Here, for the record, is Brentano’s much-quoted central passage on the matter: “Every mental phenomenon is characterised by what the Scholastics of the middle ages called the intentional (and also mental) inexistence of an object, and what we might call, though not wholly unambiguously, ref...
Such musings about the nature of the objective world our subjective experiences seem to bear witness to—from Berkeley to Putnam—only represent the tip of the existential iceberg. Some other radical explanations for the content of my personal conscious perception in this very moment have been liste...
Finally, we conclude that science can support theology through new approaches to nature and that a theology of science is required today as an intertwined perspective between science and theology. The main virtue that guides this approach is humility. Keywords: science; scientific change; trans...
For me, but apparently not for the cognitive metaphor school, this leaves the nature of conceptual metaphors in doubt. It is, however, possible to see the two approaches, cognitivist and discourse-focused, as complementary, not as mutually exclusive. In what follows I will present the two ...
Computationalism, the thesis that mental states are computational states realized by physical systems such as (but not limited to) central nervous systems, drives the research in the cognitive neurosciences and artificial intelligence. But Hilary Putnam and John Searle, have independently argued for ...
MacMillan speculated on the nature of interstellar civilizations, believing that they would be vastly more advanced than our own. "Out in the heavens, perhaps, are civilizations as far above ours as we are above the single cell, since they are so much older than ours...
(2015) http://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms7029 69 The Foundation for Language The human verbal system evolved in an unusually short time. ● The perception-action foundation took 99% of evolutionary time. ● As a result, the human perception, action, emotional, and social patterns remain ...
Morton argues that we dissolvethis binary opposition and begin to understand nature as a social construct that is inseparable from civilization. In his work in the OOO movement, which focuses on the ontology of objects in the world apart from human ontology (the goal being to avoid anthropocentri...
In his intellectual autobiography, Popper (1976) diseusses his 'resolution' of the problem of seientific progress, linking this reso- lution to the clarifieation of the nature of seientifie method. He remarks: Progress consisted in moving towards theories which tell us more and more - ...
The disagreement between realism, modernism, and postmodernism is not about truth-telling: it is about the nature of the truth. In fact, literary history follows the evolution of our civilization’s understanding of the truth and, in this sense, literature always remains realist: even when it ...