epub |eng | 2015-10-02 | Author:Andy Clark [Clark, Andy]

7 Expecting Ourselves (Creeping Up On Consciousness) 7.1 The Space of Human Experience We have covered a large and varied territory. Our story began with the neat trick of learning ...

epub |eng | | Author:Andrius Bielskis

4 Existence, meaning, excellence Existence Any ontological account of human life has to start from the fact of its existence. Yet this apparently uncontroversial fact, philosophically acknowledged by very different ...

epub |eng | 2008-11-15 | Author:Lin Yutang [Yutang, Lin]

V. ON SMOKE AND INCENSE The world today is divided into smokers and non-smokers. It is true that the smokers cause some nuisance to the non-smokers, but this nuisance is ...

epub |eng | 2011-02-23 | Author:Louden, Robert B.;

SELF-LOVE AND THE MORAL LAW In the previous section I argued in part that Kant’s account of radical evil is not primarily a theory about why people commit acts of ...

epub |eng | 2018-06-17 | Author:Fodor, James

Relativism and Universalism Craig says that for moral values to be objective they must be right or wrong ‘independently of whether anybody believes it to be so’. Obviously by ‘anybody’ ...

epub |eng | | Author:Fromm, Erich

* This is the limitation of even the best psychology, a point I have discussed in detail, comparing “negative psychology” and “negative theology” in an essay, “On the Limitations and ...

epub |eng | 2017-06-29 | Author:Karen Neander

A Simple Causal Analysis of Information To recommend a simple causal analysis of natural-factive information for a theory of mental content, as I do, is not necessarily to recommend it ...

epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2018-02-15 | Author:Svend Brinkmann

The truth in an uncertain world Arendt’s thinking reflects the major political upheavals of the twentieth century. It is a world in which, and for which, as Arendt puts it, ...

epub |eng | | Author:Christof Koch;

10 The Über-Mind and Pure Consciousness An appealing feature of integrated information theory is its fecundity in spawning new ideas such as the primitive but effective consciousness meter I just ...

epub |eng | 2019-11-27 | Author:Andrew Silverman

A DIRECTIONAL BURST OF RADIANT ENERGY? If the image on the Turin Shroud was indeed formed as a result of a burst of radiant energy, then we should be able ...

epub |eng | 2019-02-07 | Author:Antonia LoLordo

3.3 Personhood, Morality, and Immortality Like both Locke and Leibniz, Wolff links personality to morality. This moral aspect is an essential part of the immortality-context in which Wolff examines personhood. ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2018-07-27 | Author:Nancy J. Holland

Notes 1. Based on personal experience/memory. 2. Again, the translator of this texts uses “being” where others might use “Being.” As above, I will follow his usage in quotations, but ...

epub |eng | | Author:Timothy M. Costelloe

5 History In this chapter we focus our attention on the role of the imagination in Hume’s approach to history. Hume is rare among philosophers for being also a practising ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2016-01-03 | Author:Magee, Bryan;

FIVE Where Such Ideas Come From IN THIS BOOK MY AIM IS TO EXPRESS MY THOUGHTS AS directly as I can on the fundamentals of the human situation. These thoughts ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2019-12-08 | Author:Annabel Gat [Gat, Annabel]

VIRGO & SAGITTARIUS There’s certainly tension between these two, but they have so much respect for each other, as well. They’re both adventurers. Sagittarius quests for truth by traveling around ...