history of the philosophy of science

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... 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 ... 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...

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... 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 ... evidence for the existence of things whose existence is at least genuinely possible. And the provision of just such a conception is one of the principal tasks of metaphysics. 3 The point of these remarks...

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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 ... 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, ... to the philosophy of mind90 ence between beliefs and desires is often described as a dif- ference in their ‘direction of fit’ with the world. 14 We aim to make the contents of our beliefs fit the...

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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...

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... 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...

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... list of critical shortfalls identified at the front part of the process. Then, with the current state of the art and the capabilities of the organization in mind, they will propose a series of ... some of these UAVs were not used in theater because the controlling computer failed just before the unit crossed the line of departure and no one at the scene knew how to repair the system. 16 The ... basing is one of the highest-priority Marine Corps development initiatives. 7 Part of the reason for this lack of focus on sea basing within the LC-FNC is that the Department of the Navy’s Science...

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... 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...

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... 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,...

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