The Retreat of Reason Part 10 potx

... role of forming their attitudes to completely suit the mould of cognitive rationality. The Possibility of a Retreat of Reason It might be thought that this latter retreat or withdrawal of reason ... regards the P-bias and the MSI. Now the P-bias and the MSI nurture two temporal biases: the N-bias, the bias towards the near (future); and the F-bias, 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 ... 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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... 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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... 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...

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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 ... veridical. On the other hand, 104 Reason and Value The Structure of Reasons: Internalism 111 Of these three appeals to reasons, it is only the first two that are of prim...

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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...

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... 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 ... 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...

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