This chapter considers the key debate which raged in the late 1700s between thinkers such as Samuel Johnson, Edmund Burke, and Thomas Paine about Great Britain's right to tax her colonies, although two of their predecessors—John Locke and David Hume—set the context for much of their ...
With Skinner and to a lesser degree Quine placed in the camp as exemplars of the empiricist tradition and modern-day inheritors of John Locke’s mantal, and Chomsky a self-described exemplar of the Cartesian Tradition. And the scientific consensus is that Chomsky’s rationalism has won out over...
Manktelow, Inference and Understanding: A Philosophical and Psychological Perspective (Routledge, 1990); and Inference, Explanation, and Other Frustrations: Essays in the Philosophy of Science, ed. by John Earman (California, 1992). Also see EB. inference, rules of Elementary valid argument ...
A common feature of contemporary science education curricula is the expectation that as well as learning science content, students will learn somethingaboutscience—its nature, its history, how it differs from non-scientific endeavours, and its interactions with culture and society. These curricular pro...
To criticize vehemently from a Marxist perspective. "Je marcuse!" - J. P. Sartre. martin, v. To overwhelm with carnaps. "If he was martinned by the book, he should not have agreed to review it." massey, adj. Describing the work of someone who is hemple-minded. mctaggart, n...
Recommended Reading: Hugo Friedrich,Montaigne, tr. by Dawn Eng (California, 1991); Craig B. Brush,From the Perspective of the Self: Montaigne's Self-Portrait(Fordham, 1994);Montaigne's Message and Method, ed. by Dikka Berven (Garland, 1995); and Marcel Tetel,Montaigne(Twayne, 1990). ...
What is Donald Super's theory of lifespan development? What is the male gaze theory? What was Weber's perspective on modernity and contemporary society? In what ways does John Keats talk about inspiration in his poem "Ode to a Grecian Urn"? What is a swale? How does Hemingway us...
“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.” Marcus Aurelius 24. “The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it.” Epicurus 25. “The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature ...
And a lot of pop Daoism is crap, but there’s also plenty of great stuff (for example, Herrymon Maurer’s reading of the DDJ from an Anabaptist spiritual perspective, a book written entirely from English language sources.) For me, about 2/3 of Western philosophy is antipathetic, whereas...
which all show that the 20th-century philosophy is still full of vitality and energy, and modern philosophy also becomes a wide-ranging field; but, these many-sided new developments also result in certain chaos of philosophy, and thus, it will be a quite meaningful thing to do some systemati...