The search for common ground is hugely important and it depends on understanding in as fair a way as possible how words are being used by opponents in deba... B Watson - 《Think Philosophy for Everyone》 被引量: 0发表: 2022年 The Contingency of the Cultural Evolution of Morality, Debunkin...
Thirdly, many people assume that a materialist only thinks of the “material”, it is all about—in simple words—money. But in this sense a materialist can be quite an ideal-ist. Fourthly, ‘materialism’ implied easily dialectical and historical materi-alism then, and that seemed to me...
In what follows I shall concentrate on Ludwig Wittgenstein’s thought as it emerges from the essay by David Pears that appears in this volume. In addressing the Private Language Argument (henceforth PLA) Pears isolates two very important elements: the wo
7 (Metzinger 2003b, 403) Let me try to put this in my own words. If someone thinks, “I am hungry,” she is activating a transparent phenomenal self-model. She sees through the ‘I’ (so to speak) to the feeling of hunger. The ‘I’ is invisible to her. But if she thinks, ...
CharlesDarwin(1809-1882)Englishnaturalistandauthor.OriginofSpecies(1859)exertedastrongimpactinthehistoryofWesternthought.Theoriginofspeciesisderivedbydescent,withvariationfromparentformsthroughthenaturalselectionofthosebestadaptedtosurviveinthestruggleforexistence.Hedevelopedsomeideasthatthestruggleforexistence,survivalof...
In Skinner’s ‘Science and Human Behaviour’ in 1953 he speculated on ways behavioural technology could improve the lives of people if implemented properly. However, there were those who didn’t like the imposition of scientists into human affairs. Some of this opposition was simple fear that ...
His powerful frankness widens the social and sexual range possible for literature inAmerica. He struck at the American myth that success and fame were to be achieved by work and virtue. 4. Dreiser’s Style: Without good construction;deficient characterization;lack in imagination;Simple words;...
This is made explicit in the very next words on the Rock. 5) Body-thinking [happens] Translation: “Information happens!” Information happens! Isn’t that the truth of it? But what the hell. . . !? Let me explain. Ungod means information is an internal experience we have, not a se...
simple example, taken from the position known asfunctionalism, according to which a particular psychological state consists of a certain "role" or "function" performed by the psyche in mediating between incoming snesory stimulation and outgoing behavior. One functionalist, ned Block, takes a ...
financialgiantsvs.proletariat;slumsingreatnumbers;heavyfreightratesofrailroad Howell’s“smilingaspect”realismtoogenteelandevenfalse Background(2) Ideologicalbackground:newphilosophy Darwinianconcepts:“thesurvivalofthefittest”,“thehumanbeast”;HerbertSpenser’ssocialDarwinism:man’slifeiscontrolledby...