blackwell - a companion to the philosophy of science (2001)
blackwell - a companion to the philosophy of science (2001)
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Ngày tải lên: 05/06/2014, 11:03
the blackwell guide to the philosophy of computing and information-(all, but no chp 10, 21, 22)
... acquiring an ontological status comparable to that of ordinary things likes clothes, cars and buildings. By de-physicalising nature and embodying narratives, the physical and the cultural are re-aligned ... pushing nature, as the non-human, and hence physical space, into the background. In the course of its evolution, the process of semanticisation gradually leads to...
Ngày tải lên: 05/06/2014, 11:27
Cambridge.University.Press.An.Introduction.to.the.Philosophy.of.Mind.Jan.2000.pdf
... certain gen- eral theories of the nature of mental states and some attempts to explain how mental states can have content – that is, how they can apparently be ‘about’ things and states of affairs ... that conception is not the task of any one of those sciences, but rather that of metaphysics. Some people believe that the age of metaphysics is past and that what metaphys...
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Introduction of An Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind
... certain gen- eral theories of the nature of mental states and some attempts to explain how mental states can have content – that is, how they can apparently be ‘about’ things and states of affairs ... that conception is not the task of any one of those sciences, but rather that of metaphysics. Some people believe that the age of metaphysics is past and that what metaphys...
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An Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind - Mental content
... causes a monkey to make that type of call as it is to say that the presence of an eagle normally causes a monkey to make that type of call. In normal circumstances, the presence of an eagle causes ... eagle-call in the presence of a child’s kite rather than a real eagle, we would say that the call was a ‘false alarm’ – and rightly so, according to the tel...
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An Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind - Mental states
... seems to be that the qualitative charac- ter of a mental state makes no difference to its causal role, since states with quite different qualitative characters can have exactly the same causal role. ... that all that is required for certain states of an object to qualify as mental states of certain types is that those states should stand in appropriate causal relations to...
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An Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind - Perception
... propositional attitude states. They are like the former in that they have qualitative or phenomenal features and they are like the latter in that they have conceptual con- tent. I had a good deal to say ... that it is by no means a simple matter to determine what kind of causal relation is ‘appropriate’ as far as an analysis of the concept of object-perception is concerned...
Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 07:20
Tài liệu Water Pollution Control - A Guide to the Use of Water Quality Management Principles ppt
... data available on Nigeria's own water quality. The standards considered included those of Australia, Brazil, Canada, India, Tanzania, the United States and the World Health Organization ... also empowered the agency to set water quality standards to protect public health and to enhance the quality of waters. In the absence of national comprehensive scientific da...
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