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Sounds

Author : Casey O'Callaghan
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191527041
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Sounds written by Casey O'Callaghan and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vision dominates philosophical thinking about perception, and theorizing about experience in cognitive science has traditionally focused on a visual model. In a radical departure from established practice, Casey O'Callaghan provides a systematic treatment of sound and sound experience, and shows how thinking about audition and appreciating the relationships between multiple sense modalities can enrich our understanding of perception and the mind. Sounds proposes a novel theory of sounds and auditory perception. Against the widely accepted philosophical view that sounds are among the secondary or sensible qualities, O'Callaghan argues that, on any perceptually plausible account, sounds are events. But this does not imply that sounds are waves that propagate through a medium, such as air or water. Rather, sounds are events that take place in one's environment at or near the objects and happenings that bring them about. This account captures the way in which sounds essentially are creatures of time, and situates sounds in a world populated by items and events that have significance for us. Sounds are not ethereal, mysterious entities. O'Callaghan's account of sounds and their perception discloses far greater variety among the kinds of things we perceive than traditional views acknowledge. But more importantly, investigating sounds and audition demonstrates that considering other sense modalities teaches what we could not otherwise learn from thinking exclusively about the visual. Sounds articulates a powerful account of echoes, reverberation, Doppler effects, and perceptual constancies that surpasses the explanatory richness of alternative theories, and also reveals a number of surprising cross-modal perceptual illusions. O'Callaghan argues that such illusions demonstrate that the perceptual modalities cannot be completely understood in isolation, and that the visuocentric model for theorizing about perception - according to which perceptual modalities are discrete modes of experience and autonomous domains of philosophical and scientific inquiry - ought to be abandoned.

Philosophical Theories and Philosophical Experience

Author : Caroline Frances Cornwallis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 91 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Philosophical Theories and Philosophical Experience written by Caroline Frances Cornwallis and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Philosophical Theories and Philosophical Experience

Author : Caroline Frances Cornwallis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
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Philosophical Theories and Philosophical Experience (Classic Reprint)

Author : Caroline Frances Cornwallis
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780332912578
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (125 download)

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Download or read book Philosophical Theories and Philosophical Experience (Classic Reprint) written by Caroline Frances Cornwallis and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-05 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Philosophical Theories and Philosophical Experience If such an one cannot afford to keep a pet ignorance, so neither can he afford 'to carry on abstract speculations which lead to no practical result: corporeal wants. Must be attended to; the difficulties of this life must be met and van quished; and if in the midst of the struggles requisite to avoid being trodden under foot in the crowd, those great questions (which sooneror later occur to every reasonable mind) pre sent themselves, it is not as curious contem plations, matters of philosophical research mere ly, which may occupy a portion of the time which is gliding away in the lap of ease and luxury, but as problems whose solution involves every thing worth caring for in time or in eter nity; problems whose due solution may gild a life which has no other gilding, may set fortune at defiance, direct our steps in difficulties, and, like oil upon the waves, spread calm where all was turmoil and danger before: it is then that intellectual science loses its character of barren speculation; every step in advance raises us farther above the mists of earth; and the heart warms, and the limbs grow strong, at seeing the prospect brightening m the distance, under the unclouded beams of truth and love. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Philosophy of Living Experience

Author : Alexander Aleksandrovich Bogdanov
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004306463
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book The Philosophy of Living Experience written by Alexander Aleksandrovich Bogdanov and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-10-05 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Philosophy of Living Experience, Alexander Bogdanov summarises his philosophy of empiriomonism, situates it in the history of materialist thought, explains the social genesis of each stage of that history, and anticipates his ultimate achievement – universal organisational science.

Experience and Theory

Author : Stephan Korner
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135028370
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Experience and Theory written by Stephan Korner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1966. This volume analyzes the general structure of scientific theories, their relation to experience and to non-scientific thought. Part One is concerned with the logic underlying empirical discourse before its subjection to the various constraints, imposed by the logico-mathematical framework of scientific theories upon their content. Part Two is devoted to an examination of this framework and, in particular, to showing that the deductive organization of a field of experience is by that very act a modification of empirical discourse and an idealization of its subject matter. Part Three analyzes the concordance between theories and experience and the relevance of science to moral and religious beliefs.

An Introduction to Philosophical Methods

Author : Christopher Daly
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 155111934X
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book An Introduction to Philosophical Methods written by Christopher Daly and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2010-07-20 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Introduction to Philosophical Methods is the first book to survey the various methods that philosophers use to support their views. Rigorous yet accessible, the book introduces and illustrates the methodological considerations that are involved in current philosophical debates. Where there is controversy, the book presents the case for each side, but highlights where the key difficulties with them lie. While eminently student-friendly, the book makes an important contribution to the debate regarding the acceptability of the various philosophical methods, and so it will also be of interest to more experienced philosophers.

Philosophical Theories and Philosophical Experience

Author : Caroline Frances Cornwallis
Publisher : Palala Press
ISBN 13 : 9781347173497
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (734 download)

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Download or read book Philosophical Theories and Philosophical Experience written by Caroline Frances Cornwallis and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2015-12-04 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Ethics and Experience

Author : Tim Chappell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131749265X
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book Ethics and Experience written by Tim Chappell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-05 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ethics and Experience" presents a wide-ranging and thought-provoking introduction to the question famously posed by Socrates: How is life to be lived? 'An excellent primer for any student taking a course on moral philosophy, the book introduces ethics as a single and broadly unified field of inquiry in which we apply reason to try and solve Socrates' question. "Ethics and Experience "examines the major forms of ethical subjectivism and objectivism - including expressivism, error theory', naturalism, and intuitionism. The book lays out the detail of the most significant contemporary moral theories - including utilitarianism, virtue ethics, Kantianism, and contractarianism - and reconsiders these theories in the light of two questions that should perhaps be asked more often: Is moral theory, with its tendency to regiment ethical thought and experience, really the best way for us to apply reason to deciding how to live? And, might it not be more truly reasonable to look for less system and more insight?

Philosophical theories and philosophical experience. By a pariah [i.e. Caroline F. Cornwallis]. Second edition

Author : Caroline Frances CORNWALLIS
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Philosophical theories and philosophical experience. By a pariah [i.e. Caroline F. Cornwallis]. Second edition written by Caroline Frances CORNWALLIS and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Toward a Philosophical Theory of Everything

Author : Alan White
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1623566274
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (235 download)

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Download or read book Toward a Philosophical Theory of Everything written by Alan White and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-01-30 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moral values are real-we don't just make them up. Beauty is in the world-it's not just in the eye of the beholder. You are free-what you do is not always determined by electrochemical processes in your brain. And the universe we live in is God's creation. These are radical claims. But they are widely rejected in contemporary philosophy because they are almost always considered in relative isolation from one another. This book shows that when they are considered in conjunction, they gain mutual support. And it shows this both clearly and concisely. But its systematic approach to philosophy also reveals that various philosophical positions currently widely accepted and defended can appear plausible and perhaps even compelling only when they are considered in relative isolation-as they, too, almost always are. When the issues on which these positions are taken are considered in conjunction, problems come into view and the alternative positions defended in this book emerge as superior. Toward a Philosophical Theory of Everything is a ground-breaking work that shows the importance of systematic thinking, while also defending positions, on central philosophical issues, that are widely rejected in contemporary philosophy.

Beyond Experience

Author : Norman Swartz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Beyond Experience written by Norman Swartz and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Swarz (philosophy, Simon Fraser U.) writes for both the lay and professional reader, using case studies and an occasional appeal to science fiction to bring the subject within grasp and point out how metaphysical theories lie just below the surface of every person's own world view. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Philosophy and Temporality from Kant to Critical Theory

Author : Espen Hammer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139501283
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (395 download)

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Download or read book Philosophy and Temporality from Kant to Critical Theory written by Espen Hammer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-31 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a critical analysis of how key philosophers in the European tradition have responded to the emergence of a modern conception of temporality. Espen Hammer suggests that it is a feature of Western modernity that time has been forcibly separated from the natural cycles and processes with which it used to be associated. In a discussion that ranges over Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Heidegger and Adorno, he examines the forms of dissatisfaction which result from this, together with narrative modes of configuring time, the relationship between agency and temporality, and possible challenges to the modern world's linear and homogenous experience of time. His study is a rich exploration of an enduring philosophical theme: the role of temporality in shaping and reshaping modern human affairs.

What We Mean by Experience

Author : Marianne Janack
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804784302
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book What We Mean by Experience written by Marianne Janack and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2012-11-07 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social scientists and scholars in the humanities all rely on first-person descriptions of experience to understand how subjects construct their worlds. The problem they always face is how to integrate first-person accounts with an impersonal stance. Over the course of the twentieth century, this problem was compounded as the concept of experience itself came under scrutiny. First hailed as a wellspring of knowledge and the weapon that would vanquish metaphysics and Cartesianism by pragmatists like Dewey and James, by the century's end experience had become a mere vestige of both, a holdover from seventeenth-century empiricist metaphysics. This devaluation of experience has left us bereft, unable to account for first-person perspectives and for any kind of agency or intentionality. This book takes on the critique of empiricism and the skepticism with regard to experience that has issued from two seemingly disparate intellectual strains of thought: anti-foundationalist and holistic philosophy of science and epistemology (Kuhn and Rorty, in particular) and feminist critiques of identity politics. Both strains end up marginalizing experience as a viable corrective for theory, and both share notions of human beings and cognition that cause the problem of the relation between experience and our theories to present itself in a particular way. Indeed, they render experience an intractable problem by opening up a gap between a naturalistic understanding of human beings and an understanding of humans as cultural entities, as non-natural makers of meaning. Marianne Janack aims to close this gap, to allow us to be naturalistic and hermeneutic at once. Drawing on cognitive neuroscience, the pragmatist tradition, and ecological psychology, her book rescues experience as natural contact with the world.

A Philosophy of Madness

Author : Wouter Kusters
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262044285
Total Pages : 769 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book A Philosophy of Madness written by Wouter Kusters and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2020-12-01 with total page 769 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The philosophy of psychosis and the psychosis of philosophy: a philosopher draws on his experience of madness. In this book, philosopher and linguist Wouter Kusters examines the philosophy of psychosis—and the psychosis of philosophy. By analyzing the experience of psychosis in philosophical terms, Kusters not only emancipates the experience of the psychotic from medical classification, he also emancipates the philosopher from the narrowness of textbooks and academia, allowing philosophers to engage in real-life praxis, philosophy in vivo. Philosophy and madness—Kusters's preferred, non-medicalized term—coexist, one mirroring the other. Kusters draws on his own experience of madness—two episodes of psychosis, twenty years apart—as well as other first-person narratives of psychosis. Speculating about the maddening effect of certain words and thought, he argues, and demonstrates, that the steady flow of philosophical deliberation may sweep one into a full-blown acute psychotic episode. Indeed, a certain kind of philosophizing may result in confusion, paradoxes, unworldly insights, and circular frozenness reminiscent of madness. Psychosis presents itself to the psychotic as an inescapable truth and reality. Kusters evokes the mad person's philosophical or existential amazement at reality, thinking, time, and space, drawing on classic autobiographical accounts of psychoses by Antonin Artaud, Daniel Schreber, and others, as well as the work of phenomenological psychiatrists and psychologists and such phenomenologists as Edmund Husserl and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. He considers the philosophical mystic and the mystical philosopher, tracing the mad undercurrent in the Husserlian philosophy of time; visits the cloud castles of mystical madness, encountering LSD devotees, philosophers, theologians, and nihilists; and, falling to earth, finds anxiety, emptiness, delusions, and hallucinations. Madness and philosophy proceed and converge toward a single vanishing point.

Seeing, Doing, and Knowing

Author : Mohan Matthen
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 0191533289
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Seeing, Doing, and Knowing written by Mohan Matthen and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 2005-02-10 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seeing, Doing, and Knowing is an original and comprehensive philosophical treatment of sense perception as it is currently investigated by cognitive neuroscientists. Its central theme is the task-oriented specialization of sensory systems across the biological domain. Sensory systems are automatic sorting machines; they engage in a process of classification. Human vision sorts and orders external objects in terms of a specialized, proprietary scheme of categories - colours, shapes, speeds and directions of movement, etc. This 'Sensory Classification Thesis' implies that sensation is not a naturally caused image from which an organism must infer the state of the world beyond; it is more like an internal communication, a signal concerning the state of the world issued by a sensory system, in accordance with internal conventions, for the use of an organism's other systems. This is why sensory states are both easily understood and persuasive. Sensory classification schemes are purpose-built to serve the knowledge-gathering and pragmatic needs of particular types of organisms. They are specialized: a bee or a bird does not see exactly what a human does. The Sensory Classification Thesis helps clarify this specialization in perceptual content and supports a new form of realism about the deliverances of sensation: 'Pluralistic Realism' is based on the idea that sensory systems coevolve with an organism's other systems; they are not simply moulded to the external world. The last part of the book deals with reference in vision. Cognitive scientists now believe that vision guides the limbs by means of a subsystem that links up with the objects of physical manipulation in ways that bypass sensory categories. In a novel extension of this theory, Matthen argues that 'motion-guiding vision' is integrated with sensory classification in conscious vision. This accounts for the quasi-demonstrative form of visual states: 'This particular object is red', and so on. He uses this idea to cast new light on the nature of perceptual objects, pictorial representation, and the visual representation of space.

The Future of the Philosophy of Time

Author : Adrian Bardon
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1136596887
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (365 download)

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Download or read book The Future of the Philosophy of Time written by Adrian Bardon and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last century has seen enormous progress in our understanding of time. This volume features original essays by the foremost philosophers of time discussing the goals and methodology of the philosophy of time, and examining the best way to move forward with regard to the field's core issues. The collection is unique in combining cutting edge work on time with a focus on the big picture of time studies as a discipline. The major questions asked include: What are the implications of relativity and quantum physics on our understanding of time? Is the passage of time real, or just a subjective phenomenon? Are the past and future real, or is the present all that exists? If the future is real and unchanging (as contemporary physics seems to suggest), how is free will possible? Since only the present moment is perceived, how does the experience as we know it come about? How does experience take on its character of a continuous flow of moments or events? What explains the apparent one-way direction of time? Is time travel a logical/metaphysical possibility?