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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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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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How do epiphenomenalists make sense of discussions about qualia?
Epiphenomenalists believe that mental events have no causal effect on the physical. They may differ in what they consider "mental events" but it seems all of them would consider qualia / phenomenal ...
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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 were the minimal conditions if any for something to be regarded as a mathematical proof during the period of Ancient Greece?
In particular, were there any methods of proof prior to Euclid's? Are there any examples in the literature of pre-Euclidean mathematical proofs in the period of ancient Greece?
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Is there any author that argues for radical moral pluralism?
Let me first clarify what I mean with "radical" here. While many modern authors, if not all, accept moral pluralism of sorts, all that I know of express either the hope, if not the conviction, that ...
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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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Is a law of nature a universal?
Newton described his theory of gravity as universal. I take this to mean that this theory was universally valid, that it brought together both terrestrial and celestial phenomena under one rubric. It ...
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Kripke's Solution to Negative Existentials
From what I've collected, Quine seemed to have solved the problem of non-being by using Russell's theory of definite descriptions through the negation of the x having certain properties/descriptions. ...
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Personal morals and political ethics - should individual moral obligations determine government policy?
So, there are plenty of arguments out there that argue that since governments do not possess intentionality, are not the origin of their actions, and are not self-aware of their actions or their ...
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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 ...
