mcgill-queens university press philosophy and philosophers an introduction to western philosophy dec 1993

... curiosity of those who want to understand what philosophy is and will provide a key to further study of philosophy and philosophers . To aid the reader in further study an extensive annotated bibliography is included, which serves as ... to give an introduction to Western philosophy through its past, both distant and more recent, and to serve as a useful wo...

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... 1. Contentsviii 4Mentalcontent69 Propositions70 Thecausalrelevanceofcontent74 Theindividuationofcontent79 Externalisminthephilosophyofmind82 Broadversusnarrowcontent84 Content,representationandcausality89 Misrepresentationandnormality92 Theteleologicalapproachtorepresentation95 Objectionstoateleologicalaccountofmentalcontent99 Conclusions100 5Sensationandappearance102 Appearanceandreality103...

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... 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 nothing more to say to ... 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...

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... Putnam, Mind, Language and Reality: Philosophical Papers, Volume 2 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1975). An introduction to the philosophy of mind90 ence between beliefs and desires is ... greater than 2 and less than 4: and this seems to commit us to recognising the existence of the number 3. It is true that not all philosophers are happy with this state of...

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... states to a subject is always open to many alternative interpretations and that often the best that we can hope to do, in the light of a given subject’s circumstances and pattern of behaviour, is to ... ascribe beliefs and desires to people and attempt to understand their behaviour in terms of their possession of such mental states, we are not doing anything at all analog-...

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... colour and shape of the tree and of the house, the intervening ground between them, the sky behind them, and other objects in their vicinity (together with their colours and shapes). And these ... to the child at least some concepts if one is to attribute to it a perceptual experience of seeing a table to be rectangular, because an ability to enjoy such an experience s...

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... economic miracles in China and to a lesser extent in India have boosted the industrial and societal demands of two billion people. To construct the cell phones, cooking pans and power stations that 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 1900 ... belt. Other examples occur in modern island arc settings and in the western Pacific or in their Precambrian equivalent, the Archean greenstone belts o...

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... substance i at the standard pressure p0 and at temperature T. The chemical potential of pure substance i, ~P"re(T~ p0), at the standard temperature T O and pressure p0 is called the standard ... b-(T, V, ~), and G G(T, p, ~) are called the thermodynamic potentials for the characteristic variables S and V; S and p; T and V; and T and p; respectively. An irreversibl...

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... Applications to Advancing Nanotechnology 123 6 Self-assembled Nanostructures in Nature and Industry 133 6.1 Carbon Atom 12 6 C1s 2 2p 4 (0.07 nm) 134 6.2 Methane CH 4 , Ethane C 2 H 6 , and Octane C 8 H 18 135 6.3 ... of Nanomotors and Nanodevices 28 3.2.1 Linear Spring Motors 29 3.2.2 Linear Engines on Tracks 30 3.2.3 Rotary Motors 33 3.2.4 Ion Channels, the Nanotransistors of Biolog...

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