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Author: Jennifer Hornsby Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 9780674808188 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 282
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How is our conception of what there is affected by our counting ourselves as inhabitants of the natural world? How do our actions fit into a world that is altered through our agency? And how do we accommodate our understanding of one another as fellow subjects of experience--as beings with thoughts and wants and hopes and fears? These questions provide the impetus for the detailed discussions of ontology, human agency, and everyday psychological explanation presented in this book. The answers offer a distinctive view of questions about "the mind's place in nature," and they argue for a particular position in philosophy of mind: naive naturalism. This position opposes the whole drift of the last thirty or forty years' philosophy of mind in the English-speaking world. Jennifer Hornsby sets naive naturalism against dualism, but without advancing the claims of "materialism," "physicalism," or "naturalism" as these have come to be known. She shows how we can, and why we should, abandon the view that thoughts and actions, to be seen as real, must be subject to scientific explanation.
Author: Jennifer Hornsby Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 9780674808188 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 282
Book Description
How is our conception of what there is affected by our counting ourselves as inhabitants of the natural world? How do our actions fit into a world that is altered through our agency? And how do we accommodate our understanding of one another as fellow subjects of experience--as beings with thoughts and wants and hopes and fears? These questions provide the impetus for the detailed discussions of ontology, human agency, and everyday psychological explanation presented in this book. The answers offer a distinctive view of questions about "the mind's place in nature," and they argue for a particular position in philosophy of mind: naive naturalism. This position opposes the whole drift of the last thirty or forty years' philosophy of mind in the English-speaking world. Jennifer Hornsby sets naive naturalism against dualism, but without advancing the claims of "materialism," "physicalism," or "naturalism" as these have come to be known. She shows how we can, and why we should, abandon the view that thoughts and actions, to be seen as real, must be subject to scientific explanation.
Author: Robert Fass Publisher: iUniverse ISBN: 0595214029 Category : Humor Languages : en Pages : 130
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Go Simple! In this wickedly funny spoof of the simple living movement, co-authors Robert Fass and Mary Morse skewer the national obsession with all things simple. You'll laugh out loud at their twisted take on the simplicity books, magazines, and gurus that promise modern humans an easy escape from psychic and lifestyle overload. In more than 50 brief, easy-to-read entries, Inner Simple-Mindedness tackles the complexities of modern life and then provides solutions that are at once absurd and perfectly logical. • Learn to Enjoy Uncooked Food • Stop Reading • Build Your Own Outhouse • Simple-Minded Job Search Tips This spiritual masterwork will guide you past all of the annoyances (job, family, friends, etc.) that currently distract you. At home, at work, in relationships and more, the teachings of Inner Simple-Mindedness will help you truly simplify your life. If you've had enough of Oprah, Martha, hot yoga and Tuesdays with Morrie, you'll agree...Inner Simple-Mindedness is simply hilarious!
Author: C. F. Goodey Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. ISBN: 9781409420217 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 400
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Autism, Down syndrome, and other such labels assume that intellectual disability is a permanent aspect of human nature. C.F. Goodey demonstrates that intellectual disability and even intelligence are instead historically contingent creations, which are rooted in early modern cultural and religious matrices and corresponding forms of social organisation, and which have subsequently undergone continuous change. This paradigm-shifting book is also an urgent and compassionate appeal for us to consider, through the prism of history, how the apparent certainties of modern biology, medicine and psychology came to question the ethical status of some of us.
Author: William Hare Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP ISBN: 0773560890 Category : Foreign Language Study Languages : en Pages : 179
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Professor Hare provides a systematic and detailed examination of what is meant by calling a person open-minded, and an inquiry into the place and importance of this comparatively neglected idea in education. "[Hare] provides us with a clear concept of open-mindedness and shows why that attitude is central to our view of education ... for those who are interested in the concept of education or values or moral education, and those who want to see how open-mindedness relates to important concepts such as rationality, neutrality, indoctrination ... recommended to all who are concerned with education, not just teachers and teacher educators. The language is absolutely clear and free of pretentious jargon, the arguments are rigorous, cogent, and easy to follow, and the organization of the book is truly exemplary." Canadian Journal of Education.
Author: Martin Buber Publisher: Syracuse University Press ISBN: 9780815605898 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 330
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Gog and Magog is a religious chronicle in fictional form. Its heroes are Hasidic rapbis. Its background is the Napoleonic wars at the end of the eighteenth century. Its scene is laid in Poland and Hungary. Although magic and superstition play their parts in the story, it is really Buber's effort to articulate two approaches to the question: May men use evil to accomplish good? May men take power in their own hands—even to do the work of redemption—without submitting first to the will of God? More particularly Buber unfolds the inner world of messianic longing and expectation that characterized Judaism then and continues to characterize it to the present day.
Author: Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 113947877X Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 583
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Kierkegaard's Concluding Unscientific Postscript is a classic of existential literature. It concludes the first and richest phase of Kierkegaard's pseudonymous authorship and is the text that philosophers look to first when attempting to define Kierkegaard's own philosophy. Familiar Kierkegaardian themes are introduced in the work, including truth as subjectivity, indirect communication, the leap, and the impossibility of forming a philosophical system for human existence. The Postscript sums up the aims of the preceding pseudonymous works and opens the way to the next part of Kierkegaard's increasingly tempestuous life: it can thus be seen as a cornerstone of his philosophical thought. This volume offers the work in a new and accessible translation by Alastair Hannay, together with an introduction that sets the work in its philosophical and historical contexts.
Author: Conor Cunningham Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing ISBN: 0802848389 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 563
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According to British scholar Conor Cunningham, the debate today between religion and evolution has been hijacked by extremists: on one side stand fundamentalist believers who reject evolution outright; on the opposing side are fundamentalist atheists who claim that Darwin s theory rules out the possibility of God. Both sides are dead wrong, argues Cunningham, who is at once a Christian and a firm believer in the theory of evolution. In Darwin s Pious Idea Cunningham puts forth a trenchant, compelling case for both creation and evolution, drawing skillfully on an array of philosophical, theological, historical, and scientific sources to buttress his arguments.
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