The long tradition of pessimism in philosophy and poetry notoriously laments suffering caused by vulnerabilities of the human body. The most familiar and contemporary version is antinatalism, the view that it is wrong to bring sentient life into existence because birth inevitably produces suffering. ...
This is not to say that meaning can be reductively construed as reference; clearly, other well-known meaning facets need to be covered over and above reference (Chierchia & McConnell-Ginet, 2000). In analytical philosophy, language is considered to receive its meaning from the embedding of ...
At this time, to speak of constitutionalism in America is rather presumptuous. We have political science and sociology. We have a legal community with a great deal of knowledge of case law. We have capital-C Constitutionalism, which, when it takes the form of philosophy rather than knowledge ...
19、The Royal Society was theembodimentof this philosophy.(皇家学会体现了这一哲学观点。) 20、Urbane, brainy and funny, he seemed theembodimentof Poland’s hoped-for future.(他举止得体、智慧过人且幽默风趣,这种种的优点也让他几乎成了波兰梦想的未来的化身。) ...
“giving back” to the community; rather, they recognize that indigenous astronomical traditions are underpinned by a philosophy of knowledge that enables a different understanding of how humans relate to the natural world. This knowledge can produce new forms of intercultural understandings about ...
Peters (2004) argued that the distinction of soul and mind from the body is rooted as far back as Platonic philosophy’s elevation of the mind over the body, and traces it through Descartes’ divorcing of pure reason and the body into the classic Cartesian mindbody dualism. In 2004, he ...
how the drug approach bias may be embodied. First, we consider the “biological meaning” hypothesis, which grounds the automatic approach bias in the natural meaning of the body. Second, we consider the “sensorimotor hypothesis,” which appeals to the specific sensorimotor loops involved in the...
G Glas - 《Philosophy》 被引量: 13发表: 2003年 The embodiment of meaning violations. People need meaning in their lives; they need a framework of ideas that delineates the relationships that exist between themselves, others, and their environments. However, such frameworks can be violated by ...
Just by looking at the companions to the philosophy of language and basic manuals to that domain of philosophy, we can enumerate its fundamental problems, categories and notions. For example, we can find there the prob- lem of meaning and theories of meaning (with such notions like proposi-...
The first volume of the two-volume set Body, Language and Mind focuses on the concept of embodiment, understood in most general terms as "the bodily basis of phenomena such as meaning, mind, cognition and language". The volume offers a representative, multi- and interdisciplinary state-of-the...