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: 208). From the perspective of the subjective theory ... on the other side of the earth). So, rather than speaking of a bias towards the present (time), we should speak of a bias towards that of the present wh...

Ngày tải lên: 05/08/2014, 13:20

... 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 ... 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 pressed b...

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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 ... 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...

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... n, 293 n, 311 n, 3 14 n, 342 n, 347 n, 359, 360 n, 41 9, 42 5 n, 43 1 n, 43 3, 43 4 n, 45 0 n, 46 2 n, 47 3 Pettit, P. 126 n, 139, 344 philosophy of life 1–2, 46 8 Pink, T. 3 94 Piper, A. M. 40 0 Plato 176, ... n resentment 88, 45 4 responsibility: and activity (AGR) 43 2–3, 43 6–9 backward- vs. forward-looking justification of 377–8, 40 6–8, 41 4, 42 9, 44 5–6 direct 3...

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... understanding of the mechanisms of gender differences in the course and outcome of certain diseases. For a more complete discussion of women's health, see Chap. 6. Care of the Elderly The relative ... of hospitalized patients, and the incidence increases with use of a large number of drugs. No matter what the clinical situation, it is the responsibilit...

Ngày tải lên: 06/07/2014, 08:20

... Freedom of Will 393 34. Responsibility and Desert 40 9 35. The Deontological Element of Responsibility 43 0 36. The Emotive Genesis of Desert 44 0 37. The Dilemma as regards Responsibility 44 8 Conclusion: ... 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...

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... 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...

Ngày tải lên: 05/08/2014, 13:20

... 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 ... in the beginning (if the ‘shell’ is composed of only a tiny portion of the metal). The conflict is due to the fact that the identity conditions of things of...

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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 ... fear the death of the replica. Even more problematic is the case in which the replication is now in the past. One cannot then from one’s present point of view a...

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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 ... 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...

Ngày tải lên: 05/08/2014, 13:20