epub |eng | | Author:Laurence Devillairs

* * * OPIUM SMOKERS KARL MARX ASSERTED that religion is the “opium of the people,”1 a system of beliefs with the power to ease suffering and deaden consciousness. All ...

epub |eng | | Author:Friedel Weinert

It may appear shocking that no free will exists if the world is a four-dimensional stage, on which our life events are entirely predetermined (Petkov 2005, 152)—but only if fatalism ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2015-01-19 | Author:Gilles Deleuze

6. Prospects and Concepts Logic is reductionist not accidentally but essentially and necessarily: following the route marked out by Frege and Russell, it wants to turn the concept into a ...

epub |eng | 2011-04-26 | Author:Philip F. Gura

In 1848 the government functionary and aspiring writer George Wood (1799-1870) published Peter Schlemiel in America, a rollicking satire of contemporary American life. In the course of the novel Peter ...

epub |eng | 2014-04-24 | Author:Barry Dainton [Dainton, Barry]

Teleportation revisited According to C-theory, you will be numerically identical with someone who exists at some future time only if there exists a potential for stream-like consciousness linking you to ...

epub |eng | 1962-07-15 | Author:THOMAS HOBBES & MICHAEL OAKESHOTT & RICHARD S. PETERS

THE THIRD PART OF A CHRISTIAN COMMONWEALTH Chapter 32 Of the Principles of Christian Politics The word of God delivered by prophets is the main principle of Christian politics. I ...

epub |eng | 2011-06-23 | Author:Tucker, Aviezer;

Historical Fallacies of Philosophers and the Relationship of Philosophy to its History Contemporary academic philosophy generally grants that the history of philosophy has some sort of interest, but this interest ...

epub |eng | | Author:Carlo Cellucci

10.13 Frege’s Primitive Laws of Logic To carry out his logicist programme, Frege must indicate the primitive laws of logic from which all arithmetical laws are to be derived. His ...

epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Teemu Paavolainen

Strand 2: Footfalls—A Performative “Dreadfully Un—…” In Footfalls, as first directed by Samuel Beckett himself in two productions of 1976, the ghostly figure of May would differ from old Salieri ...

epub |eng | 2018-12-21 | Author:Jane O'Grady

Self and personal identity Applying the impression test to the self is also devastating. Since Hume has made the body simply a series of impressions that are on a par ...

epub |eng | 2017-03-13 | Author:Rorty, Richard.

CHAPTER V Epistemology and Empirical Psychology 1. SUSPICIONS ABOUT PSYCHOLOGY The line of thought I have called “epistemological behaviorism” has produced a prejudice against the notion of “mental entities” and ...

epub |eng | | Author:Shook, John R.

epub |eng | 1991-03-10 | Author:Hoopes, James; Hoopes, James ;

Notes 1. Died 1308. 2. The entia non sunt multiplicanda prœter necessitatem [“entities are not to be multiplied beyond necessity”] is the argument of Durand de St. Pourçain. But any ...

epub |eng | 2008-03-07 | Author:Fleischacker, Samuel;

38. Critical Jurisprudence and the Problems in Defining “Harm” If justiciable harm is a socially relative category, it will be difficult to find any laws of justice that must be ...

epub |eng | 2017-12-08 | Author:Immanuel Kant [Kant, Immanuel]

Section III. Of Opinion, Knowledge, and Belief. Table of Contents The holding of a thing to be true is a phenomenon in our understanding which may rest on objective grounds, ...