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Identifying three kinds of “unity” in Kant's “Critique of Pure Reason”
After reading about transcendental Aesthetics and transcendental logic, I perceive three kinds of unity in Kant's Critique of Pure Reason:
Unity of properties of an object which is sensed through ...
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A Neo-Kantian View on Causality?
Quantum non-determinism seems incompatible with Kant’s defense of causality in his Second Analogy.
Stephen R. Palmquist however provides an interesting and appealing case against this supposition, ...
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Is actual infinity physical infinity? Or just the axiom of infinity?
I've always been a little confused on this point.
My (second-hand) understanding of Aristotle's difference between potential and actual infinity is this:
We all have an intuition of the counting ...
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Realist vs Nominalist views of empirical data
I was recently intrigued by this passage regarding time-series data from The Grammar of Graphics, section 3.2:
Among the many prevailing views of the role of empirical data in
modern science, ...
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Are humans becoming more hive-like? Does this have philosophical implications?
Have any philosophers taken up human hive-like behaviour and its implications?
EO Wilson and others have outlined eusociality, a mode of group selection acting in addition to selection at the ...
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How does Quine effectively shift from points he has made about knowledge acquisition to conclusions he makes about knowledge simpliciter?
Quine propagated forward an approach to epistemology wherein there was no need of any sort of justification "beyond observation and the hypothetico-deductive method" (Quine 1981).
Quine is going ...
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The Moral Law and the Categorical Imperative in Kant
In the Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals, Kant begins his task by developing, through analysis of ordinary moral concepts, a theory of the 'supreme principle of morals,' the criteria for a ...
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What other theistic positions support open theism besides Christianity?
Open theism is a libertarian view of free will claiming that God’s omniscience does not extend to knowing the actual choices of free human agents. It is a theory of “dynamic omniscience”.
This ...
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Who has linked the analysis of modernism or post modernism to Lacan's four discourses?
Who has linked the analysis of modernism or post modernism to Lacan's four discourses?
I mean obviously there's some kinda link between the master's discourse and at least some forms of modernism. I'...
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How do disjunctive antecedents work in Marc Lange's stability concept of laws of nature?
I'm an ecology student who's dabbling into philosophy of science. I'm currently
writing a term paper on laws of nature (with a focus on ecology as a special science) and try to wrap my mind around ...
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Self determination in non atomistic time?
I am reading the book " perspective in whiteheads metaphysics" by Stephen David Ross. On page 182 he says" whiteheads theory of events is atomistic-primarily to allow for self determination, but the ...
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Are all pancomputationalist models for the universe compatible with informational realism?
Pancomputationalist theories are a group of physical theories that try to describe the universe itself as a computer or an informational (processing) structure.
Informational (structural) realism is ...
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Is time more “real” than math and, if so, why?
How is time different from math? Is time a part of math?
For me time is like math rather than a "real" thing. Time is just a tool rather than a "fundamental thing".
I feel confident saying that an ...
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On the determination of scientific consensus
The question:
Are there any philosophers or sociologists who have written about the process in which the scientific community decides that a body of evidence is enough to consider a particular theory ...
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How to understand objective/subjective and relative/absolute in the context of morality?
I was reading this SEP article and in this article a model with orthogonal axes for objective/subjective and relative/absolute is given.
An example analogy of a relative yet objective notion is also ...
