epub |eng | 2014-04-14 | Author:Gupta, Ravi M.;

ETHICS AND PRACTICE Caitanya Vaiṣṇava Ethics in Relation to Devotional Community Joseph T. O’Connell Introduction: General Challenge of Locating Brāhmaṇic Ethics and Meta-ethical Theory To enquire into the ethical import ...

epub, azw3 |eng | | Author:DK

Degrees of reasonableness If we can establish that the premises of an argument are very probably all true, and we know that the argument is valid, then we can know ...

epub |eng | 2004-02-28 | Author:Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein [Wallerstein, Immanuel Maurice]

PART 1 1 Dilemmas of the Disciplines 7 Myth, the presumed structure of the pre-modern or the savage ... mind, was the single belief the enlightened class did not tolerate. ...

epub |eng | | Author:Emanuele Serrelli & Nathalie Gontier

4.3 Evolutionary Patterns The history of life on Earth is characterized by a combination of unique and repeated events. An evolutionary pattern is an empirically discernible regularity in the history ...

epub |eng | 2011-12-06 | Author:Voltaire; Fletcher, John; Cronk, Nicholas

ON EZEKIEL (D’ÉZÉCHIEL) On some singular passages in this prophet, and on some ancient customs IT’S generally agreed today that ancient customs must not be judged in the light of ...

epub |eng | | Author:Dave Robinson

Hume Explains “Why” THE REASON WHY EVERYBODY BELIEVES IN CAUSE IS SIMPLE … Causal “necessity” is psychological, not logical. All we ever observe are constant conjunctions in the world, not ...

epub |eng | | Author:Chris Rodrigues

The city crowd was both an anonymous phenomenon in which the individual could hide, and the place where identity (crucially, at times political identity) could be invented. The crowd became ...

epub |eng | | Author:Gaut, Berys; Lopes, Dominic;

Truth in a fiction It is generally agreed that it is true in the Sherlock Holmes stories that the famous detective resides at 221B Baker Street. But in virtue of ...

epub |eng | 2010-08-05 | Author:Dreyfus, Hubert L.; Wrathall, Mark A.; & Mark A. Wrathall

Notes 1 For instance, Paul Churchland and Richard Rorty in an earlier incarnation. 2 I have defended this in Solomon 2005. 3 I find it particularly revealing that James juxtaposes ...

epub |eng | | Author:Cohen, Martin;

Problems 29–30: Problems and More Problems Buying Stamps and Potatoes The value of things is often artificially separated into a ‘hard’ economic or monetary value and a more shifting and ...

epub |eng | | Author:Jamie Whyte [Whyte, Jamie]

Evil exists, and An all-good and all-powerful god exists. Their inconsistency is not immediately obvious, but inconsistent they are. An all-good god would want to avoid any evil he could ...

epub |eng | 2011-03-10 | Author:Tom Morris [Morris, Tom]

But if the materialist insists that, in the last analysis, we can’t explain how any mental event could cause any physical event to happen, a simple response is available to ...

epub |eng | 2011-11-18 | Author:Will Buckingham

* * * Think of some activity in which you take part regularly – the contemporary equivalent of going to the bath house – and think of the times that ...

epub |eng | 2006-07-24 | Author:Hacking, Ian [Hacking, Ian]

12 POLITICAL ARITHMETIC Statistics began as the systematic study of quantitative facts about the state. From 1603 the City of London kept a weekly tally of christenings and burials. Desultory ...

epub |eng | | Author:Luciano Floridi

2.6 Policy Implications 2.6.1 Life Extension In a world in which artifacts and information survive much longer than the human body, there will be increasing pressure to also extend the ...