The Retreat of Reason Part 1 pps

... fit neither of these ends, but they may all the same have at least the function of mitigating the sensation of pain. There is experimental evidence indicating that, if the stimulation of other ... respect of its being the bearer of the quality of pleasure, enjoyment implies that other aspects of the sensation are the object only of peripheral attention.⁷ This...

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... veridical. On the other hand, 10 4 Reason and Value The Structure of Reasons: Internalism 11 1 Of these three appeals to reasons, it is only the first two that are of primary interest here. The third, explanatory ... to the agent’s reasons. But we have seen that we must carefully keep apart the explanatory concept of a reason the reason why’—and the concept of a...

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... as the primitive subjects of predication” (19 91: ii. 4), some of these being organic. In the case of these objects, their discreteness and unity are not constituted by their being alive (for then ... capable of locomotion. ⁵ Cf. Olson, who equates the life of an organism with the sum of the metabolic activities the organism’s parts are caught up in” (19 97: 13 6). Psy...

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... and there is no other kind of thing that matches both of these aspects of the notion of being the subject of our consciousness. This enables us to answer quickly the question of whether the O-bias ... side of the gap to the experience of E on the other. It does not help much to postulate that it is the same constituent par- ticles that participate in the reco...

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... with the ability to trace effects (upon themselves) to causes in the physical activities of other beings, but without the ability to see these activities as the outcomes of the mental states of the other ... rid of the pain, for no instinct of mine gears the pressing of buttons to the relief of pains. I perform the action of causing the button to be press...

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... that the basis of the bisection “has rather to do with the source of the want”, this source being evaluations in the case of rational desires (19 75: 208). From the perspective of the subjective theory ... for maximization theories like the repugnant conclusion. Weakness of Will 17 3 On the other hand, she insists on the possibility of knowingly violating the...

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... diagnosis of the absurdity of life, though suggestive, fails in the end. So much for the diagnosis of the feeling of the futility and meaninglessness of life. Supposing now that the removal of the ... here having to make the effort of reversing the temporal order (17 39–40 /19 78: 4 31) . The Notion of a Temporal Bias 19 9 nature that this combination of...

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... first to articulate these elements and then to explore how they fare in the light of requirements of reason, like RU. How they fare in the light of these requirements is a matter of fact that has ... on Hare’s project of going from universal prescriptivism to a version of utilitarianism by means of steps “all based on the logic of the concepts involved” (19 81: 17 6;...

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... desert-entailing responsibility—they cannot see it as an emergent property. They must rather see it as a property of another substance than the material one. Hence, pace O’Connor, Taylor (19 66: 13 4–8) and Thorp (19 80: 11 9–22), ... other things, an account of the reasons upon which the agent acted” (19 95: 18 4; cf. 2000: ch. 5). The agent-cause provides a “mechanism of...

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... n, 19 6, 19 8–200, 2 01, 204, 208, 209 10 , 211 12 , 213 , 214 , 216 , 217 , 218 , 219 – 21, 2 31 2, 244 n–5n, 255–7, 262, 263, 265, 266–7, 269 n, 272, 273, 275, 2 81, 2 81 n, 282, 310 11 , 312 n, 318 , 319 , ... 472–3 value 10 6–7 reason, retreat of 12 13 , 234, 2 41, 372, 467 reasons: apparent 11 0 11 conditional form of 11 2 13 defeasibility of 13 6 desire-dependence...

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