history of the philosophy of religion

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... meaning thereby just that they feel, see, think, reason and so forth. According to this view of the matter, the philosophy of mind is the philosophical study of minded things just insofar as they ... credibility to the extent that it is consistent with the other. METAPHYSICS AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF MIND The philosophy of mind is not only concerned with the philo- sophical analysis of mental or ... concep- tion of the whole of reality, we cannot hope to render compat- ible the theories and observations of the various different sciences: and providing that conception is not the task of any one of...

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... possible. And the provision of just such a conception is one of the principal tasks of metaphysics. 3 The point of these remarks is to emphasise there cannot be progress either in the philosophy of mind ... credibility to the extent that it is consistent with the other. METAPHYSICS AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF MIND The philosophy of mind is not only concerned with the philo- sophical analysis of mental or ... concep- tion of the whole of reality, we cannot hope to render compat- ible the theories and observations of the various different sciences: and providing that conception is not the task of any one of...

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... alert other monkeys to the presence of various kinds of predator. 19 One type of call appears to represent the presence of eagles, another the presence of snakes, and yet another the presence of ... OF MENTAL CONTENT These advantages of the teleological theory of representation over the causal theory may encourage us to try to extend it to the case of mental representation, that is, to the ... belief rather than simply to the actual 15 For a sophisticated version of the causal theory of representation, see Jerry A. Fodor, Psychosemantics: The Problem of Meaning in the Philosophy of Mind,...

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... in Philosophy of Psycho- logy, Volume 1. An introduction to the philosophy of mind50 suitable pattern of causal relationships, as may the states of a bundle of human neurones, or the states of ... how- ever, one might think of identifying the type to which our particular chessman belongs in terms of the type of material object which plays the role of the bishop in the chess set of which this chessman ... family of views rather than a single doctrine, some of its proponents regarding it more as an account of our concepts of mental states than as a theory of the nature of mental states themselves. Mental...

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... and their position relative to one another – things such as the colour and shape of the tree and of the house, the intervening ground between them, the sky behind them, and other objects in their ... in the ‘blind’ regions of their visual fields? After all, they them- selves strongly deny that they can see anything there. If the answer is given that they must be seeing something since they ... neither of them assigns any significant role in perception to the qualit- ative or phenomenal characteristics of perceptual experience. Indeed, neither of them really has any use for the notion of perceptual...

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... was the readiest way of converting them to the principles of the Christian religion. These, then, were the first forerunners in the great cause of the abolition of the Slave Trade: nor have their ... held the reigns of the government of Spain till Charles the Fifth came to the throne, for the establishment of a regular system of commerce in the persons of the native Africans. The object of ... nature of it; and of the extent of it; and of the difficulty of subduing it.—Usefulness also of the contemplation of this subject. I scarcely know of any subject, the contemplation of which...

Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 09:20

... Rajputs or Kshatryas of the north-west, the Arabs, Parsees, and Mahrattas of the west coast, the Singhalese of the extreme south, the Tamils of the east, and the Bengalis of the north-east. Mongolians ... comes the most difficult group to classify the aborigines of the interior, and of the hill ranges of Central India, the Kols, Gonds, Bhils, and others which have certain characteristics of the ... NATURAL HISTORY OF THE MAMMALIA OF BRITISH INDIA AND CEYLON. INTRODUCTION. In laying before the public the following history of the Indian Mammalia, I am actuated by the feeling...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 21:20

... of the water from this bulb decreases the temperature of the mercury in the tube b in proportion to the dryness of the atmosphere, and the number of degrees the tube b indicates below that of the ... the ferro-citrate of the protoxide, or the peroxide of mercury, or of the protoxide of lead, by using creams of these salts, or by successive applications of the nitrates of the respective oxides, ... ruddy snuff-brown, the change of tint coming on rather suddenly about the end of the blue or beginning of the violet rays of the luminous spectrum. Beyond the extreme violet rays, the action rapidly...

Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 03:20

... they, undesignedly of course, keep our Church in ignorance, not only of the absolute unity of the Churches in the region of Amoy, but also of the real progress of the cause of Christ and of the ... of thousands upon thousands of the saints of the Most High, is made to lie at the basis of the action of the last Synod! History and Ecclesiastical Relations of the Churches of the Presbyterial Order ... according to the new plan, the Missionaries form themselves into the kind of Classis now required of them; what will be the relation of the Classis of Amoy to the Board of Foreign Missions? Is the Classis,...

Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 04:20

... have arrived at the philoso- phy through the critical study of the materials of religion and the effort to meet the needs of their people in terms of to- day’s orientation are of increasing influence ... could. On the other hand, the new synthesis accepts the ethical ideal of concern for all humans ; it embraces the democratic faith in the worth of the individual and seeks the welfare of all ... liaison officers among the many different and often iso- lated branches of knowledge; between the civilizations of the past and the present; between the great, living systems of belief that move the...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 11:20

... other areas. Most accounts of the history of the law of bills and notes are based on the assumption that the main focus of this body of law has always been the concept of negotiability, in the ... the law of bills. The orthodox accounts of the history of the law of bills and notes push to the level of a priori assumption all of the issues that ought to be principal subjects of the historical ... the courts began to treat the rules of the law merchant as authentic principles of law, binding of their own force The incorporation theory of the history of commercial law in general...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 03:20

... time of Alfred the Great, about the year 872; another in the early part of the reign of Athelstan about the year 925, and several others; besides three coins minted here of Ethelred, called the ... many, chiefly in the northern part of the city. The Excise-office, is at the Bull, in Magdalen-street. The Permit-office, in St. Peter's Hungate, opposite the Church. The Stamp-office, St. Giles's ... from the reservoir to the tower, for the supply of such parts of the city as are above the level of the reservoir, from whence it is distributed by cylinders and pipes of different materials. The...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 00:20

... dissimilar. In the case of the spider and the sparrow there is no teaching, and, of course, no learning. Their first web, and their first nest, are as perfect as the last; but in the case of the infant, ... view of the educational processes of Nature, we find them arranging themselves under four great divisions, blending into each other, no doubt, like the kingdoms of Nature and the colours of the ... degree. The history of astronomy as taught by astrologers, and of chemistry in the hands of the alchymist, should teach both the lovers and the fearers of change an important lesson. These pretended...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 00:20

... absolutely ignorant of the meaning of the words Soul, Spirit, Intelligence: how, then, can we logically reason from the presence of the one to the existence of the other? I reject, then, even when ... further delay, that the hopes of the friends of association were groundless. Thus, then, the gentlemen of the Academy disavow, in their session-chamber, their announcements from the tripod! There ... materialists, to whom the divine dogma is the symbol of constraint and the principle of enslavement of the passions, outside of which, they say, there is for man neither pleasure, nor virtue,...

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