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 ... 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...

Ngày tải lên: 05/08/2014, 13:20

... 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...

Ngày tải lên: 05/08/2014, 13:20

... 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 ... stance on the issue of the reality/irreality of value; therefore, it seems reasonable to lump them together as forms of anti-realism or irrealism. What they disagree about i...

Ngày tải lên: 05/08/2014, 13:20

... 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 ... component of psychological continuity and so of personal identity” (19 86: 552; my italics). from running smoothly from the observation of S on one side of the ga...

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... because of medical errors, but others of which reflect an unrealistic expectation on the part of many patients that their disease will be cured or that complications will not occur during the course ... care. The American Board of Internal Medicine, working together with the American College of Physicians– American Society of Internal Medicine and the European Federa...

Ngày tải lên: 06/07/2014, 08:20

... 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 (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

... 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 ... as the upshot of repres- entional mechanisms of the sort studied in the context of weakness of will in Part II. In Chapter 16 I shall let another tempo...

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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 ... any agreements. In this part of the book, I have to some extent tested the rationality of the second idea of autonomy, and in the next part, I shall to some extent do...

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... explanatory function. For the construct of the agent itself as a cause cannot explain why some of the reasons rather than other ones that the agent had led to action, nor why they led to action at any particular ... case of the O-basis, the gap is between the much fuller representation of our own present situation compared to that of others (the P-bias), and its exten...

Ngày tải lên: 05/08/2014, 13:20