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The Oxford Companion to Philosophy pdf
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... just the same issues as everyone else The other is an impetus to togetherness the desire of philosophers to nd companions, to be able to interact with others who share their interest to the extent ... motion, due to Zeno of Elea In a race, Achilles can never catch the tortoise, if the tortoise is given a head start For while Achilles closes the initial gap between them, the tortoise will have ... one, the tortoise will have created another However fast Achilles runs, all that the tortoise has to do, in order not to be beaten, is make some progress in the time it takes Achilles to close the...
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... gnosticism; language, history of the philosophy of; mathematics, history of the philosophy of; mathematics, problems of the phil- osophy of; metaphysics, history of; mind, history of the philosophy of; ... language, history of the philosophy of; law, history of the philosophy of; macrocosm and microcosm; materialism; mathematics, history of the philosophy of; medieval philosophy; metaphysics, history of; ... problems of the philosophy of; scientism philosophy and the public popular philosophy philosophy and theology see theology and philosophy philosophy and war see war and philosophy philosophy of...
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... The Oxford Companion to Philosophy This page intentionally left blank The Oxford Companion to Philosophy Second Edition Edited by Ted Honderich 3 Great Clarendon Street, Oxford ox2 6dp Oxford ... logic, the philosophy of mind, aesthetics, and so on In the case of each of these, the book contains a long essay on its history and another on its problems as they now are, by contributors not ... important There are different ways of reading The general readers and the experts can be taken together and then divided into two other classes of readers The first class has in it readers who are on the...
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The Oxford Companion to Philosophy Part 2 pdf
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... 628 eastern philosophy Confucius, Nishida, Tagore, Radhakrishnan 429 philosophy at the end of the twentieth century Kuhn, Lewis, Rorty, Williams 483 Contributors Almost all the contributors are ... list of portraits list of contributors on using the book The Companion: Alphabetical Entries appendices Logical Symbols Maps of Philosophy A Chronological Table of Philosophy sources of illustrations ... Oxford Prof Philip Pettit Princeton University Mr Stephen Priest University of Oxford Dr Thomas Pink King’s College London The Rt Hon Lord Quinton University of Oxford Prof Philip L Quinn University...
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The Oxford Companion to Philosophy Part 3 pptx
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... motion, due to Zeno of Elea In a race, Achilles can never catch the tortoise, if the tortoise is given a head start For while Achilles closes the initial gap between them, the tortoise will have ... one, the tortoise will have created another However fast Achilles runs, all that the tortoise has to do, in order not to be beaten, is make some progress in the time it takes Achilles to close the ... dividing-line Unless there is such a line, they say, we must either upgrade the status of the earliest embryo to that of the child, or downgrade the status of the child to that of the foetus; and...
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... aesthetic experience and aesthetic value Thus only part of aesthetics is the philosophy of art The rest, which might be termed the philosophy of the aesthetic, centres on the nature of aesthetic ... judgements The philosophy of art and the philosophy of the aesthetic overlap, without either being clearly subordinate to the other Contemporary aesthetics is a rich and challenging part of philosophy, ... or there is, but reason cannot determine that one is to be preferred to the other by that standard, then the agent (the will) must be free to choose either way If, in the case of wrongdoing, there...
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... just the same issues as everyone else The other is an impetus to togetherness the desire of philosophers to nd companions, to be able to interact with others who share their interest to the extent ... terms The premisses contain two occurrences of one of the terms, the middle term It is by virtue of relations of the other two terms to the middle term that the conclusion, containing the other ... opinion-shapers: they not have access to the media, to the political establishment, to the think tanks that seek to mould public opinion In so far as they exert an external inuence at all, it is conned to...
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... in the more recent history of the subject, while in the case of others it has been claimed that they were unknown or ignored by the ancient thinkers and only came to the fore in philosophy in the ... exercise it for the benefit of those below them, and if they hold offices of authority they are accountable to those below them and recallable by them The abolition of the state precludes not the organization ... period from the middle of the first millennium bc to the middle of the first millennium ad—from Thales and the earliest PreSocratics to late Neoplatonists and Aristotelian commentators, such as...
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The Oxford Companion to Philosophy Part 7 ppt
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... dependent The truth of the house lies in its conformity to the plan, and the truth of the passer-by’s idea of the house lies in its conformity to the house In each case there is truth where there ... of the first antinomy— which requires that both thesis and antithesis be false— applies to the others But he also suggests that in the case of the dynamical antinomies both thesis and antithesis ... Aquinas was not the first to recognize the need to determine the extent to which Aristotle’s system was compatible with Christian teaching, and to wonder how the latter teaching was to be defended...
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... history of mathematics and Aristoxenus wrote on music Theophrastus and the next head of the Lyceum, Strato, were independent thinkers, prepared to criticize Aristotle’s views, and to develop their ... head, Aristotle left Athens, lived for a while in Assos and Mytilene, and then was invited to return to Macedonia by Philip to tutor Alexander Aristotle returned to Athens in 335 at the age of ... had to be in cognitive contact with the world for our basic terms (such as ‘man’ or ‘gold’) to make sense Our thoughts had to be ‘likened’ to objects and kinds in the world for them to be the...
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... (1918), 179), together with the facts composed of these atoms Atomism as a theory of matter dates back to the ancients Hume’s atomism is psychological: the ultimate constituents of the world are ... Bailey, The Greek Atomists and Epicurus (Oxford, 1928) atomism, psychological The view that the ultimate con- tents of the mind consist in self-standing items owing their significance to no other ... against the existence of; God and the philosophers; religion, scepticism about; religion, history of the philosophy of; religion, problems of the philosophy of atonement William Clifford, The Ethics...
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The Oxford Companion to Philosophy Part 10 pptx
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... claims to knowledge about them For example, our access to the physical world seems to be only via our own sense-data, to the minds of others via their behaviour, and to the past via our memories There ... wished their life to be ended—for instance, in the case of voluntary *euthanasia On the contrary, respect for the person’s autonomy would then require one to comply with their wishes Another application ... of them and to endorse others, and to act upon these second-order preferences r.j.n *freedom; autonomy and heteronomy; autonomy, personal Gerald Dworkin, The Theory and Practice of Autonomy (Cambridge,...
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... about whether turtles wear pyjamas, it seems right to say that you none the less believed they did not wear pyjamas before your attention was ever called to the fact Beliefs, together with other ... to be used, perhaps, to put a good face on the largess of the better-off to the worse-off It thereby introduces doubts about the moral value of benevolence The question of the moral importance ... unhappiness’ The rightness of actions depends on their utility; and the utility is measured by the consequences which the actions tend to produce Of all these varying terms describing the consequences, the...
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The Oxford Companion to Philosophy Part 12 pps
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... reaches the brain, and thereupon causes *‘ideas’ to arise in the mind; and these are the items of which the observer is really aware In some respects these ideas faithfully represent to the mind the ... explanation of the polar bear’s whiteness does not refer to the future camouflaging of the bears, but to the fact that their past camouflaging led to the natural selection of their whiteness The centrality ... content, or whether the thesis of the survival of the fittest’ simply collapses into the empty truism that ‘whatever survives, survives’ However, there are ways of formulating the theory so that...
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... between which they hold into a single thing; moreover, their togetherness does not seem particularly due to the relation since they have already (logically speaking) to be together to provide a ... together with the other one (3) Finally, you may treat the relation as an aspect of the terms taken together as constituting a unit But that betrays the very notion of a relation by merging the ... component, then it seems to require to be related to its terms by fresh relations, and these to be related to those relations and their terms by further ones, and so on in an impossible regress (2) To...
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