Skepticism: An Anthology (review)
Tue, 3 Jun 2008 10:14:19 -0700 (PDT)
The editors, Popkin's life having ceased a few years short of seeing
his work in print, remind us that Hegel considered skepticism the
driving force of philosophy. One practical insight holds that a
person, likely a professional philosopher, who sees himself within a
skeptical tradition also maintains an epistemol ...
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Linguistic feathers ruffled by high tech new school
Thu, 22 May 2008 20:26:50 -0700 (PDT)
This week's "Nature" has a feature article on how a new breed of
computational linguists are attempting to understand the evolution of
language by using high powered computer models. The traditionalists
are not impressed, and accuse the new school of reducing language to
numbers and oversimplifying to the point of ...
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Incommensurability and Interpretation
Thu, 22 May 2008 20:11:08 -0700 (PDT)
Link: http://www.sorites.org/Issue_19/baldino.htm
ABSTRACT: Although the central target of Donald Davidson's influential
essay 'On the Very Idea of a Conceptual Scheme' is the scheme/content
distinction, Davidson also maintains that his argument undermines the
thesis of incommensurability as advocated by Thomas ...
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The Concept 'Horse' Paradox and Wittgensteinian Conceptual
Investigations (review)
Wed, 21 May 2008 19:43:48 -0700 (PDT)
Jolley's book is a deceptively thin volume, and a deceptively
unassuming one. For all that its contents may be intimidating to non-
philosophers, it's worth taking the time to read, and to read
carefully, for its target is nothing less than the nature of
structured thought itself. Link: http://metapsychology.menta ...
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Helmholtz's Kant
Tue, 20 May 2008 06:58:57 -0700 (PDT)
ABSTRACT: This essay review, originally presented an APA symposium on
Alberto Coffa's The Semantic Tradition from Kant to Carnap, argues
that the logical tradition Coffa studied, while embedded in neo and
anti-Kantianism, entirely missed the more lasting developments in
psychology that Kant provoked. Link: http:// ...
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Kant and the Expression of Imperatives
Mon, 19 May 2008 07:43:18 -0700 (PDT)
ABSTRACT: According to a popular English translation of the
"Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals", Kant says that all
imperatives are expressed by an 'ought'. This, however, seems so
clearly to be wrong that it is hard to suppose Kant said it. In this
paper I discuss different senses in which imperatives can ...
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Hegel's Preface to the "Phenomenology of Spirit"
Mon, 19 May 2008 07:33:07 -0700 (PDT)
Link: http://www.philosophos.com/philosophy_article_144.html
Here the concept of 'philosophical science' finds its justification.
Hegel has presented the method capable of penetrating to the interior
of reality, rather than standing outside of it and inferring what that
interior must be. He has sought to come to ...
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The Philosophy of Suicide
Mon, 19 May 2008 07:28:04 -0700 (PDT)
The most recent edition of ABC Radio National's "The Philosopher's
Zone" discussed the philosophy of suicide, looking at how our concepts
of self-killing have changed throughout history and whether there is
any such thing as a rational reason for ending our own lives. Link:
http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2008/05/th ...
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In search of the Good and of the Evil
Sat, 10 May 2008 08:56:40 -0700 (PDT)
We should think that God, who has given us Jesus Christ in order to
save us through Him, has nothing to do with the Evil.
God gave the life to the angel, who later rebelled against God
Himself, even if He got knowledge of the angel?s rebellion, because,
otherwise, it would be like to hide the hand within the slee ...
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Sunbeams on Our Faith
Wed, 23 Jan 2008 23:52:53 -0800 (PST)
It is not just the knowledge to give us the Faith. Anyway, it helps
and will surely help after irrefutable events to arrange so as to make
that our Faith would be stronger and stronger.
In this site you can find a lot of events, which will make you think
it over.
These events and knowledges will give you peace an ...
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