thinking it through an introduction to contemporary philosophy mar 2003

... T hinking It Through AN INTRODUCTION TO CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHY Kwame Anthony Appiah 28 Thinking It Through there are so many more internal states, it may be very hard, in prac - tice, to discover ... appeal to any evidence to settle the dis- pute. Even if we were discussing an actual machine instead of a hypothetical one, it wouldn’t help, for example, t...

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... metaphysics is past and that what metaphysicians aspire to achieve is an imposs- ible dream. They claim that it is an illusion to suppose that human beings can formulate and justify an undistorted pic- ture ... for instance, damage to one’s foot can cause one to feel pain and that a desire to raise one’s arm can have the effect of that arm’s going up. But for many critics of...

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... aspire to achieve is an imposs- ible dream. They claim that it is an illusion to suppose that human beings can formulate and justify an undistorted pic- ture of the fundamental structure of reality ... try to understand how it is possible for us to have knowledge of ourselves and others as sub- jects of experience existing both in space and through time: Introduction 5 n...

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... to fall into this ontological category. The proposition that snow is white is no more something that we can see, hear or touch than is the number 3. We can touch snow and see its whiteness, because ... nature from any of these concrete, physical things. We can apprehend it intellectually – that is, under- stand it – but we cannot literally see or touch it, for it does not occupy any...

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... means to ascribe to some- one a belief that it is raining in order to be able to generate the items on the list, so that the list cannot be used to explain what it means to ascribe to someone such ... type–type identity together with acceptance of token–token identity – is com- monly referred to as (a species of) non-reductive physicalism and is usually advanced in conjunc...

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... table to be rectangular, because an ability to enjoy such an experience seems to require an ability to recognise tables as objects of some kind (even if not as tables) and likewise an ability to ... the dis- junctive theory has any advantage over the causal theory. Yet it does appear to have some disadvantages of its own. For instance, if it really is committed to re...

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... characteristic concern is with the essence of language any language and so his procedure is to examine the concept of language with a view to discovering how any language must be. (It should be said ... propositional attitudes requires sensitivity to principles of rationality, and such sensitivity in turn depends upon awareness of one's attitudes. It follows from this thesis...

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... comprehend it and, to switch to a Kantian manner of speech, though we cannot fully comprehend it, we yet comprehend its incomprehen- sibility and this is the very best that could be expected of a philosophy ... being an apple and became this third sort of fruit and one at which it stopped being this third sort of fruit and became an orange? Surely not. The correct thing to sa...

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... of a thing is maintained by the strife of pairs of opposites of equal measure to form a harmony or unity . The cosmos is also a unity despite appearances. Indeed, Heraclitus goes further in maintaining an identity of opposites, citing examples like day and night where a thing can convert to its opposite and back again; the process ... to give an introduction to Western philosop...

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... things perceived and things only imagined. With open eyes I see the desk before me; with eyes closed, I can imagine it. I lay my hand on it and feel it; I can, without laying my hand on it, imagine ... between any two positions of it there is an infinite number of intermediate positions. Clifford does not play with the word "infinite"; he takes it seriously and tells us t...

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