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Rational Metaphysics: Affectance Ontology

Author : James S. Saint
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 373865917X
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (386 download)

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Download or read book Rational Metaphysics: Affectance Ontology written by James S. Saint and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2019-05-31 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "RM covers many ontologies. AO is merely the first. RM is a method for creating understandings. AO is a "Unified Field Theory" or "Theory of Everything". First I had to resolve the true nature of reality itself. That became my "RM:AO". But to know the construct of reality is insufficient in itself. The normal state of reality is entropy, and it takes a special effort to prevent anything from being merely churned up and lost through time. That has been the focus of religion for thousands of years and the whole purpose of their rituals and morals. They have been fighting entropy. Once I knew how reality functions, the task became one of what to do about it: "How could people be saved from natural entropy, especially in a world so passionately lusting for change?" What I came to call, "Social Anentropic Molecularisation (SAM)" was my answer to that question." James S. Saint, June 2014

Human as Relational

Author : Joseph Kaipayil
Publisher : Joseph Kaipayil
ISBN 13 : 8187664037
Total Pages : 73 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (876 download)

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Download or read book Human as Relational written by Joseph Kaipayil and published by Joseph Kaipayil. This book was released on 2003 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Felt Meanings of the World

Author : Quentin Smith
Publisher : Purdue University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780911198768
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book The Felt Meanings of the World written by Quentin Smith and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a critical dialogue with the metaphysical tradition from Plato to Hegel to contemporary schools of thought, the author convincingly argues that traditional rationalist metaphysics has failed to accomplish its goal of demonstrating the existence of a divine cause and moral purpose of the world. To replace the defective rationalist metaphysics, the author builds a new metaphysics on the idea that moods and affects make manifest the world's felt meanings; he argues that each feature of the world is a felt meaning in the sense that each feature is a source of a feeling-response if and when it appears. The author asserts that we must synthesize our two ways of knowing-poetic evocations and exact analyses-in order to decide which mood or affect is the appropriate appreciation of any given feature of the world. Smith gives evocative and exact explications of such features as the world's temporality, appearance, and mind-independency, as these features appear in the appropriate recitations.

Mental Causation and Ontology

Author : S. C. Gibb
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199603774
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book Mental Causation and Ontology written by S. C. Gibb and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-21 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book demonstrates the importance of ontology for a central debate in philosophy of mind. Mental causation seems an obvious aspect of the world. But it is hard to understand how it can happen unless we get clear about what the entities involved in the process are. An international team of contributors presents new work on this problem.

Rationality and Relativity

Author : F. P. O'Gorman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Rationality and Relativity written by F. P. O'Gorman and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Ontology of Emotions

Author : Hichem Naar
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107110548
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book The Ontology of Emotions written by Hichem Naar and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pioneering investigation into the nature of emotions, bringing together important questions in ontology, metaphysics, and philosophy of mind. Leading scholars explore a neglected aspect of the philosophy of emotion, paving the way for new advances in research. This book will be important for those working in the field of emotions.

Rationality, Time, and Self

Author : Olley (F.O.C.H.) Pearson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319719734
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (197 download)

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Download or read book Rationality, Time, and Self written by Olley (F.O.C.H.) Pearson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-02-16 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a new argument for the tensed theory of time and emergentism about the self. This argument derives in part from theories which establish our nature as rational and emotional beings whose behavior is responsive to reasons which are facts. It is argued that there must be reasons, hence facts, that can only be captured by tensed and/or first-personal language if our behavior is to be by and large rational and appropriate. This establishes the tensed theory of time and emergentism or dualism about the self, given the physical body can plausibly be fully described non-first-personally. In the course of this discussion the book also clarifies and defends a notion of fact and responds to McTaggart’s paradox and Wittgenstein’s private language argument.

Problems of Rationality

Author : Donald Davidson
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 0191519235
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Problems of Rationality written by Donald Davidson and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 2004-03-25 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Problems of Rationality is the eagerly awaited fourth volume of Donald Davidson's philosophical writings. From the 1960s until his death in August 2003 Davidson was perhaps the most influential figure in English-language philosophy, and his work has had a profound effect upon the discipline. His unified theory of the interpretation of thought, meaning, and action holds that rationality is a necessary condition for both mind and interpretation. Davidson here develops this theory to illuminate value judgements and how we understand them; to investigate what the conditions are for attributing mental states to an object or creature; and to grapple with the problems presented by thoughts and actions which seem to be irrational. Anyone working on knowledge, mind, and language will find these essays essential reading.

Rational Intuition

Author : Lisa M. Osbeck
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781316008133
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Rational Intuition written by Lisa M. Osbeck and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rational Intuition explores the concept of intuition as it relates to rationality through mediums of history, philosophy, cognitive science, and psychology.

The Importance of Being Rational

Author : Errol Lord
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192546759
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book The Importance of Being Rational written by Errol Lord and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-30 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Importance of Being Rational systematically defends a novel reasons-based account of rationality. The book's central thesis is that what it is for one to be rational is to correctly respond to the normative reasons one possesses. Errol Lord defends novel views about what it is to possess reasons and what it is to correctly respond to reasons. He shows that these views not only help to support the book's main thesis, they also help to resolve several important problems that are independent of rationality. The account of possession provides novel contributions to debates about what determines what we ought to do, and the account of correctly responding to reasons provides novel contributions to debates about causal theories of reacting for reasons. After defending views about possession and correctly responding, Lord shows that the account of rationality can solve two difficult problems about rationality. The first is the New Evil Demon problem. The book argues that the account has the resources to show that internal duplicates necessarily have the same rational status. The second problem concerns the deontic significance of rationality. Recently it has been doubted whether we ought to be rational. The ultimate conclusion of the book is that the requirements of rationality are the requirements that we ultimately ought to comply with. If this is right, then rationality is of fundamental importance to our deliberative lives.

Rationality and Reflection

Author : Jonathan L. Kvanvig
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191025747
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Rationality and Reflection written by Jonathan L. Kvanvig and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2014-07-24 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jonathan L. Kvanvig presents a conception of rationality which answers to the need arising out of the egocentric predicament concerning what to do and what to believe. He does so in a way that avoids, on the one hand, reducing rationality to the level of beasts, and on the other hand, elevating it so that only the most reflective among us are capable of rational beliefs. Rationality and Reflection sets out a theory of rationality—a theory about how to determine what to think—which defends a significant degree of optionality in the story of what is reasonable for people to think, and thereby provides a framework for explaining what kinds of rational disagreement are possible. The theory is labelled Perspectivalism and it offers a unique account of rationality, one that cuts across the usual distinctions between Foundationalism and Coherentism and between Internalism and Externalism. It also differs significantly from Evidentialism, maintaining that, to the extent that rationality is connected to the notion of evidence, it is a function both of the evidence one has and what one makes of it.

The Rationality of Perception

Author : Susanna Siegel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192517503
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book The Rationality of Perception written by Susanna Siegel and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-12-22 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a traditional conception of the human mind, reasoning can be rational or irrational, but perception cannot. Perception is simply a source of new information, and cannot be assessed for rationality or justification. Susanna Siegel argues that this conception is wrong. Drawing on examples involving racism, emotion, self-defense law, and scientific theories, The Rationality of Perception makes the case that perception itself can be rational or irrational. The Rationality of Perception argues that reasoning and perception are often deeply intertwined. When unjustified beliefs, fears, desires, or prejudices influence what we perceive, we face a philosophical problem: is it reasonable to strengthen what one believes, fears, or suspects, on the basis of an experience that was generated, unbeknownst to the perceiver, by those very same beliefs, fears, or suspicions? Siegel argues that it is not reasonable even though it may seem that way to the perceiver. In these cases, a perceptual experience may itself be irrational, because it is brought about by irrational influences. Siegel systematically distinguishes a number of different kinds of influences on perception, and builds a theory of how such influences on perception determine what it's rational or irrational to believe. She uses the main conclusions to analyze perceptual manifestations of racism. This book makes vivid the far-reaching consequences of psychological and cultural influences on perception. Its method shows how analytic philosophy, social psychology, history and politics can be mutually illuminating.

Thought at an Impasse

Author : Rachel B. Aarons
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781547140350
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Thought at an Impasse written by Rachel B. Aarons and published by . This book was released on 2017-06-02 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of course, philosophy uses language and must do so. But it has always been assumed that language is merely a vehicle for making public one's insights into reality, that it is, as it were, a transparent medium through which others may come to see what one has seen. This is our traditional assumption about language.Of course, philosophy is rational and must be so. The philosopher is supposed to be detached and objective. As a philosopher, one's interest is purely speculative, certainly not practical. This is our traditional assumption about philosophy.But what if we are wrong in these assumptions? What if language enshrines an ontology of its own so that when we speak, we impose a structure on reality that is not its structure? Suppose the philosopher is deluded in thinking that s/he is detached? Suppose the intellect itself constitutes a point of view on reality that is not fundamentally speculative but practical?It is to the overthrow of these traditional assumptions about language and philosophy that Bergson's irrationalist metaphysics is directed.But now we enter a conceptual field riddled by paradox. Given that philosophy is essentially rational discourse, any attempt on the part of a philosophical theory to discredit rationality and/or discourse will be self-referential, that is, its criticisms will apply to itself. If it is true, it will be false. Whatever is spoken, cannot be said.The aim of this book is to address Bergson's irrationalist metaphysic as a philosophical theory that appears to entail its own invalidation. It is to lay bare the structure of arguments that seem to be hopelessly self-refuting. And it is to show the intelligibility of initially unintelligible claims.

The Rational Good

Author : L. T. Hobhouse
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330221884
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book The Rational Good written by L. T. Hobhouse and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-26 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Rational Good: A Study in the Logic of Practice Chapter III. The Rational (1) The rational judgment is that which is consistent, grounded and objective, the first two characters being the test of the third. (2) The search for grounds leads up to immediate judgments both particular and general. Particular immediate judgments, however, are not indubitably true, but are corroborated by interconnexion. (3) Immediate general judgments likewise require interconnexion. (4) Interconnectedness is in fact the rational basis of belief. (5) The grounds on which interconnexion rests are universal relations. (6) The principles of interconnexion rest on the consilience of all consistent acts of inference. (7) The rational in cognition is then the effort to attain truth by the persistent interconnexion of judgments through universal relations. Chapter IV The Good (1) Is there any reason in the choice of ultimate ends, i.e. is there a Rational Good? (2) Generically the Good appears as a harmony (mutual support) of feeling and effort, (3) or of feeling and passive experience including, e.g., observation of the behaviour of another. Generically pleasure is feeling in harmony and pain in disharmony. (4) The fact asserted by the judgment "This is Good" is thus a relation between an experience and a feeling. Either element may be called good as pertaining to the whole. Chapter V The Rational Good (1) The Rational Good must be a consistent scheme of purposes interconnected by universal relations in which subjective disturbance is eliminated, (2) This involves a dual harmony of feeling with feeling and of feeling with experience. (3) There may be internal consistency from a more partial point of view but rationality involves universalism, i.e. a system comprehending the whole world of all minds in a single scheme. 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.

Emotion and Embodiment

Author : Glen A. Mazis
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Emotion and Embodiment written by Glen A. Mazis and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1993 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This wide-ranging work explores what the emotions, if approached on their own terms, can tell us about our world and our selves. By doing so sensitively, it fills a missing space in Western philosophy, literary theory and psychology, in which the emotions are seen for the first time as the primary way of understanding experience through the depth of the sensual-perceptual, rather than as mere handmaidens to reason or biology. The work weaves together diverse philosophical and literary works, from Merleau-Ponty to Melville, Duras to James, contrasts Eastern and Western perspectives, and arrives at a new vision of reality as becoming and philosophy as fragile ontology.

The Handbook of Rationality

Author : Markus Knauff
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0262045079
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book The Handbook of Rationality written by Markus Knauff and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first reference on rationality that integrates accounts from psychology and philosophy, covering descriptive and normative theories from both disciplines. Both analytic philosophy and cognitive psychology have made dramatic advances in understanding rationality, but there has been little interaction between the disciplines. This volume offers the first integrated overview of the state of the art in the psychology and philosophy of rationality. Written by leading experts from both disciplines, The Handbook of Rationality covers the main normative and descriptive theories of rationality—how people ought to think, how they actually think, and why we often deviate from what we can call rational. It also offers insights from other fields such as artificial intelligence, economics, the social sciences, and cognitive neuroscience. The Handbook proposes a novel classification system for researchers in human rationality, and it creates new connections between rationality research in philosophy, psychology, and other disciplines. Following the basic distinction between theoretical and practical rationality, the book first considers the theoretical side, including normative and descriptive theories of logical, probabilistic, causal, and defeasible reasoning. It then turns to the practical side, discussing topics such as decision making, bounded rationality, game theory, deontic and legal reasoning, and the relation between rationality and morality. Finally, it covers topics that arise in both theoretical and practical rationality, including visual and spatial thinking, scientific rationality, how children learn to reason rationally, and the connection between intelligence and rationality.

The Rationality of Theism

Author : Godehard Brüntrup
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rationality of Theism written by Godehard Brüntrup and published by Springer. This book was released on 1999-07-31 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In May 1998, a distinguished group of philosophers met in Munich to discuss the rationality of theism. This volume is a collection of the papers read at that conference. While in recent years the rationality of theistic belief has been widely discussed, the Munich conference was an event of some moment in the history of philosophical dialogue: for the first time German- and English-speaking philosophers of religion, representatives of both the Continental and the Anglo-Saxon traditions, joined together to grapple with a common philosophical theme. This multiplicity of perspectives brought a unique richness to the analysis of rationality that no one tradition by itself could provide. Readers will find that richness displayed in the pages of this book. Professional philosophers will find here a great deal to stimulate and challenge them; but graduate students, capable undergraduates, and all others with a serious interest in the philosophy of religion will be well rewarded for their efforts to come to grips with these thought-provoking papers.