The Retreat of Reason Part 8 pptx
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 ... 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...
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 ... 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 283
22. The Identity of...
The Retreat of Reason Part 2 pot
... 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 ... 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). Th...
The Retreat of Reason Part 3 ppsx
... Value
¹² On the strength of other reasons, Stanley Benn also rejects the “Humean” separation of the conative from the cognit-
ive (1 988 : e.g. 28) . For a recent criticism of McDowell on these matters, ... 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 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: 2 08) . From the perspective of the subjective theory ... succession).
They are kept apart in the sense of not being brought together in episodic thought and
not in the sense of belonging to different compartments o...
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 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...
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 ... 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...
The Retreat of Reason Part 9 pdf
... 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...
The Retreat of Reason Part 10 potx
... Primacy of Perception, Lund: Gleerup.
—— (1 985 b): The Universal Basis of Egoism’, Theoria, 51: 137– 58.
—— (1 988 a): ‘Review of Nagel: The View from Nowhere’, Theoria, 54: 55–67.
—— (1 988 b): ‘Rationality ... thin idea of a unity of a wholly unspecified ontological
kind” (1 988 : 1 98) ; and that (b) the idea of the activity of such a unity “is thin nearly to
the po...
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