The Retreat of Reason Part 2 pot
The Retreat of Reason Part 2 pot
... 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 beings (mental ... by the activity of something external (rather than in the sense of
positively seeing its activity as being uncaused by the activity of all other things). The
r...
The Retreat of Reason Part 4 pot
... 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 (1975: 20 8). From the perspective of the subjective theory ... they are reason- based, they are derivative, though the reason consists in the predica-
tion of a property internal to their object. It may be that in the...
The Retreat of Reason Part 5 potx
... 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 ... recollections of the same event.
Thus, the explanation of the bias towards the near past is similar to the explanation of the
bias towards the near...
The Retreat of Reason Part 10 potx
... 196, 198 20 0, 20 1, 20 4, 20 8, 20 9–10,
21 1– 12, 21 3, 21 4, 21 6, 21 7, 21 8, 21 9 21 , 23 1 2,
24 4 n–5n, 25 5–7, 26 2, 26 3, 26 5, 26 6–7, 26 9 n, 27 2, 27 3,
27 5, 28 1, 28 1 n, 28 2, 310–11, 3 12 n, 318, 319, 325 n,
340, ... 3 92 n, 396 n, 398, 405 n, 406,
418
fission case 26 5–70, 27 2–3, 28 1 2
Fleming, B. N. 58, 22 7
Flew, A. 22 5–6, 22 8
Foster, J....
The Retreat of Reason Part 1 pps
... in the vicinity of your heart is a symptom of a serious heart
22 The Nature of Para-cognitive Attitudes
21 . Somatist Theories of our Identity 28 3
22 . The Identity of Material Bodies 29 8
23 . The ... 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 indicatin...
The Retreat of Reason Part 3 ppsx
... 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 an apparent reason ‘somebody’s reason :
the ... thoughts—that make up the whole content of the agent’s reasons—as
reasons (for the agent) is to say that they are related to the agent’s desires, that they have at
least th...
The Retreat of Reason Part 6 pps
... to depend upon the identity of physical things. I have earlier in this chapter
suggested that it is a matter of the identity of the whole body rather than of the identity
of parts of it, such as ... bodies of A and B are not numerically the same body (as I hope to make
clearer in Chapter 22 ). Although there is CCT between the states of these persons, to
the sam...
The Retreat of Reason Part 7 pps
... 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 ... in the process (1990: 27 6).
25
CONCERN FOR AND
APPROVAL OF OTHERS
I HAVE argued that the O-bias—to the effect that oneself rather than others be benefited—
is nei...
The Retreat of Reason Part 8 pptx
... 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 ... to be the states of another person would be states of
oneself, and thus to acquire a hypothetical concern for the satisfaction of oneself in
that hypothetical situation, and...
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