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Exploring The Significance Of Digital Humanities For Philosophy | Digital Scholarship In The Humanities
Three possible reasons why DH hasn't thrived in philosophy yet
I think three more interesting possible explanations are that (1) philosophers are more methodologically skeptical than other humanities, (2) philosophers have long integrated computational methods in their work and so don’t need a revolution, and (3) the practice of philosophy…
Human, All Too Human: A Book For Free Spirits
Science should give us a chemistry of the moral, religious, aesthetic conceptions and feeling
Chemistry of the Notions and the Feelings.—Philosophical problems, in almost all their aspects, present themselves in the same interrogative formula now that they did two thousand years ago: how can a thing develop out of its antithesis? for example, the reasonable from the…
Mind: A Brief Introduction (John R. Searle)
Conscious agents in a world of mindless particles
A third reason for the centrality of the mind is that, for many of us, myself included, the central question in philosophy at the beginning of the twenty-first century is how to give an account of ourselves as apparently conscious, mindful, free, rational, speaking, social, and…
How thoughts reach out to the world
The special philosophical problem of intentionality is this: suppose that I now believe that George W. Bush is in Washington. The question arises, How can my thoughts, which are entirely inside my mind, reach out all the way to Washington, D.C.? If I think the sun is 93 million…
Twelve problems in the philosophy of mind
A large part of this book will be concerned with the 12 problems that I have just outlined. If those problems look interesting to you, you are likely to find this book interesting.
Mapping out the problems ahead
What I have tried to do in this chapter is to present the framework for the discussions that will follow. The problems will not be treated as of equal weight. Not by any means. The next three chapters will be largely devoted to the mind-body problem. I have already said what I…
Neither dualism nor materialism is acceptable
We end this chapter in a depressing intellectual state: neither dualism nor materialism is acceptable and yet they are presented to us as the only possibilities. Furthermore we know independently that both what dualism is trying to say and what materialism is trying to say are…
Philosophy is full of apparent contradictions
We ended the last chapter with an apparent contradiction of the sort that is typical in philosophy. On the one hand we accept a view that seems overwhelmingly convincing—the universe is material—but that seems inconsistent with another view that we cannot give up—minds exist…
Three problems about intentionality
There are three problems about intentionality we need to address. First, how is intentionality possible at all; second, given that intentional states are possible, how is their content determined; and third, how does the whole system of intentionality work? Most of the…
Neuroethics - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Neuroethics
Neuroethics refers to two related fields of study: What the philosopher Adina Roskies has called the ethics of neuroscience and the neuroscience of ethics. The ethics of neuroscience comprises the bulk of work in neuroethics. It concerns the ethical, legal and social impact of…
Taking Philosophical Dialogue Online
Analysis (philosophy)
Students must be able to: analyse a philosophical problem or position into its component parts and be able to tell how they are connected together; analyse an argument into premises and conclusions, and reconstruct the structure of the argument, filling in implicit premises…