unreality ... everybody. The power of organizing without organizations. Penguin Press, New ...

The Claims of Common Sense: Moore, Wittgenstein, Keynes and the Social Sciences

The Claims of Common Sense investigates the importance of ideas developed by Cambridge philosophers between the World Wars for the social sciences.

Moses Mendelssohn: Philosophical Writings

... basic instinct of the soul must be oriented not only towards extending and acquiring new realities , but at the same ... formula of expansion . For all desires and inclinations must be branches of the basic instinct . As more determinate ...

Vision in Context: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Sight

... Basic Instinct constitutes a precise enactment of this dominant cultural ... Basic Instinct. This led to the realization that there is something “wrong” with ... formula 'black and lesbian'.”11 A number of supposedly representative essays ...

Feminist Interpretations of Friedrich Nietzsche

... instinct everywhere : it is the most widespread , really subterranean , form of falsehood found on earth . Whatever a theologian feels to be true must be false : this is almost a criterion of truth . His most basic instinct of self ...

Nietzsche's New Seas: Explorations in Philosophy, Aesthetics, and Politics

Nietzsche's New Seas makes available for the first time in English a representative sample of the best recent Nietzsche scholarship from Germany, France, and the United States.

Being Me Being You: Adam Smith and Empathy

... you describe yourself: you say that your joy or pain for him is a joy or pain in Christ for all of Christ's creatures, or a joy or pain that you take in the fortunes of any human being. I am not sure that these scenarios are really ...

Essays in Ancient Greek Philosophy II

... Psychology T ( HIS essay is concerned with the antecedents of Aristotle's bipartite or moral psychology . ' It considers two common theses : ( 1 ) Aristotle's bipartite psychology is in origin a popular psychology already pres- ent ...

Quantum Learning: Beyond Duality

... you , an awareness that is at variance with what you believe or expect ... describe it or explain it in detail . Giving you part of it would be just ... yourself ? Professor A : Sometimes . Professor B : Are you willing to show me how or ...

Mysteries of Life and the Universe: New Essays from America's Finest Writers on Science

... a siphon . His parents encouraged a strong interest in mathematics , and Shimony says the thing he remembers most clearly about his bar mitzvah is mastering a challenging calculus technique before leaving for the synagogue . Upon ...

God Is, by Inference, One Dot: Paradigm Shift

... online edition of Science . None of the planets are remotely habitable or remotely like Earth . One Lawrence Livermore National Lab ( LLNL ) astronomer said it is only a matter of time before " we ... We also often read that two neutron stars ...

The Ashgate Companion to Contemporary Philosophy of Physics

... (Hartle and Hawking, 1983)). Solutions to HΨ = 0 are given by a path integral ... solution is taken to provide the wavefunction for the Universe, the so ... gravity. The primary problems have to do with the definition of the integral ...

Time, Reality and Experience

... gravity pioneered by Dirac , one begins with a formulation of gen- eral relativity as a constrained Hamiltonian ... solutions to the full equation ( though Smolin ( 2001 ) , p . 40 claims to have found some ) , but approximate solutions have ...

The Routledge Handbook of Idealism and Immaterialism

... solutions to the Wheeler-DeWitt equation. 13. Hartle-Hawking's. constraints ... gravity. One simply restricts the functional integral to the restricted ... (Hartle & Hawking, 1983: p. 2967; emphasis added)30 As a calculational expedient ...

Eternity Between Space and Time: From Consciousness to the Cosmos

... Hartle and Hawking claim that , under Planck time , time is imaginary and ... gravity that is completely autonomous and does not need to resort to an ... solution to quantum gravity , but a possi- ble solution , which we do not even know ...

Feminism and Tradition in Aesthetics

Peggy Zeglin Brand, Carolyn Korsmeyer. Your body is a battleground Fig . 11.4 . Barbara Kruger , Untitled ( Your Body Is a Battleground ) , 1989 . Courtesy Mary Boone Gallery , New York avenues of approach . His entrenched view gives us a ...

Handbook of Reflection and Reflective Inquiry: Mapping a Way of Knowing for Professional Reflective Inquiry

... examples listed in this section (Box 7.4) are designed to help ... professional development, goals and desired roles. Box 7.5: Fieldwork in occupational therapy ... plan their professional development and to showcase skills and knowledge to ...

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