university press of kentucky the philosophy of the x-files sep 2007

... presentation of artistic works, and lack of interest in visual perspective. The beginning of the modern world saw the decline of feudal- ism, the separation of the individual, the beginnings of modern ... how we see the world, not because of the content of printed works, but because of exposure to the medium itself. In the decades following the invent...

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... meaning thereby just that they feel, see, think, reason and so forth. According to this view of the matter, the philosophy of mind is the philosophical study of minded things just insofar as they ... credibility to the extent that it is consistent with the other. METAPHYSICS AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF MIND The philosophy of mind is not only concerned with the philo-...

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... None of us played the role of what Lenin termed the “useful idiot,” and we never romanticized the “other” in the manner of days gone by. Our statements, in fact, expressed dismay over the constric - tion ... Travels and the Search for Reconciliation Stephen Eric Bronner THE UNIVERSITY PRESS OF KENTUCKY 20 PEACE OUT OF REACH the popular imagination, al Qaed...

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... needs them.” 17 A praetorian guard for the new empire? v In the early part of the twentieth century the great social and political theorist Max Weber wrote feelingly of the “disenchantment of the world” ... while the costs of national security would be largely borne by the less well-off. 25 The lasting effects of the Cold War encounter included not only the eli...

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... think of the hive as both the location of the dance and the origin of the flight vector it indicates, the putative spatial displacement is less evident. In any event, there is no question of a ... have to rethink the role of sensory modality in the basic nature of language. In general, the tests suggested by Hockett re- flect the understanding linguists had of...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 14:43

... possible. And the provision of just such a conception is one of the principal tasks of metaphysics. 3 The point of these remarks is to emphasise there cannot be progress either in the philosophy of mind ... credibility to the extent that it is consistent with the other. METAPHYSICS AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF MIND The philosophy of mind is not only concerned with...

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... alert other monkeys to the presence of various kinds of predator. 19 One type of call appears to represent the presence of eagles, another the presence of snakes, and yet another the presence of ... OF MENTAL CONTENT These advantages of the teleological theory of representation over the causal theory may encourage us to try to extend it to the case of mental...

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... to the computer’s ‘inputs’, other software states of the computer, and the computer’s ‘outputs’. By a ‘software’ state of a computer, I mean, for instance, its storing of a particular piece of ... how- ever, one might think of identifying the type to which our particular chessman belongs in terms of the type of material object which plays the role of the bishop i...

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... and their position relative to one another – things such as the colour and shape of the tree and of the house, the intervening ground between them, the sky behind them, and other objects in their ... MA: MIT Press, 1983), ch. 8. 5 The classic presentation of the causal theory of perception in modern times is by H. P. Grice: see his The Causal Theory of Perception’, P...

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... could. On the other hand, the new synthesis accepts the ethical ideal of concern for all humans ; it embraces the democratic faith in the worth of the individual and seeks the welfare of all ... have arrived at the philoso- phy through the critical study of the materials of religion and the effort to meet the needs of their people in terms of to- day’s...

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